Because I'm an anal-retentive freak...

Date: 2005-06-07 01:06 am (UTC)
St. Aloysius is the patron saint of: AIDS care-givers, AIDS patients, Catholic youth, Jesuit students, relief from pestilence, sore eyes, teenage children, teenagers, and young people. The bear in Brideshead Revisited is named Aloysius.

There's some speculation that the 'L' in A.X.L. might stand for 'Leng,' as with good ol' Uncle Antoine.

And St. Crispin is patron of: cobblers, glove makers, lace makers, lace workers, leather workers, saddle makers, saddlers, shoemakers, tanners, weavers.

As for the Latin of Crispin's name... here are the two relevant dictionary listings:

crispo -are [to curl; to move rapidly , brandish]; intransit. partic. crispans -antis, [curly, wavy].

crispus -a -um [curly , curly-headed; trembling, quaking].

I've seen the "Crispin means curly-haired" thing before... but if you go by the Latin, that isn't necessarily true. Far as I can tell.

My own middle name is Carolyn. Because my grandmother, when she came to America from Croatia, had her name changed to 'Caroline' (apparently because her original name meant 'dear' in Croatian, and 'cara' is dear in Italian). But she always wanted to be Carolyn.
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