[Magdalen] (SPAM: ?) Litany of British saints for use by those who want S...

[Roland Orr]

In UK CofE a reasonable test for a saint is if a church is named after 
him. A modern saint on this basis is John Keble
As regards UK RC, any name agreed by a Pope is OK
Roland

On 20/09/2014 13:16, James Oppenheimer wrote:
> No problem.  Those ancestors of yours may well have been RCC.  The
> reformation is such a new thing in terms of ancestors.
>
> Go back far enough and we all are Orthodox, the true cradle of Christendom,
> except, of course for that inconvenient Jewish lineage.
>
> Go back a bit further and we all are pagans, however, so....
>
> James W. Oppenheimer
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> In a message dated 9/18/2014 11:38:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> At least  some of your ancestors sound like they might have come from the
>> reiving  clans on the Border, Kate.....>>>>
>> I have no known direct Scottish ancestry.
>>
>> Thanks to my recent DNA analysis, I know for certain that 32% of
>> my ancestry is "Irish" - in this case Scotch(Scots)-Irish.  In  turn,
>> these people came from Scotland and from the northern border
>> English counties.  They were most certainly all Presbyterians,
>> about which I have mixed theological opinions.  Most of these
>> ancestors eventually became Methodists or Baptists secondary to
>> the inability of the Presbyterians with their daunting educational
>> requirements for clergy to supply the necessary ministers.
>>
>> Thus, my direct Loyalist ancestors, banished to PEI in Canada,
>> are heavily Methodists with a few Presbyterians.  My great-great
>> grandfather (taken in by his paternal Aunt Mary after his father
>> was executed near Poughkeepsie, NY for Tory spying and on
>> orders of General Washington) became a wealthy merchant, and
>> gave the land for the first Presbyterian church in his PEI village,
>> and then eventually gave the land for the first Methodist church.
>>
>> I still do hope the vote is "no".
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>