Talk:Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Mans

St. Scholastica

(1) The paragraph is unreferenced; (2) Scholastica lived in Umbria: none of the articles says how her body got to northern France (the topic is complicated and controversial); (3) the article on Fleury, whence she is supposed to have come to Le Mans, knows nothing of this; one part of the myth says that Fleury got St. Benedict and Le Mans got St. Scholastica. The material seems to be copied from the 'Catholic Encyclopedia', whose texts are officially approved by the Roman Catholic Church as concerns faith and morals; that doesn't mean its material is true in terms of history. Paul the Deacon, of Montecassino (1974). "Book VI, chapter 2". History of the Lombards. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 251. ISBN 0-8122-1079-4. says that the people of Le Mans and of Orleans were in on what was thievery from the beginning. This is different from saying that relics were transferred or translated from Fleury to Le Mans. POV problems.

The article is severely unbalanced, giving no consideration to fraudulent relics, a well researched topic, e.g. Charles Freeman (2011). Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16659-0., or Patrick J. Geary (2011). Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (revised ed.). Princeton University Press. pp. 118–122. ISBN 1-4008-2020-0. Did you know that there are more than 300 Holy Shrouds or Veronica veils, and at least 5 foreskins of baby Jesus? Jean-Paul Kurtz (1821). Dictionnaire critique des reliques et des images miraculeuses (in French). Vol. Tome II. Paris: Guien. p. 28. ISBN 978-2-322-03363-8. There are pin feathers of the Angel Gabriel, and several heads of John the Baptist. --Vicedomino (talk) 14:12, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Removed flag of French Republic, per [WP:ICON]

I removed the French Republic flag icon from the Infobox, in accordance with several sections of WP:ICON; specifically (quoting),

• "Generally, flag icons should not be used in infoboxes, even when there is a "country", "nationality" or equivalent field: they are unnecessarily distracting and give undue prominence to one field among many...."
• "Flags make simple, blunt statements about nationality, while words can express the facts with more complexity." ....
• "Do not rewrite history. Flags should not be used to misrepresent the nationality of a historical figure [including some bishops], event, object, etc. Political boundaries change, often over the span of a biographical article subject's lifetime. Where ambiguity or confusion could result, it is better not to use a flag at all, and where one is genuinely needed, use the historically accurate flag."

--Vicedomino (talk) 15:41, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Differs from French version

In French version Gontier succeeded Aldric. Elinruby (talk) 13:41, 25 February 2023 (UTC)