I don't know if this is what the original poster had in mind, but in the
Infancy Gospels, Jesus himself kills a couple of his playmates, one who
breaks the clay sparrows that Jesus has made and another who runs into Jesus
and knocks him down.
Regards,
Clint
Dr. Clinton Atchley
Department of English
Box 7652
Henderson State University
Arkadelphia, AR 71999
Phone: 870.230.5276
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>Subject: Re: saintly pettiness
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>A lot of the early Welsh saints had atrocious tempers. Cadoc
>was probably
>the worst (he's the one who morally blackmailed his parents into taking
>vows of chastity within marriage - they used to bathe in the
>waters of the
>local river to quell their fleshly lusts. When that failed to work, his
>mother, the princess Gwladus, removed herself to the
>mountains, where she
>founded a nunnery. )
>
>Cadoc:
>
>1. blinded King Rhun, whose servants had taken some of Cadoc's milk
>2. punished a disciple who had lost one of Cadoc's books: the
>disciple was
>drowned looking for it, but the book was miraculously returned unharmed
>(candidate for patron saint of librarians?)
>3. wreaked a horrible revenge on a peasant who looked at the tombs of
>Cadoc's Scottish disciples when he was told not to: his eye
>burst and the
>optic nerve hung down his face.
>
>There are a lot more stories of saints punishing those who
>infringed their
>rights, but these seem the most petty. Patience is emphatically not a
>saintly attribute at this period! There are obvious reasons for the
>ferocity of the saints' acts in defence of their territories
>and rights.
>Most of these vitae were being written up as the Normans were sweeping
>across south Wales, threatening church endowments and
>organisations, and
>the vitae are in part an attempt to record what was being lost
>and in part
>a desperate attempt to deter the invaders. However, there are so many
>parallels in the lives of saints elsewhere, and even in the apocryphal
>infancy gospels of Christ, that there is obviously more to it.
>
>Maddy
>
>
>Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
>(Department of Humanities and Science
>UWCN Caerleon Campus
>PO Box 179
>Newport NP18 3YG
>http://www.newport.ac.uk)
>
>'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
>
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