The second life of missionaries from the island of Pereo, Saint Five Brothers ( + 1003) in the Czech, Polish and Italian tradition

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F19%3A73599804" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/19:73599804 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

—

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The second life of missionaries from the island of Pereo, Saint Five Brothers ( + 1003) in the Czech, Polish and Italian tradition

Original language description

The Saint Five Brothers probably belong to the least known Czech patrons. The lives of the Five Brothers used to be perceived in the Czech ambience confusingly (if at all), and always in connection with the life of Saint Adalbert. The Five Brothers were called &quot;Benedict with the Brothers&quot;, &quot;Boleslav Brothers&quot;, &quot;Christinus with the Brothers&quot;, or even &quot;St. Adalbert&apos;s companions&quot;. Almost forgotten figure of Olomouc&apos;s former patron St. Christinus, whose relic is still preserved in the Olomouc cathedral of St. Wenceslas, prove the former expansion of the cult of Five Brothers in the Czech lands. The beginning of the cult of the Five Brothers in the Czech lands is possible to connect with the campaign of the Bohemian duke Bretislav to Poland in 1039. The relics of the murdered hermits (Five Brothers), were transported to Prague as the spoils of war. Only later, their relics were situated in Stará Boleslav in Bohemia, near the former grave of St. Wenceslas and from that place, according to usual way, distributed to other churches. St. Christinus&apos; skull found a place in Olomouc cathedral, probably during its construction in the 12th century. The aim of the paper is not to debate the mission of the Five Brothers from Italy to Poland (on the request of their spiritual leader St. Romuald), but rather to analyze the tradition within the lives of saints and another narrative source. It is interesting mixture of tradition of foundation of the first Benedictine monastery in Břevnov (in Prague) with tradition of the Romualdine mission to Poland. It seems that the violent and early transfer of the relics from Poland to Bohemia prevented formation of the independent Polish tradition. That tradition later fully adopted the Czech version… However, the crucial part of the paper lies in the baroque era, in the moment of the growing interest of Italian monastic historians, who could not believe their eyes reading the Czech or Polish sources connected with Five Brothers, having available accurate, or (at least) much older Italian sources. It seems, that “Central European story” of lives of the Five Brothers, was different to Italian one. The purpose of the paper is to define the various strategies of creating the cult of the Five Brothers in different territories and to characterize its autonomous development and its final synthesis which came (probably) too late.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

—

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Central Europa

ISBN

978-80-7308-948-1

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

27-39

Number of pages of the book

369

Publisher name

Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Place of publication

Praha

UT code for WoS chapter

—