Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Ives

Today is also the feast of St. Blase as I’m sure you all know. For what its worth:

Through the intercession of Saint Blase, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit.

It is also the feast of:


Saint Ives

Also known as
Hia
Ia

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Our saint today was a 5th century Missionary to Cornwall, (where they make great pasties) with as many as 777 companions. Legend says that to reach Cornwall, she sailed across the Irish Sea on a leaf, a leaf mind you.

Saint Ives, Cornwall is named for her. She was a martyr somehow. Creams, soaps and body lotions are named for her too, I don’t know why.

She was martyred in the year 450 at the River Hayle, in Cornwall.

I remember her because of the riddle:

As I was going to St. Ives;
I met a man with seven wives;
And every wife had seven sacks;
And every sack had seven cats;
And every cat had seven kits;
Kits, Cats, Sacks, Wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

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