Wasn't St. Christopher de-sainted for being not real?
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Trudy Booth - Dec 26, 2007 5:52:09 pm PST #9265 of 10001
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Kristen - Dec 26, 2007 5:53:23 pm PST #9266 of 10001
I always get St. Anthony and St. Christoper mixed up, actually. The only one I remember is St. Jude for lost causes.
St. Anthony = Patron Saint of Lost Things
St. Jude = Patron Saint of Lost Causes
St. Christopher = Patron Saint of Travelers aka the Might Not Even Have Been a Real Guy Saint
ETA: HA! X-post. His feast day was removed from the calendar but he is still a saint.
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2007 5:55:44 pm PST #9267 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is there a patron saint for nonbelievers?
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2007 5:56:33 pm PST #9268 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wasn't St. Christopher de-sainted for being not real?
That sucks. It's not his fault he's not real....
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2007 6:04:04 pm PST #9269 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
meara - Dec 26, 2007 6:11:56 pm PST #9270 of 10001
Well, the patron saint of doubters is St. Joseph, but I can't seem to find one of nonbelievers (or heathens!). The patron saint of souls in purgatory is "Anima Sola, Our Lady Mt. Carmel"
Steph L. - Dec 26, 2007 6:12:17 pm PST #9271 of 10001
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Wasn't St. Christopher de-sainted for being not real?
It wasn't that Some Dude Named Christopher didn't exist; it's that the Big Important Saintly Story That Got Him Saintified (you know, turned stones into jam, healed a million orphan puppies in one day) didn't really happen. IIRC, what was alleged to have happened (but then later was decided by, I don't know, the CSI Vatican division) was that Chris carried the Christ child across a river or something.
Get it? Safe travel?
Sometimes the patron saint thing overreaches, IMO.
Kristen - Dec 26, 2007 6:13:24 pm PST #9272 of 10001
CSI Vatican division
I smell a pilot...
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2007 6:14:44 pm PST #9273 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The patron saint of souls in purgatory is "Anima Sola, Our Lady Mt. Carmel"
Mmm... caramel....
healed a million orphan puppies in one day
As dramatized in the Disney hit 1,000,001 Dalmatians....
msbelle - Dec 26, 2007 6:14:51 pm PST #9274 of 10001
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