Macedonian vs Albanian

[loinburger]

If you don't then you're racist against saints and/or rivers

[Elok]

He's not minor, he's THE Serbian saint, as Nina is the saint of Georgia. It's just that you come from a Western perspective, so you couldn't be realistically expected to know that.

EDIT: Actually, that makes me curious: Onodera, do the names Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Loyola or Teresa of Avila mean anything to the average Russian?

[Hauldren Collider]

Why should I be aware of some random schismatic saint from the butthole of Europe?

JK. But re: western perspective, that's my point. My upbringing was Catholic/Jewish. I have no reason to know about him at all.

[Hauldren Collider]

I'll be honest though I've always found saints to be the weirdest part of Christianity. It feels polytheistic to me. Maybe that's because I had the Jewish perspective on the other side, but whatever. In Sunday School the only saint we ever discussed at length was St. Peter, not that I really remember much from sunday school.

[Colon™]

EDIT: Actually, that makes me curious: Onodera, do the names Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Loyola or Teresa of Avila mean anything to the average Russian?

Thomas Aquinas is a saint? And who are Ignatius and Teresa?

[Ben Kenobi]

]Are we really to be expected to know the names of relatively minor Balkan saints and/or rivers?

Hey, I knew. Surprised Europeans don't understand their own culture.

[Bereta_Eder]

That was funny
Not because of the supposed animosity but because it was a funny scetch
2.06: "But they don't know..."
Those mother *****es sons of my *****

[onodera]

He's not minor, he's THE Serbian saint, as Nina is the saint of Georgia. It's just that you come from a Western perspective, so you couldn't be realistically expected to know that.

EDIT: Actually, that makes me curious: Onodera, do the names Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Loyola or Teresa of Avila mean anything to the average Russian?

Foma Akvinskiy is the most famous theologian, Ignatsiy Loyola founded the Jesuit Order. Idk who Teresa is. I'm not average, though.

[onodera]

Are we really to be expected to know the names of relatively minor Balkan saints and/or rivers?

Sava's a huge river, doofus. And St. Sava is THE Serbian saint.

[Bereta_Eder]

Isn't it possible that the saint (and the name, because it could be that the name pre-existed the saint) was at the first place named after the river?
(which I didn't know existed either, but I've heard the name Savas before)

[regexcellent]

Sava's a huge river, doofus. And St. Sava is THE Serbian saint.

Well, not *huge* by North American standards I think. But it is significant. There's a reason I'd heard of the river and not the saint, though. For whatever reason I had never made the (apparently false) connection.

[Dauphin]

Excuse me I think you mean FYROM BECAUSE MACEDONIA IS IN GREECE!

(literally the most petty international dispute in existence)

Up there with Bir Tawil, where the dispute is over who gets to NOT control the land.

[Bereta_Eder]

Glad to see they're hating albanians more

[Bereta_Eder]

BTW Savas comes from Sevastianos which means either the venerated one, or the one who venerates (I'm not sure which)
Comes from Sevas which means respect.
Or Sevastianos is where Sebastian comes from and Savas is unrelated.
Needs looking into.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

You're still an idiot. His name comes from Saint Sava, the most important Serbian saint, and the river is also named after him.

Actually, I am also a little bit idiotic. The river is not named after the saint, it's just a coincidence.

Sava - the river, actually comes from Roman - Savus, which once slavs came over became Sava, current river name.

beside that point, I can see that Sava here wins as he went to read Wiki.