From mdimaio@ids.net Thu Mar 1 07:58:59 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id HAA150884 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:58:58 -0800 Received: from mail.salve.edu (IDENT:root@mail.salve.edu [208.131.51.14]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA28607 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 07:58:55 -0800 Received: from test-.salve.edu (surfnet.salve.edu [208.131.51.15]) by mail.salve.edu (8.9.3 (MessagingDirect 1.0.2)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07880 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:07:30 -0500 Message-Id: <200103011607.LAA07880@mail.salve.edu> From: "Michael DiMaio" To: classics@u.washington.edu Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:58:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: a rumor resurfaces Reply-to: mdimaio@ids.net X-pmrqc: 1 In-reply-to: <3A9A9251.6868A1C2@perseus.tufts.edu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) His feast day is 4 April. MDiMaio On 26 Feb 01, at 12:28, Anne Mahoney wrote: > Last year around this time there was some discussion about naming St. > Isidore of Seville the Patron Saint of the Internet and of programmers > generally. Information Week says it's pretty much a done deal: > http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010209S0002 > > So, when's his feast day? The on-line (i.e. *old*) Catholic > Encyclopedia doesn't give a birthday, but puts his death on 4 April -- > that will do quite nicely for the virtual party, if need be. > http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08186a.htm > > --Anne Mahoney > Michael DiMaio, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy Salve Regina University Newport, RI .