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Anne Marshall's web site "Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church" (http://www.paintedchurch.org/index.htm) would be one way to test the placement of St. Christopher paintings in various churches . She has a list of about 25 examples of Christopher plus some narrative about the legend: http://www.paintedchurch.org/contensc.htm.
Best,
John
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John Shinners
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Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
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From: "Ms Brenda M. Cook" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2005 1:10 pm
Subject: Re: [M-R] piece about porches
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> The little piece is accessible at:
>
> http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/pot/intro.html
>
>
> Fascinating - but two points:
>
> 1. - what might be the role of the English WEATHER in this custom
> ? If you
> are waiting about to meet someone or to do something, isn't a
> place out of
> the rain and wind desirable ? In your average village or small
> town, what
> other sheltered, neutral location would there be ? (A porch of
> private house
> would not be neutral. Covered markets were rare. )
>
> 2 - Was there not a superstition that if a traveller gazed upon
> the image of
> Saint Christopher, he would not die unshriven that day ? And that
> consequently a number of churches had a painting of St Christopher
> on the
> north wall of the nave, directly opposite the south porch, whose
> door was
> normally open during the hours of daylight so that any passing
> travellercould see the image of St Christopher and pass on
> reassured that if he was
> set upon by brigands, he would survive the experience long enough
> to receive
> the Last Rites. Here it is the OPEN south porch door that is critical.
>
> Can anyone give chapter and verse for this ? It is just an item in the
> rag=bag of my memory!
>
> BMC.
>
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