medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"The young slave Blandina is said to have been tortured, to have been exposed
to wild beasts that did not molest her, and finally to have been burned alive in the
amphitheater of Lyon."
There is a lovely chapel to Sainte Blandine in the former abbey church of Saint-Martin-d'Ainay. The 4 columns in the sanctuary of said church were seen by Rabelais and mentioned by him. The spelling of the abbey differed slightly in the 16th c.
"Master Tubal Holofernes, who taught [Pantagruel] his
ABC so well, that he could say it by heart backwards; and about this he was
five years and three months. Then read he to him Donat, Le Facet,
Theodolet, and Alanus in parabolis. About this he was thirteen years, six
months, and two weeks. But you must remark that in the mean time he did
learn to write in Gothic characters, and that he wrote all his books--for
the art of printing was not then in use--and did ordinarily carry a great
pen and inkhorn, weighing about seven thousand quintals (that is, 700,000
pound weight), the penner whereof was as big and as long as the great
pillars of Enay..."
MG
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