Portents and events at Christ's birth: comments on Vercelli v and vi and the Old English Martyrology

Abstract

Many curious traditions are gathered by medieval man to magnify the birth of Christ. Homilies and tracts transmitted the stories of the anonymous apocrypha but this present investigation uncovers well-known names and a different tradition. For the theme in Vercelli homilies v and vi Rudolph Willard blazed the trail when he drew attention to De Divinis Officiis Liber (wrongly attributed to Alcuin) and also to a sequence in Rome, Vatican Library, Reg. Cat. 49, which is now named Catéchèses Celtiques. The historical information in both these Latin texts, however, clearly derives from Orosius‘s Historiarum adversum Paganos Libri VII.

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