Talk:Christingle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Christianity, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to Christianity on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. If you are new to editing Wikipedia visit the welcome page to become familiar with the guidelines. | ||
| Stub | This article has been rated as Stub-class on the quality scale. | ||
| Low | This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale. | ||
|
Assessment comments
|
|||
hi
does it have to be an orange? --88.104.114.201 00:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've never encountered one that isn't, but from the point-of-view of the symbology I don't see why you couldn't use any round fruit. -- Senji
I have a picture in the book Unitas Fratrum of 1957 that shows Inuit children at the Moravian Mission in Hopedale Labrador with Christingles made from turnips. This is confirmed by Sister Kate Hettasch, a Moravian missionary in Labrador for many years, in an article in a German Moravian publication. But when I told the story, one of our Inuit pastors was most insistent that this was not the case. He was a fairly young pastor and may not have been aware of the event. I suspect that the picture was from the period in World War II when the mission was cut off from both Germany and England and the turnops were a case of "making a virtue out of necessity".70.248.132.120 (talk) 21:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)Pastor R
