Dear Brenda,
St. Sithney may appeal to you as another patron of dogs, but then again
for other reasons he may not?
According to a Breton folk story, God revealed to Sithney that he was to
be the patron of young girls. The alarmed saint begged God to spare him
from such an onerous task because they would plague him for husbands,
fine clothes, and numerous other things and never allow him any peace.
He said that he would rather look after mad dogs than women any day.
>From that day, sick and mad dogs have been taken to Sithney's well to
drink.
He is the patron of Sithney near Helston in Cornwall, England, where
William Worcestre saw his tomb. His cultus is still alive at Guisseny
in Brittany
Fr Ambrose
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