Re: Napster destroys Western Civilization

From: Alexander Zimmerman <azitiz[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:41:13 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Eric Eldred <eldred[_at_]eldritchpress.org> quoted a page from Norm Jones' History of Christianity web site:
>
> "Tradition has it that after founding several other
> monasteries, Columba copied St. Finnian's psalter without
> the permission of Finnian, and thus devalued the book. [Holy
> Books were carried into battle as standards for Irish clans.]"

a digression:

if i remember correctly, James O'Donnell mentions in his excellent book Avatars_of_the_Word that he is a distant relative of St. Columba and that his family has the "Cathach" that once held this infamous book.

   http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/Picts/cathach.shrine.jpg    there's a picture here....

alexander zimmerman
<azitiz[_at_]yahoo.com>

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