The papacy, inquisition and Saint Guinefort the Holy GreyhoundRist, R. (2019) The papacy, inquisition and Saint Guinefort the Holy Greyhound. Reinardus. Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, 30 (1). pp. 190-211. ISSN 0925-4757
It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1075/rein.00020.ris Abstract/SummaryJust before 1261 the Dominican inquisitor Stephen of Bourbon visited an area of south-eastern France known as the Dombes, in the diocese of Lyons and there found that women were venerating a certain St Guinefort as a healer of children. The Church's censure was not just a ban on a non-orthodox cult, or a theological statement that animals could not be saints, or a crackdown on magical and heretical practices - although it was all these things. It was also the condemnation of a healing cult that had got badly out of hand. The legend of St Guinefort the Holy Greyhound reveals the medieval Church engaged in a familiar struggle: to balance popular piety with orthodox teaching.
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