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bonus: control it, mr jalen "heart eyes" brunson

JOKE-OGRAPHY:

This comic was inspired by my little cousin and goddaughter who chose St. Clare as her confirmation saint. Congratulations!

St. Clare was a contemporary of St. Francis of Assisi (the bird guy, yeah). She was one of his first followers, moved by his lifestyle of radical, joyous poverty in imitation of Christ, and his dedication to the poor and sick. After St. Francis's example, St. Clare founded and wrote the monastic rules for her own order, the Order of Poor Ladies (later called the Poor Clares, after her). These were the first monastic rules known to have been written by a woman!

In this cartoon, I tell a legend about St. Clare that's been passed down for ages. The vision on the wall made her a patron saint of extrasensory perception, which is pretty esoteric for a Catholic patronage. In the 1900s, she was also declared the patron of television and computer screens, once the Church saw the evangelical power of new media. Screens are powerful portals of both good and evil, so it's good to have a saint looking out for them, even if she died WAY before they were invented. Maybe St. Carlo Acutis can explain them to her now. Buddy-patron series when?