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Dear Brenda! If I remember well, the sentence "nudus nudum Christum in cruce sequi" - the motto of the wandering preachers and their community "pauperes Christi" the 11th/12th century - derives from Jerome (Ep. 52?). According to my database, there is an article of G. Constable, « Nudus nudum Christum sequi » and parallel formulas in the twelfth century, in: Continuity and Discontinuity in Church History, ed. F.F. Church - T. George, Leiden 1979, 83-91. More some days later ! Best wishes! Werner ----- Original Message ----- From: Ms Brenda M. Cook To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:08 AM Subject: [M-R] Quotation? Can anyone identify. I am working on the Letter from Robert of Arbrissel to Ermengarde of Brittany (c. 1106) and it contains a vivid image which I am sure must be a quotation, or at any rate an allusion to an earlier author. The editor of the text ( 1854) identifies a huge number of Biblical quotes / allusions but says nothing about this one. My guess is that it is Augustine of Hippo or possibly Benedict of Nursia, but I'd be deeply obliged if someone could put me right. Voluntas tua esset ut mundum relinqueres, et te ipsam abnegares, et nuda nudum Christum in cruce sequereis. (It must be your desire to renounce the world, to deny yourself and, naked, follow the naked Christ upon the cross.) B.M.C.