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From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: St Serendipity and patron saints
>
>
> We
> > thought Ennodius, bishop of Pavia (d 521) would make an ideal patron
> > saint
> > for the RAE: Carolyn's notes on him describe him as a prolific
> > writer of
> > whom it was said 'He seems to shrink from making himself intelligible
> > lest
> > he should be thought commonplace'. . .
> St. Aye seems like a good candidate - with
> > her special care for lost papers. However, we have also considered St
> > Leonard because of his ability to release prisoners.
>
> Those Gadarene swine whose demise was such a waste might have done well
> to call upon St Y, the refuge of pigs . . .
St ock
St ampede
St unned
St iff
St ockpile
may also have had something to do with this. St Ench & St Ink may have
gotten in
there
somewhere too ... I think it's marvellous to think of all these good
personages collaborating. There must be a sermon in that!
>
> Oriens.
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