Re: Latter-(day) Re: Inflecting Jesus Christ (was: Never violate a universal ...)
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 6, 2003, 15:29 |
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From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Latter-(day) Re: Inflecting Jesus Christ (was: Never violate a
universal ...)
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, David Barrow wrote:
>
> > So, 'latter-day' is a compound adjective with a different meaning to
> > 'latter'. I suppose Latter-Day Saints comes from them being likened in
> > some way to those of Jesus' time, what do the Mormons here say? And
> maybe the German and Dutch speakers can say how the above definition
> > fits in with their translation of the term
>
> That's certainly how I always interpreted it; saints always seem to come
> from a long time in the past. When was the most recently born saint born?
Well, in the bible, 'saint' merely means a Christian. So they were born
quite recently, I suppose. If you mean an 'official' saint...
According to the Catholics, the latest I can find is St. Pius X, who was
born in 1835, and died in 1914. He was Pope shortly before WWI.. There
could be more recent ones, though...