"St. Barbara's day" raises money at ANA museum

[stonej]

http://www.gazette.com/articles/foundation_45402___article.html/barbaras_award.html

[ank...@aol.com]

On Dec 29, 9:52�am, stonej <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote:
> http://www.gazette.com/articles/foundation_45402___article.html/barba...

How apropos. Barbara is the patron saint of miners.

~Anka

[mazorj]

<ank...@aol.com> wrote in message
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On Dec 29, 9:52?am, stonej <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote:
> http://www.gazette.com/articles/foundation_45402___article.html/barba...

> How apropos. Barbara is the patron saint of miners.

Barabbas is the patron saint of a few coin sellers. Except for some
ancients dealers, who worship at the altar of Janus.

(Sorry, couldn't resist that one.)

[Mike Marotta]

Correcting you on matters of faith and morals is always evidence of
false pride, but according to the Catholic Encyclopedia at New Advent,
there is a bit more to it than that.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284d.htm

Because of the tower, she is often one of the patron saints of civil
engineers, though, of course, that is not attestable, there being no
such thing as a _civil_ engineer.

Mike M.
Michael E. Marotta
"wants to be buried in the Vatican archives."

[som...@some.domain]

In article <dbff5d48-1897-49ab...@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com>, ank...@aol.com wrote:

where's santa battaglia?

[ank...@aol.com]

On Dec 29, 6:34�pm, Mike Marotta <merc...@torchlake.com> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 6:11�pm, ank...@aol.com wrote:
>
> > On Dec 29, 9:52 am, stonej <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote:
> > How apropos. �Barbara is the patron saint of miners.
> > ~Anka
>
> Correcting you on matters of faith and morals is always evidence of
> false pride, but according to the Catholic Encyclopedia at New Advent,

> there is a bit more to it than that.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02284d.htm

>
> Because of the tower, she is often one of the patron saints of civil
> engineers, though, of course, that is not attestable, there being no
> such thing as a _civil_ engineer.
>
> Mike M.
> Michael E. Marotta
> "wants to be buried in the Vatican archives."

When we visited Idrija's now defunct mercury mine, Mercury, we were
shown a niche with a statue of Saint Barbara where the miners used to
pause and say a little prayer before going down the shaft. So you
see, I drew from personal experience, not from newadvent.org.

Buried in the Vatican archives. Har har. ;-)

~Anka

[ank...@aol.com]

On Dec 29, 8:22�pm, some...@some.domain wrote:

I don't get it.

[som...@some.domain]

In article <7481fe45-1a5b-4649...@v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, ank...@aol.com wrote:
>On Dec 29, 8:22=EF=BF=BDpm, some...@some.domain wrote:
>> In article <dbff5d48-1897-49ab-8867-bcd965970...@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.=
>com>, ank...@aol.com wrote:
>> >On Dec 29, 9:52=3DEF=3DBF=3DBDam, stonej <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote=
>:
>> >>http://www.gazette.com/articles/foundation_45402___article.html/barba..=
>..
>>
>> >How apropos. =EF=BF=BDBarbara is the patron saint of miners.

>>
>> >~Anka
>>
>> where's santa battaglia?
>
>I don't get it.

ah. confederacy of dunces. you really want to read it.
at least google it.

[Aladdin Sane]

"Mike Marotta" <mer...@torchlake.com> wrote in message

Because of the tower, she is often one of the patron saints of civil
engineers, though, of course, that is not attestable, there being no
such thing as a _civil_ engineer.

Hey, your bucking for a bust in the chops

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