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Keightley, Thomas - Preacher Bertholdt's sight of angels
Identifier
011272
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Thomas Keightley – from World Guide etc
In Otfried and other writers of the 9th and 10th centuries, they say the ‘angels’ are depicted as young men, but in the latter half of the 13th century, a popular preacher named Berthold says that
“Ir sehet wol daz si allesamt sint jundiche gemalet; als ein kint daz da vunf jar alt ist swa man sie malet” - I saw that they were all young, also a child of 5 years old is what is seen