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I've received an instructive message from Julia Bolton Holloway, which I thought I'd share with you, for your enrichment and comment -- George * * * * * * * * It seems a conflation of Christ's healing of the twelve-year-old girl and its interruption with the healing of the woman with the issue of blood, the girl's illness connected to the onset of menses. Celestine V would be coming from the Greek part of Italy where Jewish rules concerning menses still obtain ecclesiastically. I'd put her age at twelve, at the onset of being a woman. * * * * * * * * George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654 Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633 University of Leicester e-mail [log in to unmask] School of Modern Languages LEICESTER LE1 7RH UNITED KINGDOM %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%