Saint Martin is one of the saints that everyone thinks they know. He was a Roman soldier who cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar. Then he discovers that the beggar was actually Jesus himself. Martin gives up his life in the army, becomes a hermit, a reluctant bishop, and a symbol [...]
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All Hallows’ Eve or the Feast of Saint Wolfgang!
The story of Saint Wolfgang, whose feast day coincides with All Hallows’ Eve, is equal parts inspiration and dismay for me. He lived eleven hundred years ago and was part of a great flourishing of holiness in the portion of Germany/Austria where he was active. That's very inspiring. He’s part of a trio of saints [...]
October 17 — Saint Ignatius of …
Today is the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch. I went looking for images that included him and found a picture of Saint Ignatius Loyola first, because I had been careless in my prompt. Here it is. https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/viewer/M.1975.03.P On the Norton Simon website it's not listed in the public domain, but it is very beautiful [...]
Eye candy — October, not from the Freer Art Gallery
I enjoyed perusing the online art collection from the Freer Art Gallery in DC the other day. It is called the Arthur Sackler, etc, etc, something or other, but it was the Freer fifty years ago. It is actually part of the Smithsonian so that's where you find the public domain pictures. The rules for [...]
A saint to keep me company
My physical therapy is causing an intense struggle between my left leg and my right. It’s not … pleasant. However, the saint for today has a story that reminds me how easy my life really is. October 3 is the feast day of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. That is such a mouthful of a name [...]
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