Talk:Beatus of Lungern

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A fact from Beatus of Lungern appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Beatus of Lungern, a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland, is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/May.

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I know this guy may not have existed at all, or at least not in the form under which he is venerated. But having a paragraph like this is a recipe for temporal whiplash: "Beatus... [took] up a hermitage in what is now known as St. Beatus Caves... probably in the ninth century... He died at an old age in 112 CE." Without a section on either time travel or reincarnation, we need to pick a time frame in which to discuss this saint. Is there are a source for "probably in the ninth century"? If so, could "probably" be expanded to something like, "contrary to legend, {something} likely happened in the ninth century CE," or some such? I have zero domain knowledge, nor access to relevant sources, or I'd make an appropriate change. Last1in (talk) 17:27, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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