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Posted by YarnWright on April 12, 2007, 11:30 pm
YarnWright spun a FINE 'yarn':
> YarnWright spun a FINE 'yarn':
>
> > Not Likely spun a FINE 'yarn':
> >
> > > > suzee spun a FINE 'yarn':
> > > >
> > > > > YarnWright wrote:
> > > >>> suzee spun a FINE 'yarn':
> > > > > >
> > > >>> > YarnWright wrote:
> > > >>> > > Some of my family is Catholic and they've got an ongoing argument
> > > >
> > > > > query >>> > > about placing a statue of Joseph in your yard when
> > > > > trying
> > > to sell > > > your >>> > > home. SOME say you bury him upside down, some
> > > say you bury him > > > facing >>> > > away from the home, and some say
> > > you do both. >>> > > Anybody know?
> > > >>> > > I personally don't believe in this, and am not Catholic myself,
> > > but
> > > > > > am >>> > > willing to help the family out with the right answer.
> > > >>> > > Thanks!
> > > >>> > > Noreen
> > > >
> > > > Yes, like the Irish with St. Patrick, the Poles (and Italians) in
> > > > Chicago and up in WI claimed St. Joe, BIG-time, on March 19. In
> > > > Chicago, all the Poles and Italians wore RED on St. Joes Day...
> > > > funny that I still remember all this, it's a LONG time ago that the
> > > > Church left me and I later left it....
> > > > :D
> > > > Noreen
> > >
> > > I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, and never heard of this
> > > superstition (and my Mom was from an Irish background and was very
> > > superstitious) until I moved into this house 3 1/2 years ago and the
> > > neighbour (a Dutch Roman Catholic) was trying to sell her house... she
> > > mentioned it to me then. She also said something about painting her door
> > > yellow to boost the sale of her house. Nothing to do with the statue,
> > > but a completely different superstition. Personally I find it
> > > disrespectful to bury a statue of any saint.
> > >
> > > By the way... although you may not have meant it as such, I also find it
> > > disrespectful to call St Joseph "St Joe" just as I do not like to hear
> > > some people call St Anthony "St Tony". Unless you lived back when they
> > > did and knew them personally (which I highly doubt that anyone shortened
> > > names back then anyway), I don't think it is very nice to abbreviate
> > > someone's (most especially a saint's) name to make him/her sound like
> > > they are your buddy.
> > >
> > > Just my opinion!
> > > Gemini
> > >
> > <end quoted>
> >
> > Gem,
> > Sorry, didn't mean to offend, but gotta tell ya, our church,the one I grew
> > up in, honest to god, was St' Joe's. NOT St. Joesph's. St. JOE'S.
> > Noreen
>
> AND, maybe it was a Chicago thing, but the church my Dad grew up in was not
> St. Patrick's, but St. Paddy's, honest to god, AND the church my uncle Lefty
> grew up in was St. Aggie's NOT St. Agnes's!
> Just my two cents,
> Noreen
> Oh, mom says her church, St. Stanislas Kostka, had the official *letterhead of
> St. Stash's*, and that one was in northern Wisc.
<end quoted>
OH! Gem, I DO agree about burying seeming sacriledge.
(My mother, to this day, cringes when a loaf of bread is upside down, she feels
the "lord" is upside down when you do that.....)
Silly, eh?
Noreen
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