To: Kolokotronis
You are aware I am sure that the parastate of Turkey is demanding the relics back...and since St. Nicholas is a “Turkish” saint according to some bozo writer at CNS — I somehow expect this to happen.
25 posted on
12/06/2009 2:32:02 PM PST by
eleni121
(For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
To: eleni121
“You are aware I am sure that the parastate of Turkey is demanding the relics back...and since St. Nicholas is a “Turkish” saint according to some bozo writer at CNS — I somehow expect this to happen.”
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Likely the Turkish dogs would put them on display in that big museum they have in the Polis. Now what was its name...?
There are only two proper possible places for those relics; the Phanar or Moscow.
29 posted on
12/06/2009 2:54:26 PM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: eleni121
he's a Turkish saint in the sense that he lived and died in what is now Turkey. Just as Russia was really Muscovy until the 1500s and south and western Italy was for long a part of the Byzantine Empire after the rest of Italy and Western Europe fell. The current lands on which a nation lies can state with pride that a great man or woman lived on those lands.
That doesn't give them the rights to the person, though.
40 posted on
12/07/2009 5:33:04 AM PST by
Cronos
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