[MR] Wikipedia: Bonfire of the Vanities
Garth Groff via Atlantia
atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Tue Feb 7 02:25:56 PST 2017
Noble Friends,
On this date in 1495, the charismatic Dominican priest Fra Girolamo
Savonarola organized his first "Bonfire of the Vanities" in Florence.
His pious followers consigned to the flames mirrors, clothing, books,
works of art and any other "sinful" objects that promoted vanity. These
burnings continued for the next several years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_Vanities .
Saravarola was not the only priest to organize such burnings. The
Franciscan priest Bernard of Sienna (later canonized as St. Bernardino,
the patron saint of Italy) also held such bonfires.
Fra Saranarola eventually died in a bonfire of his own making. He defied
Pope Alexander VI over a Holy League against a French invasion of Italy.
The priest then refused the Pope's summons to Rome and defied a papal
ban against his preaching. In 1497 Savonarola was excommunicated. He was
arrested and confessed under torture to inventing his visions and
prophesies. The priest and two followers were hanged over fires which
consumed their bodies in 1498:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola .
Yours Aye,
Mungo Napier, The Laird of Mallard Lodge
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