Since I love shocking Richard...Several years ago I went crashing into a
colleague's office excited beyond words that I'd discovered an unknown
child of a prominent fifteenth century Piedmontese Rabbinic Scholar. The
colleague, ever the understated Bolognese said: 'He's probably also dead,
buried and decomposed.' ...I always wondered about the 'probably.'
Jeffrey Woolf
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan Israel
On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Richard Landes wrote:
> > > * Maxentius, abbot (c. 515)
> > > - ate only barley bread and water; became a hunchback due to his
> > > constant prayer
> > >
> > > * Salvius or Sauve, and Superius (c. 768)
> > > - the latter-named saint's name was given to a corpse found over
> > > the remains of Salvius; because it was on top, it was designated
> > > 'Superius' or 'Superus': another candidate for the silly saint's name
> > > competition
> >
> > George,
> >
> > Are you sure these two didn't come out of a Monty Python film?!
> >
> > I can just see Eric Idle with his "bring out yer dead" cart picking
> > up "Superius" (who's not actually dead yet!).
>
> well, he is now. and, as Peter Brown would put it, that's what counts for
> sainthood in these parts.
>
> > Sorry, I'm being silly again (gasp! shock! and on a respectable
> > academic list no less!).
>
> i'm -- we all are -- shocked. simply shocked.
>
> rlandes
>
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