medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>>A seventeenth-century icon showing S. in his display coffin on Corfu is here:
>>http://www.templegallery.com/getfullpage.php?stockno=45
>>and here's a view of S. being carried in a recent procession:
>>http://www.greatlie.com/images/articles/AgSpyridon_sml2.jpg
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>The poor guy has been dead for over 1500 years, and he's still on his feet! Is that
>posthumous asceticism, or something? I've never seen this practice before, as
>opposed to the more usual horizontal format. Was this common?
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
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I've seen the telephone-booth presentation with other Greek saints. I
don't know about common. Relics are much more scarce in Greece than in
Italy & Spain.
DW
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