medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Charles Giguere <[log in to unmask]>
> You will have an embarrass de richesse, lucky you. Celtic saints' lives are
very rich in material about animals....the gorgeous Adomnan's Life of Columba,
ed. and trans. Alan Orr Anderson and Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, rev. M. O. A.,
Oxford, 1991
i think that's the one (read in a much earlier translation) with the marvelous
vignette of the Holy Man, while working in his cell on a manuscript
(interesting in and of itself) being approached by one of his monks, saying
"Bless this implement, Father, which I am holding."
C. did so, without looking up from his work, and only later found out that it
was a knife which he had blessed.
from that time forward, that knife could not cut the flesh of any animal.
c
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