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So Nicholas of Tolentino did it. Francis of Assisi did the same. Is this a familiar practice amongst Christomimetic saints? Does it pre-date the thirteenth-century growth of Eucharistic piety? (I refuse to say 'topos' because I trust that it happened in what we naively used to call real life, you know, that historical phenomenon which sometimes is said to exist outside of literature -:). [George, have I used the new sign language correctly?] Gary Dickson University of Edinburgh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%