BS: Happy St. Bernard's Day

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Bernard's Day
From: mack/misophist
Date: 29 May 03 - 10:26 AM

Time for a rounded approach. In the Albigensian Crusade, Abbot Bernard, forbidden by cannon law to kill with a sword, gleefully took up a mace to help kill the people of Albi. Their biggest crime was thaqt they were essentially better Christians than he was. They were also Manichaean heretics, but what caused the trouble was gaining converts from the mainstream church.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Bernard's Day
From: Dead Horse
Date: 28 May 03 - 05:28 PM

So thats what a "dog day" is, I've always wondered.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Bernard's Day
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 03 - 10:55 AM

That's appropriate, I repotted my St Bernard's lily last weekend.

Most people know it as the humble spider plant.

LTS

Subject: BS: Happy St. Bernard's Day
From: Abby Sale
Date: 28 May 03 - 10:47 AM

5/28: The patron of skiers, St Bernard of Menthon or of Montjoux or of Aosta: Feast Day (died c.5/28/1008; born c.923)

St. Bernard dogs bear his name. In the 11th century he founded a hospice that has sheltered thousands caught in Alpine snows.

George Pickow (photographer extraordinary & especially of Folk Stars) did a wonderful 1957 National Geographic shoot & article about the St. Bernard dogs of the Alps.

Having heard from a priest the story one classic dog rescue:
"Are you sure this really happened?" I persisted.

"The story has been told too often by too many good men to be false," my friend replied. "Details of rescues were rarely written down here, so we have no complete record of the dogs' work. But we all believe that these things are true."

Great! "The story has been told too often by too many good men to be false." I don't think it's ever been better expressed.

To me, thet's the very definition of "Truth."

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