--- Mandaamin <coomler@...> skrev::

> Excuse me for adding one thing, if it has not
> already been mentioned:
>
> In the calendar of saints of the Eastern Orthodox
> and Catholic churches,
> there is a saint called Ioasaf/Ioasaph in Eastern
> Orthodoxy and Josaphat
> in Catholicism.

A Latin version is included in the Legenda Aurea, from
about 1260.

The Christians, if I am correctly informed, imported
the story from the Muslims, who called the main person
"Budasp", from "Bodhisattva"; a comrade of Josaphat´s
in the Christian story is called Barlaam, probably
from "Bhagavaa", so the poor prince seems to have
acquired a split personality...

Gunnar


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