On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Consuelo W Dutschke wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Thomas Izbicki wrote:
>
> > Is this (naming churches All Saints/All Hallows) a largely English custom?
> > I can recall encountering only one group dedication of a church, Santi
> > Apostoli in Rome, during my wanderings about Italy.
> >
> > tom izbicki
>
> Padua at least has a church dedicated to "Ognissanti"
> Consuelo Dutschke
>
>
I don't know whether the choice of personal names for one's children has
any bearing on the dedication of churches; but the name Toussaint was once
extremely popular in France and French-speaking countries, while many
Spanish children today are baptized with a string of names ending "y todos
santos," and the Catholic nobility of German speaking countries remains
fond of ending with "et omnes sancti." Again this might just be a way of
"buy one get the rest free" [as George puts it better than I did] but it
might also indicate some popularity of the feast as well.
Regards to all,
John Parsons
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