Our Patron Saint posts
Newsweek The blast killed at least 14 people, including five children, as the town of San Isidro prepared for its namesake saint's day.
106 months ago
HuffPost News “Though he is of course the patron saint of Ireland, for many people around the globe, he’s also a symbol of, indeed the patron of, immigrants."
108 months ago
Getty Images Pets of all kinds fill Spanish churches for a blessing on the Day of Saint Anthony:
110 months ago
Getty Images A man rides a horse through the fire at 'Las Luminarias' Festival in San Bartolome de Pinares in honor of Saint Antony the Abbot, the patron saint of animals.The tradition, which is hundreds of years old, is meant to purify and protect the animal dur
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122 months ago
Daily Mail Saint Maria Goretti is the patron saint of chastity, rape victims
125 months ago
Jezebel "The feminism that people see today is from a white feminist mirror" - Sandra Cisneros
126 months ago
National Geographic They may be eight centuries old, but the words and acts of ecology's patron saint resonate in this era of environmental crisis, one nature lover argues.
126 months ago
Christopher Blackington NDT was actually wrong about something. Bill Gates is NOT the patron saint of nerds, he, NDT, is the one and only patron saint of nerds.
131 months ago
Washington Post Prefer to hide in the bathroom during Easter? There's a saint for you.
132 months ago
John Trotsky So....I'm reading up on patron saints....because I just like knowing a bunch of useless shit....I'm like Cliff Claven. It's interesting that many Saints pull double duty. For instance St. Valentine was also the patron saint of epilepsy. Had the pharm
Read more ... aceutical lobby beaten out the candy and cards lobby....we'd all be giving out boxes of Dilantin and Phenabarbitol, emblazoned with little messages like you give me the shakes. Picture your girlfriend wearing a gold necklace with a brain that has a lesion on it instead of a heart. The most interesting one is Santa....did you know St. Nicholas is also the patron saint of prostitutes? Picture the Mall Santa surrounded by whores instead of elves. "What would you like this year Bobby?" "A dirty Sanchez? Perhaps a nice rusty trombone?"
133 months ago
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