@Aquinas_Quotes There was a time in the Church when Saint Mary Magdalene would have the creed said at mass on her feast day, which is a privilege given to the apostles, the Blessed Virgin or Our Lord only
@st_th_aq@Aquinas_Quotes The matter is: which cause the good is of evil? It could never be a final or efficient cause, but it can be material or formal
@st_th_aq@Aquinas_Quotes Evil it's the privation of a good (a perfection) that a being should have. The examples in the post are: the evil of baldness can only be because of the good in the hair, which is proper to humans. So to the existence of evil, is necessary that good exists first
@TerribleMaps Fun fact: Although the word "Brasil" most probably means a reddish wooden tree, there is a theory that says the country is named Brazil after the Irish myth of 'Hy-Brazil', a magical ghost island, home of the pure of heart, to which Saint Brendan would have gone before he died.
@TerribleMaps Due to the myth of Hy-Brazil, many people in Europe, particularly in Portugal because of its Catholic construction, started to relate the myth with the new land discovered, and that's one of the reasons for our country to be called like that.
@TerribleMaps When Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived in Brazil, the land first received the name Land of Vera Cruz (true cross), and it underwent a couple name changes over time, always keeping the religious root. The country was founded with a Catholic Mass.