medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John B. Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> John Briggs wrote:
>> I
>> would suggest that the very fact that there was no translation feast was
>> the reason why some other event in his life (ordination, consecration)
>> was celebrated for his "second" feast.
>
> This would be very reasonable were it established that there was in the
> twentieth century no translation feast for Gregory. But repeated
> proofless assertions that there was no such feast have the same status
> in argumentation as the original proofless assertion that there was one
> and are consequently not persuasive.
How on earth can I prove the absence of a feast? Here is an extract from
the reading of the Roman Martyrology (presumably pre-1969, but definitely
twentieth-century) for 3 September:
Item Romę Ordinatio incomparabilis viri sancti Gregorii Magni in Summum
Pontificem; qui, onus illud subire coactus, e sublimiori throno clarioribus
sanctitatis radiis in Orbe refulsit.
> In fairness to John W., and being
> uninformed as to the details and circumstances of the relatively recent
> Roman relocation of Gregory's principal feast to 3. September, I prefer
> to keep an open -- albeit skeptical -- mind about John's statement that
> "the new date is the traditional translation feast." How traditional it
> really was (if indeed this feast can be shown to have existed) is of
> course another matter.
>
It hardly seems fair to John W. to keep drawing attention to his error -
especially as it was presumably a simple (and understandable) slip, assuming
that the "second" or minor feast would be a translation feast.
John Briggs
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