medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The porter or ostiarius was the lowest of the "minor orders." Roger
Reynolds has written on the gradations of minor orders.
Tom Izbicki
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> I don't remember where it is, but when I was in seminary I read a medieval
> homily in which the priest admonished members of the congregation to leave
> their
> sheep and other animals outside the church. I also seem to recall reading
> references to having horses enter the church as part of processions.
>
> Definitely, there was the well known aspect of sanctuary, and from what I
> gather those seeking sanctuary might live for some time in a church. And
> - while
> not technically medieval - Victor Hugo's Quasimodo lived (sort of) in the
> church. . .
>
> But locking churches was definitely part of medieval practice, at least in
> some areas. Wasn't one of the "minor orders" leading to priestly
> ordination related
> to locking the church doors?
>
> Very interesting subject.
>
> Pax
>
> George R. Hoelzeman
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:52:28 -0800, Diana Wright wrote:
>
>>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>>The rest of this fascinating text can be found on my website at the link
>>below.
>>> On the 27th day of July 1439, I, Giovanni di Jacopo di Latino de'
>>> Pigli, finding myself, at the hour of terce or a little before, in the
>>> public square of Peretola, saw coming along the road from Prato Messer
>>> Angelo di Jacopo Acciaiuoli with some servants. He went right up to
>>> the door of the church of Peretola, and knocked several times. Seeing
>>> that it was not opened, I went up to him and asked what he was doing,
>>> and what he wanted of the prior, if he did not mind my inquiring. He
>>> answered me:
>>> "I come from Pistoia and Prato in the suite of the Emperor of
>>> Constantinople, who wanted to go see Pistoia and the Girdle of Our
>>> Lady at Prato, and I was assigned to his suite by the Signoria. And
>>> because the hour is late for us to get to Florence to eat, and he is
>>> tired and sick as you know, I wanted to put him up in the church until
>>> this evening."
>>http://nauplion.net/CP-John-Texts.html [scroll down]
>
>>I had always assumed that locking churches was a modern thing, but this
>>suggests it is not. Could people camp out in churches when they were
>>travelling? [My father and I did in West Africa in the 50s.]
>
>>Comments?
>
>>DW
>
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