medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
---- John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Today (23. November) is the feast day of:
>
> Clement I, pope (d. ca. 100). The author of an extant letter to the church
> of Corinth and the suppositious author of the pseudo-Clementine
> _Recognitions_ and _Homilies_, C. occupies either third or fourth place in
> early lists of the bishops of Rome. Although he seems not to have been
> martyred, he has a late antique Passio (BHL 1848) in which he is sent to
> work in the mines of Crimea and then is thrown into the sea weighted down
> with an anchor. In response to the prayers of his disciples Cornelius and
> Phoebus, the waters parted and C.'s body was miraculously revealed in a
> chapel where the faithful could venerate him annually for a week beginning
> on his _dies natalis_.
He is in the Calendar of the Book of Common Prayer* as "S. Clement I, Bp. of Rome and Martyr".
(*1662, but he has been there since at least 1561 - I don't have the 1552 book to hand to check that.)
John Briggs
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