okay so Veronica and Lucy of Syracuse are weaving and sewing, Mary Mags is lace-making and Clare of Assisi is needlework. Blaise is woolworkers, but only bc he was tortured with wool combs 😬

best modern knitter vibe imo is actually Gertrude of Nivelles: abbess, introvert, patron of gardeners & cats

Today, February 3rd, our #Catholic & #Christian Friends are celebrating the #BlessingoftheThroats, #Feast of #StBlaise (patron of #sickanimals, #veterinarians, against #throatdiseases, #choking, #throats, #infants, #stonecutters, #carvers, #woolworkers)

#farriers, #FrenchCanadians, #healthspas, #KnightsHospitaller, #KnightsofMalta, #lambs, #monasticlife, #motorways, #printers, #roadworkers, #tailors, #woolworkers #againstconvulsions, #epilepsy, #hailstorms, #spasms)

( www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=152 )

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All us #WoolWorkers / #YarnWorkers have insisted for some time that it was either to make socks, or for managing multiple threads. However, #Pythagoras is more plausible!!

I know there’s another saint killed this way, because he became the patron saint of woolworkers. There was even a company that made wool combs called Saint Blaise, but I think they’re now defunct.