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To: wideawake
Seems as if they got the simple facts about the Saint wrong as well.
St. Josaphat was born in Lithuania about 1580 into a Catholic family and early promoted Catholic unity in a country divided between Orthodox and Catholic. He entered the Byzantine monastery of Holy Trinity in Vilna in 1604 and was elected Catholic archbishop of Polotsk in 1614. While clinging firmly to unity with Rome, he firmly opposed those Latins who saw unity only in Latin terms and would suppress Byzantine traditions in the name of Catholic unity. He firmly opposed the Latinization of his people and made enemies and severe critics among the Latin clergy of Poland.

Politically, the Catholic and Orthodox clergy were rivals in Lithuania, and the archbishopric of Polotsk was one of the contested sees. An Orthodox archbishop of Polotsk was appointed, and Josaphat was accused of taking office invalidly. Many of his Byzantine Catholics were won over to allegiance to Orthodoxy. Even the king of Poland wavered in his support of Josaphat, especially when Polish bishops accused him of betraying his faith by not Latinizing his diocese.


9 posted on 06/24/2005 9:43:10 AM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: FormerLib

Pause to note that there can be more than one Saint by that name.


11 posted on 06/24/2005 9:44:04 AM PDT by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: FormerLib
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So maybe it ended in Greece. An improved version is being formed here. We can hone this one to perfection.:-) I like that.

14 posted on 06/24/2005 9:45:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: FormerLib

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.


23 posted on 06/24/2005 10:20:34 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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