medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:04:50 -0700 Phyllis wrote:
>Today (10. July) is the feast day of:
>10,000 Martyrs of Mt. Ararat (d. c. 120???) This is apparently a
>twelfth-century legend, widely popularized in the fifteenth century.
Er, I'm away from my books just now, but the legend in some form must be earlier than the twelfth century. I encountered a version of it recently whilst working on a paper dealing with Latin prosimetric texts from central and southern Italy of the ninth through eleventh centuries.
Best,
John Dillon
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