medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear listmembers,
A propos of Phyllis Jestice's most welcome recommencement of the
daily saints' feasts, perhaps someone might enlighten me on a
phenomenon that I didn't know existed before this afternoon. I was
reading Hippolyte Delehaye's Legendes grecques des saints militaires,
in which he mentions a moveable feast day for a saint. It was a
feast of St Theodore, quite apart from his regular feast day
(there were actually two St Theodores recognized from about the
9th century) which was celebrated on the first Saturday of Lent; this
moveable feast apparently commemorated a miraculous apparition of the
saint. Julian the Apostate, according to this legend, had forbidden
the sale in the market of food which had not been offered to idols or
asperged with the blood of victims, much to the chagrin of
Christians. But St Theodore came to their aid; he appeared in a
dream to the bishop of Euchaïta and suggested the replacement of
their usual food by a plate of boiled wheat, called colyba. Besides
being a particularly weird story, it is, as I said, an example --
presumably from the Orthodox calendar -- of a moveable saint's feast
day. Has anyone ever heard of this? Were there others? Thanks in
advance for any information, Jim Bugslag
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