This blog has potential to be both more entertaining and inspirational...
*For my Catholic friends and readers: this post is not making fun of Catholicism, and I don't want you to be offended in any way, but if you ARE, straighten me out and I apologize up front, here.
This morning, just out of curiosity, I tried looking up the patron saint of accounting. I've been gnashing my teeth over the school books and expenditures, and wondered if there even was such a thing. I'm familiar with St. Francis of Assisi and St. Christopher, but that's about it.
Sure enough, there's a patron saint of accounting; Matthew, the apostle. The website I looked at didn't specify why he was chosen, so I'm going to have to do a little more digging on his qualifications. I've come to the conclusion that everyone is more qualified than I am in the area of accounting....
Scrolling down the page, I was astonished at the various saints and what they were patrons of! I'm not making this up, and I'm not making fun, mind you. It's truly interesting.
There's a patron saint for abdominal pains (as well as appendicitis, which would qualify, I guess), St. Erasmus; a patron saint of art dealers, St. John the Apostle; 18 saints for bachelors (I won't list them all); a patron saint of bartenders, St. Amand; a patron saint of cats, St. Gertrude of Nivelles, and the list goes on and on. I only made it through the patron saints of fishermen.
The website I went to, catholicpatronsaint.com, didn't give any background whatsoever for the reasons these were the saints for the particular situation or occupation. I'll have to do a little more research on that. And I'm not certain it's the most comprehensive list of saints, but it certainly seemed to have quite a few.
I go to a community Bible church, but have quite a few good Catholic friends. (They are both good Catholics and good friends.) We've never broached the subject of saints, but I think I'm going to have to call Thelma G. and get the low-down on them. The saints, that is...not the low-down on Thelma. Although, if any of you HAVE the lowdown on Thelma, please contact me!
See? More inspirational, more entertaining.
3 comments:
I just put it all in Ones' hands... It eliminates the middle man/woman....
Vous vous promènerez aujourd'hui ?
Are you taking a walk today?
I really am trying to brush up on French... thanks for the starter word!
Non, merci! Je suis en train de faire la vaisselle, la place.
No, thank you! I am doing dishes, instead.
(Doesn't EVERYTHING sound fancier in French? It's even prettier to read....sigh....)
I have to get busy with my French course. I can read and understand more than I can spit out.
I don't pray to saints, either, but I find it so interesting that there are so many saints for so many different, odd situations. Such as appendicitis...who KNEW there was a patron saint for appendicitis? Who came UP with that?
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