[Magdalen] Named for saints.

[Joseph Cirou]

Mother St Sanballat was one of our Armenian deaconesses.  Artaxerxes was her pet cat. The older nuns used to keep tame lions until PETA found out.

Mother Ste Folitesse, felinista

-----Original Message-----
>From: Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 31, 2015 11:39 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Named for saints.
>
>How about Artaxerxes...or Sanballat?
>
>Georgia+
>
>On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I think Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal would be great names for twin Borzois
>>
>> I still remember that my room number for several years in the Theology
>> House at Mundelein was 721 the year of the Assyrian Invasion of Israel, so
>> I have a soft spot for Sennacherib--Also a great name for an Iraqi or
>> Assyrian
>> beef entrée Sennacher Ribs with Northern Barbecue Sauce in yogurt
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> >Sent: Oct 29, 2015 6:33 PM
>> >To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> >Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Named for saints.
>> >
>> >On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Well, Emily, I suppose. Emma, despite its recent popularity for little
>> >> girls, is still impossibly stuffy and old fashioned to me. .
>> >
>> >Yes...Emma's one name you hear in Whole Foods when the posh young
>> >parents seem to be broadcasting their children's well-chosen names
>> >more to impress other shoppers than to communicate with their
>> >children: "Emma, Emma, they've got a lovely gooseberry-cinnamon
>> >yoghurt here. Would you like some gooseberry-cinnamon yoghurt, Emma?
>> >Conrad, don't push Portia so fast in her stroller, or I won't make the
>> >timpano for dinner tonight. Emma, look: asparagus water!"
>> >
>> >Makes me want to have a son and name him Ashurbanipal, sure to win the
>> >Whole Foods name derby. :)
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >Scott R. Knitter
>> >Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
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