Josephat (was Propaganda and Allah)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:02 AM -0400 10/20/01, James A. Landau wrote:
>In a message dated 10/20/2001 7:17:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
>>  >It turns out that Buddha is a saint in both the Catholic and Orthodox
>>   >Churches, under the name of "Josephat".)
>>
>>   I have trouble with this statement.
>>
>>   Are you referring to the Ruthenian Rite martyr (c. 1580-12 Nov. 1623), the
>>   one with the Basilica dedicated to him in Milwaukee?
>
>Not the 17th century martyr, but an earlier figure, though it may well be
>that the martyr you mentioned was named after the earlier St. Josephat.
>
>While not all authorities accept the theory, many do agree that St. Josephat
>(there are several variant spellings of that name) is indeed Buddha.  The
>following quote is from the on-line version of the Catholic Encyclopedia at
>URL http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02297a.htm
>
And for many variations on this theme, just search for "Josaphat
Buddha" at google.com, where 319 documents are located.  It's a new
one on me.

larry