Talk:Benedict Joseph Labre
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[edit] Icon
Why does the icon have him dressed in a leather jacket and holding handbags? Clinkophonist 21:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Attributes
Where are the attributes documented?--evrik 00:43, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- No clue. I didn't put them in there and don't like infoboxes. I only worked up the hagiography, though, and don't believe in listing associations, patronages, etc. To me, those things cross the line from information about the saint to information about an active cultus. Unless they have been historically important (and Labre's dates mean that they pretty much can't have been (cf. someone like Roch who was invoked during the Black death)), I don't see much reason for them. Geogre 03:21, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The question of insanity
He is a patron of the insane, as someone added in a template, but the question is whether or not we should indicate why. The hagiographies I drew upon for writing this danced around the issue. Anyone object to the change I'm going to make, which is to the sentence "unsuitable for communal life." I'm planning on adding, "as the religious houses judged him as mentally ill." Geogre 12:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
This is completely appropriate. He was mentally ill. Franciscan priest Benedict Groeschel discusses this aspect of his life in his monograph, Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones. --Midnite Critic 15:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
