Reply #35: I never said it was a tradition.

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I only offered it as a possibility from my somewhat limited knowledge of Catholics, esp. Hispanic ones.

Thanks for chiming in, though - I'm not Catholic, and have never been Catholic, and will never be Catholic, so my knowledge is all second-hand at best, and is pretty much all Italian and Hispanic versions of Catholicism OR old-school (that is, historical Latin-based pre-1900 European Catholicism). I'm sometimes surprised by how limited my knowledge of Catholicism is; and sometimes I'm surprised by how dead on accurate I have been on some weird things... (weird to this Protestant, anyway).