Posted on 06/24/2005 9:33:39 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
Augustines lover left him, and went back to her people (no one knows why) and his son went onto get an education - showing much promise - and died at the age of 16.
He didn't walk off and abandon them.
They would argue that the Lithuanian St. Josaphat was named after the St. Josaphat the article discusses - there were churches named for St. Josaphat for centuries before the Lithuanian.
"It is to bad they did not include that fact that Buddha abandon his wife and children to find his personal enlightenment"
Child, not children. He had only one son, Rahul.
Absolutely false. His lover left him, for reasons unspecified, but he raised their son in his monastery after she left and they even wrote a book together.
His son died tragically at the age of 16 - historians suspect a pox variant that took the lives of other monks as well.
No need to spread lies about St. Augustine.
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I think Joseph was the Buddha, and he was abducted by ancient astronauts, which is how the Eiffel tower got built.
The Mar Thoma Christians (as their name implies) use Imperial Aramaic (Syriac or Assyrian) in their liturgy, and of course there is the Scriptural king of Judah, Jehoshaphat, whose name in Aramaic is Ye'osaphat.
I believe they were known as the Desert Fathers. There were some Desert Mothers, too.
Many were vegetarian, meditated/prayed on beads, or ropes with knots tied in them, using the name of Jesus Christ.
Lived very austere lives of renunciates.
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