Sprinkle liberally with a kind of romantic-mystical Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian variant, and you're all set. I'll sleep well tonight - or if I don't, it's what God wants.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1233045312165601280 …
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I think those beliefs and practices underlie even the Catholicism, if you scratch the surface. My parents (I'm 3rd/4th gen Pol/Lith-American) are both pretty fatalistic and quite devout - when you can't do much about something (and often you can't), say a prayer...
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..and the turning to patron saints and Mary seems like a kind of idolatry transformed over time.
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I went to Lithuania once, landing there the evening of summer solstice, and my (native) friend pointed out all the bonfires of the little parties burning out in the fields as we drove. It seemed like a neat little living image of...something.
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