This week I’m your guest host for the blog posts and our theme for the week is to entertain the General during her recovery.
So our first foray into entertaining is….
Which Sylum character do you think is a closet Taylor Swift fan? Okay, they don’t even have to be a closet fan, which one do you think is belting out the song while in the car?
And, what song are they singing?
Spring Fling 2024 has now concluded.
Please feel free to give the artists who participated this year some love if you’re so inclined and haven’t already. Either here or in the individual posts.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Starts tomorrow!
There are some really awesome artwork and fanmix!
I had got a bit different this month in showcasing a historical type of question.
Name the Irish Saints?
Answer:
St. Patrick
St. Brigid
And many others.
No one answered, which I’ve noticed for the past few months there has been no participation.
So from here on out, I’ll not be doing Sylum Trivia.
Patrick was born in 1966AD, in Armagh, Northern Ireland to Mary Ann McKenna, a former Nun. His biological father is unknown.
She raised him to be a devout Catholic, attending Mass every day of his life, and teaching him that God loved him, and He had a destiny waiting for him.
When he was six years old, he lost his mother in a UVF bombing at Armagh Cathedral – a protest against the visit by a Titular Archbishop on an Apostolic Mission from the Vatican, who had come to Ireland to try and broker peace. The boy’s survival saw him labelled as ‘The Little Miracle of Saint Patrick’.
The Archbishop took Patrick back with him to Italy, formally adopting him, stating that he would raise the boy in God’s Church.
Patrick had the Vatican as his playground and school yard. He remembered most fondly the Vatican Police officer who usually caught him running from the Nuns and dragged him back to his studies.
As he got older, he found himself talking with that same officer for hours, looking to him for wisdom and companionship.
Though he didn’t have to, when he was 18 he demanded that he follow through with his National Service to the Italian Military. Though he never learned to use a gun, he excelled at flying helicopters. Patrick never told the Vatican Police Officer, that he knew it was him who had made sure Patrick was safe during those two years.
When he returned, he dedicated his life to the Church, going through Seminary and becoming a Priest. When his ‘father’ became Pope, he took the position as Camerlengo – much to the dismay of many older men in the Church who had sought the position for themselves.
He was proud to see his friend go on to become Inspector General of Vatican Police.
When his father suddenly died, he was devastated.
The night of Conclave 2006AD, everything changed.
