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To: AlbionGirl

Never forget that anger is also one of the seven Capital Sins. Any anger should be considered cause for a serious examination of conscience. IMO. It may turn out to be a righteous anger, but we must beware of deceiving ourselves.


13 posted on 03/04/2005 11:53:34 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard; Kolokotronis
Anger without just cause or even with just cause which is held fast to beyond what's necessary is pure poison.

St. Jerome is the Patron Saint against Anger, and here's a little a something I found concerning that.

Jerome is the Patron Saint Against Anger Saint Jerome had a hot temper and was difficult to get along with. He was tactless, outspoken, satirical, and vindictive. As examples, Saint Jerome was in conflict with the bishop of Jerusalem, and was forced to leave Rome after his protector, Pope Damasus I, died, because Saint Jerome had made so many enemies by his thoughtless words.

Saint Jerome was born to a wealthy Christian family who sent him to Rome to be educated. While in Rome, Saint Jerome became a priest, and Pope Damasus I asked Saint Jerome to translate the bible from Hebrew into Latin which has come to be known as the Vulgate bible which we still use today.

After Saint Jerome left Rome, he went to Palestine and lived his last 34 years in Bethlehem until his death in the year 420.

Saint Jerome removed a thorn from a lion's foot, and the lion became Saint Jerome's pet.

Saint Jerome's feast day is September 30.

Kolo, is St. Jerome St. Gerasimos? Reason I ask is the same Lion story attached to both.

17 posted on 03/04/2005 12:24:27 PM PST by AlbionGirl
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