medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
What' with David himself?
karl
Am 5. Mai.2007 um 17:09 Uhr schrieb Chris Laning:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
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> The (Catholic) high school I work for is instituting a couple of
> new awards for excellence in dance (it has a strong performing arts
> program) and would like to find suitable names for them.
> Considering that the highest music award is named after St. Cecilia
> and the drama award after St. Genesius, it would be nice to find a
> saint to name a dance award after.
>
> The only candidates I can find, however, are St. Philemon (who no
> one's ever heard of), St. Pelagia (whose name unfortunately, and of
> course by sheer coincidence, brings up the Pelagian heresy), and
> St. Vitus! Somehow I don't think that one would go over too well,
> either....<g>
>
> There is also Miriam (sister of Aaron) from the Old Testament,
> although there she is leading the dancers rejoicing over the
> destruction of the Egyptian army, which might put some people off.
> Most of the other mentions of dance I can find in saints' lives
> seem to be of pagan and/or licentious dancing, and that won't do at
> all.
>
> Suggestions? Female saints preferred (it's a girls' school) but all
> ideas are welcome.
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