The Lives of the Saints, Volume 03 (of 16): MarchBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 03 (of 16): March
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Christian saints
Another version of the history of S. Winwaloe makes him to have been
born in Wales, and to have had S. Budock for his preceptor.
The body of S. Winwaloe is preserved at Montreuil-sur-Mer, whither
it was translated through fear of the invasion of the Normans, after
having first just found shelter at Ghent. The chasuble, alb and bell
of S. Winwaloe, are preserved in the Jesuit Church of S. Charles, at
Antwerp.
At the same time, the body of a S. Winwaloe is also at Blandinberg,
near Ghent; and the story told of this saint is in many particulars
like that of the S. Winwaloe at Montreuil, but it differs in others.
S. Winwaloe is represented in art vested as an abbot, with staff in one
hand and bell in the other, standing by the sea, with the fish rising
out of the water as if obeying the summons of his bell.
[Illustration: Decorative motif]
S. KUNEGUND, EMPSS.
(ABOUT A.D. 1040.)
[German, Cologne, Basle, and Roman Martyrologies; also in the
Benedictine Martyrology of Wyon. Proper offices in the Brussels,
Passau Ratisbon, Salzburg, Frisingen, Bamberg, Eichstadt, Vienna, and
other Breviaries. Her translation is celebrated on September 9th; and
her canonization on March 29th. At Bamberg she is again commemorated
on August 1st. Her life was written after 1190. This life forms
the Breviary lessons at Bamberg on March 3rd and August 1st. Other
authorities are the historians of the time.]
S. Kunegund, or Cunegundes, was the daughter of Sigfried, count of
Luxemburg, and Hedewig, his pious wife. She was married to S. Henry,
duke of Bavaria. Her sister was married to Gerard, Count of Alsace. Her
brothers were Henry, created, in 103, duke of Bavaria, when S. Henry
was emperor; Frederick, count of Luxemburg on the death of his father;
Dietrich, bishop of Metz; and others.
On the death of the emperor Otho III., S. Henry was elected king of
the Romans, and was crowned at Mentz on June 6th, 1002. Kunegund
was crowned empress at Paderborn, on August 10th, in the same year.
Immediately on his coronation his cousin, the Margrave, Henry of
Schwein-furt, demanded the dukedom of Bavaria, and his own brother,
Bruno, made a similar claim. But the emperor refused to give it to
either, and bestowed it on Henry, Count of Luxemburg, his wife's
brother. The two disappointed competitors then conspired against him
with Boleslas II., of Bohemia, but they were defeated by the emperor
near Creusen, in 1003, and were pardoned. Adalbert, another brother of
Kunegund, then expelled Megingod, archbishop of Treves, and seized on
the diocese for himself, but the emperor deposed him, and restored the
rightful archbishop.
[Illustration: S. KUNEGUND, Empress of Germany.
March 3.]
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