• fubo@lemmy.world
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    In doing so, he would be following after Saint Maximilian Kolbe:

    a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz

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      The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, and prisoners.

      That’s uh, …huh…something.

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        Drug addicts are likely in there because they were victims of the Holocaust. Sainthood is like that. You’ve got some things that are directly related to you, and several that someone needs to be patron of and you’re close enough

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          St. Lawrence was executed by placing him on a gridiron with coals beneath it. At some point during his execution, he declared to the Romans “I am done on this side, turn me over”. After this he became the patron saint of both cooks and comedians, which I think is hilarious