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Dear Jim (and others),
If you've got any references to material on the Bethlehem grotto and cult,
I'd be very grateful to know of them (esp pilgrims accounts). I have a
project on Arnolfo's S. Maria Maggiore shrine which has been 'on the back
burner' for many years now, but I haven't abandoned hopes of returning to
the subject, and one aspect I'm interested in is the Bethlehem connection.
Any leads are welcome, to add to my collection of 'things to do when I have
time'.
Many thanks
Laura
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From: "jbugslag" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 25 March 2008 01:29
Subject: [SPAM][M-R] S. Maria Maggiore and Apparitions
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>> The spiritual and sentimental image of the reconstruction of a "Crib"
>> reminding a venerate occasion, has got its origins since 432 when Pope
>> Sisto the Third (432/40) created a "cave of the Nativity" similar to
>> Bethlehem in the primitive Basilica.
>
> I'm have been becoming a bit more familiar recently with the Grotto of the
> Nativity in
> Bethlehem -- which actually had a side grotto opening off it called the
> Grotto of the Manger --
> but this is the first reference I've seen to Sixtus III creating a "cave
> of the Nativity" in S. Maria
> Maggiore. It seems rather a "Lourdes" sort of thing to do. Does anyone
> know anything about
> this?
> Also, the website of the basilica, although correctly naming Sixtus III as
> the founder, also
> recounts the legendary story of Mary making it snow in August on the
> precise area where the
> church was to go. Does anyone know when this legend began to circulate --
> or at least,
> when it is first recorded?
> In a related vein, does anyone know when apparitions of the Virgin Mary
> began to appear?
> Or for that matter, apparitions of any saints. One of the earliest
> apparitions I have heard of
> are St Michael's apparitions to the bishop of Siponto at Monte Gargano, in
> Apulia, which
> apparently occurred in 493, but this seems remarkably early, in relation
> to apparitions of
> actual saints, rather than, say, archangels, whose business it is, really,
> to "appear" to people.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
>
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