medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Aside from the threat dimension, the triple appearance might be an echo of
God's calling of Samuel in I Samuel 3. I know this does not answer your
question about early medieval sources, but the pattern of the lives of the
prophets was important in hagiography from this period.
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
Assistant Professor of Church History
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
2451 Ridge Road
Berkeley, California 94709-1217
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Dear list members:
I have an example of a ninth-century saint (Maurus of Glanfeuil) who appears
(post mortem) to an abbot, ordering him to carry a message for the saint.
The abbot fails to carry out the saint's orders; the saint appears and
second time some days later with the same result, then a final time, at
which point he lashes the recalcitrant abbot (three times) and threatens him
with death for non-compliance.
I think I have seen such "triple appearances" before in early medieval
sources, but bring them to mind. I would be esp. interested to see whether
such multiple appearances have some contexts in common.. Does anyone have
such examples?
thanks
jbw
John Wickstrom
Kalamazoo College
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