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To: Wonder Warthog
Ah, yes---beer---"Proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklin

Saint Brigid

"I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us. I would like an abundance of peace. I would like full vessels of charity. I would like rich treasures of mercy. I would like cheerfulness to preside over all. I would like Jesus to be present. I would like the three Marys of illustrious renown to be with us. I would like the friends of Heaven to be gathered around us from all parts. I would like myself to be a rent payer to the Lord; that I should suffer distress, that he would bestow a good blessing upon me. I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity."

From http://www.catholic-forum.com/Saints/saintb03.htm

She worked in a leper colony which found itself without beer, "For when the lepers she nursed implored her for beer, and there was none to be had, she changed the water, which was used for the bath, into an excellent beer, by the sheer strength of her blessing and dealt it out to the thirsty in plenty." Brigid is said to have changed her dirty bathwater into beer so that visiting clerics would have something to drink. Obviously this trait would endear her to many a beer lover. She also is reputed to have supplied beer out of one barrel to eighteen churches, which sufficed from Maundy Thursday to the end of paschal time.

From http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/patron_saints.shtml

20 posted on 06/19/2006 1:29:51 PM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
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To: frogjerk

Ah, a saint with her priorities straight.


24 posted on 06/19/2006 1:38:29 PM PDT by Publius
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To: frogjerk

Weizenbier. Not the thin American stuff.


38 posted on 06/19/2006 1:45:51 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: frogjerk
Brigid is said to have changed her dirty bathwater into beer...

I can't decide if this explains lite beer, or the later Schlitz.

51 posted on 06/19/2006 2:24:02 PM PDT by Grut
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To: frogjerk

*** she changed the water, which was used for the bath, into an excellent beer, by the sheer strength of her blessing and dealt it out to the thirsty in plenty."***

Isn't that what the nut that started the AUM SHIN RYKIO cult did with his bath water? he is the one responsible for the Tokyo subway poison gas attacks. ( His was not changed to beer.)


61 posted on 06/19/2006 3:31:07 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: frogjerk
ROFLMAO
is that where the saying comes from?
you know, some variant of "i'd drink her bathwater"?
76 posted on 06/19/2006 10:17:38 PM PDT by wafflehouse
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To: frogjerk

i think i just sinned thinking about drinking the bath water of a nun and saint... so many things to comment on like maundy Thirsty... to paschal time...

cheers

teeman


87 posted on 06/20/2006 8:24:40 PM PDT by teeman8r
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