gerasimus and the lion pulled the thorn from the lions paw.
gerasimus and the lion pulled the thorn from the lions paw.
who pulled the thorn from the lions paw?
gerasimus and the lion
the plot is a more or less careful rendition of george bernard shaw's script. androcles, a fugitive christian tailor, accompanied by his nagging wife, is on the run from his roman persecutors. while hiding in the forest he comes upon a wild lion who approaches him with a wounded paw. androcles sees that the cause is a large thorn embedded in its paw, which he draws out while talking baby language to the lion. his wife had fled, and androcles is next seen in a procession of christian prisoners on their way to the colosseum in rome. they are joined by the fierce convert ferrovius who subsequently provides much of the comic entertainment in his struggle to keep his nature in check. love interest is also introduced by the growing attraction of the captain to the noble-born convert lavinia. eventually the party is sent into the arena to be slaughtered by gladiators, but ferrovius kills all of them and accepts a commission offered him in the praetorian guards. to appease the crowd, one christian is needed to be savaged by the lions and androcles volunteers to uphold 'the honour of the tailors'. it turns out that the lion is the one that androcles has helped, and the two waltz round the arena to the acclaim of the people. the emperor dashes behind the scenes to get a closer look and has to be rescued from the lion by androcles. he then orders an end to the persecution of christians and allows androcles and his new 'pet' to depart in peace.
androcles and the lion (1952 film)
it is located on the east end of the rapperswil plateau and includes the village of büren zum hof, and the house clusters of kapf, speichhüsli and neu dorzenmatten.









































on 31 december 2009 amtsbezirk fraubrunnen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. on the following day, 1 january 2010, it joined the newly created verwaltungskreis bern-mittelland.









































section::::coat of arms.









































the blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "azure a lion paw issuant from chief sinister holding a sickle argent handled of the second." the lions paw refers to the lion in the coat of arms of the fraubrunnen district.









































section::::demographics.
büren zum hof