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Candidus may refer to:
- Saint Candidus, martyr
- Candidus of Fulda, ninth-century scholar of the Carolingian Renaissance
- Candidus (floruit 793–802), ninth-century scholar of the Carolingian Renaissance
- Candidus, a pen name of Samuel Adams
- Candidus, a Roman cognomen
- Candidus, a disciple of Clement of Ireland
- Candidus (Celtic spirit), a "candid spirit" in Lusitanian and Celtic polytheism (Gaul).
Candidus was the name given to the Anglo-Saxon Wizo or Witto by Alcuin, whose scholar he was and with whom he went in 782 to Gaul. He is author of several philosophical texts wrongly attributed by earlier scholars to the benedictinian monk Brun Candidus of Fulda, the author of the vita of Abott Eigil of Fulda. But recent research into the manuscript tradition furnishing clear evidence attested the authorship of Candidus Wizo, the learned disciple of Alcuin. Based on his deep knowledge of the works of Saint Augustine of Hippo he tried to give proof of god’s existence, to demonstrate that the incorporeal nature of god is conceivable only by means of the spiritual eye and excludes any possibility of viewing him by means of the corporeal eyes, and to elucidate the problem of the incarnation explaining its need by the weakness of the human cognition. At the palace school he was tutor to Gisla, the sister, and Rodtruda, the daughter of Charlemagne. When Alcuin went to Tours (796), Candidus was his successor as master of the palace school. Alcuin's esteem for Candidus is shown by his dedicating his commentary on Ecclesiastes to his friends Onias, Fredegisus, and Candidus.
Candidus was a "candid spirit" that accompanied the healing god Borvo in Lusitanian and Celtic polytheism. This association is demonstrated in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain. He has been described as "a minor deity in Apollo’s train who calls to mind Apollo Virotutis ‘truth’ and Apollo’s role as revealer of the truth through oracles".
Usage examples of "candidus".
The East, in the next century, produced some rhetorical historians, Zosimus, Olympiedorus, Malchus, Candidus &c.
Therefore Julius Candidus is us'd to say agreeably enough, That Eloquence is one thing, and Speaking another.
Long, long ago two men named Galbius and Candidus went on a pilgrimage to Palestine and in Capernaum they learned that the Virgin's pallion was preserved in the house of a Jew.
The East, in the next century, produced some rhetorical historians, Zosimus, Olympiedorus, Malchus, Candidus &c.