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Fascinating... but "being commemorated" isn't at all the same as "being invoked", as you recognize. I don't think one can "leave aside" a question that is at the very core of western medieval Catholic practice regarding saints. Their intercession is the whole point... a detail that becomes the more apparent as one enjoys Phyllis' postings. Saints' lives are not always that imitable, nor even always terrifically illuminating (they can be erratic, destabilizing, dangerous!). And even when they are good role models, how often do (for example) Ste Foy's followers declare they are going to follow her example? It is her intercession, not her example, that is foregrounded in practice. Lip service (okay, okay, MORE than lip service) is given to saints' illustrious lives in liturgical settings or in vitae, but to me it seems a drop in the bucket of enthusiasm for saints in the western middle ages.
Regards,
Theresa Gross-Diaz
Loyola University, Chicago
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Yet the post from Phyllis Jestice to which this is a reply mentions
(correctly, in my experience) Anglican liturgical commemorations of
Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley. I have attended an Anglican commemoration of
Charles the Martyr in which Laud and .... Haile
Selassie were also commemorated in prayers. Leaving aside the matter
of intercession, it seems incontrovertible that Anglicans have added to
their liturgical calendars saints who were not "biblical".
Best,
John Dillon
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