medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
As medieval-religion was created officially on 2 June 1995, the list
has been co-patronized by the most illustrious of the saints whose
feast is celebrated that day, Erasmus (or Elmo).
In order to provide a six-month marker of sorts, the list's other co-
patron is Pelino (5 December -- see John's next exciting post).
It was originally proposed by Sherry Reames at the 1995 Kalamazoo
congress that the list be named 'Gabriel'. I tried to get this name,
but the powers that be (at jiscmail's predecessor, mailbase) decreed
that I needed a name that was more obviously descriptive. (I then
asked for 'medieval-religion-and-culture', but this was deemed too
clunky.) So, we ought to add Gabriel as a sort of proto-patron, and
accordingly celebrate wildly every 24 March.
In the meantime, I'm busy sending out 'Happy S. Pelino' cards to
everyone ... :-)
George
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George FERZOCO
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On 4 Dec 2008, at 18:40, J&D Ramos wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Giguere"
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>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>> culture
>>
>> Thanks for the not entirely reassuring information. All my
>> sympathy, Katie. It is not at all nice, to have one's name taken
>> in vain, but at least it is relevant to our scholarly interests:
>> it sounds like good old diabolic possession. Exorcism, anyone?
>> BF
>
>
> Alternately (just to get us back into medieval religion), we could
> always fall back on St. Isidore (proposed patron saint of Internet
> users), Hugh Damascene (patron saint of computer owners), or Bishop
> Schereschewsky (possible list saint), as previous discussed below.
>
> -John
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:25:23 -0400
>> Sender: LT-ANTIQ -- Late Antiquity Discussion Forum <LT-
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>> Subject: Re: St Isidore of the Internet?
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Roger Wright wrote:
>>
>>> Late Antique specialists will be interested in the following
>>> information
>>> (courtesy of the Mediber list): it is (apparently) true -
>>>
>>>
>>> >There was a note in the paper
>>> >the other day about the Vatican having been persuaded to consider
>>> >seriously making St Isidore patron saint of the Internet to
>>> honour his
>>> >pioneering work creating data-bases...
>
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:58:58 -0400
>> Reply-To: LT-ANTIQ -- Late Antiquity Discussion Forum <LT-
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>> From: Jane Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: St. Isidore on Internet
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>>
>> I thought Hugh Damascene was patron saint of computer
>> owners. . . .
>
>
>> From: "Mark Harris" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Organization: University of London
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>> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:09:49 GMT
>> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:14:23 -0500 (CDT)
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> From: "John L. Speller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> (snip, snip)
>> ... I will come out of hiding to mention the person commemorated
>> tomorrow, October 15th., in the Episcopal Calendar. This is Samuel
>> Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906. He was a
>> Lithuanian Jew who was converted to Christianity and emigrated to the
>> United States to study for the Presbyterian ministry. After two years
>> he became an Episcopalian and went to General Seminary. After he was
>> ordained he became a missionary priest in China. He translated the
>> Bible into a number Chinese dialects and was later consecrated Bishop
>> of Shanghai. Shortly after this, however, he had a stroke which left
>> him palalyzed except for the middle finger of his left hand.
>> Determined that this minor inconvenience should not interfere with
>> his translation work, he spent the next several decades typing
>> thousands and thousands of pages of Chinese with one finger in order
>> to complete his life's work. In the 1890's he wrote: "I have been
>> sitting in this chair now for twenty years. At first it seemed hard
>> ..." Because he spent decades sitting in front of a keyboard, a
>> number of Anglican groups have made him a kind of unofficial Patron
>> Saint of the Internet. Perhaps he should be the patron saint of our
>> list too.
>>
>> John
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