'saints francis' i thought. determiners are not used with titles, right? you wouldn't say THE doctor or THE saints.how about 'saints francis (roman numeral) and (roman numeral)' or did they not have an assigned number?unfortunately liszt got confused over the names himself and accidentally called peter francis of assisi. he ended up walking on the water too, i guess. also, st. francis of assisi tried to resemble Christ by telling people he was born in a stable. liszt ran with the idea and probably was using two francis's (his split personality) - the one that stood for Christ walking on the water and peter his disciple and liszt himself and his prodigious students. he always had some sort of grandiousity to his ideas. seriously he was delusional over the franciscan order, too.
it's all very mysterious to me. thanks for not getting too irate. i mean, in every religion there's some kind of humor.
OK, so try this one, then. What do you suppose would be the correct plural first person to use when writing or speaking of the Canadian musicologist Marc-André Roberge and his friend, colleague and compatriot the pianist Marc-André Hamelin - "Marc-Andrés" or "Marcs-André"?Best,Alistair