James_H
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In honour of Grenadine Gray's now regular contributions to FT and because some of them have good stories, I've started a thread about obscure Saints. I'll start with St. Frideswide, patroness of Oxford. My old school was named after her - funny name for a school.
She blinded one of her suitors because she was so pure and holy, them prayed to god to de-blind him when he was properly apologetic. Here is more from the Catholic encyclopaedia@
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303b.htm
She blinded one of her suitors because she was so pure and holy, them prayed to god to de-blind him when he was properly apologetic. Here is more from the Catholic encyclopaedia@
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303b.htm