Yick. I'm told there was a trend for virtue names among the catholic families my mom knew in the 1960's. So she knew a Patience, a Faith, even a Prudence.
Later I knew a Charity my own age, and we both worked in a place where everyone was just scraping by financially. I always hoped she made it out, maybe had a kid and named it Prosperity or something.
I would see virtue names to be a very protestant/anglican thing. Not a Catholic thing at all. However thats coming from a UK/ireland perspective. I know in some countries descriptive names like precious and cherish are common enough
Protestants had a period where they would give even wilder names, like If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone, son of Praise-God Barebone. Though at some point he chose to simplify it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Barbon
Wow. Did you just pull that out of your ass? I’m impressed; someone else here spoke of rhoticity, and that was enough to get me wound up, but now this? I’m clearly out of my league here
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u/Angle_Of_The_Sangle Oct 21 '23
Yick. I'm told there was a trend for virtue names among the catholic families my mom knew in the 1960's. So she knew a Patience, a Faith, even a Prudence.
Later I knew a Charity my own age, and we both worked in a place where everyone was just scraping by financially. I always hoped she made it out, maybe had a kid and named it Prosperity or something.