The Dog Who Almost Became a Catholic Saint

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• PU

  @purplehaze2358 · 3 years ago

  To be entirely fair, all dogs are saints so far as I'm concerned.

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• CA

  @caitlinsnowfrost8244 · 3 years ago

  Folk saints are such a cool cultural thing! My favorite is Catherine of Aragon (and I hope she gets canonized for real someday) but I didn't know a lot about "Saint" Guinefort going in, so this was a fascinating ride! At the risk of sounding cliche, he sounds like a very good boy.

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• JA

  @jaceladag · 3 years ago

  EEEEEY! ST GUINEFORT! Illegal saints are my favorite thing ever,  and this good boy even more. Gonna share this on my Tumblr for Dog Saint Monday.

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• ZE

  @zebrisky · 3 years ago

  I like the new editing style, and I hope you do more like this, both in terms of the content and the style, keep up the great work

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• RA

  @RainWelsh · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWBID1WB-Do&amp;t=840">14:00</a> glad you mentioned Gelert, as someone who grew up being royally pissed off at Llywelyn Fawr for killing The Ultimate Good Boy, I got some serious deja vu from the tale of Guinefort. <br><br>I suppose at least this time the Welsh myth was reproduced faithfully, nobody stuck their wife-stealing OCs into it or anything.

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• JE

  @jeniskindof · 3 years ago (edited)

  I like to believe the dog actually did become a saint and when all the people who denied his sainthood died and went to heaven they were in complete shock to see him sitting next to God getting head pats from him

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• MR

  @MrBulbasaurlover · 3 years ago

  As a Catholic I appreciate the respect you paid to the material but still being able to inject it with humour.

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• CO

  @CompleteAnimation · 3 years ago

  I finally finished reading Winter Without End. Overall, I liked it! I kind of wish Sierra had more dialogue, but it makes sense that wolves just aren&apos;t much for idle chatter. In my mind&apos;s eye, I imagined the scenes looking like a classic animated film. It made me wonder what it would be like if some studio actually made an adaptation. I bet Cartoon Saloon could do a good job of it, if they were ever so inclined!

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• VU

  @vulpecula297 · 3 years ago

  Always a good day when a new Cardinal West video pops up. <br><br>Instructions unclear, placed a baby under a dog to cure my depression.

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• GR

  @graylykan2739 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Fascinating video! I never heard about St. Guinefort until now. It&apos;s awful that the owner didn&apos;t see the dead snake until after he assumed the worst and killed his own dog. It&apos;s crazy how Guinefort&apos;s death shared parallels to Gelert&apos;s.<br>I always look forward to seeing more content from you. Keep up the great work!

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• MI

  @midshipman8654 · 3 years ago (edited)

  another really interesting video that specifically goes into how animals were seen in medieval life and how that changed is historia civilis’s video on animal trials. and how animals were put on trial since at least the ancient greeks and how domesticated animals were seen as part of the wider commune, had moral agency, and could be judged for wrongdoings like people, in a cosmic idea of due. and this was somerhing that lasted into the medieval era. Where there was even an interesting idea of “ecclesiastical” and “secular” animal crimes.<br><br>where livestock were considered to fall under the community and thus went under secular law in case of a stampede or some other percieved wrongdoing, while wild animals went under ecclesiastical court proceedings as “acts of god/the devil” outside of the community.<br><br>so while the “object” view isnt wrong, there seems to be a &nbsp;broader sense of “cosmic order and duty”. and in fact, a more clinical depersonalization occured with the enlightenment where this sort of classification seemed superstitious and a conception of &nbsp;animals demoralized as “machines that only follow the disposition of their organs” came more into vogue, with them considered to be more amoral and and not liable to be put on trial.

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• AL

  @alyssumfoxart · 3 years ago

  I knew a little about St. Guinefort. But your research blew it out of the water. Beautiful job! I’d love a rebirth of venerating St. Guinefort.

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