Thanks, Erminia, these versions of the saints lives are hysterically funny.
They leave out a few things for the sake of the little ones, of course.
At 12:52 AM 10/20/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>http://www.adena.com/adena/sts/siena.htm
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>From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:54 AM
>Subject: Re: St Jerome, Geoffrey Hill and Antonello Da Messina
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>> St. Jerome, who may or may not be responsible for the Latin Bible,
>> certifiably (and the term is unusually appropriate) wrote a number of
>> lengthy letters to a young woman whose name escapes me who had decided to
>> set up a proto-nunnery and asked the saint to help her develop a Rule. His
>> advice on the subject of the effect of women on men brightened long hours
>> in the lower circles of the Johns Hopkins library. Men are turned on by
>> cleanliness in a woman, he said, so bathing should be severely limited.
>> Hair is also a turn-on, so best to shave it off or cover it, and certainly
>> never wash it. Ears also get to men--cover or amputate. Note that the
>> traditional habits of most orders meet Jerome's criteria.
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>> The idea seems to be that anything about a woman gets at least to St.
>> Jerome. It never occurred to him that he needed to get laid.
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>> Starting with what one would have thought unpromising materials
>Chritianity
>> has produced marvels.
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>> At 03:01 AM 10/20/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>> >St Jerome, Geoffrey Hill and Antonello da Messina
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>> >Here is a the location on the web
>> >http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/a/antonell/stjerome.html
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>> >containing the famous and spectacular painting of Saint Jerome in his
>study,
>> >by the Italian painter Antonello Da Messina (1474).
>> > It is, to me, the most striking work of art ever made to portray a
>Saint.
>> >What it is fascinating is the perfection of the compositional geometry
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>> >perspective
>> >of St Jerome's study as well the vividness and naturalness of the
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>> >rolling smoothly in the far distance......
>> >(St Jerome in his study is the title: Geoffrey Hill's sonnet "Ten years
>> >without you?for so it happens..."
>> >refers to this particular posture of St Jerome, the intellectual Saint.
>> >Antonello da Messina's painting of St Jerome is a masterpiece of
>virtuosism
>> >for the meticulousity of the study central area
>> >(a meticolosity which in the fisrt place eblonged to Saint Jerome
>himself,
>> >as stressed in his poem by Geoffre Hill.
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>> >I hope you can enjoy this amazing work of art.
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>> >Erminia
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