Saturday, December 26, 2009

Catholic Ukraine


5 comments:

  1. can you expalin their habit? It's got those strange hangy things off the top...

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  2. Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni
    www.osbm.in.ua/ukr/photo/20

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  3. It is the habit of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Basilian monks. The "strange hangy things" are a cloth representation of the legs of the goat, whose hide was once used to make the monk's cowl.

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  4. Isn't this the same Ukrainian Basilian Order, which has suffered from much internal corruption?

    http://ruskij-sion.blogspot.com/2009/04/fight-against-corruption-untold-story.html

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