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A Sister Saint to St Maurice - St Fidis

St Fidis                                                       St Maurice

Sister and Brother ReliquaryBusts

St Fidis (1), a sister saint to St Maurice,  was a short-lived (c1525-27) invention of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenberg perhaps a response to early presences of Christianised black ladies in waiting at the German Renaissance Court. One of these lades is seen in the Master of the  Goslar Sibyl’s Calenberg Altarpiece now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

 

Calenberg Altarpiece Center panel
Boston Museum of Art

Calenberg Altarpiece Detail showing Black lady in waiting 
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(1) Kaplan, Paul. (2016). The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany  In Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann (Eds.), GERMANY AND THE BLACK DIASPORA Points of Contact, 1250-1914 (pp. 21-37) Berghahn Books