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I agree with Francine about the problem of "Celtic religion" or "Celtic
culture." But what DO we do with the large number of saints who are "maybe
Welsh," or "maybe Irish," or "Iro-Scottish," or "turned up in Brittany at
some point"? In the case of Lide, apparently nobody knows where he came
from, but presumably he spoke a Celtic language. And the number of saints
who wandered from Ireland to Wales to Cornwall to Scotland to Brittany does
suggest, to me at any rate, a sense that they themselves thought they were
dealing with kindred people in some way---to the point that it makes me
wonder about how useful an adamant insistence that there was no "celtic
religion" really is. I know there's been some work done on Anglo-Saxon
missionary work in Old Saxony that suggests just such a kindred feeling
among Germans. Does anybody know of such work for the
Iro/Breton/Scots/Welsh/Cornish phenomenon? At least I have a feeling that
it's a phenomenon.
Phyllis
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>>From: Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Lide (?) Lide was a Celtic hermit saint who settled on the island of St.
>>Helen's (Scilly Isles).
>
>And where would a "Celtic" saint come from?
>
>As noted in an earlier post, there is no such thing as a single "Celtic
>culture." The term identifies a group of peoples who spoke related
>languages. But to say a saint was "Celtic" is a bit like saying he was
>Latin or Slavic or even possibly Indo-European. ;)
>
>Francine Nicholson
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