medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 01/10/2010 10:12 AM, Robert Kraft wrote:
> Thecla does end up in a cave near the end of her career, but whether a
> water flow is involved is not clear to me, nor who the two chaps with
> "oriental" head coverings might be. Here is the summary given by
> M.R.James (he doesn't give a translation of any specific text): "A
> long appendix is given by other Greek copies, telling how in Thecla's
> old age (she was ninety) she was living on Mount Calamon or Calameon,
> and some evil-disposed young men went up to ill-treat her: and she
> prayed, and the rock opened and she entered it, and it closed after
> her." Perhaps some tradition has water flowing from the closed up
> entrance, and the young men drinking from the water, but there is
> nothing like this in the available old translation at
> http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vii.xxvi.html.
According to later pilgrim accounts, as the rocks closed after Thecla,
her cape was caught between them, and the petrified remains of her cape
were venerated as a sign of this miracle.
Cheers,
Jim
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