Toad in the Hole

1 | By: Sally Mack on May 14, 2008 at 10:22 AM

This one even sort of makes sense but I’m surprised, surprised!, that you didn’t know it. 

Since St. Veronica supposedly wiped the face of Christ with a veil while he was on the way to Calvary, the cloth was imprinted with the image of Christ’s face.  (from www.catholic.org website)

Us photographers needed a patron saint.  (We did?  We do?)

2 | By: kathy a. on May 15, 2008 at 07:46 AM

my dad was the lapsed catholic in our family.  i think of myself as second-generation, since the traditional guilt was passed on intact.

“patron saint of photography” just kills me!  is there a patron saint of inept computer users?  of ipods?  what about telemarketers?

3 | By: Sally Mack on May 15, 2008 at 09:50 AM

Kathy, doggone, you’re good:  St. Isidore of Seville is the patron saint of computers, computer users, computer programmers, Internet. (from
http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/isidores.htm)

St. Clare is the patron saint of television.

Ron, lapsed Catholics have a patron saint, too:  St. Monica.
(both from http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Nov2002/Feature2.asp#F3)

Who says Catholicism isn’t keeping up with the times?

4 | By: Ron Sullivan on May 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM

What’s really scary is that I know why those characters are patron saints of what they’re patron saints of. Well, Isidore, eh, that’s a stretch. Then again, so’s Clare.

And now you know why I pruned my forename at both ends.

Mostly I consider St. Dymphna my patron. Except for the beheading bit, well, maybe if my sinuses get any more annoying.

5 | By: Ron Sullivan on May 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM

I’m thinking about the patron saint of telemarketers. Beelzebub, maybe. Or Thomas Aquinas; it’s serve him right.

Back when I did such things, I wrote a poem about Saint Sithney, the patron saint of mad dogs.

6 | By: kathy a. on May 15, 2008 at 12:44 PM

is beezelbub a saint?

i totally get st. monica, sally, on accounta santa monica CA is near ground zero for self-absorption center of the universe.  happily, most recovering catholics i know don’t live there and are better people for it.

7 | By: Ellen on June 27, 2008 at 01:39 PM

Hey, I DID know that!