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--- "J. Michael Walker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >S. Spes was an abbot of a monastery, at a place called Cample, or > >Campi, bear Nursia, who was blind for forty years, and bore his > >affliction with the greatest sweetness and patience . . . > > > > I am confued here: was it the abbot who was blind, or his pet bear > Nursia? > Is this like St. Jerome and his lion? > > jmichael Some gremlin printed "bear" rather than "near". But - O felix culpa! - we have the beginnings of an interesting legend here: St Spes had a pet bear, out of whose paw he had pulled a thorn. The beast was blind, but . . . Can anyone finish the legend in under a hundred words, perhaps restoring sight to the poor beast through the intercession of the saintly Spes? Oriens. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%