The proper calendar for the Catholic dioceses of Germany marks February 4th as the feast of one of the most interesting figures of the Carolingian era, the Bl. Rabanus Maurus, who died on this day in the 856. (His first name is also written as Hrabanus or Rhabanus.)Bl Rabanus, together with Alcuin, presents his poem “On the praises of the Holy Cross” to Otgar, archbishop of Mainz. (Alcuin’s
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