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Two scenes originally from the mid 12thC. Benedict window at St Denis:
Twycross, St James, Leicestershire. I, 4c, Benedict hitting monk tempted by devil from staying long at his prayers:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364192121
Twycross, St James, Leicestershire, I, 4a, St Benedict has vision of Maurus saving Placid from drowning:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2366178841
The devil at the head of this panel is from another scene, Benedict being fed in a cave by Romanus. vThe kneeling figure of Romanus from that St Denbis scene is also at Twycross and the figure of St Benedict is in a window of the chapel at Raby Castle, Durham.
Gordon Plumb
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“A certain woman there was which some time he had seen, the memory of which the wicked spirit put into his mind, and by the representation of her so mightily inflamed with concupiscence the soul of God's servant, which so increased that, almost overcome with pleasure, he was of mind to have forsaken the wilderness. But, suddenly assisted with God's grace, he came to himself; and seeing many thick briers and nettle bushes to grow hard by, off he cast his apparel, and threw himself into the midst of them, and there wallowed so long that, when he rose up, all his flesh was pitifully torn. So, by the wounds of his body, he cured the wounds of his soul, in that he turned pleasure into pain, and by the outward burning of extreme smart, quenched that fire which, being nourished before with the fuel of carnal cogitations, inwardly burned in his soul: and by this means he overcame the sin, because he made a change of the fire.” (From the Second Dialog of Gregory the Great: http://www.osb.org/gen/greg/)
Peace,
Matt H.
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