I've received an instructive message from Julia Bolton Holloway, which I thought
I'd share with you, for your enrichment and comment -- George
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It seems a conflation of Christ's healing of the twelve-year-old girl and
its interruption with the healing of the woman with the issue of blood, the
girl's illness connected to the onset of menses.
Celestine V would be coming from the Greek part of Italy where Jewish rules
concerning menses still
obtain ecclesiastically. I'd put her age at twelve, at the onset of being a
woman.
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George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
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