St. Gertrude-Patron Saint of cats?

Factual Questions
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What is the story about St. Gertrude being the patron saint of cats?

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Wikipedia says it’s a “Recently popular cult”:

The assignment of Gertrude as patron of cats and the designation of the cat as one of her attributes seems to date from the 1980s. It is not mentioned at all in Madou’s extensive historical survey from 1975. A more superficial association of Gertrude with the cat as a mouse hunter goes further back. Her veneration as protector against rats and mice dates from the early 15th century during the Black Plague and spread from Southwestern Germany to the Netherlands and Catalonia. 20th-century folkloristic research associated her with the Germanic goddess Frigg, who may have been depicted riding a cat.[40] Again, the authoritative Handbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens (1927–1942) does not verify this. The first major English-language publication presenting her as patron of the cats is a 1981 Catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

She’s mostly thought of as a patroness of sea travelers.

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I assume as patron saint of cats, she would also be the patron saint of the internet?

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The patron saint of the internet is Isidore of Seville, who tried to record everything ever known. In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared Isidore of Seville the patron saint of the internet

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Is he also the Saint of obsessive-compulsiveness?

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So we’d have to be more specific. St. Gertrude should be the patron saint of online video.

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I’ve informed my Feline Overlord that in honor of St. Gertrude, I would not be killing her today. Her response was to open one eyelid at me.

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I would advise you to do the same when you go to bed tonight.
And keep it open, all night.

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I’m not telling the Siamese one word of this.
How funny, they both opened their eyes and looked at me. They know, I swear, they read minds. I’m in real trouble now.

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Hey, the cats already know.

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Hm. One of the servers at St. Patrick’s Day mass at my church (which is a huge production) was wearing glitter cat ears. I had assumed that it was just because she’s about 10 years old, and that’s the kind of thing that girls that age do… but knowing this particular kid, it just might have been deliberate.

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See, this is one more nail in the coffin of the Catholic Church’s supposed infaillibility*. Anyone who’s ever interacted with a cat for any length of time knows perfectly well that they are of the Devil.

  • yes, yes, I know. It’s for the joke, OK ?
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I was going to post this. Mostly because I like the idea of St. Patrick described as noted snake harasser.