Saturday 18 June 2022

FOAB Top 5 Saints Posts

The Special Guest Bloggers posts will be coming to a pause in the next few weeks as my writing partner is spending the summer away doing something religious because he is a vicar/priest/canon/bishop and he is the one who comes up with the religious people.
We have an agreement where he supplies the basic outline of a Saint or other suitably religious person, i write it up and enter the jokes and flippant bits and he nicks the usable bits in his sermons on a Sunday so i only have to do half the work and he doesn't send his congregation to sleep every time he pokes his head up in the pulpit.
As i am less than respectful, he obviously disowns them and threatened to forcibly lodge a King James Bible somewhere if i named him so i'm not about to out him but he often asks which of the Saints is the most popular so he knows which of the many, many, many Saints there is so they can get an extra Sunday mention.
Therefore, in the best top of the Pops tradition...AT 5 is the Patron Saint of comedians Saint Genesius who is comfortably edged out AT 4 by a man sitting on a rock or as he prefers, Saint Symeon the Stylite.
AT 3 we find Saint Cyprian of Antioch who was a bit of a demon with the ladies or rather used his demons to find ladies and just missing out on the top spot is the flying Holy man, St. Joseph of Cupertino.
AT 1 is the man who called himself 'the only Saint who ever who died of the squirts on the way to war' Saint Louis of France so he is the name to drop into a sermon about cheek turning or not covering your neighbour's ass although there was a certain Mr. Satan with the 4th most hits but you might want to read the room before using that one.

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