ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 17th of March
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CASPAR NAGEL, MONK |
Caspar Nagel, remembered on March 17, was Franciscan from Vienna, who for reasons of humility adopted the name Pater Asinus¹. He went to his eternal reward in 1556.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1885, p. 571)
¹Asinus is a Latin masculine noun meaning "ass" or "donkey". It is frequently used figuratively to mean a blockhead, fool, or dullard. The term is the root of the English adjective "asinine," meaning stupid or silly.
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Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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