Tom Izbicki wrote:
> I would hesitate to make so clear a division. Dominic's legend has his
> mother seeing signs of his future sanctity.
> Tom Izbicki
>
The Vita of Bernard of Clairvaux written by William of St. Thierry has the same
motif.Brian Noell
> At 02:38 PM 8/9/2000 +0300, you wrote:
> >Hello you wise ones.
> >
> >I am working on a paper about the nativities of early Irish saints and
> >the question that specially interests me is the way Irish saints are
> >usually chosen by God to be saints already before their birth and how
> >this is manifested in prophecies and miracles before and during their births.
> >I am just wondering how common this kind of born-to-be-saints are in early
> >Continental hagiography versus saints that have to go through a conversion?
> >
> >Yours,
> >Katja Ritari
> >University of Helsinki
> >
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