Today in the anti-infidel edition of Weekend Obscure Saint Blogging, we’ve got a crusading saint. The Crusades are one of those things I’m always meaning to learn more about–partly, because when I heard about them for the first time (as a kid, from the Disney version of Robin Hood) I thought they sounded great. Then [...]
Archive for August, 2008
St. Adjutor
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged French saints, infidels, the crusades on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adaptation
Posted in Movies, Music, tagged adaptations, Movies, Music, songs, songs based on movies on August 12, 2008 | No Comments »
First, some ground rules. We’re not talking about songs which make reference to movies. Breakfast at Tiffany’s song from the mid-90s – there’s no place for you here. Same goes for jokes. Maybe you could argue that Jonathan Coulton’s Re: Your Brains takes place in the world of a Romero movie, but it’s not about [...]
St. Rita of Cascia
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged Augustinians, Italian saints, nuns, stigmata on August 10, 2008 | No Comments »
St. Rita–possibly short for Margherita, better known as a delicious type of pizza–was born to somewhat elderly parents in Cascia, Italy, near Umbria. Antonio and Amata Lotti, her parents, were quite devout and known as “peacemakers of Jesus,” and that’s why they managed to have a kid at an advanced age. There’s a tale about [...]
In which nuance is lost
Posted in Religion, tagged gospel, Jesus, Jews, Matthew, prophecy, translation bloopers on August 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hate to do a nothing post which is really only a link to someone else’s blog post, but Sam’s guest post at Feministe on mistranslation and the virgin birth (of Jesus) is a good read on something I’d been meaning to mention here.
For more mistranslation fun, check out Zechariah 9:9. That last couplet is [...]
St. Alexis of Rome
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged ascetic saints, douchebags in the name of God, Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Roman saints on August 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a fun author factoid: my parents almost named me Alexis, but for the character of the same name in Dynasty, which was super popular around the time I was born. (Video hint: it gets great around 1:50. Alexis Carrington Colby, in case you are my age or younger, is in the white pantsuit-thing.)
I got [...]
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