Thanks to
my first grade teacher, Sister Celeste, and her dramatic stories about holy
people, I developed an early fascination with the saints. Once I could read
well enough, I devoured every saint book in our school library and dreamed of growing
up to be a martyr. Over the years, I looked to the saints for inspiration and
turned to them for help.
I still
do.
But
sometimes I find myself wishing for new saints…special saints…saints who fit
the life I'm living right now and the problems I wrestle with every day. I wrote about these saints-that-don't-exist-but-really-should on the Catholic365 site. You can read about Saint Peter the Podiatrist, Saint Kitkat Goodbar of Hershey, St. Tardia the Venerable Procrastinator, and all my other imaginary saints here.
