Friday, April 14, 2006

Saint of the Day 2


April 14, the birthday of a someone I used to _____, is the feast of The Blessed Lydwina. There are three other saints who died on this date but I chose Lydwina because
1) she has a nice name
2) her life can be used for a telenovela.

Her name means "friend of suffering" and I do not see a parent wanting to bestow that name to her daughter. She is a saint and she was beautiful so it followed that she saw her physical attractiveness as a curse. Maybe she is a little dense because she prayed to be less beautiful. God loves to fulfill such a weird wish.
Lydwina decided to skate in the ice and she fell and broke a rib which punctured her flesh resulting in a hideous abscess that never healed. It resulted in a fissure from her brow to her nose. Her lower lip fell. She also decided to wear a horse hair girdle to make herself more unattractive.
For 33 years, she had been applying sebo de macho, actually eel fat, on her wounds. One time, she run out of eels and asked for chicken fat from a poultry owner. He did not give her anything and she casually said, I hope the mice get rid of your chicken. Of course the Lord did just that.
Another time, she was in a church when a wafer came down from the sky and descended on her. The priest refused to give it to her and the parishioners chased the priest up to the cemetery.
Lydwina was afflicted wiuth headache, bedsores, toothache and blindness. In the end, God also gave her stigmata. She died in 1433. She is the patron saint of KC Concepcion (for a brief time), Michelle Kwan, Tonya Harding and the SM Megamall Ice Skating Rink.

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