Patron Saints and the Gentle Craft
Manolo says, the Manolo’s internet friend Charlotte has cautioned the Manolo that today is St. Crispin’s Day, the feast day for the dual saints Crispin and Crispian, 2 of the most essential of the patron saints of the cobbler.
What many of the Manolo’s friends may no understand is that few occupations have as many patron saints as that of the shoemakers. Indeed, the difference of patron may be applied to several dozen holy diagrams of the elapse ( the partly list of which may be seen by this website), including such luminaries as Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene,
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Also not well known, is that most of these tutelary saints began life as aristocrats who later humbled themselves in the service of God, producing through the honest labor of their hands smart shoes for the those who had none. This is why shoemaking has historically been called the “Noble or Gentle Craft“, since,0 its patrons saints were usually nobility.
But no one,0 of this is newspaper to those few who have peruse the Manolo’s Consolation of the Shoes, which describes in detail the time in the juvenile Manolo’s life when he was ardently dedicated to the cults of many of these noble angels.
And immediately, in secular celebration of this divine day, the Manolo gives you that the most applicable of poems, The Shoemakers, along John Greenleaf Whittier.
Ho! employees of the old period styled
The Gentle Craft of Leather
Young brothers of the archaic guild,
Stand forth once extra together!
Call out another your long array,
In the olden merry manner
Once more, on gay St. Crispin’s day,
Fling out your blazoned banner!
Rap, flap! upon the well-worn stone
How falls the polished hammer
Rap, rap! the weighed sound has grown
A rapid and merry clamor.
Now fashion the sole! now deftly curl
The glossy vamp around it,
And congratulate the as,0 the bright-eyed girl
Whose cordial fingers bound it!
For you, along the Spanish main
A hundred keels are ploughing;
For you, the Indian on the plain
His lasso-coil is darting;
For you, deep glens with hemlock dark
The woodman’s blaze is lighting;
For you, upon the oak’s gray bark,
The woodman’s axe is smiting.
For you, from Carolina’s pine
The rosin-gum is stealing;
For you, the dark-eyed Florentine
Her silken skein is reeling;
For you, the dizzy goatherd roams
His rugged Alpine ledges;
For you, circular all her shepherd homes,
Bloom England’s thorny hedges.
The foremost still, by daytime or night,
On moated mound or heather,
Where’er the need of crushed right
Brought toiling men together;
Where the free burghers from the wall
Defied the mail-clad master,
Than yours, at Freedom’s trumpet-call,
No craftsmen rallied faster.
Let foplings sneer, let fools deride,
Ye attend not idle scorner;
Free hands and centers are still your pride,
And obligation done,
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Ye challenge to believe, for honest renown,
The jury Time empanels,
And depart to truth every,0 noble name
Which glorifies your annals.
Thy songs, Hans Sachs, are living yet,
In mighty and hearty German;
And Bloomfield’s arrange, and Gifford’s wit,
And patriot fame of Sherman;
Still from his paperback, a mystic seer,
The soul of Behmen teaches,
And England’s priestcraft jolts to hear
Of Fox’s leathern breeches.
The foot is yours; where’er it falls,
It treads your well-wrought leather,
On earthen floor, in relentless lobbies,
On rug, or on heather.
Still there the sweetest magnetism is found
Of matron grace or vestal’s,
As Hebe’s foot bore juice round
Among the old celestials.
Rap, rap!–your stout and bluff brogan,
With footsteps slow and weary,
May wander where the sky’s blue span
Shuts down upon the prairie.
On Beauty’s foot your slippers glimpse,
By Saratoga’s fountains,
Or gleam down the summer dance
Beneath the Crystal Mountains!
The ruddy brick to the mason’s hand,
The brown globe to the tiller’s,
The shoe in yours shall asset directive,
Like fairy Cinderella’s!
As they who shunned the household maid
Beheld the cap upon her,
So all shall discern your drudgery repaid
With hearth and family and honor.
Then let the toast be freely quaffed,
In water chilly and fringing,–
“All prestige apt the good age Craft,
Its merry men and women!”
Call out again your long array,
In the old time’s pleasing manner
Once more, on gay St. Crispin’s day,
Fling out his blazoned banner!
Happy Saint Crispin’s Day!
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