Pierre richard casimir biography of christopher
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July 25 is the great feast of the Saint James the Apostle, but the traditional liturgy also commemorates on the same day a Saint who is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, the most famous patron Saint of travelers, and the plastic king of dashboards. Christopher started out life as Offerus or Reprobus (accounts differ), a proud andat seven and a half feet tallimposing man who was born in Canaan in the third century under the reign of the Roman Emperor Decius. Nothing but the best would do for the mighty Reprobus, and so he vowed to serve the greatest king in the world. He began in the service of a Christian monarch, but after seeing the king make the sign of the cross every time the Devil was mentioned, he realized that the king feared the Devil. Reprobus then went off to serve the Devil in the desert, but when he noticed that his new master avoided a roadside cross and asked for an explanation, the Devil admitted, There was a man called Christ which was hanged on the cross,
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Caribbean RoundUp
Bahamas
The Bahamas government has described as a complete falsehood and an outrageous concoction a video showing Cuban detainees being beaten bygd officers at a Bahamian detention center.
Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell said the government has since referred the matter to its lawyers. He said he had seen a copy of the video purporting to show the beating at the detention center and that is from a news broadcast by a Spanish-language TV hållplats in Florida.
That video is a complete falsehood and an outrageous concoction. We have had the video examined by the Royal Bahamas Defense Force and it is being further reviewed bygd the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Mitchell said.
He said that the Royal Bahamas Defense Force has found that the video appears to be staged, the accent is not Bahamian; no faces were sh
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