Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

Post by gopher_space » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 3:52 AM UTC

egypturnash wrote: post #138

karaterobot wrote: post #98

Are any of these actually cathedrals? I see some monasteries and sacred sites, I don't see any cathedrals in that list. The difference is that 7 cathedrals, all named after St. Michael, found in a basically straight line would certainly not be a coincidence. It would be like there being 7 Google complexes in a straight line spread around the world: something's going on here. But 7 random religious sites named after o…

This is an interesting point. Wikipedia's page on St. Michael's Sword describes it as "monasteries and other sacred sites" and also notes that they are also "almost all located on prominent hilltops". Only four of the seven locations show up on Wikipedia's list of "churches dedicated to Saint Michael" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)#Churches_d... ). Also worth noting: "[Michael's] churches were of…

Post by topaz0 » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 4:16 AM UTC

TillE wrote: post #95

More interesting to me here is the history of the "line". Is this a medieval idea or a modern one? Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful. "According to legend", yeah ok. Who first wrote about this? Who picked those seven sites? The earliest source mentioned is from 1969, and it's not even about this particular line. There's no shortage of writing about esoteric Christian topics throughout the centuries, but this one se…

Post by lrem » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 5:25 AM UTC

PeterCorless wrote: post #162

pyrale wrote: post #155

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> are associated with an appearance of the Burger King himself explicitly asking for a shrine in the location ...According to the guy trying to sell you a big mac or whatever they are called there.

Whoppers. And yes, they are trying to sell you a whopper of a tale.

Post by mjh2539 » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 5:52 AM UTC

seanhunter wrote: post #172

mrbonner wrote: post #123

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A cathedral has nothing to do with size of the church. If a church has a bishop resides, it's a cathedral.

Yes, but a bishop is not ever going to (and could not ever) reside at a monastery because it would be incompatible with their job as a bishop to do what monks do (retire to a life of prayer and contemplation). A bishop is the boss of all the diocesan priests, so needs to be a secular priest not a religious. Source: not religious at all but my brother is a dominican friar so has explained this stuff to me. Also confir…

Post by 082349872349872 » Fri, Jun 07, 2024, 6:09 AM UTC

baruz wrote: post #200

082349872349872 wrote: post #168

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Might the fish have anything to do with precession of the equinoxes into Pisces? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761574

No, “fish” in Greek is ιχθυς, which was used as an acrostic for Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter, Jesus Christ, Son of God, savior. I vaguely recall seeing somewhere that during the persecutions, one Christian would draw one line of the two-line symbol as a shibboleth for another to complete to show that they too were Christian.