Saints

St Kevin must have had a strong bladder!

Love Hildegarde of Bingen's music! Very restful.

A Royston Cave tour guide and my friend the vicar told me on Wednesday.

She did not exist. The church acknowledged this for a few years and then put her back on the list again because of public opinion. But she is a myth.

I thought St Catherine was done for somehow on a wheel. She must have existed to have given us the Catherine Wheel!

I've got several bits of music composed by H of B

merlot!

Perhaps sitting on his cold garden bench had given him piles.

I always thought St. Fiacre was the patron saint of gardening but then maybe that should be St. Alan?

During my strict Catholic upbringing I was always particularly fascinated
by two saints. St Don Bosco, an Italian priest who dedicated his life to
helping and education street children in the 1800s and St Therese of Lisieux who entered the Carmelite order of nuns, also in the 1800s. I don't know why these two in particular, as there were many saints held up as examples to us in those days.

I still think the piles one is funny. Is that just my childish mind?

Yes miceElf Hildegard of Bingen was one of my thoughts. I will keep looking.

I did a couple of poetry writing courses a few years ago. I wrote a lot at the time but now the muse seems to have left me.

St Catherine never existed. Maybe you could work that into your poem!

Who fed and watered Kevin while he did this? How did he go to the toilet? Wouldn't he have had to keep his hand still until the hatchlings fledged?
Not the most believable of saints' stories, but at least it isn't gruesome.

If you want a serious suggestion I'd go either for St Hilda of Whitby who in 649 became Abbess of Whitby, a double house of monks and nuns over which she ruled wisely for 22 years. Or, given your interest in music, Hildegarde of Bingen, she is a Doctor of the Church, a very learned and wise woman, a philosopher, mystic and distinguished composer. She also wrote botanical works and medicinal texts and supervised exquisite miniature illuminations. Right up your street, I would say.

This list might help you choose Mishap. I have my own particular favourite.

listverse.com/2007/10/12/top-10-unusual-patron-saints/

George, patriotic

Also,St.Francis is very well known, being the patron saint of animals, but such a lovely saint to write a poem about.

I suspect St. Christopher has been written about but as so many of us travel so much, he would be good for a Gransnetter.

That one has already been written Mishap,jingle and Ana

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

And the dog

St Bernard, him of the pass.

Some years since I was there, j08, but I think it's not far from Abbotsbury,
where the swannery is. It really is worth a visit, being in such a lovely spot on a hillside. It is definitely south Dorset.
I am useless at posting links on here, but if you type 'St.Catherine's Chapel in Dorset' into Google, I imagine it will give you all the information you need.
Good luck, I hope you make it.

henetha would love to know where that chapel is. Would love to visit there. And take DD2 .