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> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 17:12:38 +0000
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> Miracles of Giovanni da Capistrano: Very interesting subject; what about
> their geography? Anything about his miracles on behalf of people from
> Perugia?
>
> Gary Dickson
> University of Edinburgh
>
>
The post mortem miracles of Capistran I am examining are confined to
the medieval Hungarian kingdom (or present-day Hungary, Romania,
Croatia, Yugoslavia). There are six large collections that are
preserved, dating from the years 1460-1521, describing all together
more than 500 different "miracles" in plenty of versions. I am
secondarily interested in Capistran's in vita miracles, which are
partly Italian, partly Central European, but there we meet an
interesting overlap with St. Bernardine of Siena--they can be viewed
as being worked by either of the two saints. (Excerpts from this
material see in Arch. franc. hist. 11/1918; there are certainly some
miracles in Perugia.) As for Capistran's post mortem miracles worked
in Italy, they are relatively few (about 20) and described only in
second-hand accounts; for the details, you can have a look at my
article in Hagiographica 3 (1996).
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