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Thanks, Christopher, for putting your finger on the most important
aspect of this entire case.
I was thinking the same thing in one of the articles I read about
this most recent announcement, where it is stated that the heads of
BOTH Peter and Paul are believed to be in St John Lateran, but nobody
knows where. How on earth would such ultra-super-duper-first-class
relics be lost? Or did someone wilfully cause this to happen?
George
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George FERZOCO
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On 8 Dec 2006, at 13:30, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> From: George FERZOCO <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Any thoughts as to the reasons behind this echoed news reporting, and
> why it is catching people's attention now as opposed to 18 months
> ago?
>
>
> interesting as this question is, in and of itself (and well
> answered by J.B.),
> of more interest to those of us of a middlevil Bent of Mind is the
> issue of
> *How* (on earth) could the tomb have been "lost" in the first place?
>
> assuming that it was, indeed, thought to be the tomb of Paul --who
> was not an
> insignificant Player in the Xien Tradition, if my memory serves--
> it must have
> been Revered as such for many centuries.
>
> how could it be that that Reverence *stopped*?
>
> who would have the Audacity, say, to leave feast day offices at the
> tomb out
> of some new revision to the church's ordinal?
>
> list Collegue Jim Bugslag has made a Cottage Industry out of
> studying the many
> and various examples of "cult supression" (my term, not his) at
> Chartres in
> the 16th-18th cc., but it seems to me that this example of St. Paul
> --at his
> tomb in his Major church in *Rome*-- is really quite Beyond the
> Pail, and in a
> class by itself, supression-wise.
>
> thoughts?
>
> c
>
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