Dear All
Patrick is right: the Naju page is full of interest, and >
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I posted a message to hagiomail, which Graham Jones kindly responded to
> with additional information, but responded on medieval-religion. Perhaps
> the two lists overlap to a great degree, but I though it useful to send to
> this list a copy of the message Graham was replying to.
>
> Cheers, and apologies once again for botching the information on Monte Gargano.
>
>
> Patrick Nugent.
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Most of us are medievalists or byzantinists or students of antiquity, but I
> have a side interest in survivals and permutations of hagiography in the
> twentieth century. I recently stumbled onto an amazing Web-site relative
> to Our Lady of Naju (a Marian apparition in Korea). Fascinating to see how
> the ancient interrelation between text, traditional motifs, art, and
> visionary experience combine in new ways in this website, which has a
> miracle collection, some visionary reports, and several photographs of a
> Madonna weeping bloody tears. Don't ever let your students tell you your
> research is irrelevant!
>
> The page is part of a larger site with interests in pilgrimage (the
> Pilgrimage of the Two Hearts, i.e. of Jesus and Mary) and in the cult of
> St. Michael the Archangel.
>
> Surely there are other such Web-sites (I don't make a point of looking for
> them, at least not at the moment) but if others share my interest in Marian
> apparition claims and the survivals of hagiographic technique and trope,
> you may find this Web-site worth a visit.
>
> http://www.smcenter.org/najuweb.htm
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> Patrick J. Nugent
> Department of Religion
> Earlham College
> Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
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> Patrick J. Nugent
> Department of Religion
> Earlham College
> Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
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> (765) 983-1413
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