medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
What about David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant?
Cyprian Rosen
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Subject: [M-R] Patron saint of dancers?
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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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