Anthony Fejfar's History Blog: The Real Story of Saint Thomas the Apostle

Anthony Fejfar's History Blog: The Real Story of Saint Thomas the Apostle: "Saint Thomas the Apostle with Philosophy Book and Spear Saint Thomas the Apostle, Doubting Thomas, had the full name of Thomas Judeas Did..."

The Real Story of Saint Thomas the Apostle

Saint Thomas the Apostle with Philosophy Book and Spear

Saint Thomas the Apostle, Doubting Thomas, had the full name of Thomas Judeas Didymous, and was both the first cousin and adopted brother of Jesus of Nazareth. Saint Thomas is the Founder of the Thomistic Church whose theology and philosophy was later explicated by Saint Thomas Aquainas. Thomas was also a Taoist who believed in the Godhead Tao of Being, Logos, and Substance. After meeting with his brother, Jesus Christ, subsequent to the Ressurection, Thomas headed for Byzantium in Asia Minor (later Constantinople or Istanbul) and spread the Good News of the Gospel to the King of Byzantium. After spending several years at the King's Court in Byzantium, the King insisted that Thomas marry his rather plain daughter. Thomas refusued and the King decided to have him executed by facing a firing squad of archers with bows and arrows. The archers took Thomas outside the city and then placed him against a tree, and then each fired an arrow into the chest of Saint Thomas and left him for dead. However, Saint Thomas was saved by the intervention of Saint Anthony the Archangel, and the arrows were removed and Saint Thomas was healed, and soon woke up from his near-death-experience. This, of course was in fulfillment of the Prophecy of Jesus Christ that his cousin/brother, Saint Thomas would stay alive until and beyond the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

(This account of the Life and Times of Saint Thomas the Apostle is an Allegorical Account which has about the same reliability as the Christian biblical accounts of various miracles.)

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Anthony Fejfar's History Blog: The Real Story of Saint Anthony Daniel

Anthony Fejfar's History Blog: The Real Story of Saint Anthony Daniel: "The North American Jesuit Marytrs, including Saint Anthony Daniel Saint Anthony Daniel was born and raised in Normandy, France, and studie..."

The Real Story of Saint Anthony Daniel

The North American Jesuit Marytrs, including
Saint Anthony Daniel

Saint Anthony Daniel was born and raised in Normandy, France, and studied philosophy and law before entering the Jesuit Order. After studying with the Jesuits for over 10 years, Saint Anthony Daniel was sent to be a missionary in the New World to the Huron Indians in Canada. Saint Anthony was both an administrator and a teacher in a school for Huron indian boys. In the year 1648, Anthony Daniel was working with a parish of Huron Indians, when the village and parish were attacked by hostile, Iroquois indians. Saint Anthony Daniel was a Jesuit Reader and frontiersman. He wore buckskin clothes with his roman collar showing from underneath. Saint Anthony also wore chain mail underneath his buckskins. Saint Anthony Daniel ushered his parishoners into the parish church for protection, where they escaped through a secret passageway under the altar. Saint Anthony Daniel, a true Hero for Christ, then advanced against the hostile Iroquois, armed with a crossbow, a hunting knife, and a rapier sword. Saint Anthony Daniel killed over 15 Iroquois warriors, in turn, before he was shot with three arrows in the chest. Daniel had a near death experience from the arrow wounds, although the arrows did not pierce his chain mail coat. Hours after the Iroquois left, Saint Anthony Daniel woke up and descrbibed Purgatory, on the other side, where he had been with his Immortal Soul. This account, and Saint Anthony Daniel's remarkable "rise from the dead" caused his Jesuit Superiors great consternation. It was agreed that Saint Anthony Daniel's death would be faked, and that he would be exiled to Kentucky, where he took on the name Daniel Boone, and lived in Kentucky for over 100 years.
(This is an Allegorical Tale, much like a biblical story).
(C)Perpetual Copyright (2011) by Anthony J. Fejfar and Anthony J. Faber, and,
Neothomism, P.C. (PA)