Two thoughts:First, I hope she never had to teach teenage boys.
Second, I wonder what she did to so annoy the novice mistress.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Strangest Nun Name Ever.
Two thoughts:First, I hope she never had to teach teenage boys.
Second, I wonder what she did to so annoy the novice mistress.
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Ay-yi-yi...LOL!!!
(But seriously, not to speak ill of any dead, let alone religious dead, I hope she was known as Sr. Propserine! Maybe she professed on the Feast of the Circumcision?)
Okay. Smirkometer is going off. Must depart...
I don't think Chanson is such an odd name.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhh, riiiiiiight.
Makes you wonder what the "M" was for!
I wonder if any nun ever quit because of the assigned name.
"Oh, HELL NO, you're not calling me Ambrosina Clydestra, I'm outta here."
I remember one of the first Masses I attended at school. It was the feast of St. Ignatius Loyola and the Dominican priest, Fr. Ignatius, began his homily with the story of how he got his name.
He said that when the day came to choose his name he went before the provincial and said that he wanted the name Dominic. Well, the name was already taken so he needed to choose a different name. He chose Thomas. Again, the name was taken. He rattled off several more names of Dominican saints and they were all taken. Finally, he told the provincial that he was out of names.
The provincial told him that he had 5 minutes to choose a name or a name would be chosen for him. Fr. Ignatius said, "The names of Dominican saints ran through my mind and suddenly I thought, 'I could end up as Fr. Cucufas!'" He thought of his home parish, St. Ignatius of Loyola parish and blurted out "Ignatius!".
And that is how a Dominican got a Jesuit name.
Chanson = "song" in French. So Sr. Mary is prospering from singing about the circumcision?
Oy!
What Kit said. She obviously professed on Jan. 1.
If she'd have lived after 1968, just think - she could've been "M. Solemnity of Mary Prosperia Chanson."
RIP, Sister.
Ah, Ma, but I think the "M" stands for Mary. So she would have been "Mary, Mary"...hopefully not quite contrary...
"No, no! I said circuminsession!"
Is she buried next to Sr. Mary Elephant?
(reference, anyone?)
Larry: I've got a basketball jones...and you've got an earache? My eye!
(Yes, my bro's had that album in the 70's!)
Kit: "Young man, give me that knife!!"
Sure it stands for Mary, or Maria.
Why CAN'T she be Sr. Mary Solemnity of Mary?
I like that better than Mary Circumcision.
;)
Big mistake entering the convent on New Year's Day
Larry: LOL!!!! My brothers still imitate the knife-hitting-wood sound from that album! Oh, thanks - I sure needed that laugh!
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