Reading the lives of many of the saints, some of them seem almost inhuman. That’s why I’m glad there’s a saint like Joseph of Cupertino, who is known, among other things, for being kind of a dumbass.
He frequently forgot what he was told to do, dropped piles of dishes, found exams “difficult and stressful,” and was generally regarded as “remarkably unclever.” He passed his seminary exams by miraculously only being asked questions he knew. He’s the patron saint of students sitting exams and people with learning disabilities (also pilots, because he was prone to levitation).
“O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favour in the examinations for which I am now preparing.”
love this guy
he’s levitating in every painting i’ve seen of him and everyone’s just like “there he goes”
I enjoy reading the lives of saints sometimes so I looked this fellow up and then went browsing through his medals, and I have to say most of them basically just look like these paintings but then there’s
NYOOOOOOM!
[ID: Four images; the top three are of a man in a Franciscan order’s robes, levitating, while other friars and sometimes angels look on in amazement. He has upraised arms and a fluffy beard and seems pretty cool. The fourth image is a saint’s medal shown front and back; the back reads St. Joseph of Cupertino, while the front shows a man soaring through the air horizontally, arms outstretched, greatly resembling an airplane.]
can you imagine having been this guy’s peer. like, he’s a dumbass but also he floats. he just floats some times. this guy who relentlessly doesn’t understand shit about fuck, in seminary, the place where you go to learn about religion, that guy, the guy who is dense as fuck, this guy is clearly channeling the holy spirit.
do you think his classmates watch him float and glow and quietly think about every lecture he ever slept through and every bible verse he forgot and every key piece of theology he somehow managed to not learn. after years. in seminary. the school for knowing stuff about what the fuck god is doing.
particularly what the fuck god is doing with st joseph, the flying fuck-up.
