SC - Period French Toast Recipies

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

sca-cooks wrote:

 SC - Appendix III - A spiritual account involving 'sopas doradas'.
 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:28:03 -0500
 From: Christine A Seelye-King <mermayde at juno.com>
 Subject: SC - Appendix III - A spiritual account involving 'sopas 
doradas'.
 
 Appendix III
> 
> A spiritual account involving 'sopas doradas'.
> 
> A story regarding "sopas doradas", is found in the text of a 1592 Spanish
> book,  "Fructus Sanctorum y Quinta Parte del Flos Sanctorum" by Alonso de Villegas.  
  It's a collection of discourses on various (Catholic)spiritual topics. 
 Included was an anecdote about a Cistercian monk who was raised to the 
rank of cardinal by Pope Clement V.  He was travelling with a group of 
monks as attendants.  One of them, a lay-brother, told the cardinal that 
when he died, he would be greeted at the gate of heaven by Saint 
Benedict, the founder of their order.  The saint would surely question 
the cardinal's identity, since he would not be dressed in the humble 
habit of his order.  But the cardinal would no doubt be able to explain 
that his rank required him to dress differently.  However, Saint 
Benedict would then investigate further by conducting a sort of 
spiritual autopsy.  He would summon porters to throw the cardinal to the 
ground, cut open his chest with a knife, and investigate the contents of 
the cardinal's stomach.  If it was full of herbs and vegetables, then 
the saint would say, "Truly you are a monk of my order, enter into 
Paradise." If however, it was full of partridges and francolins, 
blancmange and golden sops... The story goes on to say that the cardinal 
took the hint,and thereafter ate meals more appropriate to his monastic 
vocation.
> 
> [Thanks to Lady Brighid ni Chiarain, (Settmour Swamp, East (NJ), mka
> Robin Carroll-Mann, harper at idt.net) for the preceding Spanish research
> and translation. ]


Johann vonMetten replies:
  Great story!! very similar to monastic tales told in my monastery days 
here in Indy! Familiar to almost all monastics regardless of religion,
 I have even heard this sort of tale from Buhddist monks who stay with 
us on occasion!.... "Monks is Monks!!", Dali Lama, St. John's Abbey 
1998.

Johann, Benedictine Oblate

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