Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/06/05 09:04 AM
Happy bearthday, Father Steve. ;)
I like the dragon-as-ratcatcher stories about Magnus too.
I like the dragon-as-ratcatcher stories about Magnus too.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/06/05 09:11 AM
Are you sure the first word of the subject isn't supposed to be feets?
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/06/05 09:48 AM
What Mav said, Father Steve. When you reach a certain age you are expected to start counting backwards you know. I hope it's all you could wish for.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/06/05 09:49 AM
ok. I'm confused.
guess I'd better google St. Magnus...
guess I'd better google St. Magnus...
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/06/05 12:56 PM
Birthday greetings to you, Father Steve, even though I haven't a clue what Mav's on about! (isn't the first time...)
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/06/05 01:17 PM
hehheh
ycliu (whatdja get at the bottom of the page, eta?) - but it's not a birthday anniversary...
:)
ycliu (whatdja get at the bottom of the page, eta?) - but it's not a birthday anniversary...
:)
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/06/05 01:26 PM
Maybe a festivity for people with big feet?
No, no... not just men with big feet!... What y'all thinking of anyway, huh?
No, no... not just men with big feet!... What y'all thinking of anyway, huh?
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/07/05 05:33 AM
Even having looked up St. Magnus, I still have no idea what Maverick is talking about.
Bingley
Bingley
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/07/05 09:02 AM
> (whatdja get at the bottom of the page, eta?)
© 2005 google
© 2005 google
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/07/05 11:09 AM
d'oh!
> © 2005 google
lol!
It seems appropriate that a sharply prescriptivist regard to diacritics yields such differences of search results.
Try googlin "Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen"...
> © 2005 google
lol!
It seems appropriate that a sharply prescriptivist regard to diacritics yields such differences of search results.
Try googlin "Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen"...
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/07/05 11:50 AM
[sigh] Happy Wordanniversary, Fr Steve [/sigh]
Mav, you're too clever for your own good!
Mav, you're too clever for your own good!
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/07/05 12:42 PM
yeeps! My claim to fame in life is a single entry in Google. Mayhaps this will be listed on my tombstone, or at least in my newspaper obituary.
Perhaps this would be more fitting that the epitaph of Spike Milligan -- late of "The Goon Show" -- whose tombstone is reputed to read "I told you I was ill."
Perhaps this would be more fitting that the epitaph of Spike Milligan -- late of "The Goon Show" -- whose tombstone is reputed to read "I told you I was ill."
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/07/05 12:53 PM
heh.
bingo! found it.
(I got my google prefs to show 30...)
bingo! found it.
(I got my google prefs to show 30...)
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/10/05 12:28 AM
Sorry for missing your birthday Father Steve. I hope it was a good one. Many happy wishes.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/10/05 12:52 AM
Bel, dearest, it WASN'T my birthday!
FS
FS
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/10/05 03:28 PM
Right enough. That would be towards the end of March. Funny, seems to me something like this has happened before but I don't feel like LIU.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/10/05 05:48 PM
Querida ~
You are correct. My birthday birthday is also the Feast of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, which is, perhaps, why I am so bright ... 'tho it fails to explain my great humility.
Father Steve
You are correct. My birthday birthday is also the Feast of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, which is, perhaps, why I am so bright ... 'tho it fails to explain my great humility.
Father Steve
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/11/05 12:54 PM
Some of the most interesting things in life have no explanation, Father Steve, nor do they require one.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/12/05 12:15 AM
Really 
Well, that'll teach me to skim to the end of the thread. Ooops, I added your birthday in there with an automatic repeat every year - I better go in there and change it or I'll be wishing you a happy birthday on the wrong day every year.
Well, that'll teach me to skim to the end of the thread. Ooops, I added your birthday in there with an automatic repeat every year - I better go in there and change it or I'll be wishing you a happy birthday on the wrong day every year.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/12/05 12:32 AM
...or I'll be wishing you a happy birthday on the wrong day every year.
For the record, I have no objection to being wished a happy birthday more than once a year, especially if there are presents or perhaps a special supper. That is, so long as I don't have to add a year to my body odometer every time someone does so.
For the record, I have no objection to being wished a happy birthday more than once a year, especially if there are presents or perhaps a special supper. That is, so long as I don't have to add a year to my body odometer every time someone does so.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/12/05 01:37 PM
Well, I can't promise you a gift or supper, but I did hoist a glass of wine in your honour. Not sure how that makes you feel, but I was quite happy about it *hiccup* 
NEEDED: someone with more imagination than I have - 09/13/05 12:50 AM
Won't someone finish the limerick already? I see the first line -
"The Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen... "
It just hangs like an unresolved chord...
and there's so much to work with
like Kissen and Küssen
and No, no, you mussen
I think I go bed now.
"The Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen... "
It just hangs like an unresolved chord...
and there's so much to work with
like Kissen and Küssen
and No, no, you mussen
I think I go bed now.
Re: Et tu, Wofe? - 09/13/05 11:18 AM
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning, Doc.
I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/13/05 01:24 PM
The Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen
Was a time for huggin and küssen.
Some frauleins would show off their küttens
That the boys could touch just with their müttens.
If the frauleins only knew what they're müssen.
Was a time for huggin and küssen.
Some frauleins would show off their küttens
That the boys could touch just with their müttens.
If the frauleins only knew what they're müssen.
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/13/05 01:32 PM
Oooo, you are so in trouble with the gutter police. [running to hide-e]
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/13/05 02:42 PM
I hope it doesn't (re-)start a trend, either, TEd.
Meanwhile, I can appreciate the effort you put into your umlauts, but your scansion sucks.
Meanwhile, I can appreciate the effort you put into your umlauts, but your scansion sucks.
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/13/05 03:57 PM
in trouble with the gutter police Well, since I neither read nor speak German, I wasn't bothered in the least!
Well, since I neither read nor speak German, I wasn't bothered in the least!
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/13/05 05:45 PM
Just shows to go you, Betsy, that I poesy no threat to the limerick-creators here.
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/13/05 05:54 PM
Well, since I neither read nor speak German, I wasn't bothered in the least
FYI - Küssen (mit umlaut) means "kiss" and Kissen means pillow, a near-resemblance exploited in some amusing American-tourist-thought-he-knew-the-language misunderstandings...
FYI - Küssen (mit umlaut) means "kiss" and Kissen means pillow, a near-resemblance exploited in some amusing American-tourist-thought-he-knew-the-language misunderstandings...
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/13/05 06:29 PM
Just shows to go you, Betsy, that I poesy no threat to the limerick-creators here.
Indeed. Best left to the prose.
Indeed. Best left to the prose.
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/16/05 02:11 PM
Feast of Saint Gregory the Illuminator? This apparently is the patron saint of Armenia, which claims to be the first Christian state as a result of his conversion of the improbably named King Trdat.
You seem to have chosen wisely, but exactly how many multiple birthdays would you like to celebrate Father Steve?!
The Armenians (Monophysites and Uniates) keep the feast of their apostle on 30 September, when his relics were deposed at Thortan. They have many other feasts to commemorate his birth (August 5) , sufferings (February 4) , going into the pit (February 28) , coming out of the pit (October 19) , etc… The Byzantine Church keeps his feast (Gregorios ho phoster) on 30 September, as do also the Syrians (Nilles, I, 290-292). Pope Gregory XVI, in September, 1837, admitted his namesake to the Reman Calendar; and appointed 1 October as his feast (among the festa pro aliquibus locis).
[e.a.]
That’s a lot of birthday cake... :)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07023a.htm
You seem to have chosen wisely, but exactly how many multiple birthdays would you like to celebrate Father Steve?!
The Armenians (Monophysites and Uniates) keep the feast of their apostle on 30 September, when his relics were deposed at Thortan. They have many other feasts to commemorate his birth (August 5) , sufferings (February 4) , going into the pit (February 28) , coming out of the pit (October 19) , etc… The Byzantine Church keeps his feast (Gregorios ho phoster) on 30 September, as do also the Syrians (Nilles, I, 290-292). Pope Gregory XVI, in September, 1837, admitted his namesake to the Reman Calendar; and appointed 1 October as his feast (among the festa pro aliquibus locis).
[e.a.]
That’s a lot of birthday cake... :)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07023a.htm
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/16/05 02:31 PM
> I hope it doesn't (re-)start a trend
fightin' words, those are!
Gregory does birthday cake
The Feast of old Greg the Apostle
Is a party most grand for a fossil;
Once starved in a pit
Of Armenian shit,
His love of cream cake’s now colossal!
fightin' words, those are!
Gregory does birthday cake
The Feast of old Greg the Apostle
Is a party most grand for a fossil;
Once starved in a pit
Of Armenian shit,
His love of cream cake’s now colossal!
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/16/05 03:33 PM
Spunky, is he?
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/16/05 05:56 PM
The legend of Greg Luminatus,
Whether real or perhaps adumbratus,
Is rehearsed every year
Both in Europe and here
And look where his festival got us.
Whether real or perhaps adumbratus,
Is rehearsed every year
Both in Europe and here
And look where his festival got us.
Re: I hope this doesn't start a trend! - 09/16/05 06:07 PM
Bravo, Fr. Steve!
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/17/05 12:46 AM
All right, I have to ask, if the 'Byzantines' (presumably Greek Orthodox) and Syrians (edit: not to mention the Aremenians whose saint he is) celebrate the saint on 30 September, why did Gregory XVI choose 1 October when he recognised him on behalf of the Roman Catholic church?
Was it just to be different, or is there some subtle calendrical point about the difference between the Julian calendar and what the Gregorian calendar would have said if it had been around in the saint's lifetime?
Bingley
Was it just to be different, or is there some subtle calendrical point about the difference between the Julian calendar and what the Gregorian calendar would have said if it had been around in the saint's lifetime?
Bingley
Re: Feast of Saint Magnus of Füssen - 09/17/05 12:19 PM
the difference between the Julian calendar and what the Gregorian calendar
The difference between the Gregorian and Julian calendars added about 3 days every 400 years. The difference was about 11 days during Greg 16's papacy and St. Bigfoot was about 1000 years earlier, so, if my rough mental adding machine isn't slipping too many gears it was about 4 days different during St. Biggie's era.
The difference between the Gregorian and Julian calendars added about 3 days every 400 years. The difference was about 11 days during Greg 16's papacy and St. Bigfoot was about 1000 years earlier, so, if my rough mental adding machine isn't slipping too many gears it was about 4 days different during St. Biggie's era.