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To: Dayuhan who wrote (32060)	3/5/1999 7:16:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Those who do get guilt-struck tend to take it to extremes, though: every easter there are people here who have themselves crucified out of atonement, or sympathy, or something. Oh, God!! (sorry) This is going on still? Somehow, I had thought that this variety of over-the-edge behavior had ended. Feeling sick now. As for the SI addiction, I know it all too well!

To: Dayuhan who wrote (32060)	3/5/1999 10:00:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Sounds like home to me. In New Orleans, a lot of Catholics have statues of saints in their houses, on altars, and they pray to them for favors, and leave offerings in front of the altars. One popular saint is Saint Anthony, patron saint of lost causes. That's been popularized and he is the saint you pray to if you lose something, like your keys or one glove. If Saint Anthony doesn't answer your prayers, you are supposed to turn his face to the wall until he does. Another couple of popular Saints are St. Expedite and St. Fragile. Don't bother looking them up in a hagiography, you won't find them there. "Expedite" is French for "rush," and comes from the directions painted on the wooden cases that plaster saint statues were transported in from France. This is also the derivation of "Fragile." There are various attempts to explain how Catholics in New Orleans developed the cults of St. Expedite and St. Fragile, none of them completely satisfactory (a joke on an illiterate person by a literate scoundrel is the one I like best) - nevertheless, it is absolutely true. I have seen them with my own eyes, in a church just outside the French Quarter.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (32060)	3/7/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<<This is an ardently Catholic country, but the Catholicism is totally different, and would in many ways be unrecognizable to American Catholics. At first glance it seems to have adopted an overlay of folk religion, examined more deeply, it sometimes seems that the native religion simply adopted an overlay of Catholic ritual.>> Isn't is the same everywhere, really, when a new religion becomes dominant? I read somewhere that Catholicism is just a veneer over Ireland, and once scratched the pagan Celtic roots are very strong, for example.