On May 6, 10:05=A0am, ++ <fri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> St. Ivo (Ive, Yve, Ivia, Yvo) of Huntingdon****re, Hermit Bishop
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> Date unknown. According to medieval recounting, Saint Ivo was a Persian
> bishop who enjoyed great honour and luxury in his own land but he
> yearned for a more disciplined and arduous life. Together with three
> companions he went to England. They settled as hermits in the remote,
> wild fenlands in Huntingdon****re. There they died in the 7th century
> and would have been forgotten.
>
> However, about 1001, some relics with a bishop's insignia found in Slepe
> (near Ramsey abbey). Following a peasant's revelation in a dream, these
> episcopal remains (bones) were identified as those of St. Ivo. The four
> bodies, including that believed to be Ivo, were translated to Ramsey
> Abbey, where a holy well sprung up, at which many miracles were
> performed as recorded by Ramsey's third abbot, Whitman.
>
> About a century later, light appeared at night reaching from Ramsey to
> Slepe, which was interpreted as meaning that the bones of Ivo's
> companions should be translated back to Slepe, where a new foundation
> from Ramsey could enjoy this subsidiary shrine.
>
> Saint Ives in Huntingdon****re is named for him. Goselin ("Vita S.
> Yvonis" in "Patrologia Latina," ed. J. P. Migne, civ. 84 ff), who died
> about 1107, says that Ivo's cultus had been extant for a century.
>
> The Saint Ives, formerly ****th Ia, in west Cornwall, however, is named
> for Saint Ia (f.d. February 3) (Attwater, Benedictines, Bentley, Farmer,
> Husenbeth).
>
> In art, Saint Ivo is ****trayed as a Persian hermit with the attributes
> of a bishop. He is venerated at Huntingdon****re (Saint
> Ives, Ramsey) (Roeder).
>
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>
> The nursery rhyme is based on the place names for Saint Ives:
>
> =A0 =A0 As I was going to St Ives
> =A0 =A0 I met a man with seven wives
>
> =A0 =A0 And every wife had seven sacks
> =A0 =A0 And every sack had seven cats
> =A0 =A0 And every cat had seven kits
>
> =A0 =A0 Kits, cats, sacks, wives
> =A0 =A0 How many were going to St Ives?
>
> A second version is:
>
> =A0 =A0 As I was going to St Ives
> =A0 =A0 I met a man with seven wives
>
> =A0 =A0 Seven wives with seven sacks
> =A0 =A0 Seven sacks with seven cats
> =A0 =A0 Seven cats with seven kits
>
> =A0 =A0 Kits, cats, sacks, wives
> =A0 =A0 How many were going to St Ives?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Was_Going_to_St_Ives
>
> The Cornish city of Sen Iv: =A0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ive
>
> Parish history: =A0http://www.lynherparishes.co.uk/St%20Ive/StIve.htm
>
> http://www.lynherparishes.co.uk/St%20Ive/Other/Church,Chapel.htm
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