Ivo (saint)

Only one wall remains of the priory in St Ives, founded in 1017 at the site of Ivos .

Ivo is the name of a saint whose remains were discovered in 1001 near Slepe on the land of the Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey and who were considered to be relics of a Persian bishop who came to England as a hermit . Its historicity has not been proven. The saint is also known by the names Ive , Ives , Yves and Yvo . His feast day is April 24th.

Lore

The discovery of the remains of Bishop Ivo in 1001 was first briefly mentioned in the Chronicle Chronicon ex chronicis by John of Worcester . A detailed description can be found in the hagiography, which was written by Goscelin († around 1107) during his time in Ramsey, before he moved to the Abbey of St. Augustine . According to Goscelin's account, a plowman in the service of Ramsey Abbey discovered the bones of four people in a field near Slepe, one of whom was decorated with the insignia of a bishop. Saint Ivo appeared to the plowman in several visions which compelled him to communicate the discovery to the abbot's bailiff . At the beginning he did not take this seriously, whereupon the saint appeared to him in visions. When the monastery community heard about it, they were very happy about the discovery and ceremoniously transferred the bones to the abbey.

reception

St Ive parish church dedicated to Saint Ivo in Cornwall

First a church was built in honor of Ivo near the site by Eadnoth, the then abbot Ramseys. Thanks to a foundation by Earl Adelmus, the church was expanded in 1017 into a Benedictine priory dependent on Ramsey. The neighboring town with market rights was renamed St Ives when Slepe was found. The cult around Ivo also gained national importance. For example, the celebration of his memorial day in Exeter Cathedral in the 12th century is proven. The Cornish and Trebeigh parish of St Ive and its church are also assigned to Ivo. In the 14th century an abridged version of his hagiography appeared in the Nova Legenda Anglie created by John of Tynemouth .

In the 15th century text The Vision of William of Stranton in the version of the manuscript Royal 17 B xliii , the protagonist is accompanied on his way through the purgatory by two saints, including Seint Ive, my suster, þat woned in Quitike . Several researchers see this as a reference to the village of Quethiock , which is neighboring St Ive , and thus also to Ivo.

literature

• A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 1. William Page, Granville Proby, 1926, accessed February 11, 2009 . 
• David Knowles and R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales . Longman, London 1971, ISBN 0-582-11230-3 .
• Nicholas Orme: The Saints of Cornwall . Oxford University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-19-820765-4 .
• FL Cross and EA Livingstone (Eds.): The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . Oxford University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-19-211655-X .
• David Farmer: Oxford Dictionary of Saints . Oxford University Press, New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-860949-0 .

Remarks

1. ↑ See Orme, p. 148; Farmer, p. 266.
2. ↑ See Page et al., Pp. 388–389, footnote 1.
3. ↑ See Farmer, p. 266; Cross et al., P. 693, entry on Goscelin.
4. ↑ See Farmer, p. 266; William Page, pp. 388-389
5. ↑ See Knowles, p. 75.
6. ↑ See Orme, pp. 148-149.
7. ↑ See Orme, p. 148.
8. ↑ See Robert Easting. St Patrick's Purgatory: Two versions of Owayne Miles and The Vision of William of Stranton together with the long text of the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii . The Early English Text Society, Oxford University Press 1991, ISBN 0-19-722300-1 , p. 221. And HLD Ward: Catalog of Romances in the Departments of Manuscripts in the British Museum . Volume II, London 1893, p. 485.