Comments on: Patron Saints and the Gentle Craft http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/25/patron-saints-and-the-gentle-craft/ Manolo Loves the Shoes! Fri, 25 May 2012 05:23:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Happy Sts. Crispin and Crispian Day! | Manolo's Shoe Blog http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/25/patron-saints-and-the-gentle-craft/comment-page-1/#comment-808160 Happy Sts. Crispin and Crispian Day! | Manolo's Shoe Blog Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:00:15 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/25/patron-saints-and-the-gentle-craft/#comment-808160 [...] says, today is the feast day of the dual patrons of this blog, the Saints Crispin and Crispian, the saintly shoemakers, and the Manolo’s own objects of personal devotion, as recounted in [...] [...] says, today is the feast day of the dual patrons of this blog, the Saints Crispin and Crispian, the saintly shoemakers, and the Manolo’s own objects of personal devotion, as recounted in [...]

]]> By: Rachel of Cyberia http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/25/patron-saints-and-the-gentle-craft/comment-page-1/#comment-538380 Rachel of Cyberia Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:33:42 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/25/patron-saints-and-the-gentle-craft/#comment-538380 ...gotta dig out my VHS copy of Branaugh's Henry V now, thanks Greg. …gotta dig out my VHS copy of Branaugh’s Henry V now, thanks Greg.

]]> By: Greg http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/25/patron-saints-and-the-gentle-craft/comment-page-1/#comment-538366 Greg Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:07:06 +0000 http://shoeblogs.com/2007/10/25/patron-saints-and-the-gentle-craft/#comment-538366 The secular celebration of this day which comes immediately to mind for me, I must say, has little to do with shoemakers. Instead it comes from the pen of the incomparable William Shakespeare, the Saint Crispin's Day speech from Henry V: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." The secular celebration of this day which comes immediately to mind for me, I must say, has little to do with shoemakers. Instead it comes from the pen of the incomparable William Shakespeare, the Saint Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V:

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”

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