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From: "ilux del pino" <>
Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Baby Names (from saints), BY THE WAY,,,,,
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:55:26 +0100


hola marta
dont fret el mio ( abuelo por parte de padre)
Anacleto
uffffffffffff thank god for my mother ademas de matilde otro mas bonito
gregoria ( holly sH&&) disculpen

cari


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>Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Baby Names (from saints), BY THE WAY,,,,,
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:39:00 EST
>
>A NOT VERY IMPORT. REPLY.... Nevertheless, while recording the names of my
>ancestors I realized that to many of them have verey weird, ugly names;
>other siblings have the same name, sually the third, added to the rest, for
>both sexes. i.e.: those born in the town of Pipian, Havana, whose parish
>church was consecrated to Our Lady of the Rosary, had that name Rosario
>among
>the rest they got. So they were, lets say Jose Rafael del Rosario, a boy,
>or
>Josefa del Rosario, a girl. Which I asume, was done because the priest
>wanted to increase, or foster the devotion to that advocation of Mary and
>to
>the devotion of saying the Rosary.
>Another fact that has to be taken in considereation on this issue of the
>names is the "devotional policies" of the Church [ here the word means the
>institution, not the people nor the building] wanted to foster also a
>particular devotion, like the 19th c. devotion to St. Joseph, who gained
>"in
>reputation" during that period. Socially, the 19th c. was a period of
>social
>unrest, of growing discontent among the proletariat, in Europe. Remember
>that the policies issued by the Church, came from Europe. Thus. St.
>Joseph,
>a worker, by tradition a caarpenter, got additional prestige. Many
>children
>of both sexes got his name, Jose, or Josefa. In fact, this increase in the
>devotion to Joseph had begun earlier, but increased in this period.
>Remembere that the devotion to any saint was based on his/her/ biography
>and
>heoric deeds, martyrdoom, extreme austerity, prestige as fonder of
>religious
>orederes, etc. Joseph offered none of that, but the plain model of an
>obscure working man. He came handy as a model to proletarians.
>With other saints, popularity of their name were also due to trends in
>society,
>However, coming to my family, all those hiper-educated consideration have
>not helped me to answer the question of with so many names at hand why my
>great geandpa, and some other relatives, got burdened with the horrible
>name
>of SERAPIO..............
>Marta
>
>
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