Odd Saints And Things Like That

[joggerjayne]

St Richard is the patron saint of Sussex.

Not sure why we need one.

Or what he did.

Except for supposedly giving us that hymn that goes "day by day dear lord, for these three things I pray" or something like that.

Just saying.

[jno]

I think St Teresa is the patron saint of television because she used to have visions of things far away (seriously).

[DJHawkes]

Day by Day is from Godspell I think,

[bibblebub]

tv is St. Clare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_of_Assisi

[shoota]

Didn't he (St. Richard) start Virgin?

[joggerjayne]

Patron Saint of TV ... like what's on? or like your telly?

[bibblebub]

probably the same reason why St. Theresa is patron saint of anti-wrinkle cream

[shoota]

The prayer was adapted for the song "Day by Day" in the musical Godspell (1971), with music by Stephen Schwartz.[28] The words used, with a few embellishments, were based on the following from "Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition":[23]


Day by day,
Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
To see thee more clearly,
Love thee more dearly,
Follow thee more nearly,
Day by Day.[25]

[ducksie]

St fiachre is the Patron saint of gadeners and taxi drivers, taxi drivers because there used (probably still is) an hotel in Paris where the first taxi rank started and people would say, I'm gonna catch a fiachre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Fiacre
don't expect ye to open the link, but the passengers were getting the taxi's from hotel to a local hospice

[ducksie]

forgot to say, the hotel was Hotel de Saint Fiacre

[jno]

that's right, Clare, thanks Bibblebub.

There's also St Expedite at a church in New Orleans. The statue arrived in a box labelled Expedite, which was misunderstood (though some now claim he existed all along)

[FredPuli43]

And St Bruno is the patron saint of smokers, St Michael was, the now forgotten, saint of bras, until someone discovered that praying to him only gave a spiritual uplift, and St Ivel of pasteurisers.

There is nothing new in this. The Romans had penates, minor deities for the home and others for other things, so they had one for the hearth, one for the doorway, and so forth, as well as the more important deities for really important things such as war. Cynics might suggest that the early Church thought this a good idea and adopted the practice, just as it adopted Roman dates for celebrations.