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<\/p>\nSaint Fechin was a feckin fecker
\nThat bigger feckers made a saint
\nPrayed for a plague to plague the poor:
\nThe fecker: a saint he aint!<\/p>\n
The least of Gods children he prayed ill for
\nAt the behest of a cruel king
\nWho thought the poor too much in number
\nShowed church and state to be the same thing.<\/p>\n
But a bittersweet justice God gave
\nHe allowed the plague on the poor
\nThat was prayed for by the clerics for the king
\nBut it carried them off including this hoor!<\/p>\n
How can a church that prays for death
\nFor the poor call itself pro life to this day?
\nGods name they shamelessly took in vein
\nUp to now an apology they refuse to say!<\/p>\n
So on January 20th let us remember
\nSaint Fechin the fecker from Fore
\nShowed how church and king are the same thing
\nLet us call Fechin a feckin saint no more!<\/p>\n
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St Fechin (pronounced Feckin in the east of Ireland!) Was a corrupt Irish monk who on behalf of currupt kings prayed for a plague in Ireland to reduce the numbers of the poor.<\/p>\n
Its the worlds earliest record of eugenics! He should be the patron saint of the super rich.<\/p>\n
How he is a saint is a mystery. As abbot of Fore Abbey his feast day is January 20th.<\/p>\n
Of the three saints asked (him, St Gerard of Mayo and Manchan of Leamonaghan in Offaly) only Gerald refused the request.<\/p>\n
His end is poetic justice: he and Manchan die in the plague they prayed for while Gerald the Good survives!<\/p>\n
While the poem is light hearted, the anger it contains is real. The church should apologise by stripping them of sainthood and make their feast days the Feast of the Innocent Poor Victims of the Yellow Plague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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