Yesterday, 19 April, was the Feast of St. Expeditus – patron saint of procrastinators. I put off posting about him till now.
He was a Roman soldier and is so depicted, also holding aloft a sign or cross with the word “HODIE” on it (“TODAY”) and stepping on crow, which makes a noise that sounds like Latin “cras… tomorrow”.
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Thanks for the laugh, Father!
From that font of reliability, Wikipedia:
The day he decided to become a Christian, the Devil took the form of a crow (a snake in some versions of the legend) and told him to defer his conversion until the next day. Expeditus stamped on the bird and killed it, declaring, “I’ll be a Christian today!”
Thank you for that picture, Father – I think I’ll download it, as a (much needed, so my family say) screen saver.
Or maybe I’ll do it tomorrow.
Which, being Irish, reminds me of the old joke:
“The Irish language has many equivalents of the Spanish manaña – but none conveying the same sense of urgency”.
or mañana, even …
When I learned of St. Expeditus, I thought it was fascinating that the faithful could pray to “get something fast” and so I cultivated a dual devotion to St. Expeditus and St. Christopher, as I often find myself running to catch a train or a bus, or make it through a narrow transfer window somewhere.
Therefore, St. Expeditus has interceded many a time for me, to turn that WALK signal green or to stop a train at a crossing for me! Deo gratias!