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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:59:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: christianising From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Reply-to: [log in to unmask] > Dear Laura, > > The answer was to get two young steers, never broken to the > yoke, and put them in the same yoke, and let them loose at night. Where they > were found the next morning was the proper site for the church. This method > of locating a church or determining the resting place of a relic was used in > Spain to locate the church of St. James of Compostella, and in Italy to > determine St. Luccia was the proper place for the Cross. > > Good hunting, Jim Similarly, yoked cattle (I think... Help me out here, Miriam) determined the resting place of St Walstan in Norfolk; a cow determined the site of St Arilda's church at Oldbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire; another revealed the grave (and church site) of St Kenelm at Romsley, Worcestershire. That's three cases from England. From Catalunya I can offer yoked mules determining the resting place of a miraculous Mother-of-God at Montblanc. Can someone point us in the direction of a detailed discussion of this motif? Graham Jones Leicester We need to add the hart on Thanet in the Mildrith legend. Julia Barrow %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%