Yesterday’s saints of the Day:

Santiago, San Bartolomeo, San Cristobal

Did you know San Bartolomeo is the patron saint of panic attacks? That’s telling me something. Not something I knew, that’s for sure. He was flayed alive, so there’s a lot of Xipe Totec in there too.

Cristobal, Christ bearer. Traveller. Journey. Apocyrphal. Defrocked? Desanctified? dropped from the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints in response to Vatican II “as mandated by the motu proprio, Mysterii Paschalis”.

Santiago. de Compostela. Matamoros. Pilgrimages, Reconquista, Racial purity. So the Spanish version of this saint is not one to identify with. (Big suprise: Conquistador is unlikeable)

The Secret Book of James apparently put a lot of emphasis on suffering as inevitable.

Also, if John is the beloved disciple, than Santiago is the Santo Cuñado.