Since it is the Feast of Saint Jerome, and I found the most amazing picture back in August, I’m putting it up here again. It’s from a museum in Vienna, painted by Rubens, Saint Jerome in the Vestments of a Cardinal Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie Room XIII

This picture is rare in that an art historian friend says Saint Jerome is usually shown as irritable. In that vein here’s a link to more about Saint Jerome plus a poem by Phyllis McGinley at the end of the post. It’s quite fun.

https://happycatholic.blogspot.com/2020/09/feast-day-of-st-jerome-thunderer.html

If you would like a super rabbit hole, today is also the feast day of Saint Gregory the Illuminator. He was a tremendous missionary to Armenia and New Advent has a very interesting description of the Armenian Church. It was written before the Armenian genocide. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07023a.htm It gives a very cool account of the life of Saint Gregory, and then points out that there are a lot of Golden Legends about him. Wikipedia has all of them and they are quite exciting.

On a personal note I had physical therapy three times in the last six days and I’m mentally worn out. Yes, mentally. My brain has to instruct my legs to shift weight constantly, and they are rebellious. It astonishes me how much mental effort goes with the physical.