Matchmaking time. Jen Fulwiler’s Patron Saint Generator is up and running. If you haven’t done so already, go get yourself an assigned saint for 2015.
I did this in 2014, and got Don Bosco on my case. We had started out with a rocky relationship some years ago, so I was a tad nervous when we were paired last winter. But we’ve come to an understanding and we’re friends now.
Still, I had to hold my breath when I clicked the button this year, because I’m always secretly afraid I’ll get some saint who lived on a diet of worms and poached lettuce, or who gave up not just bathing but privacy, comfort, and solitude, in order to reside on a pillar in the middle of a crowded, filthy, iconoclastic city. (Iconoclasts are bad, by the way. Don’t let the modern fawning around the term fool you.)
But of course there was nothing to fear. Anyone who has spent any time with me, at all, ever, knows that my 2015 saint could not have been better chosen: St. Matthew the Apostle. John Bosco has found himself at a standstill with me, and definitely needed to call in a patron saint of order, efficiency, and dedicated recordkeeping if we were going to continue making progress together. Also, it’s a relief, after spending a year with someone who was naturally good and talented and made-for-saintliness from the get-go, to be assigned to a partner who came by the Who? Me? look honestly. Or rather, dishonestly, but you know what I mean.
But enough about my saints. Get yourself a patron today. It’s a tiny bit scary, but you’ll be glad you did.
Artwork: Carvaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew [Public Domain] via Wikimedia. For a closer look, here is the Wikimedia collection of versions and details of this particular work. Click here for my favorite, a higher-resolution image that was too big for the blog, but really lets you see the detail.
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