thanks! I know of this miracle in Icelandic translation. Have you
any suggestions for how i might hunt for parallel versions?
Meg Cormack
College of Charleston
> The Marian miracle of the pregnant abbess might fit into this category.
> It appears in several versions (for instance, in a French Marian miracle
> play, in the Alphabet of Tales, and many others). Briefly, a strict
> abbess gets pregnant by her table servant, and disgruntled nuns report her
> to the bishop. Before the bishop's visit, the abbess prays to the Virgin
> Mary and is miraculously delivered of her child, which angels take off to
> be raised by a hermit. When the abbess is examined, no sign of pregnancy
> can be found. She does, however, confess her pregnancy to the bishop.
> The child is then educated in the church, and in some versions becomes the
> successor to the bishop.
> Nancy Warren
> Department of English
> University of Michigan
Margaret Cormack [log in to unmask]
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion fax: 843-953-6388
College of Charleston tel: 843-953-8033
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
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