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>Subject: Antebellum Patron Saints and Devotions
>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:11:38 -0500
>From: "Patricia Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Good Morning H-Shear,
>
>Does anyone know if there was a patron saint "of sobriety" or "for
>inebriates" in the antebellum years? Or perhaps specific devotions?
>Fielding Lucas's Catholic almanacs list the feast days but not each
>saint's particular "cause." Many thanks.
>
>Pat Anderson
>
>Patricia Dockman Anderson
>Managing Editor
>Maryland Historical Magazine &
>The Press at the Maryland Historical Society
>410-685-3750 x317