Saint Sithney

Also known as: Sezni
Memorial: 4 August
Profile: Emigrated from Britain to Guic-Sezni, Brittany where he founded a monastery. A Breton legend says that God chose Sithney to be the patron of girls seeking husbands; the saint begged off, saying he would never get to rest, that he would rather take care of mad dogs than women. Sounded like a good idea to the Almighty, and ever since, sick or mad dogs have been given water from Sithney's well as a tonic.
Born: in the British Isles
Died: c.529 of natural causes
relics at the monastery of Guic-Sezni, Brittany, France
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Patronage: against hydrophobia
against rabies
against mad dogs
Sithney, Cornwall, England
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