At 08:43 21/06/98 GMT, you wrote:
>At 12:40 19/06/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Did devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, depicted as pierced with a
>>sword (see Luke), take its modern shape in the same period as devotion to
>>the Sacred Heart achieved its most familiar form?
>>
>>tom izbicki
>>
>
>None of this looks at all medieval, but I dare say there are medieval
>antecedents, which some of our erudite listmembers will be able to identify.
>
>Bill.
>>
>
>I had a cursory read through St Anselm's three prayers to Our Lady, and
although there is a great deal of fervent devotion, and several mentions of
the feelings of Anselm's own heart, I do not think he mentions Mary's heart
as such. There comes to mind however the lyric "Stond wel, moder, ounder
rode" (Carleton Brown, English Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century, no. 49
p.87) which includes the lines,
'Sone, ich fele the dethes stounde;
That swerd is at min herte grounde,
That me by-heyte simeon.'
Does St Bernard mention Mary's heart? I'll have a look.
Bill.
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