Today is the feast day of St. Giles, the patron saint of breastfeeding. Apparently he (yes, he) lived a life of such austerity God sent a hind to suckle him so he wouldn’t starve to death.
The legendary founders of Rome nursed from a wolf. The Catholic saint got a deer.
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St. Paul hit the nail on the head when he said, To the pure all things are pure, but to the impure nothing is pure (Ti 1:15). It is a tragically impure world that labels the purity of a baby at the breast as "gross." For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman. (source)
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September 1st, 2008 12:16
Ah, those wacky catholic holidays!
Actually, it would be a neat thing to do a line up of religious nods to breastfeeding.