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In hoc signo vinces.
My favorite saint! Patron of homeschoolers (his home was a five-star academy for his children, grandchildren, servants and servants' children alike); patron of lawyers; patron of pounsters and jokesters; defender of the bond of marriage; patron of glad husbands, fantasy-fiction writers, and martyrs.
Knowing that the executioners (as in Our Lord's day) traditionally took the victim's clothes, he dressed in the finest clothes he had, the pockets filled with coins.
At his execution, he took his his executioner's arm while he was struggling up the steep steps of the gallows: "Pray help me up the steps; coming down, I shall shift for myself."