Have you read Francesco Lanzoni, "Il sogno presago della madre incinta
nella letteratura medievale e antica," Analecta Bollandiana 45 (1927)
225-261?
At 02:38 PM 8/9/00 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello you wise ones.
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>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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