Saints live interesting lives after their death. The memories and stories are abused and distorted into being something they probably never were. One of these is Saint Expeditus, the saint invoked against procrastination and for speedy solutions. He is the patron saint of Navigators and also an unofficial patron of computer hackers and programmers.
St Expeditus – photo: Constance Wiebrands (CC by-nc-sa)
In addition to being useful against procastination and to programmers St. Expeditus also has ties to Voodoo culture & on the island of Réunion where his shrines are sometimes decorated with underwear.
It’s not even sure if he existed but the story goes that he was a roman centurion and became a christian martyr. A convent in Paris recieved a statue of him, or relics of him according to other sources, in a box with the text “spedito” or Expeditus in Latin. The statue is now in New Orleans. What is sure is that the no one really knows if he was a saint but whoever he was his real name was not Expeditus.
It’s amazing how this man has evolved after death in ways nobody could have imagined.
(Sources: Wired, Patron Saint Index, Molossia.org, Catholiconline.org)