Patron Saint of the Internet

[Gordon]

Saint Isidore of Seville

I'm no theologian, , but I grew up Catholic, and my mother is old-school Latin Mass style Catholic. I was just talking to her, and she told me that the patron saint of the internet and computers is St. Isidore. So... for any of you Catholics out there, you know who to ask for help when your computer crashes!

 

[Saudade]

Woops it appears that website is inaccurate! He was proposed as the patron saint of computers and the internet but was not in the top 6 votes!

 

[Gordon]

Saudade wrote:

Woops it appears that website is inaccurate! He was proposed as the patron saint of computers and the internet but was not in the top 6 votes!

Who is the lucky saint then?

 

[Saudade]

I have no idea, I know seville is patron saint of 'computer scientists, computer programmers, computer technicians, computer users, schoolchildren, students'
So I guess you can say internet fits in there I guess...
There are no patron saints of items only of their users.
So yeah I'll call myself a liar (well more of an obsessive about the technical things.)

 

[Gordon]

Saudade wrote:

I know seville is patron saint of 'computer scientists, computer programmers, computer technicians, computer users, schoolchildren, students'
So I guess you can say internet fits in there I guess...
There are no patron saints of items only of their users.

Fair enough, I understand. My mother recently changed computers and is using Vista now, and is looking to upgrade to broadband, so she just needs help.

St. Jude is a good one, too.

 

[anneq]

"I know seville is patron saint of 'computer scientists, computer programmers, computer technicians, computer users, schoolchildren, students'

Lol, my family nickname is seville...there's NO way I'm in anyway techno-savy..that would be my husband, so he'll get a kick out of knowing about this..we're Latin-mass Catholics..and I always did wonder about the saint of the internet, lol.

St.Jude is a great saint - I always liked St.Anthony too ..especially since I am always losing stuff...we're on very good terms with each other.

 

[SunnyCait]

I always had an issue with them using St. Jude as a children's hospital name. It's like "Well that's really nice of you, way to be all optimistic."

 

[Gordon]

SunnyCait wrote:

I always had an issue with them using St. Jude as a children's hospital name. It's like "Well that's really nice of you, way to be all optimistic."

Never thought of it that way, but you have a point.

 

[Hazel-Mom]

umm.. but... the internet was not invented yet back then! Nor were computers... so what would those saints know? How could they help us?? :?:?:?

I'm confused. LOL

 

[SunnyCait]

It floored me when I heard that St. Jude was the patron saint of lost causes.

Sick children! Hello!

 

[mardigraskisses]

SunnyCait wrote:

It floored me when I heard that St. Jude was the patron saint of lost causes.

Sick children! Hello!

I lol'd. :embarrassed:

Did no one see a problem with that when people were pitching names?

 

[anneq]

SunnyCait wrote:

I always had an issue with them using St. Jude as a children's hospital name. It's like "Well that's really nice of you, way to be all optimistic."

LoL

 

[Gordon]

Hazel-Mom wrote:

umm.. but... the internet was not invented yet back then! Nor were computers... so what would those saints know? How could they help us?? :?:?:?

I'm confused. LOL

Good point! Apparently, from the little bit of research I've done on him, St. Isidore is credited with creating basically, the first world encyclopedia, of past and present knowledge, which could be compared to today's modern database we recognize as computing, and the internet.

The hot link source I have in my first post has changed, so here's another one:

St. Isidore

 

[SunnyCait]

I guess everyone was just like "Hey, that's catchy, let's use it!" LMAO.

There were some better saints to use if you have to use a saint in the first place.