On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:03:22 +0000 (GMT) George Ferzoco wrote:
> Today, 22 November, is the feast of ...
[snip, snip]
>
> * Cecilia, virgin and martyr (?)
> - of patrician birth, she converted her betrothed husband
> and his brother to Christianity; martyred by being
> suffocated with the steam of a hot bath in her own mansion
> (later converted into a church)
It may be more likely that she died of heatstroke. This is remarkably
appropriate, because in today's (22 November) _Daily Telegraph_ there
is a report of an inquest into the death last August of a man who died
after spending 90 minutes in a "sweat lodge" on farmland in Somerset.
Apparently the participants sat round hot stones onto which water
was thrown to produce steam. The pathologist said that the man's
death was consistent with heatstroke.
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Mark Harris
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I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having
been silent.
Abba Arsenius the Great
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