I rather prefer working from my ignorance of proper Latin, and making the
bear serve as St. Spes's Nurse (which is, of course, English for Nursia, if
like me you don't quite know Latin). So then we can proceed to have this
(upright, of course) black bear leading the blind St. Spes gently around by
the arm (and paw), hunting a good dish of scampi or what will you. I'm
confident that mention of "the greatest sweetness" would allow us to include
some anecdotia about honey (shades of St. Ambrose!). I can already see it
would make a marvelous drawing ....
jm
>>Oriens wrote --
> >S. Spes was an abbot of a monastery, at a place called Cample, or
>> >Campi, bear Nursia, who was blind for forty years, and bore his
>> >affliction with the greatest sweetness and patience . . .
>
>Some gremlin printed "bear" rather than "near". But - O felix culpa! -
>we have the beginnings of an interesting legend here:
>
>St Spes had a pet bear, out of whose paw he had pulled a thorn. The
>beast was blind, but . . .
>
>Can anyone finish the legend in under a hundred words, perhaps
>restoring sight to the poor beast through the intercession of the
>saintly Spes?
>
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>
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