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Old 04-05-2005, 01:49 PM
adduncan adduncan is offline
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Originally posted by RACooper
I don't know... I found their listing of "black" saints to be a little lacking - skipped over quite a few actually.

St. Maurice for example:
http://www.stmaryofegypt.net/saints_maurice.shtml

This website has a greater listing (although a little sketchy with some facts):
http://our.homewithgod.com/fdrennen/Black_saints.htm
I think what you're seeing is the difference between an Eastern Orthodox church (St Mary of Egypt) and a Roman Catholic organization. They list their saints differently.

NBD - it's all great stuff for the history geeks.

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