Subject: | | FEAST 4 August |
From: | | Carolyn Muessig <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Aug 2000 10:47:11 -0500680_us-ascii On born-to-be-saints, John Kitchen, in Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender (Oxford UP, 1998) - a book with which I have some serious quarrels - does a very nice job of contrasting Venantius Fortunatus's portrayal of born-to-be saints with Gregory of Tours's portrayals of saints-despite-themselves, cranky and rude characters, rough around the edges, who nonetheless achieve sanctity. There are many hagiographies in which the saint exhibits saintly qualities from an early age (Boniface, for example, began to consider the advantages of the monastic life at the age of four), I can't recall any that involve prophecies or omens, though [...]40_9Aug200010:47:[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:24:39 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) |
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Today, 4 August, is the feast of ...
* Ia and companions, martyrs (c. 360) - shortest-named saint?; Ia and
companions were cruelly tortured in Persia
* Molua or Lughaidh, abbot (608) - when he died, the birds wept
Last year Francine Nicholas added this useful bit of info:
Actually, there were many saints named Molua and Lugaidh. Padraig O/
Ri/ain suggests that most of them, if indeed any were historical, took on
the attributes and mythology of the pre-Christian deity, Lugh (whose
festival, Lughnasa, occurred at the beginning of August in many
places).
Lugh was associated with two types of birds: ravens and wrens. Some
of the wren-day celebrations in Ireland resemble those done at Lughnasa.
* Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers (1221) - canonized in 1234
by his friend Gregory IX, who said he no less doubted Dominic's
sanctity than that of Peter and Paul
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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