Posted on 12/03/2013 8:22:06 AM PST by Salvation
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PANEGYRIC
An elaborate public praise given of some person or event, a formal eulogy. The most famous Christian panegyrics were those of the Fathers of the Church, e.g., St. John Chrysostom preaching on Sts. Lucian and Romanus in A.D. 387. (Etym. Greek pan_gyrikos, for a public festival.)
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
I’d have thought it was somehow related to “Pangea”.....the earth’s primal continental land mass.
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