Cybertalk; In Search of the First Cyber-Saint; Some Modest Proposals for Surfers Seeking Holy Intervention

The Washington Post | July 12, 1999| | Copyright

Will there be a patron saint for the Internet?

Recent news reports say it could happen, and that the Roman Catholic Church is searching for an appropriate personage to receive the prayers of the world's Web surfers. The reputed front-runner: Isidore of Seville, a sixth-century monk, scholar and author who tried to compile the sum of all human knowledge in his most famous work, "Etymologiae." The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "undoubtedly the most learned man of his Age," who "exercised a far-reaching and immeasurable influence on the educational life of the Middle Ages."

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