The ''Long Life of Saint Gerard'' ( la, Legenda maior S. Gerardi), also known as ''Long Life of Saint Gerald'' or ''Passion of Saint Gerard'', is the
hagiography of Bishop
Gerard of Csanád
Gerard or Gerard Sagredo ( hu, Gellért; it, Gerardo di Sagredo; la, Gerardus; 23 April 977/1000 – 29 August 1046) was the first bishop of Csanád in the Kingdom of Hungary from around 1030 to his death. Most information about his life was ...
, who was murdered by pagan Hungarians in 1046. The longer version of his legends was compiled from earlier sources in the early .
Bishop St Gerard
Gerard was born in Venice in or shortly after 977. His father was a member of the
Morosini or
Sagredo family.
Manuscripts and editions
The text was preserved in two
codices
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. The older manuscript was written in the . The other manuscript is an almost verbatim copy of the older codex. The first manuscript is held in the
Austrian National Library
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in
Vienna
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, the other codex in the Munich Public Library. Other variants of the text also existed because a 16th-century legend of St Gerard, published in Venice, was
based on a version different from the ones preserved in the two codices.
Sources
The ''Long Life of Saint Gerard'' is an early-14th-century compilation of multiple sources, including family legends.
Text
The first three chapters of the ''Legend'' narrates the would-be saint's early life.
See also
Footnotes
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Gerard of Csanád
Gerard or Gerard Sagredo ( hu, Gellért; it, Gerardo di Sagredo; la, Gerardus; 23 April 977/1000 – 29 August 1046) was the first bishop of Csanád in the Kingdom of Hungary from around 1030 to his death. Most information about his life was ...
Medieval documents of Hungary