Patron Saints

I'm a non Christian & I find the idea charming.

Totally agree with Erica, it is a lovely idea.

So far the girls are in agreement! Good idea Justin.

Excellent idea!

Sounds good to me :-) I just learned something new.

:-) I'm an atheist and have no problem. (It is a standing joke in my family that my husband's namesake saint, St Anthony - was the patron saint of pigs :-)

It's historically important. Doesn't matter if it offends. ;)

(And Gertrude is my favorite saint -- the one of travellers, orphans, and people with mental illness. Anyone who cares for the lost and alone in any sense is good by me.)

I just added a "patron saint" section to the http://www.geni.com/projects/Sculptors/30326 and realized that adding their feast day as a tag will help build the "Geni world history timeline" I dream of.

But I've been forgetting to do this before. Would it make sense to create a patron saint project?

Resources:

http://www.ourcatholicfaith.org/patronsaints.html
http://www.catholic.org/saints/

A 'patron saints' project might help simply from the viewpoint of describing how the tags should be written for consistency.

But, thinking more about it ... who would get 'tagged' with the "patron saint" tag and why? Wouldn't the profile being in the 'occupation portal'/project do the same thing? I'm not clear on how the tag "adds value" differently than just adding the profile to that occupation's portal?

Hmmm ... maybe in 'collecting' all the occupations "patronized" by one particular saint, perhaps (<he says with tongue in cheek in a 'patronizing' tone while 'pun-ishing' all the readers>)

I hadn't even thought of adding 365 (?) patron saints to the tree yet. But yes, there should be a patron saint project, and great idea, they can be added to the occupations (and other grouping) they look after. This can only be good karma !

I was thinking of a world History timeline some day from the date tags added to "event" projects. And then thought: what about feast days?

Excellent idea!

A patron saints project is a good idea simply so that we can look it up when doing occupation projects.
Also if Amanda ever runs out of ideas for POTD she can look up the what Saint day it is.