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Dear John, I am grateful for all the responses to my request for multiple appearances of heavenly messengers with instructions. But your suggestion about the famous 5th century Invention of St. Stephen seems to me to be a likely source for the story of my saint's appearance. The Invention of St. Stephen is, as you know, a revelation of the place where Stephen and other saints were entombed, which the Lord wished to reveal. The heavenly messenger appeared to a priest three times before the priest would carry the message to his bishop (here the parallel of the message being given not directly but to another person who is to carry it to the central character o the story. Your heavenly messenger threatened the priest on his third visit (again, parallel to Maurus's visit to the abbot). Most interesting, the climax of the work that I am looking at, The Miracles of Maurus, is the discovery of his tomb (along with relics of St. Stephen!). So it seems to me likely that this is not only a parallel instance, but a possible conscious use by my author of the famous Invention of St. Stephen. I am grateful.
best,
John W.
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Triple appearances of holy man
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The classic example of a triple appearance in hagiography is the Inventio
Stephani. A valuable discussion of that text and its influence (although
the emphasis is later) appears in Monika Otter, INVENTIONES: FICTION AND
REFERENTIALITY IN TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HISTORICAL WRITING (Chapel Hill,
1996).
Best,
John
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, John Wickstrom wrote:
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> Dear list members:
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> 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
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> John Wickstrom
> Kalamazoo College
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