"Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo" wrote: > > This is just TOO GOOD to pass... I just KNOW Brin-L is going to have a field > day with this one. > > JJ > "Mendicant XSysop" > --------------------------------- > > Bishops seek saint for Internet > Hopeless clickers urge Vatican to name protector > By Jeordan Legon > CNN > Friday, January 31, 2003 Posted: 4:46 PM EST (2146 GMT) > > (CNN) -- Fed up with hackers, a flood of spam and lousy connections, Italian > Roman Catholics have launched a search for a patron saint of the Internet. > And they hope their online poll will yield a holy Web protector by Easter. > > Will it be Archangel Gabriel, whom the Bible credits with bringing Mary the > news that she'd give birth to Jesus? Or Saint Isadore of Seville, who wrote > the world's first encyclopedia? Or perhaps Saint Clare of Assisi, a nun > believed to have seen visions on a wall?
I guess it hadn't been officially settled, then. According to this page: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainti04.htm Isadore *is* the patron saint of the Internet. Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
