During our visit to Quebec for the International Eucharistic Congress, Zero chose to "hug a saint". [Now wouldn't that be an interesting variation on speed dating - with finding your favourite saint as the object. You would probably need a lot of saints to make it work ... and lots of people willing to dress up appropriately and tell their life story ....]
Anyway, the saints involved here were the Canadian martyrs. Two of these martyrs worked for a time among the native Indian population that then lived in the area of Quebec in which we stayed during the Eucharistic Congress (though it was a forest area outside of Quebec in the period 1650-1700). If we were not celebrating a Sunday tomorrow, we would be able to celebrate their feast day - Saints John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and companions, Martyrs.
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zero says
I don't know how you knew that it was their day tomorrow but i will think of them and give them a spiritual hug.
The url below goes to a homily on the North American Martyrs. Enjoy - if that is the right word?
http://youngfogeys.blogspot.com/2008/10/feast-of-north-american-martyrs-on.html
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