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To: Penfold
A local teacher, he remembered, became an ardent follower of the new movement, and tried to institute a pagan May pole ritual as more fitting of Germanic ways than the traditional, conservative Catholicism.

What is this about the May pole??...It's been in German tradition way before Nazi Germany...I don't understand this sentence...

18 posted on 04/19/2005 12:52:01 PM PDT by Getsmart64 (..)
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To: Getsmart64

In traditional Roman Catholicism, May is the month dedicated to Mary, the Mother of Jesus. The old maypole folk celebrations were replaced with May processions of the statue of the Virgin Mary. Many of the maypole traditions were incorporated such as "girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes" (Sound of Music)wearing garlands of mayflowers and carrying bouquets of wildflowers.

You would be hard-pressed to find a May procession in today's modernist church. I haven't seen one in my Diocese in about ten years.

Anyway, when the Nazis took over, they tried to suppress all traditional religious customs and supplant them with things that were more "Germanic", or to the Fuhrer's liking.


49 posted on 04/19/2005 1:38:16 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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