Please nobody get offended by this. I know we are all walks and faiths, but I thought this was interesting.

So I talked to a friend about the Blessing of the Animals - every year I miss it because it's always on a Saturday when I work - and I told her that I would still like my animals to be blessed some way - I know this delves into religious territory and I'm not asking for a religious debate, I just found something interesting today. (I am very eclectic in my beliefs, but was raised Catholic). I decided I would get two St. Francis medals blessed by a priest to put on my cats. I figure maybe some more luck? I can handle more luck. Anything that there might be a chance of bringing blessings in my cat's lives I'm all for, and they like jewelery.

Well anyways, for funsies I looked up St. Linus. And there was a St. Linus. He was one of the first popes and he was in the bible!!! He was a pope and supposedly, according to some texts, buried next to the apostle Peter! Weird what you learn!

But get this: His feast day was September 23rd. This is astronomically amazing to me, because September 23rd was the day I got MY Linus. I don't know if this can be a coincidence, since there are 365-366 days in a year! Yeah, it gave me the chills.

But regardless, September 23rd will always be a special day for me. It was the day MY Linus came into my life. It's just funny that someone of the same name would have a holiday...