medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Speaking of Saint Benedict, does anyone know of any recent (last 50 years)
articles or other work on the Versus Simplicii that appear in some
manuscripts of Benedict's Rule?
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> As far as I know, both monasteries still claim to have the body of Saint
> Benedict--and neither pope or the Benedictine Order has made an judgment
> concerning the authenticity of relics in either place. In our
congregation,
> the Swiss-American, we celebrate both the feast of Benedict's transitus
and
> the translation of his relics as Solemnities--but by celebrating the
second
> as a Solemnity, I'm sure no one is claiming that the Fleury set is the
more
> authentic. When I was in the novitiate, I was told that the Cassino monks
> claimed that their body was truly that of Saint Benedict, for during the
> bombardment during WWII, a bomb fell on the tomb of Benedict but failed to
> detonate, a miracle indicating the protective presence of the saint. There
> was also a story about one body having a well-developed voice-box or
> something like that and that showed that the person was truly a monk and
> therefore Saint Benedict. It sound (and sounds) fishy to me!
>
> Thomas Sullivan, OSB
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Nugent [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:44 PM
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> > Subject: [M-R] Benedict's body
> >
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> > Dear Colleagues:
> >
> > Does Monte Cassino still make a claim to having the body of St.
> > Benedict? Has the papacy or the church or the Benedictine Confederation
> > in
> > some way ruled on the competing claims of Fleury and Monte Cassino?
> >
> >
> > Patrick J. Nugent
> >
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> > Patrick J. Nugent
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