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Sorry -- I skipped a line in the Vergilian passage. Read:
"Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy ploughman shall loose yoke from steer,
Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie;
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
While clothed in natural scarlet graze the lambs."
--JD
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Thanks, Genevra.
Same Martha. A couple of pages with photos showing her ex-chiesa in Venice in its present state:
http://www.churchesofvenice.co.uk/dorsoduro2.htm#santamarta
http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/annienc/2012/09/santa_marta.html
Apropos the Menabuoi image of Martha and others with St. John, I was struck by the cryptic coloration of Agnes's lamb (second from right):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/PaduaBapt_78.jpg
Or was Menabuoi thinking of what some classicists now refer to as the "technicolor sheep" in the utopian prophecy in Vergil's _Eclogue 4_ (the "Messianic Eclogue")?:
"Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy ploughman shall loose yoke from steer, -
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
While clothed in natural scarlet graze the lambs." (tr. J. B. Greenough)
Best again,
John Dillon
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Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (July 29): St. Martha of Bethany
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There is a nice C15 reliquary of St. Martha (same Martha?) in the
Louvre. I have images shot as displayed
www.KornbluthPhoto.com/StMarthaHandReliquary.html
and the museum's web site in studio lighting
http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/reliquary-hand-st-martha
Martha is depicted by Giusto de' Menabuoi in Padua:
www.KornbluthPhoto.com/PaduaBaptisteryGeneral.html
row 5 no. 4, figure in purple next to John.
best,
Genevra
On 7/29/2016 4:25 AM, John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Martha, the sister of Mary of Bethany and of Lazarus of Bethany, appears three times in the Gospels, at Luke 10:38-42, John 11:1-44, and John 12:1-3. In a medieval legend popular in the Latin West, e.g. in her late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Vita by pseudo-Marcilia (BHL 5545-5546) or in Jacopo da Varazze's abbreviation in his later thirteenth-century _Legenda aurea_, cap. 105, she accompanied Mary Magdalene (understood to be the same person as Mary of Bethany) and Lazarus to Provence and was active there as a missionary before dying at, and being buried at, Tarascon, the town she had freed from a man-eating monster (called, in modern French, la Tarasque).
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