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Post by King Edward on Apr 21, 2008 17:19:19 GMT
Who should be the patron saint of Gascony? My favourite options are St Joan de Arc or St-Jean-Baptiste, but i welcome other suggestions!
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Post by King Wentworth II on Apr 25, 2008 19:38:10 GMT
[cough]wentworth[/cough]  . |
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Post by King Edward on Apr 25, 2008 22:28:09 GMT
I meant a real saint i'm affraid |
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Post by King Wentworth II on Apr 26, 2008 21:41:10 GMT
Ahhh shoot. Does it have to be someone in the 15th century?
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Post by Harald on Apr 26, 2008 22:46:06 GMT
Saint Lucy.
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Post by King Edward on Apr 27, 2008 20:30:48 GMT
What was it she did?
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Post by King Wentworth II on Apr 27, 2008 22:07:34 GMT
St Stephen Hawkings
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Post by Harald on Apr 28, 2008 7:18:28 GMT
Saint Lucy of Syracuse, also known as Saint Lucia, Santa Lucia, or Saint Lukia, (traditional dates 283–304) was a rich young Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint by Catholic and Orthodox Christians. Her feast day in the West is December 13, by the unreformed Julian calendar the longest night of the year; she is the patron saint of those who are blind. Lucy is one of the very few saints celebrated by the Lutheran Swedes, Finland-Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, in celebrations that retain many indigenous Germanic pagan pre-Christian midwinter light festivals. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin Mary, commemorated by name in the Roman Canon.
Her acta sanctorum tells that Lucy was a Christian while Diocletian was persecuting and martyring Christians. She consecrated her virginity to God, refused to marry a pagan, and had her dowry distributed to the poor. Her would-be husband denounced her as a Christian to the governor of Syracuse. Miraculously unable to move her or burn her, the guards stabbed her and killed her.
The oldest record of her story comes from the fifth-century accounts of saints' lives. By the sixth century, her story was widespread. St. Aldhelm wrote an account of her life, and the Venerable Bede included her story in his Martyrology. In medieval accounts, St. Lucy's eyes are gouged out prior to her execution. In art, her eyes sometimes appear on a plate that she's holding.
The Roman Catholic calendar of saints formerly had a commemoration of Saints Lucy and Geminianus on 16 September. This was removed in 1969, as a duplication of the feast of her dies natalis (birth to heaven) on 13 December and because the Geminianus in question, mentioned in the Passio of Saint Lucy, seems to be a merely fictitious figure, unrelated to the Saint Geminianus whose feast is on 31 January.
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Post by King Edward on Apr 28, 2008 15:31:34 GMT
Joan of Arc is the patron saint of:
France; martyrs; captives; militants; people ridiculed for their piety; prisoners; rape victims(though she was not raped); soldiers; Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service; Women's Army Corps
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Post by Harald on Apr 28, 2008 16:31:04 GMT
I'm still a Knight of St Joan of Arc.  |
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Post by King Edward on Apr 28, 2008 21:37:35 GMT
ooohh, maybe we could go with her then?
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Post by King Wentworth II on Jun 12, 2008 20:43:55 GMT
So who is the Patron Saint then
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Post by Duke Jeremy of Gascony on Jun 12, 2008 21:33:37 GMT
By the looks of it, Joan of Arc is
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Post by King Wentworth II on Jun 12, 2008 22:25:34 GMT
Ok its official Joan of Arc is the Patron Saint of The Province of Gascony.
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