{"id":666,"date":"2014-05-24T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/05\/jesus-mary-and-joseph-who-are-our-saints.html"},"modified":"2014-05-24T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T08:28:00","slug":"jesus-mary-and-joseph-who-are-our-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/05\/jesus-mary-and-joseph-who-are-our-saints.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus, Mary and Joseph: Who Are Our Saints?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Tomorrow I will be going to a friend\u2019s 7th<\/sup>\u00a0grade classroom presentation of \u201cfamous people in history.\u201d She has 120 students who will be dressing up as someone in history and doing a presentation board about this person\u2014as well as dressing in costume. She asked me to come in costume as Frida Kahlo. As many of you know, I admire\/adore Frida Kahlo and wrote a blog last year extolling her praises; actually it was a \u201cvalentine towards an ethics of loving women and art<\/a>.\u201d (And every year I dress as Frida and help a friend do a lively\u00a0loter\u00eda<\/em>\u00a0game at an LGBT celebration of Cinco de Mayo at our Church.)<\/span><\/div>\n
My friend told me that while there would not be a Diego Rivera in her crowd of costumed living historians\u2014there would be Frida\u2019s lover Josephine Baker (someone saw the movie\u00a0Frida<\/em>\u00a0and knew\u00a0Josephine and Frida<\/a>\u00a0were \u201cfriends\u201d), and there would be several Guadalupes.<\/span><\/div>\n
This got me thinking that for children\/teens \u2013 especially children brought up in religious households (and especially Catholic households, of which I was such a child) \u2013 saints and real people are often conflated. And famous real people one admires often are given \u201csainthood\u201d in one\u2019s imaginary church.<\/span><\/div>\n
So, then, for me since I will be conversing tomorrow with the Virgin of Guadalupe as well as other Fridas \u2013 I imagine us all part of the same \u201cheaven\u201d\u2014Frida, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Josephine Baker and more. I canonize Frida Kahlo in my own church.<\/span><\/div>\n
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