this book is truly insane, here are the cocktails for some of my favorite girlies ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
Saint Joan of Arc
Maiden’s Blush
2 oz. gin
1/2 tsp. triple sec
1/2 tsp. grenadine
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.
French 75
1 1/2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. lemon juice
2 tsp. simple syrup
5 oz. brut champagne
lemon twist
Pour gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a champagne flute/tulip and top with champagne. Garnish with lemon.
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Love in an Elevator
1 oz. gin
1/2 oz. green curaçao liqueur
2 1/2 oz. ginger ale (chilled)
Pour gin and curaçao into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass and add ginger ale.
Saint Lucy
Santa Lucia Martini
2 oz. gin
1 dash vermouth
2 olives
Pour all ingredients except olives into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass. Transfix the two olives with a cocktail sword so that the pimentos are positioned like eyeballs, and place them horizontally on the glass rim.
Lucie Cocktail
3/4 oz. lime juice
3/4 oz. light rum
3/4 oz. Grand Marnier
1/4 oz. orange curaçao
Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Stain into a cocktail glass rimmed with sugar.
Saint Maria Goretti
Sweet Maria
1 1/2 oz. cream
3/4 oz. amaretto
3/4 oz. vodka
Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.
Mary Magdalene
Madelaine Cocktail
1 oz. cognac
3/4 oz. Drambuie
3/4 oz. dry vermouth
Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.
Saint Rose of Lima
Inca Cocktail
3/4 oz. gin
3/4 oz. sherry
1/2 oz. dry vermouth
1/2 oz. sweet vermouth
1 dash orgeat or almond syrup
1 dash orange or Angostura bitters
Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into a cocktail glass.
Pisco Sour (Original Peruvian Version)
2 oz. Peruvian pisco brandy
1 oz. lemon or lime juice
3/4 oz. simple syrup
1 egg white
1 dash Angostura bitters
Pour all ingredients except bitters into a shaker filled with ice and shake forty times. Strain into an old fashioned glass (without ice) and sprinkle bitters on the foamy top of the drink.
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Saint Maria Goretti
1890 - 1902
Feast day: July 6 (New), July 9 (Trad)
Patronage: Crime victims, teenage girls, modern youth, Children of Mary
Maria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused to submit to him.
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)
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07/08/2022
On her deathbed, she said she hoped to see Alessandro in Heaven someday, and years later, she visited him in a dream in prison, converting him with her overwhelming forgiveness. Happy (belated) feast of a most tragic and triumphant young saint!
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
A comic based on St. Marietta was suggested by Jim Burke on Patreon some time ago. I had no idea who she was, but after reading about her very short life, I found it profoundly affecting. At the age of 11, she was stabbed for trying to prevent her murderer from committing a mortal sin, concerned more for his soul than for her life. Despite being rushed to the hospital, her wounds were fatal, and even when she was on her deathbed, she told her confessor that she forgave Alessandro and hoped to see him in heaven someday. Alessandro was arrested, but three years into his imprisonment, he had a dream of Marietta peacefully handing him flowers in a field. The dream broke him down and convinced him that Marietta's forgiveness had been genuine, and that brought him back to God. Through God, her forgiveness was so powerful that she converted her murderer from beyond the grave. What a kid.
My comics tend be comedic, so I struggled with the idea of making any light of St. Marietta's story, but in the end, I decided that making a comic about her might inspire a few readers to look her up, and hopefully you find her full story as moving as I did.
And Jim Burke, thank you for pointing me toward such a poignant saint. I know this isn't the comic you suggested, but I'll eventually get around to making your actual suggestion a reality!
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(WARNING: Sensitive Content)
SAINT OF THE DAY (July 6)
July 6 marks the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young virgin and martyr whose life is an example of purity and mercy for all Christians.
St. Maria Goretti is best known for her commitment to purity and the courageous defense of her faith at the young age of eleven that made her willing to undergo death rather than participate in a sin against God.
She is also remarkable for the forgiveness she willingly granted her attacker as she lay on her deathbed.
Maria was born on 16 October 1890 in Corinaldo, Italy.
Her father, a farmer, died of malaria when she was young, and her mother had to work to support their six children.
Maria took care of the younger children while her mother worked. She prayed the Rosary every night for the repose of her father’s soul.
She grew in grace and maturity. Her cheerful obedience and piety were noticed by those around her.
On 5 July 1902, a neighbouring farm hand, Alessandro Serenelli, tried to rape Maria.
On several prior occasions, Alessandro had harassed Maria with impure advances, all of which she had vehemently rejected.
This time, he locked her in a room and tried to force himself upon her. She fought against him, shouting, "No! It is a sin! God does not want it!" and warning him that this was the path towards hell.
When Maria declared that she would rather die than submit to this sin, Alessandro angrily grabbed her and stabbed her 14 times with a knife.
Maria was found bleeding to death and rushed to the hospital.
As she lay dying, she forgave Alessandro for the crime he had committed against her, saying, "Yes, for the love of Jesus, I forgive him...and I want him to be with me in Paradise."
Although the doctors tried to save her, she died on 6 July 1902, only eleven years old.
Alessandro was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He remained unrepentant until one night, eight years into his prison term, when Maria appeared to him, dressed in white, gathering lilies in a garden.
She smiled, turned towards Alessandro, and offered him the flowers. Each lily he took transformed into a white flame. Then Maria disappeared.
From that moment, Alessandro converted and found peace. He repented of his crime and changed his life.
He was released from prison three years early and begged forgiveness from Maria’s mother, which she duly granted.
Alessandro moved to a Capuchin monastery, working in the garden as a tertiary for the remainder of his life.
He was one of the witnesses who testified to Maria's holiness during her cause of beatification, citing the crime and the vision in prison.
Many miracles were attributed to Maria Goretti after her death.
Pope Pius XII beatified her on 27 April 1947 and canonized on 24 June 1950.
She became the youngest Roman Catholic saint officially recognised by name.
She is the patron saint of purity, rape victims, young women, and youth in general.
On her feast day in 2003, Pope John Paul II spoke about St. Maria Goretti at his Sunday Angelus, noting that her life provides an exemplary witness of what it means to be "pure of heart."
"What does this fragile but christianly mature girl say to today's young people, through her life and above all through her heroic death?" asked the Pope.
"Marietta, as she was lovingly called, reminds the youth of the third millennium that true happiness demands courage and a spirit of sacrifice, refusing every compromise with evil and having the disposition to pay personally, even with death, faithful to God and his commandments."
"How timely this message is," the Holy Father continued.
"Today, pleasure, selfishness and directly immoral actions are often exalted in the name of the false ideals of liberty and happiness.
It is essential to reaffirm clearly that purity of heart and of body go together, because chastity ‘is the custodian’ of authentic love."
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1902 – Maria Goretti
Maria Teresa Goretti (Italian: [maˈriːa teˈrɛːza ɡoˈretti]; October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) is an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized.[1] She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with another family, the Serenellis. She took over household duties while her mother and siblings worked in the fields.
One afternoon, Alessandro, the Serenellis' 20-year-old son, made sexual advances to her. When she refused to submit to him, he stabbed her 14 times. She was taken to the hospital but she died forgiving him. He was arrested, convicted, and jailed. During imprisonment, he repented. After 27 years, he was released from prison and visited her mother to beg forgiveness, which she granted. He later became a lay brother in a Capuchin monastery and died in 1970. She was beatified in 1947 and canonized in 1950. She is especially venerated in the Congregation of the Passion (Passionists).
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