medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >If that's the case, what happened to the ampoule
> between the discovery
> of it and the second mention that you mention? I
> assume the monks of
> Saint-Remi would not allow the ampoule to travel and
> that any king not
> anointed at Reims would have been anointed with
> something else.
>
> I suspect that the legend of the Saint-Ampoule is a
> "pious invention" -
> just like the "Sainte-Tunique" in Argenteuil, which
> was "recovered" in
> 1156.
What was smashed during the profanation of all things
royal during the Revolution, a sliver of which was
allegedly preserved in someone's trouser cuff? For
sure the legend of a dove/ampoule/beak was nonsense,
but is it generally assumed that there was no
container for the unction, that a fresh batch was
blessed/mixed/concocted for each sacre? Or was there
some sort of "ampoule" as depicted in the
(Renaissance) statues of the "douze pairs de France"
that surround Remi's shrine at the basilica?
MG
>
> Werner
>
> Embalming - anointing: Apologize the lack of the
> exact English terms!
>
>
>
>
>
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