You perhaps heard the legend that John Scotus Eriugena was stabbed to
death by his students at Malmesbury in the 9th century? But then his
mordant Irish wit was famous. Pardon Tillinghast
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Frank Schaer wrote:
> > * Cassian of Imola, martyr (date unknown) - a teacher, Cassian was
> > condemned to be thrown naked in the middle of his 200 pupils, who were
> > ordered to stab their master with their iron pens; the pupils carried out
> > the order - there may be a moral in this
>
> This jogs from the depths of my memory a story about a
> theologia/saint? lecturing a class that on the day of Judgement men
> would be resurrected without their genitals. This so incensed the
> (presumably male) class that they rose as a body and stabbed him to
> death with their styluses.
>
> Is this a version of the same story? Is there any theological
> foundation in such a teaching?
>
> Frank Schaer
>
> (Central European University)
>
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