See also Celestiniana, ed. Arsenio Frugoni in Istituto storico italiano
per il medio evo, studi storici, fasc. 6-7 in 1954 p. 62 about Peter of
Murrone's dream that he was mounting the steps toward a high palace-like
monastery with his ass and "ille malus asellus cepit turpiter de corpore
eicere stercus, quasi manducasset herbas teneras." The Trinity appears to
his abashed self saying "ascende. Quare non ascendis? Pro eo quod asellus
facit consuetudinem suam? Quid tibi? Ascende." This concerns the saint's
wet dreams and is introduced by "Item alio tempore accidit ei multa
temptatio, quod facere deberet quando et accideret pollutio, si eodem die
celebraret an non."
The matter was of importance to the clergy because no less a person than
Peter d'Ailly in his Vita Coelestini in the Monumenta coelestiana
(Paderborn 1921) ed. F. Z. Seppelt, pp. 156-57 discourses on the four
reasons for nocturna pollucio at some length and cites the above case.
John Mundy
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