A sharp...

By pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
Derry, Northern Ireland
October 6, 2020 12:29am CST
... intake of breath when I saw this flutter past on my timeline earlier. I had no idea... They're winding us up, right?
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
6 Oct 20
If your parents are still alive, you should have a word with them!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
6 Oct 20
Methinks the horse may already have bolted in that respect, @MALUSE
Anna
@LadyDuck (458053)
• Switzerland
6 Oct 20
I thought he was the Saint Patron of gardeners,I never heard anything different.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (458053)
• Switzerland
6 Oct 20
@myklj999 I am searching and I see he is the Saint Patron of many other things... gardeners; herbalists; victims of hemorrhoids and venereal diseases.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (458053)
• Switzerland
7 Oct 20
@pgntwo I knew of St. Jude, in the Roman Catholic Church, he is the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. Imagine the poor St. Drogo, he was so afflicted by a disease that made him physically repulsive and now he is the patron saint of unattractive people.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
6 Oct 20
@LadyDuck And St. Jude got left to handle the hopeless cases. Lucky escape
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Just an Ordinary Owl?
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
6 Oct 20
There clearly weren't enough saints to go around for all the ailments that there were which needed Divine Intervention in the Middle Ages. St Fiacre is the patron saint of Gardeners but (because he was, reputedly, a misgynist) be also became the go-to saint to intercede for you if you had a venereal disease. Presumably, any other nasties 'down there' were also fair game for him, as well.
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Just an Ordinary Owl?
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
6 Oct 20
@pgntwo Apparently he treated all those who came to his monastery - as long as they weren't women.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
6 Oct 20
Hopeless cases aside, the Patron Saint of Clap too?
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
8 Oct 20
@owlwings Hermitage, yes - odd, the way they were spurned. Women, I mean.
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
6 Oct 20
Like pushing buttons, is that what you mean?
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
6 Oct 20
Do you know anyone of that name? I thought it was "the patron Saint of gardeners", tbh. We live, we learn, and... we believe. Alas.
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Go Crossbones
@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
6 Oct 20
@pgntwo I do not , its a new one to me. Those times were not very nice, so can only imagine and people still have a problem with cussing.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
6 Oct 20
@crossbones27 There's bound to be a patron Saint of invective, or cussing, too, I suspect!
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12595)
• Ireland
6 Oct 20
@pgntwo So this is why nobody in school wanted to be my friend. And St Fiacre’s figs is a much nicer way of referring to haemorrhoids than is piles.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
6 Oct 20
Piles of Saints, yes, perhaps - but to be the Saint of Piles, well... Must go check up on St. Jude, perhaps another multifaceted one...?
Ron Rybs
@Ronrybs (17849)
• London, England
7 Oct 20
I had heard about the figs, but not the rest of it!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
8 Oct 20
Fig/Figs or Fica/Fiche - two different interpretations, interestingly.
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@GodServantme (1548)
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7 Nov 20
Nice quotes lol its hilarious
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