Quick Question

[ExOrienteLux]

Morning, everyone.

I originally posted this in the Pub, but I was told to put it out here for all to see.

Anyway, I've just got a quick question that I intend on asking both you guys and the Anglicans: as one of the few other groups that venerate the Saints and the Theotokos, how many of you guys would be interesting if we could get Erwin to put in an entirely optional feature similar to birthdays: Saints' Days?

Here's how some of us TAW-ers think it could work: On the Edit User Info page, there could be a field (perhaps tied to certain denominational crosses so some of the more rabid Evangelicals don't have fits) that allows you to input your patron's name and your nameday, and then, when that day rolls around, there's a notification of the fact in all of your posts for that day.

This idea came up when we had about four people in TAW have their namedays within a week of each other and some of us saw the enormous number of posts in the Taverna that were basically variants on "Many years,___________!/Happy nameday, __________!"

So, I'm just curious to see how many people would be interested. I figure if we could get enough interest, Erwin might listen to us. Thanks a lot!

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Josh.

 

[Roald]

I like the idea. Saint days used to be bigger for Catholics than birthdays anyways.

 

[BjBarnett]

i like the idea but id say some people will have a fit

 

[Benedicta00]

So let them have a fit. I like the idea.

 

[Aaron-Aggie]

I like the idea but all should rember the time and talent it will take ewrin to implment a new featuyre.

 

[Carrye]

I like it ... a lot actually. One could put in their date of baptism too, for those (like me) who don't have a patron saint.

 

[ProCommunioneFacior]

I would really enjoy that, if Erwin is up to it, I'm all for it.

 

[Carrye]

A person would enter his/her own date, I assume? Otherwise it'd be impossible to keep track of when feasts are celebrated in the different traditions.

 

[JJM]

sounds good to me.

 

[bigsierra]

What do rabid Evangelicals look like?

I like the idea.

 

[StPaul]

I like the idea

 

[Paul S]

I like the idea, too.

I really should know this, but who is one's patron saint? Is it the saint you're named for, or the saint whose feast you were born on, or just one you pick later?

 

[ExOrienteLux]

A person would enter his/her own date, I assume? Otherwise it'd be impossible to keep track of when feasts are celebrated in the different traditions.

That would be the plan, because I know of only a (relatively) few Saints whose feastdays are the same in East and West (St. George and St. Nicholas spring immediately to mind).

I'm glad to see this much support, guys! This is rather heartening. Maybe Erwin will do it. And I can't imagine that it would be that much coding. Maybe just an alteration of the coding for birthdays and adding another field, tops. Of course, this is coming from one who is barely computer-literate, so take it for what you will.

You can always tell the rabid Fundigelicals from the normal ones because they're the ones ready to call us heretics who trust in dead ritual and worship Mary and don't use the Bible and all that fun Jack Chick stuff.

And so far as I know (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), one's patron saint is the one whose name you took at Confirmation/Chrismation. That's just from my limited understanding, though.

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Josh.