At 07:42 AM 6/30/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Today, 30 June, is the feast of ...
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>* Martial, bishop of Limoges (c. 250) - an eleventh-century vita claims
>that he was one of the seventy-two disciples of Jesus;
>
>Two years ago Daniel Williman added:
>
>It was Bernard Gui OP who tried to make a complete list of the original
>disciples, and he certainly included Martial; but the 11th-century vita,
>almost certainly by Ademar of S. Martial,
only the final version. most of the claims to being related to peter and
hanging with jesus were made in an earlier, non-ademarian version of the
late 10th, early 11th cn.
>made him much more: a relative
>of S. Peter, converted out of the tribe of Benjamin by the preaching of
>Jesus, it seems Martial would have been an apostle but for his young
>age.
for those of you who have seen the movie Dogma, the same claim is made by
Chris Rock, who wd have been the 13th, had he not been black. of course we
all know that the real 13th apostle was Constantine, one of the truly great
moments in the history of sychophancy.
>The Limousin popes of Avignon, led by Clement VI, relied on the
>apostolic legend and embroidered it further. In the S. Martial chapel of the
>palace at Avignon, one sees Jesus instructing the Twelve at Capharnaum, using
>young Martial as a living example of humility, "Unless you become like
>this little one ..."
how ironic.
rlandes
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