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.
What is France??????
ReplyDeleteWhat is italy?
ReplyDeleteKathy and Mairin:
ReplyDeleteArguably 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.
ReplyDeleteMairin, 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!!
ReplyDeleteWhy were you on a decor site anyway? Looking for design ideas?
I'll try southwest.
ReplyDeleteItaly 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.
ReplyDeleteOh, my goodness, not: What is Ireland?
ReplyDeleteThey 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteBut 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!