Portal:Saints/Did you know archive/2008
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- December 31, 2008 - Portal:Saints/Did you know/December 2008
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- November 30, 2008 - Portal:Saints/Did you know/November 2008
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- October 31, 2008 - Portal:Saints/Did you know/October 2008
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- September 30, 2008 - Portal:Saints/Did you know/September 2008
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- August 31, 2008 - Portal:Saints/Did you know/August 2008
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- July 31, 2008 - Portal:Saints/Did you know/July 2008
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- June 30, 2008 -
- ... that the spring and village Águas Santas are believed to be named for the spring where Marina of Aguas Santas was beheaded?
- ......that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis?
- ...that the seal of Baruch ben Neriah, a legendary 6th century BCE scribe and disciple of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, was found imprinted on two clay bullae excavated in 1975 and 1996?
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- May 31, 2008 - Saint Barbara is the patron saint of artillerymen. She is also traditionally the patron of armourers, military engineers, gunsmiths, miners and anyone else who worked with cannon and explosives. She is invoked against thunder and lightning and all accidents arising from explosions of gunpowder.
The Spanish word santabárbara and the corresponding Italian word santabarbara mean the powder magazine of a ship or fortress. It was customary to have a statue of Saint Barbara at the magazine to protect the ship or fortress from suddenly exploding.
Saint Barbara is depicted in art as standing by a tower with three windows, carrying a palm branch and a chalice; sometimes cannons are depicted by her side. ---
- April 30, 2008 - ...that the Chinese government had no objections when the Eastern Orthodox Church canonized Metrophanes, Chi Sung and other martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion, but did object to canonizations by the Roman Catholic Church?
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- March 31, 2008 -
- ... that after being captured by pirates, Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the pirate captain so much he set them all free?
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- February 29, 2008 -
- ...that Martha, the mother of Simeon Stylites, is said to have only consented to marriage after John the Baptist appeared to her telling her to do so?
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- Januray 31, 2008 -
- ...that Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as Poland and New Jersey?
- ...that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis?
- ...that the seal of Baruch ben Neriah, a legendary 6th century BC scribe and disciple of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, was found imprinted on two clay bullae excavated in 1975 and 1996?
- ...that Olegarius, Archbishop of Tarragona, became a canon priest when he was only ten years old?
- ...that according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt?
