Ping!
Ping a ling.
My grandmother used to send a couple of dollars in every card, or letter, she sent to her grandchildren. She could ill afford it.
When I cautioned her about the risk of sending money through the mail she showed me the tiny SAG that she always wrote next to the stamp, or on the back envelope flap.
She expllained that S.A.G. stood for St. Anthony Guide. It was a practice she’d been taught by the Irish nuns that taught her in school in Pennsylvania around 1900.
As far as we know, she never lost a dollar that way.
I was in St. Patrick’s in NYC once looking for a St. Luke’s medal (the physician) and a nun came up to me and yelled “ You want a St. Joe medal - he answers all prayers!” She then pointed to one and was very annoyed when I resisted. I wanted that St. Luke! My beloved church...