The manger to this day is stone, and Julio Romano tends to paint it as a
stone classical sarcophagus. Similarly St Birgitta's sarcaphagus in Rome is
a pagan one with putti. Bede is filled with these.
At 10.29 01/03/98 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Stan Metheny wrote:
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>> As further indication of your birth/death link here, also common was the
>> linking of the wood of the manger with the wood of the cross.
>> [Fortunatus develops the re-birth of creation through the death on the
>> cross theme further in his _Salve Dies_ poem/hymn/sequence.] BTW, wood
>> of the Cross theme has common links to --i.a.-- Eden (tree of life),
>> Ark, Throne, Temple, Manger, Gate (Jerusalem, heaven).
>
>In my work, I haven't run across the connection of manger and cross.
>Could you supply other references for commentators who made this
>connection? If this is not of general interest to the group, please reply
>privately.
>
>Regards,
>Clint
>Clinton Atchley
>University of Washington
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