Today, 13 June, is the feast of ...
* Felicula, martyr (90?) - offered the choice of marrying someone
(Flaccus, rejected suitor of St Petronilla) or sacrificing to idols, she
chose to starve herself, until eventually tortured and suffocated in the
sewers of Rome
* Aquilina, martyr (end of third century?) - after her execution, it was
ordered that her body be mutilated; but instead of blood, there was milk
that flowed from her
* Triphyllius, bishop of Nicosia (c. 370) - described by Jerome as 'the
most eloquent of his age'
* Gerard of Clairvaux (1138) - Bernard's second and favourite brother,
but not among the party of young relatives and friends who had
accompanied Bernard when he entered Citeaux
* Antony of Padua, doctor (1231) - a journal, *Il Santo*, is dedicated
to the study of Antony - patron of those seeking lost objects; invoked
incessantly by some who will go unnamed. (Paul Spilsbury, Bristolhas
just completed his Ph.D on the sermons of Antony of Padua. His special
interest is in the technique of *concordantia* of scriptural texts. If
anyone out there should know of any other medieval author's use of the
terms *concorantia* or *concordare* in the twelfth or thirteenth century
please inform the list! Thanks.)
James Brundage responsded with the following:
Well, to state the blindingly obvious, there's Gratian's _Concordia
discordantium canonum_ as a reasonably prominent specimen. Mr. Spilsbury
might do worse than to look at Stephan Kuttner's *Harmony from
Dissonance: An Interpretation of Medieval Canon Law,* originally
published as a book (Latrobe, PA: St. Vincent's Archabbey, 1960) and, I
understand, still available from the publisher in that form at a
preposterous price ($5.00 or something of the sort). The piece has
subsequently been reset and reprinted as a 16-page chapter in Kuttner's
_History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages,_ 2nd
ed. (Variorum, 1992).
Thanks James! Further suggestions would be most appreciated.
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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