Wedding at Cana: Who was the bridegroom?
Saints, doctors and mystics have offered answers to the question of who was getting married at Cana. Their suggestions might be surprising.
Saints, doctors and mystics have offered answers to the question of who was getting married at Cana. Their suggestions might be surprising.
In this piece, Father Coleridge explores:
The fascinating idea, proposed by holy men and women, that a very well known person in the Gospels might have been the bridegroom at Cana—and the same for the bride
How contemplative souls, like Ludolph the Carthusian and Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, interpreted the miracle as a divine call to continence for the bride and groom.
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