🥇Happy Olympics!🥇
The saints were so diverse with so many different skills and passions that we have a patron saint for so many different sports and activities!If you’re tuning in to the Olympics, which start today, watch for the different events and see if you can think of a saint that may have entered - and why! Playing with that idea, we came up with a few examples here, taking their patronages, pieces from their life, etc. to come up with short athlete bios.
You’ll also notice that we assigned each Saint a team based on the country they would be living in today. In the case of St. Peter, specifically, we assigned him to the team that competes with no ties to any country, citing his identity as a Jewish man who would be living now in Palestine. However, we honestly believe all these saints would probably be competing on this International team because they would want to attribute glory only to God and not to any state. We decided to include the countries anyway as another reminder of how the saints have come from all over the world and are much more ethnically diverse than we may realize.
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