Dear Bro. Steven,
That ought to be in the legend of St. Andrew the apostle, whose persecutor
was named Egeas in the standard medieval legend. So you might go first to
one of the standard retellings (Golden Legend? Butler's lives of the
saints?) if you need to track down this reference more precisely.
Sherry Reames (English Dept., U. Wisconsin, Madison)
At 10:03 AM 5/3/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Dear Members of the List,
>
>I am working on the Eucharist in Christian-Jewish polemics in the
>"Fortalitium Fidei" (c. 1460) by Alfonso de Espina (a paper for Kalamazoo,
>by the way, with only four days to go!) and ran across a name of whom I am
>unfamiliar, a Blessed Andreas. The sentence he appears in is as follows:
>"Unde dicebat Beatus Andreas Egee quod agnus iste postquam est a fidelibus
>commestus remanet integer et vivus." Does anybody know who this is?
>Thanks!
>
>Steve
>
>Bro. Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv.
>Dept. of Theological Studies
>St. Louis University
>
>
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