Stephen Graham, 'With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem', a marvellous book,
describes Lazarus Sunday in Lent, the week before Palm Sunday. How much of
the material in the paragraph you give would be more fitting in an Orthodox
rather than a Catholic framework? I am curious, because some of the evidence
even in Sweden in connection with St Birgitta is of this.
At 07.37 02/04/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Dear listmembers,
>
>I am currently working on the christianization of Old
>Livonia and in this connection I ran over a passage from the
>so-called annales Dunamundenses (from the first half of the
>thirteenth century) - a short chronicle which first part
>must have been written in the monastery of Duenamuende near Riga. The
>chronicle (it is only one page long) contains mostly early events of
>the history of Old Livonia and in this part it has been used by some
>later chronicle-writers; the passage that I could not explain is
>the following:
>
>Quingentos decies cum bis centum minus anno. Annos dic ab adam donec
>verbum caro factum; virgo parens vixit sexaginta tribus annis:
>Quatuor atque decem fuit in partu benedicta, trigintaque tribus cum
>nato manserat eius. Sexque decem solo, christo simul astra subivit;
>depositio beate viriginis fuit in assumptione eiusdem, XL autem die,
>hoc est 9 Kal. aprilis cum corpore et anima assumpta est in celum.
>Quinto Idus marcij hoc est 14 die ante passionem domini fuit Lazarus
>suscitatus. Sanctus Petrus fuit episcopus rome 25 annis. Vixit beatus
>Paulus post suam conversionem 39 a.
>
>Can anyone help with any suggestions about the origin of this kind of
>text, especially what concerns the date of assumptio BMV? The passage
>has been published by Wolfgang Schmidt in Die Zisterzienser im Baltikum und
>in Finnland, Helsingfors 1941, S. 184-185 (the transcription of the
>publication is correct, I checqued the original).
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>Tiina Kala
>
>
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Gregory on Benedict: 'quia animae videnti Creatorem angusta est omnis creatura'.
Julian of Norwich: 'For a soul that seth the Maker of al thyng, all that is
made semyth fulle lytylle'.
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