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A Beginner's Guide to Saints and Martyrs

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Essays by Mike Bevel

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“A vine grew from her privy parts”

9 March 20189 March 2018 Mike Bevel

Meet Mandane. First, her father, Astyages, dreamt that she "[made] water so greatly that she filled all his city," drowning everyone, and eventually drowning all of Asia. ("Is she still pissing in the river now? Heard she's gone, moved into a trailer park.") (I'm quoting a version of Herodotus because I'm Very Handsome and Very… Continue reading “A vine grew from her privy parts”

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Saint of the Day: Saint Nicholas

6 December 20176 December 2017 Mike Bevel

One thing that gets left out of the St Nick story is how pirates raided his tomb, stole his bones, but not all of them, just the big ones, leaving the smaller ones behind, like flakes of coal.

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Martyr of the Day: Saint Barbara

6 December 2017 Mike Bevel

On the way home from beheading his daughter, Barbara, Dioscorus was struck by lightning, killing him, but not instantly, as a mercy, but in a prolonged column of white hot flame, as is true of the judgment of God.

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Martyr of the Day: Saint Crispina

5 December 2017 Mike Bevel

"IF I HAVE TO SHUT ONE MORE CABINET DOOR," I imagine her saying, eyes pressed tightly together like hands in a desperate prayer.

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Martyr of the Day: Saint Jason

4 December 20175 December 2017 Mike Bevel

I missed yesterday, but one of the martyrs was Saint Jason and that took a lot out of me, emotionally. We're peak goyische here, Saint Jason.

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Martyr of the Day: Saint Bibiana

2 December 20175 December 2017 Mike Bevel

After being martyred, Bibiana is also buried in the house, next to her mother and sister, so that now the house is too full of corpses and it will be tough to sell, one would imagine, to a family interested in a finished basement.

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Saint Andrew: An Excerpt

1 December 20171 December 2017 Mike Bevel

Regulus dreamt once to hide Andrew's bones, and then dreamt again to sail with them, as far West as he could go, "to the ends of the earth," which ended up being Fife, as seemed only fitting, where he was shipwrecked, there being little else to do in Fife.

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