[Magdalen] Named for saints.

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 10/29/15 12:14 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> I'd have to be Petra or Pauline. No thanks.

Oh, there are probably about a dozen different saints your mother could 
have chosen from.  There are way more than 365 Saints, so they're 
stacked up on days.  Especially when you use a group of different 
churches that have calendars, plus the Orthodox.  Sometimes days got 
moved around from one church to another, sometimes calendar changes made 
variances (like from Julian to Gregorian, then the more recent changes 
in different places), sometimes the date of death just was not known, 
and different churches randomly assigned different days.

For just a sampling, try
http://www.catholic.org/saints/f_day/jun.php

>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:02 AM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Every sibling of the Mexican ORC bishop that mentored me for ordination
>> is named after the saint of the day she or he was born, including himself.
>>
>> I'd be Luke Knitter. I'd like that, actually. A lot.
>>
>> Scott was trendy in 1960. I wonder if my grandmother complained at
>> all: "Who is Saint Scott?" Perhaps not, as she had already allowed my
>> mom to attend the public (rather than RC) high school.
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>
>
>


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