[ih] astonishing patron saint of the Internet

[Toerless Eckert]

Great find. Would be even better if somebody linked this URL into

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

That wiki page also makes the patronage look quite oficial and only points to
one "promotion" aspect of it.

Reading up on it, Isidore looks more like a saint for users hough.

I think i would go for Saint Maturinus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturinus

>> The saint is particularly invoked against obsessions and madness,
>> as well as the protector of lunatics and plumbers

What a nice fit ;-)


On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:20:58PM +0000, wfms--- via Internet-history wrote:
> 
> Perhaps an urban legend:
> 
> https://aleteia.org/2020/05/02/a-patron-saint-of-the-internet-unofficially-though/
> 
> or just not officially.
> 
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> 
> > Dear Vint
> > 
> > This Wednesday I am doing a brief presentation about my 1473 copy of
> > Isidore of Seville. *Etymologiae* at a Zoom session of the Grolier Club.
> > 
> > I came across this factoid which I share with you in case of the unlikely
> > possibility that you were not aware of it.
> > 
> > In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared Isidore of Seville the patron saint of
> > the internet. Saint Isidore died in the year 636, long before the first
> > host-to-host ARPANET connection in 1969. But Isidore did try to record
> > everything ever known in an encyclopedia that was ultimately published
> > after his death
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Gene
> > 
> > 
> > Eugene S. Flamm, MD, FAANS, FACS, FASA
> > Professor of Neurosurgery
> > Chairman Emeritus
> > Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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