“The invention of ‘patron saints’ made Christianity more appealing to the Greek and Roman pagan mind...”
See post 71
I’m not trying to inflame any denominational passions here, I’m simply noting that the whole ‘patron saint’ thing was a post First Century idea. We can go down the whole list of paganisms if you’d like; Christmas being moved on the calendar so it displaced the winter solstice bacchanalia, Christmas trees, numbering passages in the Bible (A Roman thing), and etc. All of those things have been adapted into Christian tradition and not all of them are bad and it’s not a slam on anyone to cite history.