medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
This might fall within the scope of the question:
Author
Lerner, Robert E.
Title
The feast of Saint Abraham : medieval millenarians and the
Jews / Robert E.
Lerner.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
The inclusion of patriarchs and prophets in the Te deum - as well as in art
- suggests that they were regarded as saints.
Tom Izbicki
At 11:05 AM 1/15/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>With regard to churches dedicated to Old Testament figures, none come
>quickly to mind. However, the medieval Carmelite Order had a special
>interest in Elijah and Elisha - claiming that they were the original
>founders of the hermit community on Mount Carmel - and so these two O.T.
>prophets featured prominently in the Order's calendar of saints (and still
>do). There is even an 18th cent. statue of Elijah - as founder of the
>Carmelite Order - in St. Peter's, Rome.
>Fifteenth century Carmelite catalogues of saints also contained other O.T.
>figures whom the Carmelites claimed to have been hermits on Mount Carmel and
>hence "members" of the Order, e.g. Jonah, son of the widow of Sarepta whom
>Elijah raised from the dead, Obadiah who sheltered some of the prophets
>during the persecution of Achab, the prophet Micah, and even John the
>Baptist (whose statue, clothed as a Carmelite was in the Carmelite church,
>Nottingham, in the 15th cent).
>
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