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E06561: Aldhelm, in his prose On Virginity, names *John (of Lycopolis, ascetic of Egypt, ob. 395, S00102) as an exemplary virgin. Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/686.
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posted on 2018-09-20, 00:00 authored by bsavillAldhelm, prose On Virginity, 29
Iohannes vero, Niloticae solitudinis heremita [...] purae virginitatis munus illibatum usque nonagenariam decrepitae vetustatis senectam liquet servavisse [...] Idcirco pro adeptae integritatis clamide, qua angelicae puritatis liniamento velut domestica soliditate adsciscebatur, futura profeticae divinationis oracula, quae reliquos latuerunt mortales praesago afflatus spiritu expertus est.
'But JOHN, a hermit of the Nilotic desert [...] It is clear that he preserved the unimpaired gift of pure virginity up to the nonagenarian age of decrepit senility [...] Therefore, because of the cloak of his acquired integrity, whereby he was assimilated to the form of angelic purity as if by the family solidarity of a household, he experienced the prophetic spirit of inspiration, the future declarations of presentient divination which were hidden from other mortals.'
Text: Ehwald 1919, 267-8. Translation: Lapidge and Herren 1979, 89, lightly modified.
Iohannes vero, Niloticae solitudinis heremita [...] purae virginitatis munus illibatum usque nonagenariam decrepitae vetustatis senectam liquet servavisse [...] Idcirco pro adeptae integritatis clamide, qua angelicae puritatis liniamento velut domestica soliditate adsciscebatur, futura profeticae divinationis oracula, quae reliquos latuerunt mortales praesago afflatus spiritu expertus est.
'But JOHN, a hermit of the Nilotic desert [...] It is clear that he preserved the unimpaired gift of pure virginity up to the nonagenarian age of decrepit senility [...] Therefore, because of the cloak of his acquired integrity, whereby he was assimilated to the form of angelic purity as if by the family solidarity of a household, he experienced the prophetic spirit of inspiration, the future declarations of presentient divination which were hidden from other mortals.'
Text: Ehwald 1919, 267-8. Translation: Lapidge and Herren 1979, 89, lightly modified.