Life of St. Richard

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· The Anglo-Saxon Church (597-1066 AD) Book 15 · Dalcassian Press
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St. Richard the Pilgrim or Richard of Wessex was the father of the West Saxon saints Willibald, Winnibald, and Walpurga. He led his family on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land but died en route in Lucca (modern Italy), where he was buried in the church of Saint Fridianus. The earliest source of his life, the 8th-century Hodoeporicon (Itinerary) of Hygeburg, predates this work by the Frankish scholar, Alcuin of York. This work of hagiography tries to grant details into his saintly cult, which was growing among both Anglo-Saxon and Frankish churches in the 9th century.

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D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American antiquarian and translator, who works with texts from the high medieval world. To date he has translated over three hundred texts relating to the development of the Western World and Christianity between the 5th and 15th centuries.

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