[trisham]

However, I also consider St. Martha (grumpy housekeeper) and St. Matthew the Tax-collector patrons.

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I love that. :)

[Tax-chick]

And I’ll bet St. Martha did housework in the local equivalent of hand-me-down shorts (thanks, Mom!) and a Free Republic t-shirt. Although tradition says she didn’t have children, so she couldn’t have had a mob of boys yelling, “I said I want a drink of milk!” all day :-).

If the saints were *really* flawless figures with perfect hair and the latest in Italian Renaissance high fashion ... at a time with no running water or air conditioning ... right ... what good would they be as examples for us? I think photography has been a real blessing to the faithful, because we can see that even the most dramatically holy people looked human - wrinkles, bad teeth, glasses, silly beards - and lived with dirt and bugs and bodily functions, just like us.