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Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 7 Sep 1999 17:00:05 +0100 (BST)604_US-ASCII Today, 7 September, is the feast of ...
* Regina or Reine, virgin and martyr (date unknown) - native of Alise (Bourgogne), she refused a marriage offer from the local Roman prefect; as she was about to be beheaded, a shining dove was seen hovering above her head
Last year Elena Lemeneva added: In my MA thesis I tried to find the earliest mention of this dove-story. What I found was the "Passio S. Reginae Virg. Mart." in the AASS Boll. 7 Sept. III, 39 - 40: [After tortures and last prayer] Et postquam oravit, miserunt illam in vas illud [...]51_7Sep199917:00:05+0100(BST)[log in to unmask] |
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> Can anyone direct me, please, to a source that throws light
> on the religious connotations of the yew trees found in so many
> English churchyards? The Concise Columbia Encyclopaedia
> makes a cryptic claim that yew trees have been associated
> with death and funeral rites since antiquity. If so, how? There
> is nothing in either Larousse on Mythology, or Fraser's
> Golden Bough on the subject.
Dear Ron,
I believe Giraldus Cambrensis notes the existence of yews in Irish
cemeteries in the 12th century. I remember reading somthing about
this years ago (of course, I forget the source), but they are also
apparently found in Brittany. Yews are also apparently impossible to
date very easily, because the way they grow does not result in a
complete pattern of tree rings.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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