Yeah, I’m West Coast, but it was exactly the same. It was very unusual and theatrical.
Speaking of saints, we collected holy cards like trading cards. Everybody wanted either St. Lawrence or St. Sebastian. St. Michael would do in a pinch.
I take it that neither of you have choked on a fishbone?
Ah, St. Lawrence, the patron saint of cooks, barbecues, and comedians, being martyred by being roasted to death on a gridiron, quipping “Turn me over, I’m done on this side!”
St. Sebastian was a fan favorite because he was particularly gory, having been shot full of arrows (although he survived that, finally being beaten to death with cudgels.
St. Michael was good because he was such a devil-smiting badass.
St Blaise doesn’t have a connection to Candlemas, which is the celebration of the presentation of Jesus in the Temple. The Nunc dimittis canticle is part of Luke’s account.
Exactly right on all three!
Nope. Unfortunately there’s no saint that offers protection from noogies, Indian burns, or Sister Michael’s ruler.
Ignorance fought. But what do candles have to do with the presentation in the temple? And the connection between candles and St Blaise is a coincidence? Because he’s Candlemas-adjacent? he owned a candle once? It’s all very confusing. 
kewuul.
No. See my post #9660. Another legend about St. Blaise is that he miraculously saved an old woman’s pig from a wolf. When he was later thrown in prison, she brought him food and candles to light his cell.
The association of candles with the Presentation at the Temple comes from the reaction of St. Simeon when he saw Jesus:
But is there one who offer protection against swirlies?
As a non-catholic (who eats fish carefully) - serious question asked in ignorance: were the candles lit?
j
No.
Thank you. In an odd way, that almost looks sensible.
j
It looks to me like he’s about to cut her head off with a big pair of scissors.
Not sure the pictured ritual would be effective (my recollection was that we had the candles jammed up against our throats).
No, it really doesn’t. Those candles don’t look even a little bit like scissors.
They represent scissors. Everybody knows Catholics ritually cut the heads off of children, then drink their blood and eat their flesh in pies. (At least, that’s what I get from some fundamentalist ‘Christians’. 
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I had no idea Hillary was catholic.
My first thought wasn’t scissors, it was swords that he would swipe apart and double-slit the throat.
Who knew that Count Dooku was Catholic.
