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Traditional Catholic Faith => General Discussion => Topic started by: s2srea on August 05, 2011, 01:32:39 PM
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So, I'm curious- why did you choose your username, and if its in another language, or, like mine, not a word at all, what does it refer to?
Mine is quite embarrassing. I was in a band in high school, and the first three letters represent the bands name. The last three are my initials. I use it for anything I sign up for, but if I could change it, I would for this board.
Okay, your turn. :popcorn:
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My user name is after St Emerentiana. I chose the name after being in an endless discussion with a Feenyite friend ver babtism of blood and desire.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Emerentiana
Died c. 304
Rome
Feast January 23
Attributes stones, lillies
Patronage stomach problems
Saint Emerentiana was a Roman martyr, who lived in the 3rd century.
According to Christian hagiography, Emerentiana's mother was the wet nurse and nanny of Saint Agnes, a rich Roman heiress who was martyred after refusing her engagement due to her Christian religion. Emerentiana herself was a catechumen, still learning about Christianity before being officially baptized. Catholics believe martyrs are "baptized by blood," and otherwise go to heaven.
A few days after Agnes' death, Emerentiana was caught praying by her tomb; upset upon the death of her best friend and foster sister, she claimed that she was a Christian as well and belittled the pagans who had killed Agnes, and was stoned to death by the crowd.
Her feast day is 23 January, and she is represented as a young girl who either has stones in her lap and lillies in her hand, or is being stoned to death by a mob. Her tomb is at the Church of Saint Agnese in Rome.
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Thanks Emerentiana!
(People (BOB deniers), please resist the urge to argue and deny here; instead, describe your username, and start a new thread)
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I had just watched 'The Sound of Music' (or had I been looking at pictures of kittens or babies?) and was feeling warm and fuzzy, so it just made sense...
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I had just watched 'The Sound of Music' (or had I been looking at pictures of kittens or babies?) and was feeling warm and fuzzy, so it just made sense...
I think you're in the wrong thread, Mr.:light-saber:
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Mine's a little obvious, especially to Catholics, who all should have read their Tolkien. :wink: It's also the name of my blog. (http://www.manofthewest2000.blogspot.com/)
By this name I mean to express my devotion to the Catholic faith, the perennial philosophy, monarchy, hierarchy, chivalry, property, the Occident, traditional gender roles and family organization -- in short, all the things which modernism set out to destroy.
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C'mon GV... U can do better than that! lol
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'76 was the year I was born. I was going to be named Raoul until my grandpa, at the last minute, suggested Mike. I always found this funny, since the name Raoul seems like the worst choice possible for me. I'm a pale skinny half-Polock rather than a swarthy Super Mario.
However, I have recently grown a kind of conquistador goatee and I'm looking pretty "Raoul."
Man of the West, are you Polish or Russian? You are extremely Eastern European looking at least from what I can see in the small picture.
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Man of the West, are you Polish or Russian?
Czech, actually. At least on my mother's side. I'm not really sure what my father's ancestry was.
You are extremely Eastern European looking at least from what I can see in the small picture.
For what it's worth, others agree with you. I had a Russian professor once who recommended to me that I move to Russia. When I asked why, she told me that "I looked European, indeed Slavic, and would have no problems there." I guess it's pretty important in those climes.
By the way, I don't want to take this discussion off topic, but I'd just like to say that I've greatly enjoyed reading your posts on the archived threads I've been perusing since joining here. Wonderful work.
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Merci! I read some of your blog also and I agree with most of what you say, except for the neo-con stuff which you may have retracted, I don't know. You are certainly very intelligent and fun to read.
Yes, you are very Slavic. Every time I see your avatar I get some kind of blip of recognition, like it's me or someone in my family. Actually, that's exactly what it is -- you look like a cross between me and my grandfather. And the composer Glazunov, lol. That is the Russian element.
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My name is a product of my Japanese/Martial Arts culture fandom/participation when I was 16. But since I've grown out of it, it just doesn't seem to fit me anymore (even the avatar). If I could change my name I would pick something Gothic or Hispanic themed.
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My name is obvious. I'm a tea lover. I've been drinking it since I was a little boy. I picked up the habit at my grandparent's house where my grandpa would have tea after dinner, so I had some too. I like to try various kinds. I dream of having a small shop where I could serve tea and coffee and it be exclusively Mystic Monk blends.
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My name is obvious. I'm a tea lover. I've been drinking it since I was a little boy. I picked up the habit at my grandparent's house where my grandpa would have tea after dinner, so I had some too. I like to try various kinds. I dream of having a small shop where I could serve tea and coffee and it be exclusively Mystic Monk blends.
Ah! A fellow professed tea lover! Glad to have you here! :smile:
I really started drinking tea in my late teens. I've been more of a tea collector rather than drinker since I was little.
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Yerba mate...mmmmmmmmm...with lots of honey.......doubly-mmmmmmmm...
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My name is obvious. I'm a tea lover. I've been drinking it since I was a little boy. I picked up the habit at my grandparent's house where my grandpa would have tea after dinner, so I had some too. I like to try various kinds. I dream of having a small shop where I could serve tea and coffee and it be exclusively Mystic Monk blends.
But you havent explained the Guy and Tom and what they mean...? :jester: Just kiddin :)
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I'm drinking Jasmine Green Pearl tea now.. mmmmm!
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'76 was the year I was born. I was going to be named Raoul until my grandpa, at the last minute, suggested Mike. I always found this funny, since the name Raoul seems like the worst choice possible for me. I'm a pale skinny half-Polock rather than a swarthy Super Mario.
However, I have recently grown a kind of conquistador goatee and I'm looking pretty "Raoul."
Man of the West, are you Polish or Russian? You are extremely Eastern European looking at least from what I can see in the small picture.
Gee, I have always assumed that you look like St. Vincent de Paul.
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Sigismund was the only Unitarian king in history. I was in the mood for a screen name completely antithetical to myself. Being neither a Unitarian (perish the thought) or a king (alas) it seemed to fit the bill.
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My name is my name, refuse to use a moniker.
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Lybus is a name that i made up completely. It has no real meaning.
However, if I could change my name, I would make it "Joyeuse", the name of Charlemagne's sword. I always wondered why he called his sword "Joyful."
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Okay, your turn. :popcorn:
Excellent topic!
I have commented on the posts of the St. Lawrence Press Blog as "Xenophobic hobbledehoy," a name under which I had intended to register at CathInfo, but it was too long I reckon. So I just chose the "hobbledehoy" part.
"Hobbledehoy" is defined a young man bereft of social grace and composure. So the reference is autobiographical. :smirk:
I will allow the scholar Michael Quinion (http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hob1.htm) to explain the meaning and history of this word:
You will not find a better description of the type than in Anthony Trollope’s The Small House at Allington: “Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy”.
But where the world found it is far from clear. The word seems to have been around at least since the sixteenth century, but was long distinguished by seeming never to be written the same way twice. It may well be related to Hoberdidance or Hobbididance, which was the name of a malevolent sprite associated with the Morris dance (and whose name is from Hob, an old name for the Devil; nothing to do with hobbits). It may also be linked to hobidy-booby, an old English dialect word for a scarecrow. The modern spelling seems to be the result of popular etymology, which has changed a puzzling word into something that looks as though it might make more sense.
When I registered here as "Hobbledehoy" this past February, I had forgotten that I had registered before as "Glastonbury" in the first days of CathInfo. I had published blog posts (http://goldandtopaz.blogspot.com/) under that name before, and I posted under the name "Glastonbury_thorn" on FE only to leave just before Vox implemented her anti-sede policy.
:detective:
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PartyIsOver221 = my patron saint Padre Pio and 221 is my date of baptism
And cause the party [of sin and worldly decadence, etc] is over once Padre Pio comes!!!
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Mine comes from my birth certificate.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal
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Mine is an English Recusant Benedictine living in Elizabeth's time.
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Archbishop Fenelon wrote Les aventures de Télémaque, which is where I got the name at fisheaters.
I thought it was too pagan sounding, so I took the name of Pope St. Telesphorus after seeing his feast in the bulletin.
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Mine is an English Recusant Benedictine living in Elizabeth's time.
Sounds like an interesting figure, a scholar and mystic. Why "Augstine", though? Initially a typo, but you rolled with it?
Graham is my real name. According to the internet, it means "gravel home" or "gray home". But according to a personalized coaster I got for my birthday, it means "he who comes from the gray place".
Coaster > internet.
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For what it's worth, Evensong is my time of life, as in the signature, and the prayer/poem is from Angelus Press 1962 Missal, p.64.
Allso, it's just a lovely time of day ...
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Archbishop Fenelon wrote Les aventures de Télémaque, which is where I got the name at fisheaters.
I thought it was too pagan sounding, so I took the name of Pope St. Telesphorus after seeing his feast in the bulletin.
Didn't Pope St. Telesporus give Easter celebrated on Sunday (instead of Passover)?
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Mine is an English Recusant Benedictine living in Elizabeth's time.
Sounds like an interesting figure, a scholar and mystic. Why "Augstine", though? Initially a typo, but you rolled with it?
Graham is my real name. According to the internet, it means "gravel home" or "gray home". But according to a personalized coaster I got for my birthday, it means "he who comes from the gray place".
Coaster > internet.
Like I said, I was drunk one night and spilled some Louis Qtrzze on the keyboard and messed up when I was entering the name.
I just rolled with it.
He wasn't a great scholar, probably a mid-range academic figure that we'd never have heard of had it not been for the Queen and her father murdering all the Catholic Scholars in the land.
He was active in London and various parts of England, living fairly openly as a Catholic religious, making converts and generally doing good work.
Like I said, he was an ordinary man who got into the history books because he lived a very mild-mannered approach to the Catholic Faith in very violent times.
Ironic, I guess.
He was salt of the earth and a very decent man. I think his life should be familiar to a lot of modern people, and his approach, although largely untried would be very useful for people living in a protestant country like ours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Baker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Baker
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Archbishop Fenelon wrote Les aventures de Télémaque, which is where I got the name at fisheaters.
I thought it was too pagan sounding, so I took the name of Pope St. Telesphorus after seeing his feast in the bulletin.
Didn't Pope St. Telesporus give Easter celebrated on Sunday (instead of Passover)?
It would appear so. I did not remember that. So I guess the seventh day adventists wouldn't like him :smile:
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Mater Dominici = Dominic's Mommy
He was my only kiddo at the time. But! It's versitile as Dominic means "belonging to the Lord" so it works for one or many.
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Mater Dominici = Dominic's Mommy
He was my only kiddo at the time. But! It's versitile as Dominic means "belonging to the Lord" so it works for one or many.
So should I change it to
MaterDominicorum?
(Few will get this, I'm afraid... Maybe GV...)
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Mater Dominici = Dominic's Mommy
He was my only kiddo at the time. But! It's versitile as Dominic means "belonging to the Lord" so it works for one or many.
So should I change it to
MaterDominicorum?
(Few will get this, I'm afraid... Maybe GV...)
Perhaps not as versitile as I thought.
:sign-surrender: monoglot
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Sigismund was the only Unitarian king in history. I was in the mood for a screen name completely antithetical to myself. Being neither a Unitarian (perish the thought) or a king (alas) it seemed to fit the bill.
So, would the person who disliked this post prefer I was a Unitarian? Thanks, but I'll keep the one true faith. Or perhaps you would prefer I was king? So would I, believe me, so would I.
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(Few will get this, I'm afraid... Maybe GV...)
While I get it, I also get that today is her birthday, Matthew!!! :fryingpan: :laugh1:
As for Sigi's disliker, I, too, was wondering who is so pathetic as to dislike such a simple post in such a kindly-themed thread???
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:king:
Ave, Rex...something-orum!
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Mater Dominicorum
Mother of those belonging to the lord (I think).
A title more fitting for the Virgin, I think.
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Mater Dominicorum
Mother of those belonging to the lord (I think).
A title more fitting for the Virgin, I think.
Many titles which belong to Our Lord and Our Lady may, fittingly, be used in reference to their servants.
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My last name is Marasco so my user name evolved into ........
I noticed that Elizabeth has not posted in this topic.
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When I signed up on CatholicAnswers, I wanted to choose a username that was Catholic and in Latin. I concluded SpiritusSanctus was the best one and chose it, and used that same username when I joined CatholicInfo.
Roscoe's username should be "MaryJaunita" (if you can figure out what that means). :smoke-pot:
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Roscoe's username should be "MaryJaunita" (if you can figure out what that means). :smoke-pot:
If someone used that screenname, would you presume they were male or female?
:scratchchin: :smile:
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Roscoe's username should be "MaryJaunita" (if you can figure out what that means). :smoke-pot:
If someone used that screenname, would you presume they were male or female?
:scratchchin: :smile:
I'd presume they were a female. Of course, I also know that roscoe has been known to call marijuana "Mary Jaunita" in a rather pathetic attempt to make MJ sound good. So that's why I said his username should be MaryJaunita. Sort of a joke...
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Roscoe's username should be "MaryJaunita" (if you can figure out what that means). :smoke-pot:
If someone used that screenname, would you presume they were male or female?
:scratchchin: :smile:
I'd presume they were a female. Of course, I also know that roscoe has been known to call marijuana "Mary Jaunita" in a rather pathetic attempt to make MJ sound good. So that's why I said his username should be MaryJaunita. Sort of a joke...
It's ok I got the joke.
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When I joined Cathinfo, I was trying to get my daughter (who is an artist) to draw me an image of the Penitent Magdalene. The avatar was one of my favorite images that I gave to her as a reference.
I'm still waiting for the drawing.
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Because its my name, but thats another story!
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I took my username in honour of the great Pere Joseph du Tremblay, the original "eminence grise (grey eminence)," the head of the Capuchins in France and the private advisor and friend to Cardinal Richelieu ("Son Eminence Rouge (His Red Eminence"). This friar, very unknown today, laboured his entire life in order to fulfill the great work of God, the Crusade, aligning Kings with his project, raising a knightly order, founding a school of Oriental languages, and sending his Capuchins throughout the Mohammedan countries to preach and be martyred. They even converted many Greeks. This Crusade was his passion, and his interventions in all French affairs, including his diplomatic work in the Thirty Years' War, was all for this sole final purpose. He also converted the Poitevins, many of whom he later encouraged to be sent to Acadie. Thus, in many ways, I would not exist if not for his efforts.
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You may win a prize for the most obscure figure used in a user name. :smile:
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PereJoseph, thank you for the interesting history lesson.
My name is self-explanatory. I was surprised no one else had used the name and I was glad to grab it with the idea of eliciting prayers for myself (selfish in a good way), for my family and all the members of this forum and all Catholics. I also hoped to encourage frequent prayer throughout the day and to remind myself in particular to pray often. Frequent prayer is something that I try to strive for, but fall far, far too short.
Begging your prayers, I am
Ora pro me
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I didn't choose this name for any particular reason. It's just something I randomly came up with.
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Roscoe's username should be "MaryJaunita" (if you can figure out what that means). :smoke-pot:
If someone used that screenname, would you presume they were male or female?
:scratchchin: :smile:
I'd presume they were a female. Of course, I also know that roscoe has been known to call marijuana "Mary Jaunita" in a rather pathetic attempt to make MJ sound good. So that's why I said his username should be MaryJaunita. Sort of a joke...
It's ok I got the joke.
So far the Forum has not been informed as to the orig of LP's moniker.
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It is a pseudonym.
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:roll-laugh1:
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More specifically, a pseudonym that was a pseudonym of my dad. It also could technically be a nickname/derivative of my baptismal/Christian name of James. My dad used it as a derivative of Jiménez, a derivative of his maternal apelido.
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I chose my username in honor of the nine choirs of angels. I hope someday to join them in singing beautiful hymns to my Creator.
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I chose mine in tribute to one of the greatest of the early medieval popes: Pope St. Gregory the Great (Dialogist).