Today is St. Barbara’s Day. Known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Greek saint and martyr. Saint Barbara is often portrayed with miniature chains and a tower to symbolize her father imprisoning her. As one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Barbara is a popular saint, perhaps best known as the patroness saint of armourers, artillerymen, military engineers, miners and others who work with explosives because of her legend’s association with lightning.
She is invoked against thunder and lightning and all accidents arising from explosions of gunpowder. She became the patroness saint of artillerymen, armorers, military engineers, gunsmiths, and anyone else who worked with cannon and explosives. Following the widespread adoption of gunpowder in mining in the 1600s, she was adopted as the patroness of miners, tunnelers, and other underground workers.
Saint Barbara’s Day, 4 December, is celebrated by the British (Royal Artillery, RAF Armourers, Royal Engineers), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Armourers, Australian (Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, RAAF Armourers), Canadian (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians (EOD), Canadian Ammunition Technicians, Canadian Air Force Armourers, Royal Canadian Artillery, Canadian Military Field Engineers, Royal Canadian Navy Weapons Engineering Technicians), and New Zealand (RNZN Gunners Branch, RNZA, Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps, RNZAF Armourers) armed forces.
The Irish Army venerates her as the patroness saint of the Artillery Corps where she appears on the corps insignia, half dressed, holding a harp, sitting on a field cannon. Saint Barbara is recognized as the patroness saint of the field artillerymen of the Marine Corps 1st Marine Division, who commemorate Saint Barbara’s Day with a dinner and the traditional preparation artillery punch.
Badge of the Irish Artillery Corps
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“Let It Snow”
You may start watching this thinking that they are lip-synching to a record, but no, this woman’s voice is just that good. And at the end of an all-night wedding reception. She is Clodagh McCarthy, singing an old Irish folk song at the wedding of her sister Patrice O’Connor and Donagh Davern in Tipperary. The video went viral a few years ago. Patrice comes from a family embedded in music and it was therefore no surprise that a sing-song started after the wedding.
However, what has happened since has been phenomenal, as the video of Patrice’s sister Clodagh McCarthy singing, with Patrice harmonizing, has gone viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oFQ76ctfS0
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