March Madness is coming, but Lent Madness has alre... ...here 32 contestants from the Catholic Calendar of Saints duke it out for the Golden Halo. Matchups are pos... ...e winner. Guest bloggers give their case for each saint , in case you know nothing about them. The 2018 br... ...d Miscellaneous.The tournam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/25/Lent-Madness/St. Guinefort does not appear in the official cano... ...Neuville, France. And that's where he earned his sainthood .While both the parents and the nurse were absent,... ...protection, and the dog became locally known as a saint . The Catholic Church was not happy about that. Th... ...the story of Guinefort a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/24/The-Cult-of-Guinefort/There's a saint for everything, even murderers (although our sour... ...erers"). St. Julian the Hospitaller is the patron saint of clowns and circus workers, innkeepers, fiddle... .... St. Julian's story is one of 15 Unusual Patron Saints you can read about at Mental Floss....
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/06/01/The-Patron-Saint-of-Murderers/Cosmas and Damian were twin brothers and physician... ...heir Christian beliefs in 287 CE, and then became saints . Hardly anything else is known about them, but a... ...in the text of an incunabula from the life of the saints , which appeared in Augsburg in 1489, as follows:... ...did not help.Once in a drea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/02/Third-Century-Leg-Transplant/A Brazilian grandmother has an icon in her home that she prays to every day. Gabriela Brandao noticed and asked about it. The elderly woman said she was praying to St. Anthony. Brandao took a close look at the figure and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/07/Grandma-Accidentally-Prays-to-Elrond/Pope John Paul II nominated Saint Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the internet, although the Vatican has not off... ...m so …yet. These things take time. Why St. Saint Isidore? Saint Isidore wrote a 20 book opus Etymolog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/18/The-Patron-Saint-of-the-Internet/Today is the feast day of St. Lawrence, who tradit... ...s side is done.” St. Lawrence is now the patron saint of cooks, which may be a nod to his famous sense... ...r. What will Catholics eat today in honor of the saint ’s feast day? Some traditions call for cold cuts... .... Smithsonian has the story,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/the-feast-of-st-lawrence/Trigger Finger of Santa GuerraWhen I die and becom... ...igger Finger of Santa GuerraWhen I die and become Saint Neatorama, I'd like sculptor Al Farrow to make me... ...dicated to preserving the body parts of fictional saints .http://www.alfarrow.com/reliquaries/ - as suggest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/21/al-farrows-guns-ammo-reliquaries/You might know the name Cabrini – Cabrini-Green... ...the day Mother Cabrini was canonized (made into a saint ) by Pope Pius XII and was made the patron saint of immigrants due to her work with Italian immigr... ...ons, places and ailments that are assigned patron saints are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/eight-patron-saints-you-may-or-may-not-need/
