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from reddit [1]: * Saint Bartholomew was skinned alive - he is the patron saint of butcher, tanners, book binders etc. * John the Apostle was boiled alive - h
by legohead 8y ago
from reddit [1]:
* Saint Bartholomew was skinned alive - he is the patron saint of butcher, tanners, book binders etc.
* John the Apostle was boiled alive - he is the patron saint of burn victims
* Simon the Zealot was sawed in half - he is the patron saint of sawyers, lumberjacks and curriers (leather tanners who specialize in shaping and stretching leather)
* St Sebastian was shot full of arrows, recovered, an beaten to death by a bunch of clubs by the emperor's soldiers - he's the saint of archers and soldiers
* St Barbara was tortured and then beheaded, when they were carting her body off, the cart was struck by lighting, catching fire - she's the patron saint of firefighters, artillerymen, and those who work with explosives
* St Lawrence got cooked to death over hot coals. After being roasted for a while, he told his executioner "I'm done on this side, turn me over" - patron saint of cooks and barbeque and comedians
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b9u3d8/statue_of_saint_bartholomew_an_early_christian/ek7bzg6/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b9u3d8/statue_of_sain...
- jcoffland 8y agoHere's the Wikipedia on St. Lawrence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence
- hyperion2010 8y agoit was the result of a mistaken transcription, the accidental omission of the letter "p" – "by which the customary and solemn formula for announcing the death of a martyr – passus est ["he suffered," that is, was martyred] – was made to read assus est [he was roasted]." The real roast is always in the comments. I like to imagine that it wasn't so much a transcription error as it was a bored monk looking for some variety.
- pm90 8y agoThis seems like Polytheism to me. I find it deeply amusing how much Mankind loves polytheism and yet most of today's major religions are monotheistic.
- AceJohnny2 8y agoRight? Patron saints are such an interesting and weird compromise to polytheism.
- User23 8y agoCatholics believe that all mankind is made in the image of God. The saints are just the ones who turned out best and we authoritatively know made it to heaven, and thus have achieved the perfection we all had before the Fall. Veneration is not worship, it's more like asking an experienced mentor with access to excellent resources for help.
- int_19h 8y agoThis all is true as a matter of Church doctrine, but the actual practice among worshippers is rather different (not just in Catholicism - same thing among the Orthodox).
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- dragonwriter 8y ago> Catholics believe that all mankind is made in the image of God. The saints are just the ones who turned out best and we authoritatively know made it to heaven There's a number of problems with that explanation, the three most obvious of which are Ss. Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel.
- User23 8y agoI was speaking of mankind.
- dragonwriter 8y agoBut the cults of saints aren't limited to those saints that were ever part of mankind, so a theological rationalization of such cults that only applies to human saints doesn't address the issue.
- askvictor 8y agoSo what did Saint Isidore suffer to become the patron saint of the Internet? Get trolled?
- rzzzt 8y ago56k dial-up connection falling back to 9.6kbps due to line noise.
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- tim333 8y agoHe seems to have pioneered an early version of Wikipedia >His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia which assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost.
- taurath 8y agoIt became so popular that the originals weren’t though highly enough to be copied, and were lost. Wonder if there’s any parallels here. That time as Christianity was forming itself is so interesting to look at if you were raised in a particular sect - the idea that there is any truly singular deity-preferred way to live seems laughable given how many differences of opinion there was even in the earliest church - frequently the only justification is that because a set of ideas succeeded it must be right, in a sort of might makes right sense.
- andrepd 8y ago>St Lawrence According to Wikipedia his story is apocryphal.
- TomMckenny 8y agoSt Sebastian is also the gay saint, boyfriend of Maximian or Diocletian or both. And while I imagine this is not the canonical myth, it is certainly more fabulous.
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoSaint Nicolas (the historical Turkish man, not Santa) gave money to poor families that would have otherwise been forced to sell their daughters into prostitution. He is thus the patron saint of prostitutes.
- beenBoutIT 8y ago'Jesus Evil Green' aka Jesús Malverde, the narco-saint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Malverde https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Malverde
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