To: Campion; Augustinian monk
You could actually make a good case that Ireland and St. Patrick used to be Orthodox. They celebrated Easter according the the Orthodox calendar, not the Latin, for a while (see the Venerable Bede).
14 posted on
03/05/2007 12:35:03 PM PST by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Kolokotronis
Meant to ping you to that last one.
15 posted on
03/05/2007 12:36:25 PM PST by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: redgolum
You could actually make a good case that Ireland and St. Patrick used to be Orthodox. [rather than Catholic] In St. Patrick's day, there was no such distinction.
18 posted on
03/05/2007 12:41:48 PM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: redgolum
You could actually make a good case that Ireland and St. Patrick used to be Orthodox. We're talking about events 600 or so years before the official East-West schism, so the "Roman Catholic" vs. "Greek Orthodox" denominational distinction doesn't really exist yet. "Catholic" and "Orthodox" are the proverbial "distinctions without a difference" in AD 460.
43 posted on
03/05/2007 1:33:37 PM PST by
Campion
("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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