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In which it says:
St Colette reformed the Order of Poor Clare's and founded a branch of the Order that is still known as the Colettines.
St Colette had a special devotion to St John the Apostle, who appeared to her on one occasion to place a miraculous ring on her finger. As he did so, he said: "by my own right and on behalf of the sovereign King and Prince of virginity and chastity." This ring was visible to all, and was a beautiful and very precious ring of gold.
St Colette had a great desire for a relic of the True Cross. One day when she was contemplating Our Lord's suffering in the midst of her community, she was drawn into an ecstasy. When her contemplation was over, she realized she was holding a small gold crucifix that had not been there before. It contained a small relic of the True Cross. Years later, upon preparing for her death, she gave away her few possessions. The abbess of Besancon received this cross as St Colette told her: "Keep it and treasure it, for it is from Heaven.
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And so - the point here is that <according to the story>, she gets a ring and a cross. Things that have been considered in VMs investigations.
And secondly, her devotion is to St John, and it is the illustration in the Apocalypse of S Jean, (1313) [BNF Fr. 13096], in the library of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, that serves as a structural model in the discussion of the Golden Fleece and VMs f80v.
Who is the VMs nymph who holds the ring? Ehh! - could be anybody. Or it could be another subtle reference to events of the earlier decades of the 1400s with certain connections to the history of the Duchy of Burgundy. Colette of Corbie would add another connection.
It's interesting that her reforms caught on in some areas (Burgundy, Savoy), not in others (France). Somewhat similarly, the Premonstratensians (Norbertines) <White Canons with the white galeros> held on in the Burgundian state after they had otherwise moved on to parts of eastern Europe. Obviously the Colettines were female, though they apparently associated with the Coletans. The Premonstratensians also had a fair proportion of women during this era.
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In which it says:
St Colette reformed the Order of Poor Clare's and founded a branch of the Order that is still known as the Colettines.
St Colette had a special devotion to St John the Apostle, who appeared to her on one occasion to place a miraculous ring on her finger. As he did so, he said: "by my own right and on behalf of the sovereign King and Prince of virginity and chastity." This ring was visible to all, and was a beautiful and very precious ring of gold.
St Colette had a great desire for a relic of the True Cross. One day when she was contemplating Our Lord's suffering in the midst of her community, she was drawn into an ecstasy. When her contemplation was over, she realized she was holding a small gold crucifix that had not been there before. It contained a small relic of the True Cross. Years later, upon preparing for her death, she gave away her few possessions. The abbess of Besancon received this cross as St Colette told her: "Keep it and treasure it, for it is from Heaven.
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And so - the point here is that <according to the story>, she gets a ring and a cross. Things that have been considered in VMs investigations.
And secondly, her devotion is to St John, and it is the illustration in the Apocalypse of S Jean, (1313) [BNF Fr. 13096], in the library of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, that serves as a structural model in the discussion of the Golden Fleece and VMs f80v.
Who is the VMs nymph who holds the ring? Ehh! - could be anybody. Or it could be another subtle reference to events of the earlier decades of the 1400s with certain connections to the history of the Duchy of Burgundy. Colette of Corbie would add another connection.
It's interesting that her reforms caught on in some areas (Burgundy, Savoy), not in others (France). Somewhat similarly, the Premonstratensians (Norbertines) <White Canons with the white galeros> held on in the Burgundian state after they had otherwise moved on to parts of eastern Europe. Obviously the Colettines were female, though they apparently associated with the Coletans. The Premonstratensians also had a fair proportion of women during this era.
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