Radegund
Radegund (in Latin: Radegundis; also spelled Rhadegund, Radegonde, or Radigund; ca 520 – 13 August 587) was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. She is the patroness saint of several churches in France and England and of Jesus College, Cambridge (whose full name is "The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge").
Quotes about
[edit]- When his eyes closed, darkness fell over our eyes. His death brought joy to heaven but left us on earth with unbearable pain.
- Baudonivia, from Vita Radegundis; quoted in Donatella Manzoli, Baudonivia, enciclopediadelledonne.it, 2022.
- Saint Radegund is not happy to collect in Poitiers one of the last Roman poets (Venantius Fortunatus), but the education that she gives to her nuns through her forms writers who soon surpass the master: classic purity and ancient elegance come to life in the writings of (Baudonovia). Upon Radegund's death, all the enchantment of Christian inspiration is revealed in the hymn that a nun from Poitiers improvises, and one of the first flowers of short poetry opens on the tomb of the holy queen who had loved letters so much.
- Félix Dupanloup, Donne dotte e donne studiose, versione di una giovinetta pratese, Tipografia di Ranieri Guasti, Prato, 1869, Ch. III, pp. 12-13.
