Re: What will I get for Donatist Christmas?
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 18:59 |
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At 11:09 PM 1/6/04 -0800, Patraic Brown wrote:
> > Actually, it's always the feast day of at
> > least half a dozen Saints, but most of the time
> > tthe Saints are relatively minor.
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>Yeah. You get a buildup of saints after a while -
>and people forget what they did or why they're
>saints. Or how on Earth or Heaven _anyone_ could
>consider them saintly! ;)
Which is why St. Dmitri of Rostov, in the 17th century, wrote The Great
Collection of the Lives of the Saints. There is at least one vita for each
day of the year, sometimes more. It's currently being translated from
Church Slavonic into English, and the volumes for September through January
have been published to date. My children absolutely love listening to it
read aloud, even if I wonder how much of it they do or don't understand.
Isidora
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