tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5464180585819540715.post5470473685995279561..comments2023-10-31T08:09:30.343-07:00Comments on The Token Catholic.: "And they stood up....J.Samuel Ross.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11981863011563791787noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5464180585819540715.post-40806233849773199362010-08-12T03:39:00.812-07:002010-08-12T03:39:00.812-07:00Sometimes, the more fanciful accounts or sacred le...Sometimes, the more fanciful accounts or sacred legends illuminate truths in a ways that are both instructive and humorous, often unlike the canonical traditions of the Churches of both East & West.Caedmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11741697855994057436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5464180585819540715.post-7819571288732280082010-08-11T19:58:14.590-07:002010-08-11T19:58:14.590-07:00I do know that tradition, but I don't know if ...I do know that tradition, but I don't know if he's on a kalendar.I could check the martyrology and see. (Lots of obscure and semi-obscure saints are there, like St.Simon the Cyrenian, St.Didymus,St.Cornelius, etc.)J.Samuel Ross.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11981863011563791787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5464180585819540715.post-22608322101490242622010-08-11T14:54:08.826-07:002010-08-11T14:54:08.826-07:00Yes, I love these accounts. They're so wonder...Yes, I love these accounts. They're so wonderful. I enjoy the slight differences as well, such as the story of the sash, which is mentoned in some accounts, and those later accounts which menton St Thomas arriving characteristically late and demanding to se before he believed. One thing that sometimes appears in icons of the Dormition but which I have never been able to find out more about other than in these accounts is the story of Athonius, the Jewish priest who sought to overturn the funeral bier and <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_umjH7uGKyts/Soc4Epfkj2I/AAAAAAAAA3k/xMkG0eZ7toM/s800/dormition.jpg" rel="nofollow">had his hands severed</a> by the Holy Archangel Michael, only to have them restored to him when he confessed faith in Christ. The story (from memory) says that he was martyred by his former peers, yet I have not found him in any kalendar. :-(<br /><br />Do you know any more about this?Bbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10989307876421460920noreply@blogger.com