These Anglian boys, Bede says through the term candidus, shine like holy angels. |
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The epithets marmoreus, eburneus, and candidus, are all applied to beauty by the Roman poets, sometimes as to their shape, and sometimes as to the shiningness here spoken of. |
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A Vita Bonifacii was written in Fulda in the ninth century, possibly by Candidus of Fulda, but is now lost. |
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The inscription describes him as a horse soldier of the Cavalry Regiment of Petriana and standard bearer of the Troop of Candidus. |
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