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Sister, if you ever get caught up with our questions (Joke) I have another project for you. I'd like to learn about the saints that are ...

Thank the Dear Lord I get sick once in a while.  I'm perfectly healthy at the moment and I don't get sick very often. Thank the Dear...

Sister, is there a patron saint for getting a boyfriend? A saint?  Where have you been? Let's start with St Agnes .  I'll give ...

Everyone in Heaven is a saint. Does that mean everyone who goes to purgatory stays there till judgement day, or that they are all saints by ...

Sister- Are there any known-for-sure saints from before the time of Christ? Yes. Everybody. Well, not everybody. But certainly Abraham and...

Since it's a quiet, breezy summer around here, I've been slowly chipping away at our long queue of questions. Thanks for your patien...

Sister, I am going to be entering university in the fall as a meteorology student. Could you please tell me who the patron saint of meteor...

Dear Sister, I'm something of a student of medieval history, and there's one church-related thing that's been driving me nu...

This year we had no fireworks. I heard two stories about why. The first story was that whatever municipal entity pays for the fireworks ov...

Here's a little brain teaser for you all!  Yesterday, when I was writing about St. Catherine of Alexandria, I was trying to think of a m...

No, no, it's St Cattern who is the patron saint of lacemakers - I remember reading about her, there is even a Cattern's Day cake you...

St. Lucy has raised an interesting question: Wouldn't pulling your eyes out be a sin? Isn't it a desecration to destroy His imag...

I had a customer over at the shop fuss at me the other day.  Well, not at me.  At least, not about me. She was fussing about saint extrapola...