I could use a patron Saint of Student Loans myself...unless there are any
single, straight, rich, Italian-speaking pope fanatics (who can also get me
into the basement of Sts. Vincenzo y Anastio in Rome where there are jars of
pope innards) out there who'd like to marry a poor American girl...
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From: Sarah Salih <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Interim Saints - April 3rd
> A suitable patron for the Student Loans Company, perhaps?
>
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:48:18 +0100 (BST)
> =?iso-8859-1?q?Bill=20East?= <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Interim Saints - April 3rd
> >
> >
> > RICHARD, bishop of Chichester (A.D. 1253)
> >
> > S. Richard was the second son of Richard Backedine and Alice, his wife,
> > of Wyke, in the diocese of Worcester . . . After that, S. Richard went
> > to Oxford, and thence to continue his studies in Paris, and there he
> > lodged in the same room with two other poor scholars, and fed on bread
> > and porridge (potagium); and so poor were they that the three had only
> > one respectable coat between them, and could only go alternately to the
> > lectures in the coat, whilst the others sat at home without. thence he
> > returned to Oxford, that he might take his degree in his own land . . .
> > >From Oxford S. Richard went to the then celebrated university of
> > Bologna, where he remained seven years, and became so proficient in
> > canon law that the professor would have married him to his only
> > daughter . . .
>
>
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