The Obscure Saint Blogging is trickier than you think. It’s a challenge to find an appropriate saint–obscure, yet interesting, enough information to write a good post, but not so much that it could take me a week to read it all. This week I realized, halfway through, that there are two Saint Maximinuses. One killed a [...]
Archive for June, 2008
The Time I Almost Met George Carlin, But Didn’t
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Like the rest of the world, I was sad to hear that George Carlin had died. I have a copy of Brain Droppings which was read so heavily it barely survived. Pages are falling out left and right. My dad rented one of his HBO specials when I was thirteen or so, and it [...]
Saints Sergius and Bacchus
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged gay marriage, gay saints, gays, lesbians, lgbtq, martyrs, Roman Empire, soldiers on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This past Monday, California became an even better place than it already was, because gays and lesbians started getting married legally. So, in honor of that fact, this week we’re talking about Saints Sergius and Bacchus, officially the patron saints of Christian nomads, and unofficially the patron saints of gay marriage and military gays.
I, for [...]
Just don’t forget the trail mix
Posted in Religion, tagged end times, four stars, religion sure is lucrative, the rapture on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Probably almost everyone reading this has already heard about YouveBeenLeftBehind.com. It’s about the rapture–you know, that special time in a Christian’s life when the End Times come and he or she gets whisked on up to heaven. This fancy little website will email your friends and family after the Rapture has taken place, so they [...]
St. Vincent de Paul
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged douchebags in the name of God, France, Richmond, saints, slaves, the poor, the South on June 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Since I’m at my parents’ house right now, in lovely Spotsylvania, Virginia where I grew up, I thought I’d do a Southern-type saint. There’s no patron saint of the Civil War that I can find. I did, however, see someone call the Civil War the “War of Southern Liberation” for the first time in my [...]
St. Etheldreda
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged abesses, maidens, Old English, political marriages, queens, sexless unions on June 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yeah, I’m late this week. Also I haven’t posted anything since the last Obscure Saint Blog.
St. Etheldreda, nicknamed St. Audrey, is one of a great many Anglo-Saxon saints from long long ago whose real names are completely impossible to think about, let alone pronounce: Æthelthryth. Yeah, you try it.
She was one of the Wuffings of [...]
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