By John Svast
Hello again readers!
NEAT FACT OF THE DAY!!
Before I was an exotically handsome architecture graduate
student here in the lovely land of Southern Illinois building wonderful models
that make women love me and men want to be me, I built other things to pass my
time… I built bombs and missiles for the United States Air Force. It wasn’t as gritty and high tech as it is on
television… but I don’t tell my friends that.
While serving my time in the service of servicing explosives, I become
privy to a little know Saint by the name of Saint Barbara. Saint Barbara is the patron Saint of folks of
in the explosives careers (field artillery men, ammo and ordinance troops etc…)
How did that come
about?
Many moons ago, Saint Barbara wanted to become a
Christian. This would have been all fine
and dandy if it wasn’t for her big wig King father forbidding it due to him
being pagan. So what did he do? He had a huge tower built and shoved her in
there until he could figure out what to do with her. Time went by and he came
to a conclusion on what to do with his new Christian Daughter…. He was going to
execute her. So he took her out of the
tower dragged her into the street, whipped out his huge sword above his head and
when he was about to bring his sword down to lop off here head… BLAM!... the
king gets struck by lightning. Bickity
Bam!.. patron of explosives.
So where are you going with this?
You remember that tower the king had built to throw his
daughter in? People Associated St
Barbara with that tower… then in turn, she also became the patron Saint of
Architects and today, December 4th, is St Barbara’s day.
Happy St Barbara’s day to fellow architects and architecture
students and happy St. Barbara’s day to the folks in the military that work
with explosives.
Cheers.
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