medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I can see why we might give P. less attention than some of the others,
but a legal question here: Someone beats someone to death in Italy in
the late 14thC. What happens legally? Is there some public police
system? Does a family member have to find the guilty & bring a charge?
Etc.
DW
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> 2) Panacea (Bl.; d. ca. 1383). P. (Panaxia, Panasia, etc.) is a poorly documented Blessed whose cult centers on two towns in the diocese of Novara in Piedmont, Quarona and Ghemme, both in today's Vercelli province. According to legend (whose only surviving medieval witnesses are a few frescoes in churches in the area), P.'s father came from Quarona, where she spent her brief life, and her mother, who died when R. was three, came from Ghemme. The father remarried. When P. was fifteen her stepmother, who hated her and abused her, found her alone at prayer in the countryside near their home (P. is variously said to have been out gathering wood or tending sheep) and beat her to death with objects that have been variously described but which usually include a wooden shaft of some sort as shown in this late fifteenth-century detached fresco said to have originally been in a chapel dedicated to P. at Quarona:
> http://www.quaronasesia.it/SANGIOVANNI/sgiov07.jpg
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