So Nicholas of Tolentino did it. Francis of Assisi did the same.
Is this a familiar practice amongst Christomimetic saints? Does it pre-date
the thirteenth-century growth of Eucharistic piety?
(I refuse to say 'topos' because I trust that it happened in what we
naively used to call real life, you know, that historical phenomenon which
sometimes is said to exist outside of literature -:). [George, have I used
the new sign language correctly?]
Gary Dickson
University of Edinburgh
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