Subject: | | Re: FEAST 27-31 July |
From: | | Bill East <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Aug 2000 10:47:11 -0500680_us-ascii On born-to-be-saints, John Kitchen, in Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender (Oxford UP, 1998) - a book with which I have some serious quarrels - does a very nice job of contrasting Venantius Fortunatus's portrayal of born-to-be saints with Gregory of Tours's portrayals of saints-despite-themselves, cranky and rude characters, rough around the edges, who nonetheless achieve sanctity. There are many hagiographies in which the saint exhibits saintly qualities from an early age (Boniface, for example, began to consider the advantages of the monastic life at the age of four), I can't recall any that involve prophecies or omens, though [...]40_9Aug200010:47:[log in to unmask] |
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> * Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (?) - entombed alive by Decius, they were
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> presumed dead until they were discovered over 200 years later
Not an unreasonable presumption, I would have thought, after that
length of time. Members will of course know - or will they? One can't
presume on anything these days - the allusion in John Donne's poem,
"The Good-Morrow":
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then?
But sucked on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desir'd, and got, t'was but a dreame of thee.
Oriens.
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