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Saint Karpophorus / Sankt Karphophorus

A rather unusual dedication. Karpophorus, usually rather Carpophorus with a C, likely did not exist outside legend. He was a priest with a name meaning "fruit bringer"and his diakon was fittingly some Abundiatus... anyway they got killed for being christians under the rule of emperor Diocletian somewhere. Spoleto in Italy and Sevillia in Spain both claim to be the place. More likely he was a made up on the go substitute, used to christianize a vertility deity. But now there he is around as a spiritual entity and sure helps out with the orchards in the Adige valley. / Ein ziemlich unuebliches Patrozinium. Karpophorus, normalerweise eher Carphophorus mit C, mag gelebt haben oder auch nicht. Jedenfalls nach der Legende war er Priester, und dann hatte er noch einen Diakon bei sich, der wurde passend dazu Abundiatus genannt.... Die zwei wurden unter Kaiser Diokletian irgendwo hingerichtet weil sie Christen waren. Spoleto in Italien und Sevillia in Spanien behaupten beide, der Ort zu sein. Wahrscheinlicher ist's das war ein massgeschneiderter Kandidat um lokale maennliche Fruchtbarkeitsgoetter zu christianisieren, aber jetzt ist er nunmal etabliert und hilft sicher den Suedtirolern beim Tal fruchtbar machen.



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Fizgig July 05, 2017, 11:13 AM
Nicely captured!
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