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And welcome to Pints with Aquinas. Today on the show we have Gideon Lazar, who was raised in a somewhat Jewish family, became

orthodox, and then in a big part, I suppose, due to the apparitions of our Lady at Fatima,

became a Catholic.

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will put up later on today Gideon lovely to have you on the show thank you it's so great to be on

yeah tell us a bit what would be fun is if we summed up your story in like a couple of minutes because

i know there's a lot to it but just so people kind of get a gist like a bird's eye view, and then we can maybe go into it and maybe put that a little closer.

Yeah, there you are. Sweet. Yeah. So I was raised in a sort of non-religious Jewish family,

sort of mildly religious, you know. Think of sort of like Christmas Easter Catholics.

Ah. So around Passover, you couldn't eat like a single piece of bread, um, around like Yom Kippur, like don't drink

a single drop of water the whole day.

Oh wow.

But like around like a normal day, it's totally fine if you eat bacon.

I had to go to a like religious school every Sunday morning, but we almost never attended

Saturdays like actual Shabbat

services.

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