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Nov. 17th, 2010 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafToday is the feast of Hugh of Lincoln*, who did many good things, including protecting Jewish victims of persecution and mob violence**, as well as beginning the gothic rebuilding of Lincoln Cathedral after it was damaged by an earthquake, but is probably most memorable for his pet swan.
It used to follow him about, and guard him while he slept. I don't know how or why he acquired it, but I'd have thought an attack swan would be a very effective bodyguard.
* Who is most definitely not to be confused with Little St Hugh of Lincoln, a murdered child who inspired a particularly unpleasant blood libel.
**Somewhat ironically, given the use made of the other Hugh of Lincoln by anti-semites
It used to follow him about, and guard him while he slept. I don't know how or why he acquired it, but I'd have thought an attack swan would be a very effective bodyguard.
* Who is most definitely not to be confused with Little St Hugh of Lincoln, a murdered child who inspired a particularly unpleasant blood libel.
**Somewhat ironically, given the use made of the other Hugh of Lincoln by anti-semites