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nonsense.
how many modest saints can there be?
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Received: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:30:18 AM EDT
From: jbugslag <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 2. October
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> > > 1) Modestus, (once) venerated at Benevento (d. ca. 304,
> > > supposedly). This
> > less well known saint from the Regno
> >
> > > In the absence of any decent visuals for M....
> >
> >
> > ...we might look at her True & Accurate Portrait on the Southwest
> > corner of the North Porch of Chartres cathedral, probably from the
> > 1230s or so, miraculously still in pretty good shape after nearly 800
> > years of weathering:
>
> Beautiful statue, Christopher, but a different St Modeste. She was supposed
to have been
> one of the early converts to Christianity at Chartres who was believed to
have been martyred
> by being thrown down the well in the cathedral crypt. She appears in
Chartrain martyrologies
> on 16 June, I believe.
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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