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TODAY IS SAINT CASIMIR's DAY

 
 
Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 03:28 am
Quaff a Pivo, eat a golumpki and gnosh on a Krusciki. Then check your LDL.
St Casimir is the patron saint of off-track betting (bet you didnt know that)

Discuss your favorite saint in the space provided.





 
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 03:59 am
@farmerman,
I haven't got a favourite Saint, I'm flexible.
Call on them as you need them, they're open all hours.

Today it's Saint Blaise as I've a terrible sore throat.
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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 04:10 am
I'm going to start praying to St Dymphna for certain individuals on this site and trump too , see if it helps.
farmerman
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 04:45 am
@eurocelticyankee,
I remember getting my neck waxed with bent candles on ST Blaise Day. She was the patron saint of phlegm?
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farmerman
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 04:47 am
@eurocelticyankee,
Ive never hrd of St Dymphna. Of What is she (I assume via the feminine ening) the patron saint
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 04:57 am
@farmerman,
Blaise, was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia. According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron combs, and beheaded.
During his lifetime, St Blaise was best known for the miraculous healing of a child who was choking to death on a fishbone, hence his other role as the patron saint of sore throats.


Saint Dymphna is a Catholic and Orthodox saint. According to tradition, she lived in the 7th century and was the daughter of a pagan Irish king and his Christian wife. She was murdered by her father. The story of Dymphna was first recorded in the 13th century by a canon of the Church of St. Aubert at Cambrai, France.
Dymphna is the patron saint of the nervous, emotionally disturbed, mentally ill, and those who suffer neurological disorders – and, consequently, of psychologists, psychiatrists, and neurologists.


I hadn't heard of either of them but I knew Dymphna must be Irish as it's the only place I've heard the name used.

All of above is Wiki based so .......
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 05:20 am
I'm going to be incredibly parochial and go for Swithun. He's a local lad, interred at Winchester Cathedral.

https://i1.wp.com/www.hampshire-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/027-2-001.jpg?resize=593%2C791
Legend has it that if rain falls on St Swithun's bridge on St Swithun's Day, (15th July), it will rain for 40 days, which isn't saying much in Winchester.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/images/2664332.jpg?display=1&htype=100000&type=responsive-gallery
lmur
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 05:45 am
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:

I'm going to be incredibly parochial and go for Swithun. He's a local lad, ...


Only a matter of time before Klopp snaps him up, then.
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 06:20 am
@lmur,
Here's your man Imur.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWPMnWaA2U
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 06:31 am
@lmur,
That's a sore point, they've already got Shakespeare.

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jespah
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 06:48 am
Eva Marie Saint.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001693/
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjg4NDU4OTI4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODYxNjk0MQ@@._V1_UY317_CR5,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 06:55 am
@lmur,
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/St_Mary%27s_Stadium_Panorama.JPG/1000px-St_Mary%27s_Stadium_Panorama.JPG

Of course this is my favourite saint, St Mary's.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 06:57 am
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:

Quaff a Pivo, eat a golumpki and gnosh on a Krusciki. Then check your LDL.
St Casimir is the patron saint of off-track betting (bet you didnt know that)



Nosh, without the g, is a slang term for a blow job,(bet you didn't know that.)
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George
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 07:09 am
There is a church not far from me named for St. Eulalia.
I think she should be the patroness of yodeling.
McGentrix
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 07:39 am
Had kielbasa and pirogi for dinner last night, does that still count?

St Quiteria is one of my favorite saints. Her and St. Nicholas...
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 03:09 pm
@George,
Quote:
named for St. Eulalia.
I think she should be the patroness of yodeling.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZDwIKYF4w
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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 03:16 pm
@McGentrix,
Saint Quiteria was a Second-century virgin martyr about whom nothing is certain except her name and her cult.

McGentrix
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 05:02 pm
@eurocelticyankee,
eurocelticyankee wrote:

Saint Quiteria was a Second-century virgin martyr about whom nothing is certain except her name and her cult.

You didn't source your direct quote from wikipedia...
farmerman
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 05:10 pm
@McGentrix,
her what??
McGentrix
 
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Reply Tue 26 Mar, 2019 11:37 pm
@farmerman,
Not from wikipedia...

Quote:
St Quiteria was one of nine sisters all born at the same time (nonuplets). The nine girls’ mother was a lady of high rank and she was disgusted that she had given birth to nine children like a common animal and even more so that she had nine daughters and no son (son’s were far more valuable). In a fit of rage, she demanded that her nurse take the babies and drown them in the river. The nurse couldn’t do it so she took them to a remote village where the girls grew up together. Then things get really weird. They formed a nonuplet warrior gang.

The girls were all good Christians and their gang was formed to travel around breaking Christians out of jail. They spent a number of years in this task (and smashing Roman idols) until they were caught and returned to their father, who recognized them. He told them all to marry good Roman pagans but they refused and broke out of jail. Then the real badass began. They waged a guerilla war against the Roman Empire. Eventually, the girls were all killed or died (Quiteria was beheaded) and along with Quiteria, two of her sisters Marina and Liberata are saints.
 

 
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