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Russian Orthodoxy, Fairy Tales, and Good Story Telling (Dcn. Nicholas Kotar) | Ep. 398

Pints With Aquinas

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The Age of Concentration

For a medieval mind, for example, there's two ascetic saints named Saint Kediel who lived in Russia. When you show that to a 21st century person says, oh, well, clearly the 17th century writer looked at the model of the 14th century and copied it. A medieval person would have been something like, well, of course they're the same. Since they're named Kediel, there's something ineffable about the choosing of that name which reflects a certain kind of storytelling then reflected in actual real life. So it doesn't even matter if you don't have archival information about the details of that person's life. You prayerfully approach the

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