Raimondo Palmario of Piacenza (d. 1200)

Abstract

The Life of Raimondo, called 'the Palmer' (Palmario), was written by Master Rufino, a canon of the church of the Twelve Apostles adjacent to the hospital which Raimondo himself had founded in Piacenza. Although Rufino seems to have been personally acquainted with Raimondo only late in the saint's life, he claims to have drawn on the testimony of not only Raimondo's only surviving son, Gerardo, but the whole community of those who had known and worked with him. The result, as published in Acta sanctorum in 1729, has accordingly been accepted as authentic and trustworthy both by Vauchez and by Luigi Canetti in his study of the cult of the saints at Piacenza. As was the custom of Acta sanctorum, Peter Bosch divided his retranslation into long chapters, but he listed the chapter divisions which he found in the Italian translation, which were probably those of the original Latin Life.