I laughed to myself this morning when I discovered that today is the feast day of St. Polycarp of Smyrna.
What I found funny was the fact that being raised Roman Catholic and having had nine children, I was taught that it is a tradition in the Catholic church to name one's child after a saint. When is the last time you met anyone named Polycarp?
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Of course, I reminded myself, Unitarian Universalists have some forebearers with some hum dinger monikers too like Hosea Ballou. He was a second generation Universalist preacher. When is the last time you met anyone named Hosea?
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Nope. Never met a Polycarp. :)
ReplyDeleteHowever, I had a graduate seminar at Princeton taught by Professor Hosea Hirata, now at Tufts. I guess he was the only Hosea I've known.