medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
This one really raised some questions:
>Longinus (1st cent.) Longinus is, according to
> tradition, the name given
> to the soldier who stuck the spear in Jesus' side at
> the crucifixion. He is also identified with the
> centurion who declared
> Jesus to be the son of God at the crucifixion.
I'd always thought they were one and the same. (Of
course, I was too lazy to compare the Gospels.)
> According to the Golden
> Legend, Christ's blood cured L's blindness,
A blind man was a soldier?
> whereupon he left the army and
> became a monk.
There were monks in the first half of the first
century?
MG
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