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Entry: Flogging Brother Ass Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/flogging_brother_ass#6030 Post contents: One must make allowances for St. Francis lack of hygiene since there was no germ theory then, no one had invented the microscope, much less seen a bacteria. But the upshot was that too many Franciscans ended up killing their patients and infecting the healthy by their habit of tending the sick and then giving communiong without washing their hands first. The Middle Ages knew bathhouses, but they were being gradually closed because they gave occasion to sin (men and women meeting naked there). The Plague, instead of bringing in more sanitation, brought less, as people gave up the sin of bathing as penance. It took until the nineteenth century and the discovery of germs to convince people that cleanliness is next to godliness. In the meantimes nuns were supposed to be holy because they bathed and changed their underwear once a week, or every ten days (they were merely filthy). Sent at: 2008 08 28