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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture >From: "John B. Dillon" <[log in to unmask]> >Sometimes the connections between lives and popular devotion are very >close. And sometimes they are negligible. I don't know when it started, but at least in the 1950s, it was a mark of devotion to write SAG for "Saint Anthony Guide" on the outside of envelopes being sent through the mail. Why? Because--or so the story goes--someone who needed to get a letter to her son who was at a distance, placed a letter under or near the statue of Anthony of Padua in her parish church and asked St. Anthony to deliver the letter and bring back the reply. Supposedly, she came back a few days later to find a note and cash in the place where she had left the letter. And he son later said a Franciscan friar had given him a letter from his mother and offered to bring back a reply. No names mentioned, of course, and at least hundreds of years after Anthony's death. Francine Nicholson _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html