#hagiography
Robert Bartlett, excerpt from Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
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gotta love the fact that of the two lives of St Radegund, the one written by a nun is all about her good work for the community and the one written by a monk is torture porn.
this is from the Vita Radegundis of the nun Baudonivia:
(that attitude. i’d literally let radegund drive her horse over me.)
and this is from her Life by Fortunatus, who clearly had a problem (proceed with caution: very violent self-harm)
gotta love the fact that of the two lives of St Radegund, the one written by a nun is all about her good work for the community and the one written by a monk is torture porn.
Blessed Carlo Acutis is set to become the first millennial saint. This isn’t the first time the Catholic Church has canonized children. | America Magazine
Saint Rita of Cascia (Santa Rita de Cascia) by Pedro Antonio Fresquis,The Barnes Foundation
Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 11, North Wall
Medium: Water-based paint on wood panel
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12 March: the Feast of St Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death.
The Mass of St Gregory is a favourite depiction in Christian art.
Tradition has it that, once when celebrating Mass, a woman smiled when receiving Communion. Questioned, she laughed at Gregory’s reverence for the host, insisting that it was nothing more than bread she had baked that day. Legend holds the host then appeared as a finger. Subsequently, tradition asserted that the image of Jesus as the “Man of Sorrows” appeared on the altar during the Mass.
