Mark Weiss wrote:
>Candice: Hammer in right hand, left holding nail in place or steadying the
>boot.
>
>I guess you don't do much carpentry.
Right, not on my shoes anyway. There'd be so much broken glass
to sweep up--
Candice
>At 03:21 PM 8/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>Then there's the famous booty tale of St. Mark & the cobbler:
>>When (my name is, my name is) Evangelical M processed into the
>>city of Alexandria to be consecrated bishop (missing thumb
>>notwithstanding), one of his boots fell apart and was given to
>>a local cobbler for repair. While working on Mark's boot, tho',
>>the cobbler wounded his left hand quite badly and, as he did so,
>>uttered this "ejaculation" (a word we Catholic kids would repeatedly
>>try to get the priest to say during Catechism class): "Ah, one and
>>only God!"
>>
>>St. Mark, overhearing the cobbler as he waited for his boot so that
>>the parade could go on, ejaculated in turn: "Truly doth the Lord
>>bless my path!" Then he spat on the cobbler's injured LEFT hand and
>>healed it, instantly--which was very nice, of course, but what I've
>>always wondered is if it was _necessary_, given the low odds of any
>>cobbler's being left-handed. And yet, we're repeatedly told that he
>>hurt his left hand, tho' never that he was a southpaw.
>>
>>Candice
>>
>>
>>At 11:34 AM 8/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Some of you may also remember St. Brigid of the BIg Foot, from the movie
>>>"Bedazzled," who leaped to heaven in the flesh. Her principle relic was the
>>>giant boot she left behind.
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