weaktwos

Here we are on February 21st. It's Saint du Jour time.

First we have Blessed Noel. Not quite whacky enough to be a saint. He had a penchant for hiding in hospitals. I know, I know, long gone are the days when you can hide in a hospital. He came from Angers. He died in 1794, which seems awfully late to be persecuted for religious fanaticism. Catholic religious fanaticism at that.

St. Severian of Scythopolis
Englebert didn't even go into this guy. But I hereby nominate him has having the worst name AND worst hometown. We'll see who ends up being worse, but Severian? Scythopolis? Severian of Scythopolis? That just screams slasher movie or the gory horror version of Harry Potter. The only town that sounds worse is where the people who put him to death were partisans of Eutyches. Eutyches was also a person, but Englebert speaks of it as a faith, or a spinoff faith (like Frasier was to Cheers), which it appears to have been. On top of not knowing Scythians, or who Eutyches was, I was also stymied on the existence of Nestorians. The things I miss out on by not studying more religious history.

But more interesting is that I've gone my entire life without hearing about the Scythians, Eutychians, or Nestorians. And yet, someone wrote a lovely wikipedia entry about them.

I have a theory, though. It is my theory and mine alone. If you shout out "Scythian! Eutyches! Nestorian!", it sounds like you have wicked allergies.