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Sklba & The Great Spirit

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Dec 13, 2006

What were those 17th century French Jesuits doing among the Indians of the northern Great Lakes? Teaching them to celebrate the solstice, of course!

It worked.

Tip to Terrence Berres.

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Tue21 October
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Tuesday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates: —St. Ursula, virgin and martyr and companions (d. 238). In medieval times her legend developed into many versions; but all that may be said with certainty of these martyrs is that they suffered martyrdom at or near Cologne, and were sufficiently well…

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