[Magdalen] Named for saints.

[Jay Weigel]

Peter and Paul are the only ones I know of for June 29.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> 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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> Sibyl Smirl
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