medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I always feel that our (or, at any rate, my ) patron saint should be St
Bede - the first English ecclesiastical historian - at 25 May not far from
the start date of the list.
Best
Rosemary Hayes
----- Original Message -----
From: "George FERZOCO" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:39 PM
Subject: [M-R] ADMIN patron saints of medieval-religion
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> As medieval-religion was created officially on 2 June 1995, the list has
> been co-patronized by the most illustrious of the saints whose feast is
> celebrated that day, Erasmus (or Elmo).
>
> In order to provide a six-month marker of sorts, the list's other co-
> patron is Pelino (5 December -- see John's next exciting post).
>
> It was originally proposed by Sherry Reames at the 1995 Kalamazoo
> congress that the list be named 'Gabriel'. I tried to get this name, but
> the powers that be (at jiscmail's predecessor, mailbase) decreed that I
> needed a name that was more obviously descriptive. (I then asked for
> 'medieval-religion-and-culture', but this was deemed too clunky.) So, we
> ought to add Gabriel as a sort of proto-patron, and accordingly celebrate
> wildly every 24 March.
>
> In the meantime, I'm busy sending out 'Happy S. Pelino' cards to everyone
> ... :-)
>
> George
>
> --
> George FERZOCO
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> On 4 Dec 2008, at 18:40, J&D Ramos wrote:
>
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Giguere"
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>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: [M-R] nuisance mail
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>>
>>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>>> culture
>>>
>>> Thanks for the not entirely reassuring information. All my sympathy,
>>> Katie. It is not at all nice, to have one's name taken in vain, but at
>>> least it is relevant to our scholarly interests: it sounds like good
>>> old diabolic possession. Exorcism, anyone?
>>> BF
>>
>>
>> Alternately (just to get us back into medieval religion), we could
>> always fall back on St. Isidore (proposed patron saint of Internet
>> users), Hugh Damascene (patron saint of computer owners), or Bishop
>> Schereschewsky (possible list saint), as previous discussed below.
>>
>> -John
>>
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:25:23 -0400
>>> Sender: LT-ANTIQ -- Late Antiquity Discussion Forum <LT-
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>>> Subject: Re: St Isidore of the Internet?
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Roger Wright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Late Antique specialists will be interested in the following
>>>> information
>>>> (courtesy of the Mediber list): it is (apparently) true -
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >There was a note in the paper
>>>> >the other day about the Vatican having been persuaded to consider
>>>> >seriously making St Isidore patron saint of the Internet to
>>>> honour his
>>>> >pioneering work creating data-bases...
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:58:58 -0400
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>>> From: Jane Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: St. Isidore on Internet
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>>>
>>> I thought Hugh Damascene was patron saint of computer owners.
>>> . . .
>>
>>
>>> From: "Mark Harris" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Organization: University of London
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:09:49 GMT
>>> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:14:23 -0500 (CDT)
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> From: "John L. Speller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>> (snip, snip)
>>> ... I will come out of hiding to mention the person commemorated
>>> tomorrow, October 15th., in the Episcopal Calendar. This is Samuel
>>> Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906. He was a
>>> Lithuanian Jew who was converted to Christianity and emigrated to the
>>> United States to study for the Presbyterian ministry. After two years
>>> he became an Episcopalian and went to General Seminary. After he was
>>> ordained he became a missionary priest in China. He translated the
>>> Bible into a number Chinese dialects and was later consecrated Bishop
>>> of Shanghai. Shortly after this, however, he had a stroke which left
>>> him palalyzed except for the middle finger of his left hand.
>>> Determined that this minor inconvenience should not interfere with
>>> his translation work, he spent the next several decades typing
>>> thousands and thousands of pages of Chinese with one finger in order
>>> to complete his life's work. In the 1890's he wrote: "I have been
>>> sitting in this chair now for twenty years. At first it seemed hard
>>> ..." Because he spent decades sitting in front of a keyboard, a
>>> number of Anglican groups have made him a kind of unofficial Patron
>>> Saint of the Internet. Perhaps he should be the patron saint of our
>>> list too.
>>>
>>> John
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