medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At 8:44 PM -0500 5/30/05, John Dillon wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>On Monday, May 30, 2005, at 5:38 pm, John Briggs wrote:
>
>> > Petronilla
>>
>> Whether she still appears anywhere in any calendar is anyone's
>> guess!
>
>Oh, I don't think we have to guess. There are enough active churches
>dedicated to P. to suggest that she has memorials in many Roman Catholic
>dioceses, even if the latter's liturgical calendars are not readily
>available on the Web. Here are a few medievally-pertinent instances:
What continues to puzzle me is the very active church on the corner
near where I work, which is dedicated to St. Philomene.
Didn't she get pretty well documented as totally fictitious, back in
1969? And removed from calendars?
I notice (according to eBay at least :) a decided upsurge in devotion
to her in the last few years -- apparently she's been labeled now as
a "cancer saint" or even specifically a "breast cancer saint", for
reasons which totally escape me. (Aside from being one of the
ever-popular genre of beautiful young virgin martyrs, of course.....
<g>)
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