Posthumous Conversions (was Re: Melleny)

Lars Martin Fosse l.m.fosse at internet.no
Sun Apr 13 14:39:01 UTC 1997


At 14:56 13.04.97 BST, you wrote:
>>>I never heard about a Christian saint called Napoleon!! And saint
>Caesar...
>>>should be regarded as saints?
>
>
>Charlemagne, saint?, Napolean and Caesar of his day (Holy Roman Emperor),
>is enormously popular among Christians along SW coast, where, in Malayalam
>there is a whole genre of folk drama, Cavittu Natakam (resembling
>devoted to his life.  

If this business of making dead Westerns saints becomes a regular thing, we
shall all (Westerners I mean) end up as saints sooner or later. What a
relief! I shall never have to worry about my saintly qualities again.

Lars Martin Fosse







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