note to self, and some others
Sep. 7th, 2001 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearBack in 1997, there was an exorcism perfromed on Mother Teresa.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2001/09/05/mother_theresa/index.html
Perhaps she was possessed by some demon whose obsession was with healing the sick?
Some of the stuff in the article about the process of becoming a saint makes me think about the saints that didn't exist or have been removed from Orthodox Catholicism. This has always been one of those things that fascinates me (having been raised Catholic), like Pope Joan. Surely there's something about just creating saints wholesale, or taking heathen gods and making them saints. check out http://www.magma.ca/~artlois/pages/bogus.html for some background, then look at the rest of the site for some paintings that might also be story seeds (see the section on people pointing guns at their reflections, which I could make a few stories out of).
how to become a saint - http://www.howstuffworks.com/question619.htm
The Pope is planning on naming a patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers. Several saints are being considered, but the lead candidate is St. Isidore of Seville, who is credited with writing the world's first encyclopedia... I'd have thought St. Gerome (the Patron saint of libraries, and a hermit. :) ) would be more appropriate.
by the way, the Patron Saint of Journalists (LJ?) is St. Francis de Sales - http://saints.catholic.org/saints/francisdesales.html
http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2001/09/05/mother_theresa/index.html
Perhaps she was possessed by some demon whose obsession was with healing the sick?
Some of the stuff in the article about the process of becoming a saint makes me think about the saints that didn't exist or have been removed from Orthodox Catholicism. This has always been one of those things that fascinates me (having been raised Catholic), like Pope Joan. Surely there's something about just creating saints wholesale, or taking heathen gods and making them saints. check out http://www.magma.ca/~artlois/pages/bogus.html for some background, then look at the rest of the site for some paintings that might also be story seeds (see the section on people pointing guns at their reflections, which I could make a few stories out of).
how to become a saint - http://www.howstuffworks.com/question619.htm
The Pope is planning on naming a patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers. Several saints are being considered, but the lead candidate is St. Isidore of Seville, who is credited with writing the world's first encyclopedia... I'd have thought St. Gerome (the Patron saint of libraries, and a hermit. :) ) would be more appropriate.
by the way, the Patron Saint of Journalists (LJ?) is St. Francis de Sales - http://saints.catholic.org/saints/francisdesales.html
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Date: 2001-09-08 04:58 am (UTC)He is the patron saint of hopeless causes, isn't he?
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Date: 2001-09-08 08:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-08 04:05 pm (UTC)If so, he fell down on the job in my case.
(I can't believe I left the "should" out of that comment up there.)
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Date: 2001-09-08 04:10 pm (UTC)hard to say... not a lost cause, surely!
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Date: 2001-09-08 04:20 pm (UTC)