The post recommends celebrating with a cookout, given that Lawrence was martyred on a gridiron, in the non-football sense of "A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals."
Not being well versed in saints, I was interested to learn that librarians have two other patrons: Jerome, and Catherine of Alexandria.
Good news! Since Jerome's feast day is September 30th, and Catherine of Alexandria's is November 25th, we still have time to celebrate all our patron saints this year!
I'll depend on Got Medieval to suggest further party themes for these upcoming events. I've got to be honest, the suggestion for The Decollation of St. John the Baptist on August 29th is much more interesting than St. Lawrence's cookout, so I've got high hopes for something really dramatic.
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Perhaps they forgot Saint Dewey, the patron saint of the stacks :-)
A glaring omission indeed!
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