On Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:46:00 +0100 (BST) CA. Muessig wrote:
> From: CA. Muessig <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:46:00 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: Feast 26 April
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Today, 26 April, is the feast of ...
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> Paschasius Radbertus, abbot of Corbie (860): Radbertus was adopted by the
> nuns of Notre-Dame at Soissons after he had been left on their doorstep as
> a motherless babe. He grew up to be one of the most prolific writers of
> the ninth century. Amongst his works are commentaries on Matthew and on
> the forty-fourth psalm, a treatise on the book of *Lamentations*, the
> vitae of the abbot St Adalhard and his brother Wala, and the *De corpore
> et Sanguine Christi*.
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The De Corpore is a highly significant text, from the point of view of the history of eucharistic
doctrine. It offered a vigorous defence of the real presence - the bread and wine are in the fullest
possible sense the real body and blood of Christ, which were born of Mary and which hung upon the
cross. His views prompted a response from Ratramnus, who promoted a more 'symbolic' view,
thus initiating a controversy which ran and ran, right through the middle ages and into the
reformation period. - Doctor Elasticus.
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