ABSTRACT
In 858, one year before the execution of Eulogius, two monks from the Parisian monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, named Usuard and Odilard, went to Valencia hoping to bring back the body of St Vincent. Finding this to be impossible, and learning of the existence of martyr relics in Cordoba, they were assisted by one Leovigild, member of the Christian patrician class in that city. The translation of the relics of Aurelius, Sabigotho and George back to Saint-Germain-des-Pres by the Frankish monks was accompanied by the story of their martyrdom. Bodo certainly must have known how to parse plainsong and chant psalms in the correct reformed manner and may have been quite good at this art. Hincmar dwells heavily on the sending of music masters to the cathedral at Meaux, and even though there was another purpose behind this, his remarks cast an unexpected shaft of light on the transmission of the Gregorian chant in connection with Bodo’s network of musical contacts.
