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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Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582). Teresa was born in Avila and died in Alba, Spain. When only a child of seven, she ran away from home in the hope of being martyred by the Moors; in this way, she said she could come to see God. At the age of eighteen she joined the…

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