Over at his popular Jesus Creed blog, Scot McKnight has been leading a chapter-by-chapter discussion on my Patron Saints for Postmoderns. Thanks Scot!
Today’s chapter for discussion is the one on the “father of modern education,” Moravian bishop John Amos Comenius. A commenter posted a link to Comenius’s Great Didactic, which I didn’t know was online in full-text form. Sweet! You can access it here.
We share with all the saints one Lord
Francis of Assisi--part of an altarpiece by Bartolomeo Vivarini, in the Brooklyn Museum
From a mid-15th-century Dutch prayerbook: Saint James the Great; Saint Joseph; Saint Ghislain, abbot of St Ghislain, near Mons; Saint Eligius; Saint Ermes (Hermes)
Gregory the Great and St. Mamertinus, from a 14th-century French translation of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Cologne Cathedral
The clocktower of the Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles church in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (Val-d'Oise), France
Masaccio, Crucifixion, 1426 (Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte); the blonde figure is Mary Magdalen
Door of Tewkesbury Abbey cloister
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
Grateful to the dead 