#patronage — Public Fediverse posts

Behind the choir will be an extraordinary backdrop: a #RoodScreen made not of wood but of stone, twisting and curving to the sky. It's been dated to the 1350s. So, just after the #BlackDeath... Who would have supported innovation at such a time?
https://www.barnes1.net/clairefromclare/posts/20260618_Patronage_after_the_plague.html
@medievodons

#StoneCarving #Craftsmanship #Patronage #GreatBardfield #Stebbing #LadyOfClare

So, my #dentist is #catholic like most people in #mexico . Yes, she understands its a #religion brought to her ancestors by the point of a sword, but that doesn't seem to phase her faith in the slightest. Even more #hardcore, she goes to a specific church every so often to pray or give #patronage [or whatever chatolics do] to #Apollonia, the #patron #saint of dentists and toothaches. Why is she the patron saint of dentists and toothaches you ask? Because she had her teeth ripped out and / or shattered at the hands of an Alexandrian mob, that's why.
I find this both endearing and disturbing at the same time, and I can think of little else as she rakes metal instruments across my teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Apollonia