Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish

Motif

Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee based on church or clergy. · view the constellation · filed as J1265.2

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 78.

Within the index

Filed under Repartee based on church government.

Filed beside it

Like Christ on Palm Sunday. Bishop has parson to dinner in the seat of honor. The parson fears that the dinner precedes punishment. Parson: "Don't let me be like Christ on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem" The same company of fools. An abbot calls the monks together and asks, "Whom from all you fools can I appoint as steward?" A monk answers, "That should not be difficult since an abbot was found from the same company of fools."

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