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stitchwhichLeocritia of Córdoba (d. 859) The daughter of Muslim parents in Cordoba, Leocritia secretly converted to Christianity with the aid of friends. When her parents began to suspect that her frequent visits elsewhere were not entirely social, she fled their home and sought safety among the Christian community, where she was moved from house to house in order to conceal her whereabouts. Ultimately she was caught along with Eulogius, who had been instructing her in the faith. Condemned to death for her apostasy, she and Eulogius were flogged and then executed by decapitation. Today is her dies natalis. She is sometimes listed as Lucretia.
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Raymund of Fitero (d. 1163) Born in Aragon, Raymond was a canon of Tarazona cathedral before becoming a Cistercian at the monastery of Scala Dei. He was sent as founding abbot to Fitero in Navarre. Raymund's main claim to fame, though, is that in 1158 when the Knights Templar abandoned the town of Calatrava (New Castile), he founded the military order of Calatrava, to defend the town when it was threatened by Muslims. They were successful in their defense.
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El Cid? He knew El Cid? That's so cool...
Sisebutus (d. 1086). The historical Sisebutus is known from early modern annalistic entries based on now lost records of the then Benedictine monastery of St. Peter at Cardeña near Burgos in today's Castilla y León, where he was abbot for about thirty years. In 1081 or 1082, when Sisebutus was already elderly, he either resigned in favor of or appointed as coadjutor the abbot Sebastian II, whose advancement to a bishopric caused Sisebutus to resume direct rule a few years later. He will have been abbot at the dramatic date of his house's mention in the Cantar de mio Cid_, where the Cid (the historically attested Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) commends his wife and dauhters to an abbot of Cardeña named Sancho. The episode attests to the monastery's stature when the poem was written in the twelfth century. That it contributes to our knowledge of Sisebutus is debatable.
Sisebutus 's cult is first attested from a breviary of his house dated 1327, in which he appeared (or, if the manuscript is still with us, appears) both in the litany of the saints and, on his day of commemoration, in an antiphon to him and in a prayer including him by name. Pius VI (1775-1799) is said to have accorded his cult papal confirmation. When the monastery was suppressed in 1835/36 (it has since been re-opened) Sisebutus 's relics, which had been translated into its church in the fifteenth century, were removed to the cathedral of Burgos.
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Raymund of Fitero (d. 1163) Born in Aragon, Raymond was a canon of Tarazona cathedral before becoming a Cistercian at the monastery of Scala Dei. He was sent as founding abbot to Fitero in Navarre. Raymund's main claim to fame, though, is that in 1158 when the Knights Templar abandoned the town of Calatrava (New Castile), he founded the military order of Calatrava, to defend the town when it was threatened by Muslims. They were successful in their defense.
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El Cid? He knew El Cid? That's so cool...
Sisebutus (d. 1086). The historical Sisebutus is known from early modern annalistic entries based on now lost records of the then Benedictine monastery of St. Peter at Cardeña near Burgos in today's Castilla y León, where he was abbot for about thirty years. In 1081 or 1082, when Sisebutus was already elderly, he either resigned in favor of or appointed as coadjutor the abbot Sebastian II, whose advancement to a bishopric caused Sisebutus to resume direct rule a few years later. He will have been abbot at the dramatic date of his house's mention in the Cantar de mio Cid_, where the Cid (the historically attested Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) commends his wife and dauhters to an abbot of Cardeña named Sancho. The episode attests to the monastery's stature when the poem was written in the twelfth century. That it contributes to our knowledge of Sisebutus is debatable.
Sisebutus 's cult is first attested from a breviary of his house dated 1327, in which he appeared (or, if the manuscript is still with us, appears) both in the litany of the saints and, on his day of commemoration, in an antiphon to him and in a prayer including him by name. Pius VI (1775-1799) is said to have accorded his cult papal confirmation. When the monastery was suppressed in 1835/36 (it has since been re-opened) Sisebutus 's relics, which had been translated into its church in the fifteenth century, were removed to the cathedral of Burgos.
