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From: "DITA FORMELL" <>
Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Baby Names (from saints), BY THE WAY,,,,,
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:31:58 -0500
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It the style of the time. I think it's a beautiful name.
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Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Baby Names (from saints), BY THE WAY,,,,,


> A NOT VERY IMPORT. REPLY.... Nevertheless, while recording the names of
my
> ancestors I realized that to many of them have verey weird, ugly names;
> other siblings have the same name, sually the third, added to the rest,
for
> both sexes. i.e.: those born in the town of Pipian, Havana, whose parish
> church was consecrated to Our Lady of the Rosary, had that name Rosario
among
> the rest they got. So they were, lets say Jose Rafael del Rosario, a boy,
or
> Josefa del Rosario, a girl. Which I asume, was done because the priest
> wanted to increase, or foster the devotion to that advocation of Mary and
to
> the devotion of saying the Rosary.
> Another fact that has to be taken in considereation on this issue of the
> names is the "devotional policies" of the Church [ here the word means the
> institution, not the people nor the building] wanted to foster also a
> particular devotion, like the 19th c. devotion to St. Joseph, who gained
"in
> reputation" during that period. Socially, the 19th c. was a period of
social
> unrest, of growing discontent among the proletariat, in Europe. Remember
> that the policies issued by the Church, came from Europe. Thus. St.
Joseph,
> a worker, by tradition a caarpenter, got additional prestige. Many
children
> of both sexes got his name, Jose, or Josefa. In fact, this increase in
the
> devotion to Joseph had begun earlier, but increased in this period.
> Remembere that the devotion to any saint was based on his/her/ biography
and
> heoric deeds, martyrdoom, extreme austerity, prestige as fonder of
religious
> orederes, etc. Joseph offered none of that, but the plain model of an
> obscure working man. He came handy as a model to proletarians.
> With other saints, popularity of their name were also due to trends in
> society,
> However, coming to my family, all those hiper-educated consideration have
> not helped me to answer the question of with so many names at hand why my
> great geandpa, and some other relatives, got burdened with the horrible
name
> of SERAPIO..............
> Marta
>
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