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It further declares that Protestantism "inherited many heresies but also added many more" by rejecting tradition, the veneration of saints, monasticism and sacraments, and tolerating women priests and homosexual marriages.
During this time, birthdays were seen as a excellent way to transfer customs from the saint''s days to other dates not linked to the newly repudiated veneration of saints.
Basing her study largely on material evidence, Margo Todd draws attention to the survival of the cult of Saint John the Baptist in the Scottish burgh of Perth, long after John Knox thundered against "monuments to idolatry" and the kirk attempted to kill off the veneration of saints, saints' days, images, altars, and chapels.
 
 
 
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