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Dear Laura,
I won't get a chance to check this until tomorrow morning, but I have a
recollection of Dr Peter Harbison, in a lecture to the community some years
ago on Irish High Crosses, giving the name of the other soldier as
Stephaton. I will check his 3 volume survey of the High Crosses and get back
to you. I may well be mistaken.
Best wishes
Colmán O'Clabaigh OSB
Glenstal Abbey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Jacobus" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] Longinus and an unknown soldier
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Thanks- that's two good leads before the day is out (at least on my side
of
> the Atlantic). What a wonderful thing this list is.
>
> Laura
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Bugslag" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 17 November 2005 18:25
> Subject: Re: Longinus and an unknown soldier
>
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> >> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
> >> Does anyone know of a Roman soldier or centurion who was around at the
> >> time of the
> >> Crucifixion and later became a Christian, and who *wasn't* Longinus?
I'm
> >> trying to explain the
> >> presence of such a character in an image of the Road to Calvary. He has
> >> no halo, so may never
> >> have become a saint. It seems to me that the gospels allow for the
> >> possibility of two good
> >> soldiers at the Crucifixion- one who recognised Christ as the Son of
God,
> >> the other (in Luke)who
> >> bore witness at the piercing of Christ's side. The Golden Legend seems
to
> >> collapse them both in
> >> to St. Longinus, but I'd like to know if there was any medieval
tradtion
> >> of a good 'unknown
> >> soldier'.
> >
> > Laura,
> > The centurion who, according to Matthew 27:54, recognized Christ as the
> > Son of
> > God when an earthquake marked his death on the Cross was, I believed,
> > unnamed.
> > Gertrud Schiller, vol. 2, p. 13, is not as informative as usual on this,
> > but seems to
> > indicate that there could have been some conflation with Longinus, as in
> > the Golden
> > Legend, as early as the Acta Pilati of the 5th or 6th centuries. This
> > figure began to
> > appear in Crucifixion scenes, usually pointing up at Christ to indicate
> > his
> > recognition, in Carolingian Crucifixion scenes and became very common in
> > the later
> > Middle Ages. His separate identity from Longinus in these scenes
> > certainly
> > suggests that his identity was considered separately, but I don't know
> > about textual
> > sources for this.
> > Cheers,
> > Jim Bugslag
> >
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