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To: DungeonMaster
>>So instead of praying to the god of travel you pray to the patron saint of travel?<<

That's the way it worked! The pagans had gods for this and gods for that and with Catholics it's saints for this and saints for that. A god over a city became a saint over a city.

16 posted on 05/28/2015 10:00:58 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear
That's the way it worked! The pagans had gods for this and gods for that and with Catholics it's saints for this and saints for that. A god over a city became a saint over a city.

And when you ask for some kind of scriptural support for such beliefs you get...

22 posted on 05/28/2015 10:29:10 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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