At 01:03 AM 7/20/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1999-07-19 06:55:31 Eastern Daylight Time,
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>> * Bruno, bishop of Segni (1123) - prolific scriptural commentator;
>> maintained that sacraments administered by bishops or priests who had
>> been guilty of simony were invalid
>
>So that would mean that a man who revived the long discredited Donatist
>heresy was canonized, right? Interesting....
strange times bring on strange behavior, even by institutional bodies.
look at Peter the Hermit -- in any century from the 6-10th, he'd have been
eliminated as a millenarian heretic -- and here he is, a hero. Cf Guibert
of Nogent's description of Peter with Gregory of Tours' description of the
false Christ of Bourges.
richard landes
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