Comments on: A Beast with a Halo: What Do We Know of the Most Arguable Saint? https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/08/a-beast-with-a-halo-what-do-we-know-of-the-most-arguable-saint Thu, 02 Jan 2020 08:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Editor https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/08/a-beast-with-a-halo-what-do-we-know-of-the-most-arguable-saint#comment-889 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 08:36:40 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=24982#comment-889 In reply to Wesley Samuel Barnes.

Thank you very much! May God bless you!

]]> By: Wesley Samuel Barnes https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/08/a-beast-with-a-halo-what-do-we-know-of-the-most-arguable-saint#comment-887 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 13:36:39 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=24982#comment-887 Thank you for you studies and taking time to share them. May God Bless you in all your endeavors

]]> By: Catalog of Good Deeds https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/08/a-beast-with-a-halo-what-do-we-know-of-the-most-arguable-saint#comment-641 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:31:09 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=24982#comment-641 In reply to Meg Lark.

Dear Meg, thank you for the clarifying comment!

]]> By: Meg Lark https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/08/a-beast-with-a-halo-what-do-we-know-of-the-most-arguable-saint#comment-639 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:13:15 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=24982#comment-639 Sorry, but your statement that St Christopher is still venerated in the Catholic Church is only partly true. I was a Catholic in 1969 when St Christopher was “demoted” on the grounds of being a “probably mythological” saint whose legend was brought back from the East by Crusaders. (Along with St Marina/Margaret of Antioch, St Catherine of Alexandria, St Barbara, and a host of others generally known as the Fourteen Holy Helpers.) The only reason he is venerated at all is because there was such a hue and cry when he was struck off the roster of canonized saints, that he was reinstated to a lesser rank of “local devotion”, meaning basically, “If you insist, you can venerate him, but we aren’t going to do anything to promote him as a legitimate saint.” I DO remember this taking place – haven’t just read about it, I remember the shock that reverberated throughout the Catholic world.

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