23 April 2007

Today is...

The feast day of the Patron Saint of:

Portugal

Georgia

Lithuania

Bulgaria

The hellenic army

Agricutural workers

Moscow

Catalonia

Aragon

Majorca

Palestinian christians

Beirut

Butchers

Freemasons

Armourers

Field workers

Horsemen

Knights

Sheperds

Saddlers

Sheep

Horses

Syphilitics

Herpes sufferers

Soldiers

Skin diseases

(possibly even same sex mariages)

Oh and England too... Poor sod must be exhausted with that lot!

6 comments:

Elizabeth-W said...

I am not up on my Saints. Thanks for the info :)
What a bummer that must be in heaven to know you're in charge of hearing prayers related to eczema all day long.
Related--isn't it nice to know babies aren't stuck in limbo anymore? Although it looks as if that wasn't ever actually "doctrine".

jams o donnell said...

I suppose it could be worse, he could be the patron saint of dysentery too!

The limbo thing was something only ever mentioned in passing at school (I went to catholic state schools. I never heard it discussed in church or elsewhere (although I did part company with the catholic church at 17!)

Steve Bates said...

What? Babies that die un-churched go to Limbaugh? Where's the outrage? Why isn't Limbaugh in jail?

<emily_litella_voice> What? Oh... limbo. Never mind! </emily_litella_voice>

jams o donnell said...

You have me there Steve... Emily litella?

Steve Bates said...

jams - Emily Litella was Gilda Radner (may she rest in peace) of Saturday Night Live, in character as an elderly woman with a hearing problem. When Emily grew outraged about something she thought she heard, and later had her error explained to her, her standard lines were "Oh... that's quite different" and (her signature, in a high-pitched, sing-song voice) "Never mind!" Radner died untimely young (42) in 1989, but left her stamp on American comedy; she is much missed. And "never mind!" has been a (presumably permanent) American idiom ever since.

jams o donnell said...

Ah thankls Steve. I just didn't get the reference. Saturday Night Live wasn one shown occasionally here and then on cable/ satellite