Beaulieu LXX

Created Friday 18 April 2014

954x67, a donation to St-Pierre de Beaulieu by one Remi of a manse in Oriols, for his soul and that of Robert and in honour of 'the blessed Rainer who was Prior there' , the first our documents have said of it but apparently already something of a cult focus: "in honore B. Rainerii qui de ipso loco jam dicto præpositus fuit, et propter hoc quia ipse virtutem magnam omnibus qui aderamus ostendit, adolescens etiam qui deportatus ad ejus tumulum contractus fuit, ipsius intercessione cum magna felicitate, ante altare S. Petri currendo festins pervenit; et illud magnum miraculum ostensum fuit in festivitate S. Martialis." This all raises a bunch of questions, such as:

1. why were they gathering at Beaulieu for the feast of St Martial, rather than at St-Martial?
2. why wasn't it one of the very many resident saints, and most obviously St Peter in this case since he is the only one named, for whose intercession this lad or his depositors were hoping?
3. what was it about Rainer that was already attracting this kind of attention? and
4. when was he alive, anyway?