I initially misread that as the stoats of the congregants.
You definitely don’t want diseases of the stoat, but I don’t know which Bishop has that covered
Don’t worry, someone will ferret that out!
The Catholic Church has a saint for every need.
Not that I could find. Francis gets the general stewardship of all animals.
When our mass spectrometer was acting up, I looked it up and yes…there is a patron saint of lab equipment. Well, he’s the patron saint of scientists so lab equipment falls under his jurisdiction.
St. Albertus Magnus. We put up a poster.
There’s a lot of those general-purpose broad patron saints, that are officially declared, but the folks working in any given field generally have their own notion of who the real, and specific, patron saints are. Who might not even be canonized yet: Ordinary people recognizing someone as a saint is the start of the process of canonization.
Sounds like he belongs in the Potterverse.
Mouseover: The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
That always raises the question of whose asterisk is it anyway?
This was one of the funnier recent XKCDs I actually LOLed.
Asterisk. Isn’t he that French comic Viking kind of guy?
Almost, but not quite. His name is Asterix (Astérix in the French original) and he is a Gaul.
But his name is a pun on asterisk indeed, just as his friend Obelix’ name is a pun on obelisk. The whole comic is full of puns.
This Asterix is René Goscinny’s (writer) and Albert Uderzo’s (illustrator).
Yeah, Asterisk and his pal Odalesque, or maybe it’s Oubliette. I forget. ;-D
Naw, naw, naw. Oubliette was the round-headed kid in The Point.
ISWYDT
Me and my Oreo, wherever we go . . .
Asterisk: *
Obelus: ÷ † ⁒ ⸓
Obelisk: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/France-000122_-_Luxor_Obelisk_(14524589927).jpg/500px-France-000122_-_Luxor_Obelisk_(14524589927).jpg
Goscinny, how we miss thee 