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St. Barbara and Her Alleged Relics

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Saint Barbara (15th Century), Milwaukee Museum of Art, (Photo: Ron Huggins) The following 28 saints and groups of saints (with the exception of Saint Cecilia) were removed from the Roman Catholic Church calendar during the 1969 reforms of Pope Paul VI. The issue was that while they could not prove these saints didn't exist, the evidence that they did was lacking. St. Barbara is the last name on the list: Saints who present serious historical difficulties: Greater difficulties are exhibited by: (1) Saint Paul the Hermit (January 15), Saint Maurus (January 15), Saint Martina (January 30), Saint Domitilla (May 12), Saint Boniface of Tarsus (May 14), Saint Venantius (May 18), Saint Pudentiana (May 19), Saints Modestus and Crescentia (June 15), Saints John and Paul (June 26), Saint Alexius (July 17), Saints Symphorosa and her sons (July 18), Saint Margaret (July 20), Saint Christopher (July 25), Saint Susanna (August 11), Saint Hippolytus (August 22), the Holy Twelve Brothers (September...
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A Place for Donation of Constantine Stuff

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Students of Raphael (Gianfrancesco Penni? Giulio Romano?), "Donation of Constantine" Vatican, Apostolic Palace (1520-1524) (Photo: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0) The Donation of Constantine Forgery in English and Latin with the parts quoted in Leo IX's letter to Patriarch Michael Cerularius in bold in both.  The forgery was famously debunked by Lorenzo Valla which is available in Christopher B. Coleman’s The Treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine: Text and Translation into English (New Haven: Yale University Press / London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922). Medieval Sourcebook: The Donation of Constantine (c.750—800)   Introduction provided by Medieval Sourcebook: This is perhaps the most famous forgery in history. For centuries, until Lorenzo Valla proved it was forgery during the Renaissance it provided the basis for papal territorial and jurisdictional claims in Italy. Probably at least a first draft of it was made shortly after t...
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Princeton Index of Christian Art

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Temeritas (Rashness): Two Flaws In Thinking That Mess Up Our View Of Ethics, History, Politics, & Everything Else.

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  One of the most helpful categories for understanding how we go wrong in our thinking is Augustine's idea of   temeritas   (rashness), which he defines as the TENDENCY TO ASSERT AS CERTAIN WHAT IS UNCERTAIN and WHAT IS UNCERTAIN AS CERTAIN. To "assert the certain as uncertain" is to refuse, or be unable to, be appropriately moved by evidence. To assert the "uncertain as certain" is to achieve certainty ahead of the evidence, i.e., prematurely. Often those who have very bad case of the first (asserting the certain as uncertain), tend to accuse others of being guilty of the second (asserting the uncertain as certain), and vice-versa.   Termeritas   is the sin which apologists of all sorts tend to be prone. Vaclav Havel is often quoted as saying, "Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.” I have no idea if Havel actually said this or where, but he is often quoted as saying it. Whatever the case, my experience would tend t...
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Between the Covers Timeline

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Marsden Cover Story - New York Magazine   Artforum Archive Swami Satchidananda's Woodstock Address | Sri Swami Satchidananda Dismantling the Myth of “Mother Ayahuasca” - PS2023: The Virtual Trip   PhD_Thesis_Emily_Sinclair_Dismantling_the_Myth_of_Mother_Ayahuasca.pdf Effects of Psilocybin on Religious and Spiritual Attitudes and Behaviors in Clergy from Various Major World Religions | Psychedelic Medicine Facebook   Ken Kesey's Psychedelic Graduation https://allenginsberg.org/2023/09/m-s-11-2/  Orville Griffiths’s favorites | Flickr   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-29-lady-diana-mukpo/id1515059329?i=1000607455284 Jesus Sound Explosion ‘72 LP [Full Album] (youtube.com) John Fischer Discusses The Jesus Movement With Nancy Honeytree (youtube.com) https://blogs.sfzc.org/  Sangha  New Journal   Top Psychedelic Books (psychedelics.com) Inside Ashland's TwinRay Cult (gurumag.com) Millbrook to Hollywood Documentary about Turn On, Tune In, ...
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