At 09:18 01/05/99 +0200, you wrote:
>At 09:31 30/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Nurturing, if not maternal per se, is the image of Jesus as Pelican, a
>>bird believed to feed its young with blood from its own breast.
You will no doubt be familiar with the image of the Pelican in Thomas
Aquinas' Eucharistic hymn, 'Adoro devote':
Pie Pelicane, Iesu Domine,
me immundum munda tuo sanguine,
cuius una stilla salvum facere
totum mundum posset omni scelere.
Oriens.
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