Hello,
Today's life is too different from medevial ones first of all in the
spiritual motivation of the peoples action. Our knowledges are not more
further, but more different.
Here is no need to make an artificail collisions between lot of legends
from many nations about woman with thunder, lightning, caves, gun
powder, etc. Puzzle of St.Barbara (St.Varvara in Russian) is simple.
We may agree, that any of the Saints "deal with" sole problems arised
between church' order and people's life. St.Barbara has her own part.
St.Barbara's serving is to protect any Christian people from deathly
danger to die without Communion (administering of Holy Communion). All
of us can continue the list of SUDDEN deaths of peoples at work, even
they are soldiers or coal miners.
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Pavel N.Dmitriev
Mining Technology Department
St.Petersburg Mining Institute
Russia
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