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Cooking
Saints
by
Richard Bergquist
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Sta. Elizabeth- is patron of
bakers because she gave food,
especially bread to the poor.
After the death of her husband
she devoted the rest of
her like to helping the sick,
orphaned and poor. Feast day
November 17.
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San Pascual - is patron of
cooks, especially New Mexican
cooking, the kitchen and
domestic animals ( and finding
lost animals). He was a lay
Franciscan who happily worked
in the kitchen.
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St. Michael - patron of grocery
stores. Saint Michael, one of the Arc
Angels is patron of groceries because
he is patron of the police and they
protect grocery stores, which used to
be robbed quite often.
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Santa Marta - patron of cooks, she
was the sister of Mary Magdalena.
She happily cooked for Christ. She
is also patron of entertaining, Inn
Keepers, and probably Bed and
Breakfasts.
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San Lorenzo- is patron of boiled
foods ( because of his martyrdom),
pasta cooks, candy makers, diets, and
graciousness.
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St. Urban - patron of wines.
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Santa Margarita - patron of a good
Margarita ( a tequila drink made with line
and salt) because of her goodness and
repulsing the devil in the "old stories"
this drink was named in her
honor.
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Kitchen Saints are an interesting lot. Their
acquired patronage seems to be more from popular
(secular)
interpretation than actual religious intervention.
Urban probably replaced a "local wine deity",
Pascual
was interpreted though the exvotos pictures from
Mexico, Margarita from her folk story, Lorenzo
from
the relationship and oxymoron of his death. Not at
all the usual patronage fair, definitely because
of
popular use.
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Alphabetical Index of
Patron Saints:
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M
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