Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 4:27am

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Blath

It’s the feastday of St. Blath of Kildare (pronounced ‘blah’, means ‘flower’), the incredibly patient and incredibly skilled cook among the nuns of St. Brigid’s monastery in Cell Dara! It was said that bread and bacon in St. Brigid’s house tasted better than a feast anywhere else.

Why did this make her a saint?

Because St. Brigid was always giving away the food, or inviting home a zillion guests, or trusting in God to make sure there’d be enough milk, bread, and bacon in the house. For St. Blath, every day was a chef’s mission impossible. But somehow, as folks with vows of poverty usually do, God provided, and the nuns didn’t have to fast much more than they were supposed to. (With help from Brigid’s miraculous luck with getting food given to them, flitches of bacon back from dogs who stole them a month ago, and cows giving more milk than physically possible.)

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