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28966. alistairconnor - 12/9/2007 2:34:16 PM Pursuing my irregular series on obscure or apocryphal saints, I draw to your attention, Saint Pierre Louis Marie Chanel.
The other day at choir practice, a glossy brochure was thrust upon me, recounting the mission and martyr of this local son of the Lyon region, sent to bring to Christ the antipodean and anthropophagic Polynesians of Futuna.
He came to a sticky end, having transgressed some local taboo and threatened the established order. The sources claim that he was "hastily buried", but I prefer to imagine, and it is not implausible, that he was eaten by his executioners. In any case, his brother missionaries, when they dared to return a couple of years later, found little in the way of relics.
Accompanying the brochure was a leaflet, calling for chorist volunteers to prepare a spectacle : a play, and an oratorio cantate, to celebrate the anniversary of the missionary's death, the 27th of April (a public holiday in the French territory of Wallis and Futuna, celebrated
 by the repentant locals).
He was a priest of the Marist order, the Society of Mary. I had always assumed that they were a major and well-known outfit (there are several Marist high schools in my home town of Auckland, and several more in my adopted city of Lyon), but in fact they were founded in Lyon, and given their license by the Pope on the explicit condition that they should evangelise the South Pacific, which apparently nobody else had volunteered for.
Though apparently they also have a presence in Looziana? 28967. alistairconnor - 12/9/2007 2:38:22 PM Oops, here's the celebration of St. P-L-M-C. 28968. concerned - 12/11/2007 7:42:46 PM Reports: Colorado gunman posted anti-Christian writings
How come you people don't get worked up over Muslims like that? They're the ones cutting off your heads and practicing 'ethnic cleansing'. 28969. jexster - 12/11/2007 8:58:08 PM THat's what I was about to SAY! Why isn't Honkers wonking over at the Gun Control thread??? 28970. jexster - 12/11/2007 8:58:36 PM 
28971. jexster - 12/11/2007 9:00:33 PM Society of Mary is ALL over the US.
Actually, the Marist religious are OK, the one's I know. 28972. jexster - 12/11/2007 9:04:36 PM Weak for choir boys
28973. wonkers2 - 12/11/2007 9:46:02 PM Do they still castrate them to prevent their voices from changing? 28974. concerned - 12/11/2007 9:48:58 PM That went out when you were a young'un, wonkers, sometime in the fourteenth century or roundabout. 28975. jexster - 12/11/2007 10:32:22 PM Good Anglican churchmanship, pretty Anglican boyz. Honkers claims an Episcopalian upbringing but have you ever SEEN him?
Judaizer...no doubt about it 28976. jexster - 12/12/2007 3:54:08 AM That wouldn't happen to be a choir of men and boyz would it AC?
Any dirty pics???
28977. wonkers2 - 12/12/2007 5:00:30 PM Cap'n Dirty sez, "How about an all girl choir?" 28978. jexster - 12/15/2007 8:56:35 PM Fr. Matthew Presents The Sacraments - Pt. 1
Holy Baptism
28979. David Ehrenstein - 12/16/2007 6:04:44 PM Latest FaBlog: Queer Eye For the Pope Guy 28980. jexster - 12/23/2007 8:55:18 PM 28981. jexster - 12/24/2007 11:49:08 PM On the first and third Saturday evenings of every month, as Vigil Mass, my parish celebrates the Mass in Latin according to the usage of the Episcopal Church
Here's the first part of a bunch
28982. jexster - 12/24/2007 11:53:11 PM For those who don't speak Latin...Father Rod preaches in English
28983. ElliottRW - 1/2/2008 1:25:36 AM Happy New Year, folks.
Also, please check out What is Good and Why by Richard Kraut. 28984. David Ehrenstein - 1/26/2008 5:00:40 PM 
28985. judithathome - 1/26/2008 5:24:21 PM Oh David, that is priceless...does it glow in the dark? I wish my friend Michael were still around; he collected tacky religious "art" and I'd love to show him that one.
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