Wasn't this place rediscovered back 'round May? I remember something
coming through the list about "the resting place" of the Virgin found
near Bethlehem.
-Caedmon
Laura Smoller wrote:
>
> Re the discussion of relics of the Virgin's milk,
> I was reading Mandeville's Travels while my students wrote their midterm
> exams today and came across:
> (ch 9; I quote from the Penguin edition/translation by CWRD Moseley, p. 75)
> "A little way from this church is another church, of St Nicholas, where Our
> Lady rested when she had given birth to her Child. And because she had too
> much milk in her breasts, which sore hurt her, she milked it out on the red
> slabs of marble that were there. The spots of white milk are still to be
> seen on the stone."
>
> --Laura Smoller
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