• Nougat@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    10 months ago

    Catholics are the ones known for intercessory prayer, wherein you pray to someone “God-adjacent,” and ask them to talk to God on your behalf. Mary is a big one for sure, Joseph is sometimes in there, whatever relevant patron saint, etc. It’s so engrained that there are little nursery rhyme style “chants” for things sometimes:

    Tony, Tony, look around, something is lost and must be found.

    St. Anthony is the “patron saint of lost items.”