That is interesting. When one looks at Birgitta's miracles, they are ones of
empowering women and children, in oppressed groups, raising the dead,
freeing the child from paralysis, giving life to the stillborn child, curing
the bedridden nun who felt guilty about the trouble caused her sisters by
her illness, curing the maidservant, who later speaks with Margery Kempe,
from aperitonitis so that she can straightway ride on horseback, etc. Yet
Catherine of Siena spoke of the weight of the church killing her, rather
like Francis' two vision dreams, and this strange miracle in reverse. Andre
Vauchez strongly advocates the study of canonization documents for
perceptions they might reveal. Add to this Freud on hysteria and paralysis
and Susan Sontag on Illness as Metaphor . . .
At 21.33 12/10/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Yes, Julia,
>I agree with you that the shifting to St. Peter's may be interpreted as one
>of the main legacies of Urban V and that it was also one of the causes of
>his widespread diffusion in the devotion of common people in the Later
>Middle Ages. I'd like to add what is said in a passage of ser Luca Dominici,
>a chronicler of Pistoia in 1399: during the procession of the Bianchi, a
>girl sees tears shed from her private images portraying the Virgin and Pope
>Urban V; this second figure is literally full of tears. When she touches
>them, she becomes paralytic. I sincerely wonder which is the meaning of such
>a tale.
>
>Michele Bacci
>Scuola Normale Superiore
>Pisa (Italy)
>
>
>
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Pete,
Microfilm arrived safely. Thanks v. much! Thanks also for the off-prints:
they are much appreciated.
Best wishes,
Don
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