St. Adrian's Feast Day

Yesterday, Sept 8th, was the feast day for St. Adrian, Adrienne's patron saint at her baptism. I must admit that I knew nothing of St. Adrian before we decided that Adrienne was a lovely name for our daughter. Poor St. Adrian certainly had a rough life. He spent the majority of his life persecuting Christians, before converting for about 5 minutes, being tortured and martyred. His wife, Natalie, was also martyred and a saint. St. Adrian is the patron saint of soldiers, prison guards, butchers, arms dealers and plagues. (Does it surprise anyone else that arms dealers get a patron saint?) Hopefully Adrienne will be able to pick another patron saint based upon her profession, since I find that these listed here are all rather unsavory for my daughter. However, on this feast day of St. Adrian,  we are grateful for his courage and pray our daughter also grows up to be courageous and upright. Additionally, today seems like a good excuse to post this picture from Adrienne's baptism.  Awww, look how little she was!