Word of the Day: Patron Saint
PATRON SAINT. A saint or blessed who, since early Christian times, has been chosen as a special intercessor with God for a particular person, place, community, or organization. The custom arose from the biblical fact that a change of personal name indicated a change in the person, e.g., Abram to Abraham, Simon to Peter, Saul to Paul; and from the practice of having churches built over the tombs of martyrs.
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I'm posting this definition today because it is Remembrance Day. It is also the Feast of St Martin of Tours, who had been a soldier in lay life, and who is the Patron Saint of soldiers.
I find it supremely fitting that the Patron of soldiers should be celebrated on the date that the greatest war in human history ended.
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