# Can you identify this saint? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643 "2006-07-31T01:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![XaMcQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f9ae1b/32.png) [@XaMcQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XaMcQ)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/1 "2006-07-31T01:58:21Z")
And tell me why he’s showing off that tiny little cut? Was he martyred by blood poisoning from a nick after being forced to shave his legs by Infidels? [link](http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/archive/arch44.html) ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/2 "2006-07-31T02:07:38Z")
Possibly [St. Peregrine](http://www.servite.org/pereg.htm), patron of those suffering from cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/3 "2006-07-31T02:09:59Z")
Could be St. Giles [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/saintg15.htm](http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/saintg15.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/4 "2006-07-31T02:11:09Z")
Dang, hit post too quickly. The info for St. Giles specifically mentions a wounded leg. ---
**Author:** ![Dracona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Dracona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dracona)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/5 "2006-07-31T02:18:48Z")
[Benardino Realino?](http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=391) He was a Jesuit priest. [During his last illness, blood from a leg wound was collected in vials …](http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0703bern.htm) ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/6 "2006-07-31T02:26:18Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > Possibly [St. Peregrine](http://www.servite.org/pereg.htm), patron of those suffering from cancer. I think this is correct. Do a google image search on Saint Peregrine and you will get several similar images, such as the one on this page: [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintp03.htm](http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintp03.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/7 "2006-07-31T02:31:08Z")
I’m just pleased to find another fan of the ancient Inexplicable Object of the Week Archive. Check out the other objects. Some of them are really funny. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/8 "2006-07-31T02:31:18Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > Possibly [St. Peregrine](http://www.servite.org/pereg.htm), patron of those suffering from cancer. Here’s a link to google images. It must be St. Peregrine, [http://images.google.com/images?q=St.+Peregrine&btnG=Search&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=](http://images.google.com/images?q=St.+Peregrine&btnG=Search&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=) ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/9 "2006-07-31T02:33:33Z")
I’d go with the consensus on St Peregrine. There was a similar statue in the chapel at my sister’s school. ---
**Author:** ![XaMcQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f9ae1b/32.png) [@XaMcQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XaMcQ)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-saint/366643/10 "2006-07-31T02:58:51Z")
Thanks. Looks like St. Peregrine, all right. Hmm. Is this uncorrupted body on display someplace? I’d be really curious to let the Mythbusters at this guy.