Abstract
The Drogo Sacramentary (Paris, Bibl. Nat. lat. ms. 9428) contains a set of Mass pericopes for the feast day celebration of St. Arnulf of Metz. These prayers are accompanied by a historiated initial D depicting scenes from the life of the Saint. Together the illumination and the set of pericopes are evidence for a specific liturgy composed to celebrate St. Arnulf’s feast day. These prayers appear to be the earliest evidence for a unique liturgy relating to St. Arnulf. Paradoxically, this development occurred at the same time as the imperial legislation by Charlemagne that suppressed many local saints pronouncing them false martyrs and unknown saints. The prevalent explanation, as exemplified in the writing of Wallace-Hadrill, for the popularity of St. Arnulf’s cult in the ninth century suggests, at least in part, that it arose as a result of his association with the Carolingian dynasty. The techniques of textual and historical criticism are used in the discussion that follows to establish where possible wh...
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