>Today, 10 April, is the feast of ...
>Antony Neyrot, Martyr (1460): Had a most unusual religious career. He was
>first a Dominican. Then, while sailing to Sicily, he was captured by
>pirates and carried to Tunis. There he secured his freedom and began to
>study the Koran and converted to Islam. He also married. He had second
>thoughts and converted back to Christianity, sending away his wife. He
>went before the ruler of Tunis in his friar's habit and proclaimed Islam a
>heresy. Arguments were employed without being able to convert him back to
>Islam. Eventually he was condemned to death.
He sounds a bit like Anselm Turmeda, likewise a Dominican, slightly earlier,
who converted to Islam upon fleeing to Tunis, ostensibly to convert to Islam
after having been convinced of the truth of Islam while studying at Bologna--
so his autobiography, written at Tunis, says--I have my doubts about this,
since some of the works he wrote while living at Tunis still demonstrate
christian sympathies. Do you have any references for St. Antony? It might be
interesting sometime to do a comparison of him and Anselm.
Steve Cartwright
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