Wednesday, February 28, 2024

A Clint Eastwood-Kinda Saint

Eastwood has danced around the corners of Christianity for decades, with his most notable Christian allusion being his movie "Gran Torino."  

He would like St Gabriel Possenti.

...Saint Gabriel Possenti, besides being the patron saint of youth, students, seminarians and clerics, is also the patron saint of gun owners, due to a legend that he once scared off with a handgun a band of Garibaldi Red Shirts, that, Italian revolutionaries who were threatening the monastery and village. He demonstrating his proficiency to them by picking off a lizard with deadly accuracy, and they scattered....

 Maybe Clint will make a movie about him.  Call him "Dirty Gabriel," or suchlike. 

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