Luckily this Sunday past the Pope brought three new Saints up from the Minors. The Blesseds Daniele Comboni, Arnold Janssen and Josef Freinademetz are bright, shiny new Saints. So feel free to pray to them. Before they get all jaded and full of themselves.
You know how Saints get. Just try to get a hold of Frank (either one, Assisi or Xavier) or Val or Lizzy Ann Seton (if you have a thing for girl Saints). They’re always just too busy. Bastard Saints.
Rue, you see, part of the problem with the Francises having such a full docket is that people unfairly think of them as softies who will be easily swayed. OTOH all those Thomases (Didimus, Becket, Aquinas, Moore) are sitting idle because people are intimidated that they will be grilled on the plausibility, logic or legality of their petition…
Hey! I don’t control when news breaks, I’m just your Trusty Reporter. You can’t expect the Pope to bend his schedule to mine, can you? (But it would have been nice if his people gave me the “heads up”.)
Although he’s pretty shifty. He’s also known as:
Anthony of Egypt
Anthony the Great
Father of Cenobites
Father of Western Monasticism
St. Tony also has his fingers in many pies. He patronizes
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[li]amputees[/li][li]animals[/li][li]basket makers[/li][li]basket weavers[/li][li]brushmakers[/li][li]butchers[/li][li]cemetery workers[/li][li]domestic animals[/li][li]eczema[/li][li]epilepsy[/li][li]epileptics[/li][li]ergotism (Saint Anthony’s fire)[/li][li]erysipelas[/li][li]gravediggers[/li][li]graveyards[/li][li]hermits[/li][li]hogs[/li][li]Hospitallers[/li][li]monks[/li][li]pigs[/li][li]relief from pestilence[/li][li]skin diseases[/li][li]skin rashes[/li][li]swine[/li][li]swineherds[/li][/ul]
So make sure you say right up front what you need intercession on. It’ll save everyone some time.
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*Originally posted by Rue DeDay *
St. Tony also has his fingers in many pies. He patronizes
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[li]amputees[/li][li]basket makers[/li][/QUOTE]
[a href=“http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintg06.htm”]St.Gerard[/a]–patron saint of motherhood and expectant woman has the same name as I do. Isn’t that cool. Perhaps I was destined to be pregnant all along because I had a saint sharing my married last name and silently cheering me on.