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>* John before the Lateran Gate (94?) The Roman Martyrology relates the
>following: 'At Rome, St John was brought before the Latin gate at the
>command of Domitian who ordered that John be brought in fetters from
>Ephesus to Rome. By verdict of the Senate, he was cast into a cauldron of
>boiling oil before the gate, and came forth thence more hale and hearty
>than he entered it.'
>
And so the patron Saint of bookbinders and conservators (because he was
dipped into `British Museum mixture', perhaps)
a.c.
Anselm Cramer OSB
Ampleforth Abbey, York
GB - YO6 4EN
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