medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Oh, yes, and I think it's St Fillan's Bell which still
> exists somewhere: the classic early-medieval bell,
> rectangular in form, which produces at least three
> different tones from different walls of the rectangle.
Bells seem to crop up in the stories of a lot of early European saints, and they often
have the status of relics of that saint, as I suspect is the case with St Fillan here.
Does anybody have any idea why?
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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