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Happy Solemnity of #StBenedict. Many artists have been inspired by #StGregory's account of Benedict of Norcia's eventful life. Here are a few highlights from a lovely German series that pulls off the trick of telling a narrative in a single frame. Here is Farewell to the World 1/ 
Maurus Walks On Water 2/
The Goths were often up to no good... Here is The Discovered Ruse #SaintBenedict 3/
16th JUNE: ST LUTGARDE
1. St Lutgarde's parents first wished her to be betrothed to a merchant; and when, through the loss of her fortune, her marriage became impossible, they urged her to take the veil. She entered the Benedictine convent at Tongres in Brabant
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1. St Lutgarde's parents first wished her to be betrothed to a merchant; and when, through the loss of her fortune, her marriage became impossible, they urged her to take the veil. She entered the Benedictine convent at Tongres in Brabant
#StLutgarde
2. but lived in a discontented state, secretly sighing for a worldly life. One day when she had gone to gossip, as was her wont, in the parlours, our Lord Himself stood before her.
Pointing to His still bleeding Heart, He bade her seek in Him alone the joys of Divine love.
Pointing to His still bleeding Heart, He bade her seek in Him alone the joys of Divine love.
3. From that hour St Lutgarde renounced the world and its follies, and began a new life of prayer and penance. During the bloody struggle with the Albigenses she offered herself a victim for the Church, and suffered most fearful tortures of mind and body. #CatholicTwitter
#InTheirFootsteps into the earthwork remains of a large (50m x 14.5m) #medieval sheepcote for overwintering #sheep on a monastic grange at Troed-y-Rhiw, perhaps belonging to the #Cistercian house at Strata Florida. That could house a lot of sheep coflein.gov.uk/en/site/300571…
Manure deposited by #sheep overwintered in #medieval sheepcotes over the winter could be 6 ft deep by the spring. In 1393-4 *20 workmen* were needed at Bishop’s Cleeve, Glos., to clear it from the sheepcote & spread it on the fields in 1393-4. archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/arch…
And here, FWIW, is an early Flemish illustration of a sheepcote (perhaps) #justbecause themorgan.org/collection/da-…
