>I have a query for you wise list members which might also inspire a
>limerick or two.
>
>I have been reading various lives of St Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln and am
>fascinated by the accounts of his mystical castration by St Basil or
>Basil head of teh Carthusians, depending on the version. That is certainly
>a graphic way of discussing how to control desire and the appetites. Are
>there other saints who experienced similar acts of mystical castration to
>release them from the exigencies of the flesh?
Since you asked for it, here it goes, as a Rhenanian contribution to English
Limerick:
Saint Hugh, when he was not yet saint, would
do with his [snip] what no saint should.
But Basil the Great
cut it off with a blade.
Just a dream, but it helped to more sainthood.
O.L.
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