Comments to: David Woods
Last Updated: September 1999

© 1999, Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York. Oil on canvas painting (91.4 x 91.4 cm), 1912, by Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), now in Kean Collection, New York.

Contents Origin of Cult Translations of: BHG 1274 Other Sources Select Bibliography More Images Modern Cult Select Links

Primary Texts

• Anonymous premetaphrastic Greek passion in H. Delehaye, Les légendes grecques des saints militaires (Paris, 1909), 234-42 [BHG 1274]
• Anonymous premetaphrastic passion in St. Binon, Documents grecs inédits relatifs St. Mercure de Césarée (Louvain, 1937), 27-39 [BHG 1275]
• Passion by Symeon Metaphrastes in H. Delehaye, Les légendes grecques des saints militaires (Paris, 1909), 234-42 [BHG 1276]
• Passion by Nicephorus Gregoras in St. Binon, Documents grecs inédits relatifs St. Mercure de Césarée (Louvain, 1937), 67-91 [BHG 1277]
• Anonymous account of the translation of relics of St. Mercurius from Quintodecimo to Beneventum in North Italy in AD768 in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum, Saeculi VI-IX (Hannover, 1878), 576-78 [BHL 5936]

Secondary Literature

• Delehaye, H. "La Translatio s. Mercurii Beneventum" in Mélanges Godefroid Kurth I (Liège, 1908), 17-24 (=H. Delehaye (ed.), Mélanges d'Hagiographie Grecque et Latine (Subsidia Hagiographica 42: Brussels, 1966), 189-195)
• Head, T. "Discontinuity and Discovery in the Cult of the Saints: Apulia from Late Antquity to the High Middle Ages", Hagiographica 6 (1999), 171-211
• Orlandi, T. Passione e miracoli di S. Mercurio (Milan, 1976)