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From: "Mayra Sanchez-Johnson" <>
Subject: [CUBA-L] Re: [CUBA-L] Re: Requirement of having saint´s name
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:14:48 -0700
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I remember a guy I know that when he was being baptized the priest objected
to the name Fred, so the father asked the priest to give the boy a saint's
name ADDED to Fred. In the Baptism entry the priest only put the name he
chose, which was.... Buenaventura....the saint of that day.

The problem was the poor guy did not find this out until he went to get the
certificate to get out of Cuba....

So now he is Buenaventura in the US!! but goes by Freddy.

Mayra
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Subject: [CUBA-L] Re: Requirement of having saint´s name


> The Council may have eliminated the provision that required that the
person
> to be baptized had a saint´s name. However, in practice the provision is
> still enforced in some places. In 1998, my cousin´s step children were
> baptized in a small town in the south of France, near Avignon. One of the
> children had not been named after a saint. The priest requested that a
> saint´s name be selected and did not proceed until we came up with one.
>
> Carmen
>
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