First, forgive me for being a slacker in not updating my “saint” widget over there this week – so many worthy remembrances! The Ugandan martyrs, Augustine of Canterbury, Boniface..I’m so ashamed.
Well, anyway.
My mother grew up in Maine. Born in New Hampshire, but grew up in Maine. The aunt and uncle who raised her lived there (in Sanford, in case there are any small-world moments waiting to happen out there) and for all of my childhood, a month every summer was spent in that lovely little spot of southern Maine.
Her oldest brother was probably about ten years older than she was (and she was a year older than I). He was a pretty dashing guy, although if you’d asked me at the time, I would have confessed that I thought he had a rather strange name.
“Nobbit,” they called him.
Nobbit graduated from college. Nobbit was a ski instructor in the winters. Nobbit was coming home.
Nobbit?
What kind of name was that, I wondered..for years.
Until one day, as an adult, I happened upon…
St. Norbert.
Ah..got it. Finally. Ay-up!