Subject: | | Re: FEAST 1 August |
From: | | "emrys" <[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] |
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Following St Cyril of Alexandria, the Eastern Orthodox Church believes
that Daniel and the Three Children lived to great old age in Babylon,
and were beheaded with the sword for the true Faith.
An angel carried their bodies to Judea, to Mount Gebal, and placed them
under a rock. According to tradition, these four men arose at the time
of the death of Jesus and appeared to many, then fell asleep again.
Daniel is counted by the East as one of the four Great Prophets (with
Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel).
The Canticle of the Three Young Children in the Fiery Furnace with its
refrain "Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of our fathers and praised and
glorified is Thy Name forever" (Daniel 3:51 ff.) is sung by the Greeks
at Sunday Matins and by the Russians as part of the Saturday All-Night
Vigil. It is woven into the Eighth Ode of the Canon.
Fr Ambrose
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