This has recently been posted in rec.music.early and seemed an appropriate
query for the medieval-religion list. Can anyone help ?
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From: jmercero <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: rec.music.early
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: Hat as a vessel
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am forwarding a query from a colleague in a Spanish and Portuguese
> Department. I hope someone might be able to provide an answer or have
> comments.
>
> "I am studying the -Poema de Mio Cid- (c. 1207), and I believe that an
> aspect of Felez Munoz might be related to the deeds of a real or imaginary
> saint. As you probably already know the Cid (c. 1043-1099) asks his nephew
> Felez Munoz to accompany the Cid's daughters to Carrion de los condes. The
> daughters are traveling there with their husbands the counts of Carrion,
> and the Cid suspects that his sons-in-laws are up to no good.
> The Cid was correct. For they beat their wives severely and left them in
> the wilderness to die of exposure to the harsh weather and to death from
> wild animals. Felez finds his cousins on the verge of death. They are also
> dying of thirst and beg Felez for water which he retrieves from a nearby
> stream. ++Hes uses a new woolen hat as a vessel++ Through his actions
> Felez resuscitates his cousins and gives them new life. Later the Cid's
> daughters remarry, and among their progeny are great warriors kings who
> help complete the reconquest of Spain from the moors.
> Professor Duggan in his book about the -Poema de Mio Cid- clearly shows
> that Felez Munoz was an ancestor of San Martin de la Hinojosa. I thought
> that perhaps the resuscitation from water in a hat as a vessel might have
> been one of San Martin's miracles. But I have not found any such miracle
> associated with this nor any other saint.
> My question to you is do you know of any saint or any woodbe saint who
> performed any miracles similar to what I have descrided to you?"
>
> Jacques E. Merceron
> Associate Professor
>
> Indiana University
> Depart. of French & Italian
> Ballantine Hall 642
> 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave
> Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
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