medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, November 22, 2007, at 6:58 pm, I wrote:
> Clement I, pope (d. ca. 100). ... Although he seems not to
> have been martyred, he has a late antique Passio (BHL 1848) in which
> he is sent to work in the mines of Crimea and then thrown into the sea
> weighted down with an anchor. In response to the prayers of his
> disciples Cornelius and Phoebus, the waters parted and C.'s body was
> miraculously revealed in a chapel where the faithful could venerate
> him annually for a week beginning on his _dies natalis_. Here's a
> fourteenth-century French miniature illustrating the recovery of C.'s
> remains:
> http://tinyurl.com/2hendw
On further reflection, it now seems more likely that the illumination shows C. being thrown into the sea. I had assumed from the stiffness of C.'s pose that he is here represented as already dead. But see the very live but similarly stiff pope St. Sylvester here:
http://tinyurl.com/2y5ym6
Moreover, most of the illustrations of martyrs in this ms. of the _Vies des saints_ appear to depict their passions. And C. is not shown in the miraculous chapel, as one might expect were this a post-drowning scene.
Best again,
John Dillon
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