XXV (Voice)

[sancta_sedes]

Um... d-do many of you c-celebrate name days? I've n-noticed a lot of people c-celebrate their b-birthdays, but I haven't s-seen mention of name days.... I wonder if y-you're really considered a y-year older when you a-arrive only a f-few months before.... I was wondering if p-people did... wh-when they might be? I know the A-Archbishops will be on

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[not_riku_thx]

I celebrate my Name Day. January 25th.

[sancta_sedes]

That's a m-month after Christmas. M-may I ask who you were n-named after? If that's r-relevant?

[not_riku_thx]

After The Chronicles of Prydain....books, Riku found them for me, a long time ago.

[sancta_sedes]

I'm a-afraid I'm n-not that familiar.... But, it's s-still quite a n-nice name. I w-wish I knew the series.

[heinesangel]

What's a name day?

[sancta_sedes]

It's the f-feast day of the saint you were n-named after. But... it m-might have other meanings for o-other people. In Rome we c-celebrate them and b-birthdays.

[heinesangel]

[She doesn't know about a "feast day" is, but...]

Then that means you, the Archbishop and Father Anderson are all named after saints? I didn't know that.

[sancta_sedes]

M-most people are, at least... m-most people I know are. S-Sister is also named after a s-saint.

[sanctus_cineris]

Yahweh called mae before Ah was born. Frem mae mother's womb He pronounced mae name.

[sancta_sedes]

R-r-really!?

[sanctus_cineris]

Thaer es mooch importance en ae name, Alessandroo. God chooses et fer us fer when th' time es righ', we may live by et.

God calls oos each by name. Everyone's name es sacred. Th' name demands respect as a sign o' dignity o' the one who bears et.

[sancta_sedes]

I thought my m-mother named me....

...

[Sorry, he can't really take that in, because he knows he's no defender of men.]

[toris_lietuvos]

I do. And I know others who do as well. Though for myself, my birthday and name day are pretty much one in the same.

[Okay, pleasantries aside.] How have you been? I saw what happened at the church ... [More than saw, he ran in to help others, but that is beside the point.]

[sancta_sedes]

Th-then you don't get two c-celebrations do you?

[Fortunately, or unfortunately... he has witnessed better kidnapping plots....]

It... it w-wasn't the worse that's h-happened....

[toris_lietuvos]

I suppose not. [Things are strange for him anyway, so he doesn't think about stuff like that often.]

[That's a statement he had not expected. And it's truly troubling.] I'm so sorry ... is there anything I can do for you?

[sancta_sedes]

I-it's alright. It was all m-more strange than anything... and, n-no one was hurt so.... I'm fine.

When is your b-birthday?

[rules_the_north]

't 's a Cathol'c th'ng. W' don't have saints.

[sancta_sedes]

I thought the n-Northern States s-still had some f-form of name days though....

[rules_the_north]

'n some regions, th' celebrate th' day of bapt'ze. [Of course there are still some days like Lucia and Martin, but he wouldn't count them as name days.]

[sancta_sedes]

Well th-that's similar then, r-right?