This topic is of particular interest to me I have recently started work on
devotion to the passion as it was expressed in Irish Art and literature of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Little or no work has been done on
this to date and Ireland does not figure in any general surveys which I've
consulted.

 My initial impression is that texts such as the pseudo Anselm, the
Meditationes vitae Christi and the Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony were
very important in Ireland as elsewhere. So little art or sculpture has
survived that it is difficult to draw any conclusions but the Arma Christi
are widespread, there are six images of Christ in Judgement displaying his
wounds, one image of the mass of St Gregory, three of the ecce homo and two
imago pietatis images from varous parts of the country. There are a number
of church and well dedications to the Holy Cross and the relic of the true
cross at Holy Cross Abbey in Co Tipperary was one of the major Irish
pilgrimage sites of the late middle ages.

All of these are expression of cults which are common throughout Europe,
what is more interesting is the way in which Irish material from the ninth
and tenth centuries continues to circulate into the sixteenth centuries and
the way in which so much continental material (Meditationes Vitae Christi,
De Miseria condicionis humanae, Stimulus amoris) were transalted into Irish
in this period.

As I'm just beginning on all this I would be very grateful for any advice
or bibliographical references.

Many thanks

Colman O Clabaigh, OSB

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From: Michele Bacci [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 May 1999 21:13
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Subject: Re: Passion relics


Thank you very much; I think everybody on the list is interested.

Michele

At 17.13 18/05/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Here, as requested, are the references to medieval Passion relics, briefly
>mentioned in a few of my own outpourings:
>
>1. 'The Flagellants of 1260 and the Crusades', *Journal of Medieval
History*,
>Vol.15 (1989), pp.227-67. Column of the flagellation, pp. 240, 259-60
(extended
>end-note n.10).
>
>2.'La genese de la croisade des enfants', *Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des
>chartes*, Vol. 153 (1995), pp.53-102. True Cross: pp. 97-99.
>
>3. 'The Crowd at the Feet of Pope Boniface VIII: Pilgrimage, Crusade and
the
>first Roman Jubilee (1300)', forthcoming in the *Journal of Medieval
History*,
>Vol. 25, part 4 (December,1999), pp. [?]. (The Roman cult of the
Veronica is
>discussed, with some bibliographic notes, in connection with the inception
of
>the Anno Santo.)
>
>Gary Dickson
>University of Edinburgh
>
>
>
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