Uploader still not working for photos. I'll have to go via Flickr if this continues, a much more tedious process.
I've found my patron saint. She is St Gertrude of Nivelles, patron saint of cats and those who own them, also gardeners, herbalists, travellers in search of lodging and the souls of the newly dead. She can be invoked against rats/mice and mental illness. Perfect. She is portrayed in art as a nun with a traveller's staff, with mice running up it. She shares her saint-day with St Patrick, but she did act as hostess to travelling Irish priests in her abbey at Nivelles in Belgium, so perhaps she quite enjoyed a little raucous blarney. Slainte, Saint Gertrude.
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