Date sent: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:01:39 -0400
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From: "Carol A. Cole" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: St Walstan
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At 11:58 AM 6/2/97 BST, you wrote:
> Some more remarks on St Walstan of Bawburgh: he is the patron saint of
>farm labourers and livestock, specialising in those who have lost their
genitals;
The livestock or the labourers?
>and the holy well which appeared where his oxen stamped their feet can
still be
>seen behind the church at Bawburgh, only two miles away from where I sit now.
>
> Sarah Salih
>
Augustine, to Truth: Your best servant is the person who does not
attend so much to hearing what he himself
wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
Surely the saint who was interested in lost genitals was St Wulfstan of
Worcester?
Julia Barrow
University of Nottingham
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