Who’s the Patron Saint of Irony? How about a Chinese Saint?.
An odd thing about saints? They sometimes become the patron saint of things that either maimed or killed them in life. Scary, huh? That’s why in paintings, the saints are generally painted with the weapons that caused their death.
Here are a few out of the box stories about sainthood and how these interesting characters become patron saints: (Thanks to source religournal.com for this great story)
Saint Apollonia is the patron saint of dentists. Why? An anti-Christian mob pulled all her teeth out in Alexandria in the early years of the A.D. Ouch.
Women were often tortured by their breasts (creative, huh?) and for most female saints, there were not only tortured and murdered, they also had their breasts cut off. A partial list of those subjected to this awful fate includes St. Anastasia, St. Christina, St. Agatha, St. Febronia, St. Tatiana, St. Guilia, St. Juliana, and St. Barbara. The most common theme amongst the women is that they were beautiful young virgins who were lusted after by all the local pagan men and when they refused to submit to their marriage proposals were persecuted as Christians. A good-looking hottie can scoff at false idols and worship Christ all she wants until she refuses to put out. Then you guys get touchy.
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