medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thanks for the email, Paul. I thoroughly enjoyed the irony.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">pax,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Benjamin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Paul Chandler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1804%26L%3DMEDIEVAL-RELIGION%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D597258%26B%3D--00000000000006d7cf056a9ac0bd%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Last Thursday, 19 April, was the feast of St Expeditus, who is invoked against procrastination. According to legend he was a Roman centurion from Armenia martyred in the Diocletian persecution. When he decided to become a Christian, the devil took the form of a crow crying &quot;cras! cras!&quot; (tomorrow! tomorrow!), but Expeditus stomped on it and declared &quot;hodie!&quot; (today!). He is also invoked for urgent needs. Sorry, I meant to post this earlier.</span> </font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">There are also urban-legendy stories that some nuns once received a package of relics marked &quot;Expedite&quot; to ensure speedy delivery and thought this was the name of the saint. Read about it here:</font></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">    <a href="https://www.wired.com/2004/11/patron-saint-of-the-nerds/" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/2004/11/<wbr>patron-saint-of-the-nerds/</a></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For urgent needs there is a novena to Saint Expeditus. Is it too late to start now?:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">    </span><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/saint-expeditus-novena-4035090" target="_blank">https://www.thoughtco.com/<wbr>saint-expeditus-novena-4035090</a></font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-1892869280721200938gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Paul Chandler, O.Carm.<br>Holy Spirit Seminary  |  PO Box 18 (<a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=487+Earnshaw+Road)%C2%A0+%7C%C2%A0+Banyo+Qld+4014+%C2%A0%7C%C2%A0+Australia+office:+(07&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g">487 Earnshaw Road)  |  Banyo Qld 4014  |  Australia</a><br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=487+Earnshaw+Road)%C2%A0+%7C%C2%A0+Banyo+Qld+4014+%C2%A0%7C%C2%A0+Australia+office:+(07&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g">office: (07</a>) 3267 4804  |  mobile: 044 882 4996<br><a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1804%26L%3DMEDIEVAL-RELIGION%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D597258%26B%3D--00000000000006d7cf056a9ac0bd%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a><wbr>com</a> </div></div></div>
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