Author: VRY Volker de - Liborius :
Title: Liborius Brückenbauer Europas. Die mittelalterlichen Viten und Translationberichte. Mit einem Anhang der Manuscripta Liboriana.
Description: .: Paderborn, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 1997, small in-4°, 26 x 21 cm, 381 pp, b/w ills, (also some colored), index, bibliography, publisher's cloth, gilt title on spine. The German town of Paderborn, seat of an archbishopric, received in 836 A.D. some relics of the second bishop of Le Mans ; Liborius, who died around 400 A.D. Liborius is the patron saint of Paderborn. This gift of relics was marked by a contract of ''Eternal fraternity and love'' between the churches of Le Mans and Paderborn. It is the oldest contract still extant in Europe and reference was made to it during the negociations for the Treaty of Westfalia (Münster) in 1648. It served also after the second world war, when Paderborn aid came to Le Mans for the reconstruction. In 1977 , at the first European parlementary elections, the archbishop of Paderborn made the Liborius devotion a symbol for European unity by the creation of the Liborius medal, awarded to a deserving European. This is a scientific study in German on the surviving mediaeval manuscripts related to Liborius. .

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