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Woluwe-Saint-Lambert / Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe (Municipality, Region of Brussels-Capital, Belgium) (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Lambert's Vita is clearly modelled on an earlier similar text, Vita Sancti Eligii, St. Eloi's life; in the Merovingian times, plagiarism of popular sacred texts was the rule; the original material was supplemented with a few, often stereotypical details. |
 | | Later in the text, Lambert is portrayed as "extremely beautiful, strong and vivacious, very agile and brave at war; with a dispassionate mind and an elegant stature; firm in charity, chastity and humility, he devoted himself to study." This combination of the attributes of saintliness and aristocracy is therefore very coherent. |
 | | Most historians have supposed the Lambert, like Léger in Autun, was the victim of the repression exerted by Ebroïn; recent data seem to prove the opposite: accordingly, Lambert would have been sacked by Dagobert II and Wulfoald, who suspected him to be too close with Ebroïn. |
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