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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 09:11:07 EST
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- From: Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.bitnet@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Scapular chain
- In-Reply-To: In reply to your message of SAT 26 DEC 1992 07:47:26 EST
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- > further vague recollection is that the Redemptorists went off
- > to Japan to do some converting. They had vowed to always wear
- > their garments (scapulars), but doing so in Japan would cause
- > instant death. The compromise was to wear the garment in a
- > modified form underneath.
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- I'm not a historian, but I would have assumed that at the same point in
- time that Christianity was banned that foreigners were also banned. I'm
- pretty sure in fact that the practice of Christianity was banned after
- the missionaries were expelled. Akio probably knows better than I do.
-
- Karen
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