This should be a softball question. At least most people can think of a country!
Category: Saints
This country is known as "the birthplace of saints."
St. Alex says, please place your answer in the form of a question in the combox, and say a few Our Fathers while you wait for the answer to be revealed. Demerits for using Google. Educated guesses are welcome and encouraged.
10 comments:
What is France??????
What is italy?
Kathy and Mairin:
Arguably both could be considered a birthplace of saints, but they aren't the country I'm thinking of, at least according to the EPIC CDs I just listened to!
Well, Kathy should have been disqualified for using too many question marks.
Mairin, also disqualified, for using a Smiley.
Will I be disqualified by using too many words when I say: "What is the Czech Republic?"
http://chameleon-interiors.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
Been doing a lot of browsing, Swissie?
No, Ray, not the Czech Republic either. Go West young man!!
Why were you on a decor site anyway? Looking for design ideas?
I'll try southwest.
Italy would have been my first choice, virtually every town has a half dozen patron saints because in the olden days, they used to vote to confer sainthood.
France the "Eldest Daughter of the Church" would have been a good choice, as you say.
The Frankish countries (Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany don't seem to have a lot of saints that we know of. They probably didn't convert till the 900s or so.
So it must be: "What is Spain?" St. James the Greater made northwest Spain one of his early stops. And they probably had a bunch of martyrs under their Moorish rule.
Not Spain either! Go North.
Oh, my goodness, not: What is Ireland?
They haven't had a saint since Oliver Plunkett who died in 1681.
Been lots of priests and nuns since then, but none of them canonized.
http://www.namenerds.com/irish/saint.html
Ah me laddy, yes, what is Ireland.
I didn't say the answer made sense, just that that's what I heard on the EPIC CDs. Plus, having so much Irish ancestry may have biased me to this question :) I would agree that Italy and France are more logical answers, but who can argue with the Irish!
Well, I'm 50% Irish. I'm a bit embarrassed that I didn't get it right away.
But if you look at that link, 95% of those saints are probably from before the year 1200 when Pope Adrian IV (the only/last English Pope) gave Ireland to the English King. Talk about a conflict of interest!
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