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t seems that 10 February is the Feast of St. Paul’s Shipwreck in
Malta, and Fenkil Day in Eritrea, and while those are doubtless worthy holidays
in their way, neither of them inspire me with any thoughts at all, worthy or
unworthy. The worthy Sabine Baring-Gould tells us it is the feast day of such
notable figures as St. Scholastica (Monte Cassino), St. Trumwine, St. William
of Maleval, and Saint Austrebertha. Wikipedia tells me that Saint Austrebertha
once talked a wolf into carrying the laundry belonging to the convent on the
grounds that the wolf had killed a donkey whose job it was; the wolf supposedly
carried the laundry for them for the rest of his life. Why the wolf agreed to
this the article doesn’t explain. Nor, for that matter, what language she and
the wolf conversed in.
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