DR's Saint of the Day

[ursus arctos]

I once wrote a paper on halos in Renaissance iconography.

They are all over the place geometrically/topologically.

I never told the professor that my interest in the subject was grounded in the baseball cap the Los Angeles Angels wore when they entered the American League.

[Benjm]

At first glance that looked to me like a baseball cap/yarmulke hybrid.

In other sporting haloes, here's a recent incarnation of the (Leslie Charteris referencing) St Helens RL stickman;

[ursus arctos]

Angels' caps used to cost a dollar more because of the additional ornament.

That sticker is excellent.

Sports-themed kippot here are often horrific

[WOM]

I have made ongoing jokes referencing St Swithun's Day since my kids were toddlers.

"Dad...do you know what day tomorrow is?" "Is it St Swithun's Day?"

"What are we doing Saturday?" "Make preparations for St Swithun's Day."

Etc.

So, Saturday, one of my kids says "When is St Swithun's Day, anyway?"

And I'm like "Shit, I think it's today." Which it was.

So, er, happy belated St. Swithun's Day everyone....and all.

[Benjm]

Sports-themed kippot here are often horrific

Good grief - next time I'll just take your word for it, for my eyes' sake.

[Benjm]

There's an old folk tradition that if a father swears in front of his kids on St Swithun's Day, he must swear in front of them for the next 40 days.

Using a different obscenity each time.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Casimir inspired some notable art

Brilliant.

[Diable Rouge]

Slim pickings today, but Andrew Zorard of Poland became a hermit and lived in a cave near Trencin, of current Slovakian league champions fame, but then in Hungary, of which he joins Stephen as a patron saint. He was deemed such an ascetic that the iron chain he wore reportedly melded into his body.

[Gerontophile]

Is he the patron saint of S & M?

[Satchmo Distel]

That would be St Sebastian, as in the Derek Jarman film.

Saint Cunigunde of Luxemburg is my favourite saint name.

[G-Man]

St Sebastian is the "inofficial" patron saint of homosexuals, appointed by LBGT Catholics, not the hierarchy.

[Eggchaser]

Casimir inspired some notable art

I think you spelt "not able" wrong.