We know you come here for all your Feast Day needs, so you doubtless know that today is St. Stephen’s Day. St. Stephen, stoned to death outside Jerusalem roundabout the year 36 CE, is the first Christian martyr, having opined at great length about his faith to the wrong people—the same Sanhedrin high priests who’d pulled the plug on Jesus three years earlier.
If you find Christians a joyless people, take heart, for St. Stephen is the patron saint of, among other things, stonemasons. You can look it up!
“Don’t run afoul of Sanhedrin,”
We said to this cat name’a Stephen.
“They’re especially fond
Of the wrong kind of stoned—
The kind that’s not helped by Excedrin.”
The words above may or may not have appeared in that transformational unit of literature known as “Limericks of Loss And Regret.”
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LLR paperback: 978-1735343402
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