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I'm not sure if this fits, but there are stories of Guala of Bergamo seeing Dominic's soul enter heaven at the time of the saint's death.
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Greetings to all,
I am looking at the death scene of Francis of Assisi by which he dies the
"good death" of the Christian saint. Bonaventure uses themes a ascension,
resurrection, and the glorification of his body in the passage from death to
new life in his Major Life of Francis.
Please excuse my ignorance of other saint lives in the middle ages besides
that of Francis of Assisi!
I have a few questions that I need help with:
Are there other saints in the middle ages contain very elaborate death
scenes like we find in the Legenda Maior of Bonaventure?
Do any accounts of other saints have "ascension scenes" in which the saint
is seen by people being raised up to heaven?
Do any hagiographical texts speak of the affects of Christ's resurrection on
the post-mortem body of the saint before entombment?
Thanks for any help you can give me!
Steve
Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv.
Theology Department
University of Saint Thomas
Saint Paul, MN
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