Hierolatry

[TeaDidikai]

The worship of Saints.
Most folks here are dyed in the wool pagans- and have worked very long and hard to distance themselves from Christian traditions.

On the other hand- a number of folks still have little figures of YHVH's henchmen lurking around their homes.

Still others practice Meso-pagan traditions that likely involve one form of hierolatry or another.

So- fess up. What icons do you keep? Angels? Saints?  

[Collowrath]

Marie Sedembolestnej (Mary of the Seven Sorrows) is the Patron Saint of Slovakia and our people. I keep her in mind. At my university there is a statue of her that I spend time with.  

[Cranium Squirrel]

I'm not sure she counts as either an angel or a saint, but I guess she's the closest I have to it. I've got a tiny brass statue (solid, too, she's got weight to her) of Kwan Yin on my desk above the monitor. I find her story comforting.

As for western style angels...the closest I own is probably my dead!Goku action figure. Hey, he's got wings and a halo! And he's practically guardian of the world! It counts!

Sad though - I spent years in a Roman Catholic household, and now have very little iconography from it. Unless you count stuffed dragons as a weird homage to St George or something. ninja  

[Neko_Bast]

hum.....well my husband is into Christion mystisim (not really sure if thats the right term). Me on the other had, all I do is put up a tastfull nativity at christmas. My mom made it in collage and it just seems right to have it out.  

[patch99329]

I don't have any christian icons per se (never was a proper christian).
But I have a variety of bibles I don't want to get rid of, I hold jesus in high esteem as a man and think his teachings hold alot of weight.
Similarly, I hold the Chruch of england in high esteem. I am thankful to those who established it and sorrowful about those who died because of it.

It paved the way to many things I see around me today and if I wanted to follow the religion of my ancestors, it would be this.

That said, christianity itself does not interest or fulfill me at all. sweatdrop  

[Conan The Barbie Doll]

I thought saint worship was a particularily Catholic thing. I've also read of saints being prayed to/called on in Voodoo.

Am I wrong?  

[TeaDidikai]

Conan The Barbie Doll

I thought saint worship was a particularily Catholic thing.

Actually, that's rather insulting. It is specifically not a Catholic thing. Such would be considered heresy and has landed individuals in excommunication.

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I've also read of saints being prayed to/called on in Voodoo.

Hence my reference to Meso-paganism.  

[patch99329]

TeaDidikai

Actually, that's rather insulting. It is specifically not a Catholic thing. Such would be considered heresy and has landed individuals in excommunication.

How is that?  

[TeaDidikai]

patch99329

How is that?

Worshiping Saints is strictly forbidden in Catholic tradition, the Catechism states that to do so is in direct contradiction with the Law of Agape.

If it is found that people are doing such, they are corrected. If they refuse to receive the correction they are excommunicated. Happened to some Nuns in the Mid-west US a while ago I recall. It doesn't happen often- most Catholics aren't that insane or stupid.  

[TatteredAngel]

It isn't in the form of an object or anything, but you'll often find me humming Christian folk songs. I grew up singing them, and not really in a Christian context, and they have nice words and nice sounds. I doubt I'll ever stop singing "The Land Where We'll Never Grow Old."  

[Maze]

I don't remember personally owning any. My sister has a small coin with St. Christopher on it in her car, though - I think my parents might have given her that - and when we're missing stuff, we're told to pray to Saint Anthony.

There's another Saint for getting up on time, but that is either a mind trick that I've found works just as well without the prayer or I just turned it into one that does.

That, and most of my requests go to the universe at large, instead of specific people or angels or whatnot.

I used to wear a cross on a necklace, but I'd gotten that from a friend. I don't tend to wear jewelry for me, but I get necklaces as birthday presents every now and again, and I wear those for the friends who passed them to me.