Cacciaguida

Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st.

Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff.


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Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII.


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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
 
Assumption

St. John took care of Our Lady from Pentecost until her Assumption, but he was also (still) a young man, and we used to wonder whether he ever hung out too long with his friends, the way young men will do. Hence, a family joke:

"John will be home in time for tea."
-- the Unfounded Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Click here for my annual scriptural take (cribbed from Scott Hahn and Tim Staples) on this feast.