Friday, 12 October 2012

Apostles who possess two or three bodies


A Treatise on Relics - John Calvin
(1870) - Project Gutenburg


"Now, let us reckon up those apostles who possess two or three bodies. St Andrew has a duplicate at Amalfi, St Philip and St James the Minor both have duplicates at Rome, ad sanctos Apostolos, St Simeon and St Jude the same in St Peter's Church. St Bartholomew enjoys an equal privilege at Rome, in the church bearing his name. Here we have enumerated six of them, each provided with two bodies, and St Bartholomew has an additional skin into the bargain, which is shown at Pisa. St Matthew, however, outrivals them all, for besides the body at Padua, which we have before mentioned, he has another at Rome in the church of St Maria Maggiore, a third at Treves, and an additional arm at Rome."

Burial in Church


All Saints - Kettlestone [Link]
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Scrubbed and scraped


Saint Andrew - Little Snoring [Link]
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I like this photogrtaph because it gives some impression of the big sky that frames Norfolk and the graveyard. We can also see how the lovable rascals in the Diocese of Norwich have allowed the grubbing out of  many memorials and monuments.

James Baldwin 1833 - 1904

James Baldwin Died 4th December 1904
All Saints, Stibbard [Link]
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