BUT
People would cotton on pretty quickly...
I never choked on the sixpences my mother put in Christmas
pudding
BUT (2)
I do agree, you have a point about hagiography. It is well
illustrated in the Life Of Anthony (Athanasius), where it is
established that A. was an absolute pioneer, the first, etc to lead
the solitary life (because he is a *type* ). Yet one of the
essential things aboput a monachos (even if it did originally mean
celibate ) is that you first sit at the feet of an Abba, and that
for some time, while he produces an occasional Word. So Anthony did
just that, to fulfil the norm (>> that the scriptures might be
fulfilled<<), there being a suitable holy man already installed at a
convenient distance.
In hagiography you are allowed to have your cake and eat it
(without choking)
Anselm Cramer OSB
monachos
>On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 G.P. Ferzoco wrote:
>
>>Today, 28 February is the feast of ...
>[snip, snip]
>>*Luisa Albertoni, widow (1533)
>>- she would bake bread for the poor and give it to them, but only
>>after placing gold and silver coins in the bread.
>
>Now, this strikes me as a rather risky thing to do because one might
>choke on a coin. Did this ever happen, and with what consequences?
>And if someone died through choking on a coin in Luisa Albertoni's
>bread, would that have wiped out whatever merit would otherwise have
>attached to her providing the bread?
>
>Curiouser and curiouser (to me, anyway).
>
>Mark Harris
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