🙏 Some Of The Strangest Patron Saints

Have you heard about St. Bonaventure, the patron saint of bowel disorders? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. I'm not sure about my
algorithm on socials because I seemed to have this unusual
seam of There was one woman who was a younger
woman who was talking about how she has direct contact
with Jesus. He visits her and sometimes she's just reading
in bed and it's on the end of her bed
and reads. They've got like a book club, and he's
the one member. I spoke to you about her where

(00:21):
he sometimes likes to dress up to make her laugh
in a cowboy hat.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Jesus in a cowboy hat.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Anyway, I saw this one last night that came through
for me. A woman in church and this in America,
and they're all talking about their blessings for the week,
and he was hers.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Bal paralysis where I just cannot feel a bowel movement,
and so I got prayer last night in hellelu. Yeah,
I know this is terrible, but I had two bowel
movements in one day. Thank you for.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Your humility sharing that.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeay, hey, totally normal.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, jeez, bring that thing alive. You know, Poor old
Jesus is going about his business and so he says,
I'm having trouble doing a pooh. Yeah, well, I've prayed
to him many times to not tour pooh, please Jesus
help me now, help me now. But do you know
why can just get across this bridge? There is a

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patron saint. Maybe it doesn't go to Jesus, it goes
to Saint Bonaventure because he is the patron saint of
baal disorders. Because we all know of the like for example,
the patron saint have lost things at Saint Anthony. Yeah,
you see it in the newspaper. People, what is it
the able to be Sat Jude. You've seen the newspaper
in the personal columns.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
St.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Jude is the patron saint of hopeless case hopeless causes.
Because in the newspaper I used to say, I'd like
to thank Saint Jude for prayers answered. St Christopher is
the one for travel. I remember a lot of people
used to be given when you're head overseas at twenty Yeah,
their families would give them a Saint Christopher medal. Yeah,

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that's the patron saint of safe travels. But I wonder
how when is it like when you're a school prefect
and they say you are doing sport, you're doing Peter's
at the pearly gatests sat St.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Michael, this is what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, because there's also Patrick portfolio for the politicians. Yeah,
well they say here in invocation a patron saint is
an invocation of patron saints is based on the concept
of the deceased Christians who're notable during their lives for
virtue that can aid living people going through similar things,
which brings me to the patron Saint of Internet users
is a Door of Seville, Like, did she just pass

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away two years ago?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's pretty recent?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Pretty really. I don't know what the story is there
patron saint and Internet users. Patron Saint of earaches is
Polycarp The patron Saint of difficult marriages is Marguerite Devilleville.
Fire prevention. Motorcyclists, if you had a motorcyclist, No, Columban
a patron for bikers and he's hanging on. He's an

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Anglican bishop and an avid motorcyclist. He was declared a
patron in two thousand and two. Yeah, what can happen?
I thought they were all old.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I remember that.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Next time I'm lying on the side of the road
waiting for the ambulance to come. With Jesus. Do you
pray for Columban. Please don't let me poop my bags
before the ambulance comes. That would be great. Your insurance
somehow