{"id":2212,"date":"2016-04-09T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2016-04-10T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:07:23","slug":"the-martyrdom-of-an-unidentified-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/09\/the-martyrdom-of-an-unidentified-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Martyrdom of an Unidentified Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dearest Kanada <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Thank you so much for your photographs <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I am so glad that you left my only bra <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As a homage to James Dean <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The weather in London has been dreadful recently <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And has been killing off large numbers of bees much to my distress <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have enclosed an Israeli book mark for you <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Which has twelve trapped stamps from the Promised Land <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yesterday an unidentified saint was martyred in front of my flat <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He spoke to me briefly before his execution <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>His name was Keg and was present with two Roman soldiers at the moment of Christ\u2019s Resurrection <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Later he announced the resurrection to the scribes <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And was asked to remain silent <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He refused <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And departed for Jerusalem telling anybody who listened <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That Jesus was the True God <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Soldiers were sent out to arrest him <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He offered them hospitality<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Which they did not accept<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>He was decapitated and his head was left on the ground <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A golden halo surrounded it <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Jews gave gifts to the erring soldiers <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And later brought the head to Pontius Pilate <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Who ordered that it be thrown on to a manure pile outside of the city walls <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The following day the saint appeared to a blind woman and requested that she might locate the manure pile and retrieve his head <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The blind woman after difficulty found the saint&#8217;s head and was commanded to kiss it <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Which she did<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Her sight returned<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>She saw the saint standing with her new born son in his arms<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The child was named Keg<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I believe my unidentified saint came from Asia Minor although he might have been of Maltese origin <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>On the night before his execution I slept with his sister<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Her name was Ko <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Please do not think less of me <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As I miss you greatly<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do enjoy the Walt Whitman book I sent you <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I admire his poems <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Although I was saddened to learn that he had never visited Malta <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I cannot wait to hold you in my arms again <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Valerie x <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Kanada Thank you so much for your photographs I am so glad that you left my only bra As a homage to James Dean The weather in London has been dreadful recently And has been killing off large numbers of bees much to my distress I have enclosed an Israeli book mark for you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}