Friday, January 16, 2009

City Streets

The streets in the city of St. Ann, a suburb of St. Louis, has many streets whose names begin with "saint." I am not exactly well-versed in saints, but there is St. Philip, St. Stephen, St. Matthew, St. Lawrence, St. Leo, St. Monica, St. Joachim, St. Xavier, St. Damian, St. Kevin, St. Henry, and St. Cosmas, among others. We often joke that the city founders merely decided to pick a random smattering of names and add St. (or San) in front of it. Maybe that's just the Lutheran in me. Every child of God is both saint and sinner. Maybe they'll name a street after me next. . . or not.

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