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Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
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Yes.
Or whoever introduced the surfboard...that certainly improved the spiritual atmosphere of Oz.
Provided it is well documented as to who did it of course |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 23-10-2010 15:28 Post subject: |
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| Kondoru wrote: | Yes.
Or whoever introduced the surfboard...that certainly improved the spiritual atmosphere of Oz.
Provided it is well documented as to who did it of course |
T'was the first Irish convict who tried to escape on an old door. |
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| Zilch5 Vogon Poet
Great Old One Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Total posts: 1527 Location: Western Sydney, Australia Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-10-2010 00:58 Post subject: |
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| Not really, but Duke Kahanamoku - a Hawaiian bloke who introduced surfing to Australia in 1915. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 29-03-2011 19:11 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Lourdes tells of invalid's 'healing'
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0329/1224293298903.html
PARIS – The Catholic shrine at Lourdes has announced the “remarkable healing” of a French invalid, avoiding the traditional term “miracle” because its doctors increasingly shy away from calling an illness incurable.
The case of Serge Francois (56), whose left leg was mostly paralysed for years, was the first healing announced since the church eased some rules in 2006 for declaring that a person was healed thanks to visiting the site.
The Catholic Church teaches that God sometimes performs miracles, including cures that doctors cannot explain. Sceptics reject this as unscientific. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 30-03-2011 10:25 Post subject: |
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| To say everything can be explained is unscientific |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-02-2012 18:04 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Declared a saint, the anti-Hitler activist beheaded by Nazis at age 25
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/9064139/Declared-a-saint-the-anti-Hitler-activist-beheaded-by-Nazis-at-age-25.html
One of the founders of an anti-Hitler movement in wartime Germany has been declared a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church 69 years after he was beheaded by the Nazis.
By Matthew Day, Warsaw2:55PM GMT 06 Feb 2012 16 Comments
The church canonised Alexander Schmorell for his involvement in the White Rose group, which vented its disgust of Hitler and the Nazi regime by writing pamphlets opposing the regime and condemning the treatment of Soviet citizens under German occupation.
The group also took to daubing walls in Munich, the birthplace of the Nazi party, with slogans such as "Down with Hitler" and "Freedom".
Schmorell, who had a Russian mother, had been baptised into the Orthodox Church and remained a committed Christian till he was sent to the guillotine in 1943 aged 25.
The Church also recognised that along with his rejection of Nazism, Schmorrel had little time for communism.
"For us he took a very important stance, rejecting both Bolshevism and National Socialism," said Archpriest Nikolai Artemoff, who had led the campaign to have Schmorrel canonised.
Alexa Busch, the new saint's niece, said: "His faith was surely one of the reasons he was so free and independent".
Schmorrel had become involved in the White Rose movement when he was a medical student in Munich. Disgusted at the immorality of Hitler's totalitarian state he wrote four pamphlets, calling for Germans to reject the "fascist criminals", which were then copied and distributed covertly by the small group of fellow students that comprised the group.
A stint as a combat medic on the Eastern Front exposed the idealistic student to the appalling treatment German forces meted out to Soviet civilians and POWs. On his return to Munich he and the White Roses printed a fifth pamphlet, telling people that the "day of reckoning" had arrived "for the most contemptible tyrant our people have ever endured".
The leaflets prompted the Gestapo to increase their efforts to capture the Whites Roses, and they were all arrested in 1943.
Schmorrel was found guilty of "political crimes" against the German state and executed |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 21-10-2012 12:55 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Pope names 7 new saints
http://rt.com/news/line/2012-10-21/#id39301
Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints to the roster of Catholic role models on Sunday. They are: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint; Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun; Pedro Calungsod, a Filipino teenager who helped Jesuit priests convert natives in Guam in the 17th century; Jacques Berthieu, a 19th-century French Jesuit; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, an Italian who founded a religious order in 1900; Carmen Salles Y Barangueras, a Spanish nun who founded a religious order to educate children in 1892; and Anna Schaeffer, a 19th-century German lay woman. The canonization coincided with a Vatican meeting of the world's bishops on trying to revive Christianity in places where it has fallen by the wayside. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 21-10-2012 14:07 Post subject: |
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Surprised they haven't canonised Sir Jimmy. They loved him - he embodied everything they approve of.  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 12-05-2013 14:43 Post subject: |
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800! Hes lost his head.
| Quote: | Pope canonises 800 Italian Ottoman victims of Otranto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22499327
Pope Francis has proclaimed more saints than any of his predecessors
Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican - a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480.
They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after refusing to convert to Islam.
Their names are unknown, apart from one man, Antonio Primaldo.
Within two months of taking office, Pope Francis has proclaimed more saints than any of his predecessors.
Continue reading the main story
Otranto 14 August 1480
The `'Martyrs of Otranto" were 813 Italians beheaded for defying demands by Turkish invaders to renounce Christianity
The Turks had been sent by Mohammed II, who had already captured the "second Rome" of Constantinople
His fleet landed in Otranto, Italy's easternmost city, and laid siege
Its citizens held out for two weeks, allowing the King of Naples to muster his forces and prevent the fall of Rome
Among those canonised on Sunday were two Latin American nuns - Laura Montoya from Colombia and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala from Mexico - who both died in the 20th Century.
Colombia's first saint, Mother Laura Montoya dedicated her life to helping indigenous people while the woman named by Pope Francis as Mother "Lupita" sheltered Catholics during a government crackdown against the faith in the 1920s.
The Italian "Martyrs of Otranto" were executed after 20,000 Turkish soldiers invaded their town in south-eastern Italy.
There was no hint of any anti-Islamic sentiment in the homily that Pope Francis delivered before tens of thousands of worshippers gathered in St Peter's Square, the BBC's David Willey in Rome reports.
Tapestries commemorating those being canonised were displayed at the Vatican
While it was Francis's predecessor, Pope Benedict, who gave the go ahead for their canonisations, the new pope is continuing the process of honouring a new generation of modern as well as historic martyrs, our correspondent says.
Later this month an Italian priest, Fr Giuseppe Puglisi, who was murdered by the Sicilian mafia 20 years ago will be beatified - the last step before being declared a saint |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 12-05-2013 19:29 Post subject: |
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| Where are the necessary miracles? |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 12-05-2013 19:38 Post subject: |
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| Kondoru wrote: | | Where are the necessary miracles? |
No longer necessary, it seems. Anybody can be a saint now. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-05-2013 20:17 Post subject: |
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| 800 saints for the price of one! Good value, that! |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 13-05-2013 13:55 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | | 800 saints for the price of one! Good value, that! |
But no room for Archbishop Romero or Dorothy Day. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 25-05-2013 13:09 Post subject: |
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Unusual for a good person to be beatified.
| Quote: | 'Mafia martyr' Don Giuseppe Puglisi beatified in Sicily
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22664822
Father Puglisi's was famous for a catch phrase: "And what if somebody did something"
More than 50,000 people have attended the beatification of Don Giuseppe Puglisi, a Roman Catholic priest murdered by the mafia in 1993.
The ceremony, in the Sicilian capital Palermo, marks the penultimate step on the path to being made a saint.
He was shot by a hitman in front of the church where he used to urge his congregation to disobey mafia bosses.
He will be the first victim of organised crime to be declared a martyr by the Catholic Church.
Six men are currently serving life sentences for the murder, which took place on his 56th birthday.
Forty bishops and a cardinal representing Pope Francis attended the ceremony, as well as government ministers from Rome.
Code of silence
Born in Palermo, Father Puglisi was the son of a shoemaker and seamstress, and was ordained at the age of 22.
He taught mathematics and religion in several schools, served as the chaplain in an institute for orphans, and went on to work in run-down areas of Palermo.
But he became a target as he grew increasingly outspoken in denouncing crime and alleging collusion between politicians and mafia figures.
Don Giuseppe Puglisi has been declared a martyr of the church, murdered "in hatred of the faith".
He was famous for a rhetorical question, which he used as a catch phrase in order to encourage Sicilians to stand up and fight organised crime: "And what if somebody did something?"
The BBC's David Willey in Rome says the Catholic Church has been accused in the past of an ambiguous relationship towards Cosa Nostra, the men who for decades have controlled organised crime on the Mediterranean island.
By beatifying Father Puglisi, the Church is making a strong stand against mafia crime - which has been protected by a code of silence - our correspondent says.
Earlier this month, Pope Francis proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican - a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480.
These meant that, within two months of taking office, he had proclaimed more saints than any previous Pope, although his predecessor Pope Benedict had given the go ahead for their canonisations. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-05-2013 18:20 Post subject: |
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| Im sorry but Im not going to be happy unless I get my miracles.... |
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