A Saint for (Almost) Any Occasion

January 3, 2020

A dog ran away from his dog-sitter. She posted flyers and knocked on doors, and spent quite a bit of time and money trying to lure him back; the dog was in the area, and neighbors were feeding him, but he wouldn’t let anybody catch him.

Being Catholic, she prayed to St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost things; St. Francis, the patron saint of animals; St. Jude, the patron saint of desperate cases; and St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of education, presumably just because she likes him. 

Someone else suggested St. Barbara, the patron saint of headaches; 

and concluded her comment with, “I don’t know the patron saint for pain in the [rear].”