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>John
Thank you -- I'm glad I asked! The source I'm using, the Thomas
Cantilupe canonization dossier, refers to this as an English custom
-- but this of course needn't (and plainly doesn't) mean it is only
an English custom. This is great info.
Sue
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>Sue,
>
>The practice is not uniquely English. Pierre-Andre Sigal, L'homme et le
>miracle dans la France medievale (XIe-XIIe siecle) (Paris, 1985), devotes
>a short paragraph (pp. 96-97) to candles based on measurement of a body, a
>limb, an animal, or even a house or town. His earliest examples seem to
>be from Gregory of Tours, In gloria martyrum, 15 (MGH SSRM 1:498) and De
>virtutibus S. Martini, 1.18 (Ibid., p. 598).
>
>Best,
>John
>
>On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Susan Ridyard wrote:
>
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>> Dear list members
>>
>> I have always understood that the practise of "measuring" someone to
>> a saint while praying for that someone to be cured was a specifically
>> English custom (as described by Finucane in Miracles and Pilgrims).
>> I'm now curious as to whether anyone has ever encountered it in a
>> continental context ?
>>
>> Sue
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