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12th century stories about Placid, largely from the
facile imagination of Peter the Deacon of Montecassino, took him to
jbw
John B. Wickstrom
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Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 5. October
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
religion and culture
On Friday, October 5, 2007, at 11:53 pm, I wrote:
> 2) Placidus, disciple of St. Benedict (d. 6th
cent.). This P.
> appears twice in St. Gregory the Great's
_Dialogues_, once when as a
> little boy he is said to have accompanied B. when
the latter by prayer
> obtained sources of water for three of his
monasteries that had been
> built in a very rocky part of Subiaco and once
when, in a fairly well
> known story, he is rescued from drowning by St.
Maurus (15. January),
> who walks across the lake to save him. There is
no indication in
> Gregory's text that B. is himself a saint.
Actually, there is an abundance of such indications.
There is no indication in Gregory's text that _P._ is a saint.
Apologies for the slip,
John Dillon
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