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Sometimes you have to travel to fantasy world to pull someone out. (lemmy.world)
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[–] idiomaddict 7 points 5 months ago

They pretend not to, but I grew up Catholic and I’ve known people who feel direct, holy connections to sts. Anthony or Jude. It’s one of the things that allowed Catholicism to be so effectively spread: people didn’t have to lose their old gods. Saint Brigid is just a revamp of the Celtic deity Brigid, for example.