Here are your clues:
I was an Augustinian monk.
I wrote one of the most published books of all time.
I was mistakenly buried alive.
(He was denied canonization as a saint because when his body was dug up splinters were found embedded under his fingernails. The canonization authorities determined that a true saint wouldn’t fight death in such a manner.)
Note: Evangelical Christians know that every born-again believer is a saint. We don't need to be "knighted by the proper authorities" to become a saint. We also don't pray to saints in Heaven. Saints alive! That's a small piece of why the Reformation was launched.)
Note: Evangelical Christians know that every born-again believer is a saint. We don't need to be "knighted by the proper authorities" to become a saint. We also don't pray to saints in Heaven. Saints alive! That's a small piece of why the Reformation was launched.)
Thomas A Kempis.
ReplyDeleteI would guess Luther but he wasn't buried alive. How about his relative Lartin Moother?
ReplyDeleteOh great, thanks for reminding me I'm taphephobic.
ReplyDeleteThomas Hemerken or as Brian said his priestly name Thomas Kempis
ReplyDelete@Meghan Smith
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure that Luther's third cousin, twice removed, Lartin Moother lived his entire adult life as a haberdasher in Hamburg.
Thomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDeleteThomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDeleteThomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDeleteThomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDeleteThomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDeleteThomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDeleteThomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDeleteThomas å Kempis is the man. Can you believe they didn't canonize him for splinters? Put every one of the "canon board" in a coffin, put about five feet of dirt over them for about half an hour and let's see how many come out with fingers, let alone no splinters!
ReplyDelete...and so it echos through history...
ReplyDeleteit is Thomas a Kempis, the man who wrote "The Imitation of Christ".
There seemed to be an "echo" here too Eddie.
ReplyDeleteNow, now, Miss Smith, my grandfather Luther would never do such a thing as that! He would take his 95 hammers and theses his way out, that's what he'd do!
ReplyDeleteoOo! I bought the Imitation of Christ in a second hand book shop in January. It was printed in 1906 and has been given as a present at least two times - I can tell because there is writing in the front but it's too scrawly to read. I haven't read it yet because I couldn't find out if he was dodgy or good.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a source for this? I cannot find it anywhere. Maybe it is a myth?
ReplyDelete@Stranger, it all makes sense to me now.
ReplyDelete@CG -- Martin Luther was a bull in a china shop. 6 feet of dirt definitely couldn't have stopped him.
Off the subject, wasn't Bernard of Clairveaux also Augustinian? I know he had influence on Luther.
Erik, try Snopes:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/buried.asp
"Off the subject, wasn't Bernard of Clairveaux also Augustinian? I know he had influence on Luther."
ReplyDeleteI always get Bernard of Clairveaux confused with Bernard of Cluny. (Or is that Rosemary of Cluny?)
Bernard of Clairvaux,(1090 – August 20, 1153) was a French abbot ("Heyyyy Abbot!")and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order. So that means he had an exoskeleton...wait, maybe that's crustacean. Anyway, as the French abbot he did a routine with Saint Lou of Costello that went something like this...
ReplyDelete"Are you leaving this monastery?"
"Oui"
"We? I'm not going! YOU are!"
"Oui"
"Not WE ya knumbskull...YOU!"
"That's what I said...Oui."
"Who's on first?"
I think the group with exoskeletons were the Hardshell Baptists.
ReplyDeleteGood one.
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