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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDidn't know this - There IS a St. Corona (no shit, really)
In Germanys Aachen Cathedral, the relics of a particularly timely-sounding saint have emerged. The Christian martyrs name? Remarkably, Saint Corona.
...Corona means crown in Latin, and all coronaviruses not just the novel strain that causes COVID-19 take their name from the crown-like spikes that surround each particle. Its not surprising that in recent weeks, Saint Corona has, no pun intended, gone viral. And on social networks and the media alike, she has also been lauded as the patroness of plagues and epidemics, an attribution that is likely untrue.
There is, in fact, a Saint Corona, who may have been killed as a teenager by the Romans in Syria for professing Christianity. But Candida Moss, a professor of theology at the University of Birmingham, told the National Catholic Reporter that she had never before been associated with epidemics. Those praying to Saint Corona should turn to Saint Edmund instead, patron of infectious diseases, Moss tweeted
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Didn't know this - There IS a St. Corona (no shit, really) (Original Post)
packman
Mar 2020
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malaise
(269,157 posts)1. Someone should ask him why the folks at Lourdes
shut down the entire place - my mother went to her grave believing that water was holy and could cure anything (except her atheist daughter)
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)2. Well, she may not be the patron saint of infectious diseases but...
she's currently the patron saint of treasure hunters so asking her to help find an effective vaccine and treatment wouldn't be a stretch.
The sentence after what's quoted above makes sense to me as a non-Catholic:
Still, some argue saints often acquire their patronage by accident or due to public consensus, making Saint Coronas newly-minted title just as valid as any other.
As I mentioned, I'm not Catholic, but figure prayers can't really hurt as long as they're not forced on non-believers and you still put/allow fact based actions towards a needed solution.
burrowowl
(17,645 posts)3. Pretty reliquary