Engraving of St Radegunda [Radegund] from Heiliges Benedictiner-Jahr

An attractive copper engraving of St Radegund, taken from Ranbeck’s "Benedictine Saints throughout the year". This image was engraved by Kihan after J. Umbach. With small text in Latin below the image extolling her virtues. Image is clean and tidy, with some foxing and small edge-wear to the border only. Impressed area 125 x 90mm, sheet is 200 x 145 mm. Original copy. St Radegund (520-587). was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. She is the patroness saint of several churches in France and England and of Jesus College, Cambridge, whose full name is ‘The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund’. She was closely associated with Gregory of Tours and Venantius Fortunatus. .