Is it true that the Catholic used runes centuries ago? Thank you?

answer: as an alphabet, it was what the locals of Northern Europe were familiar with. There's no evidence that Catholics used the runes in their original form - for divination and energy workings except for wardings - symbols to help protect buildings, boundaries, etc.





Is it true that the Catholic used runes centuries ago? Thank you?
Prior to the condemnation of runes by the Catholic Church, the Teutonic people of Europe used runes in ritual magic, divination and oracle consultation. The suppression of all non-Christian activities during the Middle Ages forced all magical practices underground.


We do use the Rosary (pray beads), which were and are found in many religious beliefs worldwide. But the Rosary is used as a pray and helps keep the mind focused, not as a system of telling future events or the conjuring of spirits. (Good or bad)


Is it true that the Catholic used runes centuries ago? Thank you?
The term ';Rune'; is a coverall term for a few different alphabets. Some of the most well-known of these are the Norse Runes, which were used in what is now Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. There, they were used for standard writing of the language the same way we use the Latin alphabet now. And at the time, if you were a Christian there, you were a Catholic (there were no Protestants yet and the Orthodox churches weren't out there). So yes, the Catholics there used runes.





In fact, I've seen (with my own eyes!) bible verses written in runes carved into some of the oldest churches in Norway, up to 1000 years old.
Runes are generally Norse in origin... I can't imaging Catholics using them for anything.





Addendum: james: Irish, you say? That's interesting. I'd've speculated they would trace their origins through to the Jutes of northern Europe.
The Irish used runes and the earliest Christians probably used them.





Runes, you do realize, are just another alphabet, right?