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Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies (annotations)

Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies
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A

  • A May Hymn
  • A Paradigmatic Sunday Sermon
  • Abbot of Trocadero
  • Abdiel
  • Acanthus (ornament)
  • Act of Contrition
  • Adiposa
  • Adriatic Sea
  • After Marriage: All Systems GO?
  • Aggiornamento
  • Alhambra Theater (South Bend, Indiana)
  • Allied Invasion of Italy
  • Altar server
  • Altoona, Pennsylvania
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • American Revolution
  • Amun-Ra
  • Anchorite
  • Andorra
  • Anfractua
  • Angel
  • Antipope
  • Apotheosis
  • Apotheosis of Saint Fidgeta
  • Aquinas, Thomas
  • Arch (architecture)
  • Aretino, Pietro
  • Aristotle
  • Armbruster, Pennsylvania
  • Asceticism
  • Aston-Martin
  • Atropos, Kentucky
  • Avars

B

  • Babylon, Missouri
  • Baines, Oregon
  • Balbo
  • Ballyspitteen, Ireland
  • Baltimore, Maryland
  • Barbican
  • Baroque
  • Bee
  • Begonia
  • Belfast, Ireland
  • Belloc, Hilaire
  • Bibbiena
  • Birth Control
  • Bishop of South Saigon
  • Blanche of Castile
  • Bobbo
  • Boboli Gardens
  • Bogeslaw
  • Bonbon
  • Bosnia
  • Bouche, Gruyere de la 
  • Bozo Theatre
  • Breviarum Defunctorum
  • Brothel as Sanctuary, The
  • Brown, Contraceptua
  • Buckley, Jr., William F. 
  • Buddha
  • Buggog
  • Bugloss, Orcus
  • Bunty
  • Burgerbitz
  • Bustard
  • Buttress (architecture)
  • Byzantine art

C

  • Canonization
  • Capri, Italy
  • Caravaggio
  • Carius
  • Catechism
  • Catharism
  • Cathedral of Saint Gorboduc
  • Catholic Action
  • Catholic Casting Company
  • Catholic University of America
  • Catholic Worker
  • Censer
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • Central Park
  • Chain letter
  • Chair of Saint Peter
  • Chaplet
  • Cherub
  • Chesterton, G. K.
  • Chi Rho
  • Chiang Kai-shek
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Chicago Casting Company
  • Chimera
  • Church Dormant
  • Church of Saint Edwy
  • Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  • Circus Maximus
  • Clapp, Modine
  • Claudel, Paul 
  • Clotilde
  • Clottovecchio, Ercolaneo
  • Clute
  • Coca-Cola
  • Commemorative Prayer for a Holy Woman Not a Virgin
  • Communion
  • Communism
  • Communist Manifesto, The
  • Comnenus, Isaac
  • Compositor
  • Coney Island
  • Constantinople
  • Contraceptua Youthful Anti-Smut League
  • Cope
  • Cordwain
  • Corfu, New York
  • Coroda
  • Corvo
  • Council of Trent
  • Crapple, Anthony Adverse
  • Crocket (architecture)
  • Crosier
  • Cross (verb)
  • Crostaciano
  • Crusades
  • Cubism
  • Cuminseed Press

D

E

  • Econophanic Heresy
  • Ecumenical Council
  • Eiger
  • Empire State Building
  • Equator
  • Et Antiquum Documentum
  • Euphemism for Heaven and the Afterlife
  • Europe
  • Ex cathedra
  • Excommunication
  • Exfoliations from a Blazing Tulip

F

  • Faldstool
  • Faldstool, Caxton
  • Faldstool, Emily
  • Faldstool, Eudoxia
  • Faldstool, Voltimand
  • Fátima, Our Lady of
  • Feast day
  • Fidgeta
  • Fidgeta and the Problem of the Catholic Artist in an Altogether Too Secularized Society (book)
  • Fidgeta, Saint
  • Fidgetaslied und der Deutsche Geist, Das (book)
  • Fidgettine apparition
  • Fifth Commandment
  • Finial (architecture)
  • Fiorello, M. (Sister)
  • First Friday (devotion)
  • First Monday (devotion)
  • First Saturday (devotion)
  • Fitzgerald, Barry
  • Flash Gordon (comic)
  • Flavius the Proud
  • Floradora A.R.G., M.
  • Floradora, Little Order of  (Baines, Oregon)
  • Floradora, Saint
  • Floradora, Shrine of (Ballyspitten, Ireland)
  • Floradora: Lines Writ in Lava (book)
  • Fobbio, Italy
  • Fogarty, Iowa
  • Foil (architecture)
  • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
  • Fragonards Fidgetabild und Romantische Weltschmerz (book)
  • Frem, Gertie
  • Frère Jacques
  • Frère Jacques (song)
  • Frognall and Companions Church, Saint
  • Frostauger,  T. Oates
  • Furens, Hercules
  • Furze

G

  • Galileo Galilei
  • Gambatto, Cardinal
  • Ganymede V, Pope
  • Garagiola, Sandro di
  • Gargan, Professor
  • Gasogene Books
  • Gaul
  • Gaulle, Charles de
  • Gauloises
  • General Grant style
  • Genoa, Italy
  • Gertrude-by-the-Tarn
  • Gertrude-by-the-Tarn School, Saint
  • Goar, Saint
  • Gobart, Monsignor
  • Golden House of Nero
  • Gorboduc, Cathedral of Saint
  • Gorboduc, Saint
  • Goretti, Maria (Saint)
  • Gorgo
  • Gormenghast, Thomas O'Hogarty
  • Gormless, B. U. (S.J.)
  • Goths
  • Gozzoli, Benozzo
  • Grabney, Father
  • Grand Central Schism
  • Green stamps
  • Greenland
  • Gregory of Mopsuestia
  • Gregory of Mopsuestia
  • Groin
  • Groin (magazine)
  • Gumpert, Clodian

H

  • Ha-Du-Ku-Ba-Saïd-Na (phrase)
  • Hagia Sophia Church (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Hail Mary (prayer)
  • Handbook for Grade School Nuns (book)
  • Harg
  • Harlem (Manhattan, City of New York, New York)
  • Heavenly host
  • Heilige - Ja! (article)
  • Hibernus
  • Hoagy, Ariel (Mrs.)
  • Holy water
  • Hoover, J. Edgar
  • Horror of 1292
  • How Would You Know (article)
  • Humpf (word)
  • Hus, John
  • Husk, Dean
  • Hymn

I

  • Icon
  • Idolatry
  • Il Monasterio Segreto (The Turkish Bedstead) (opera)
  • Immolation
  • Index Librorum Prohibitorum
  • Indulgence
  • Inkwell
  • Inquisition
  • Instituto Superbo
  • Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
  • Iron Curtain
  • Ishbar
  • ius primae usufructus (phrase)

J

  • Jan ter Koot (Dutch mystic)
  • Janiculum
  • Jesuits
  • Jeuna, Sister
  • JMJ
  • Joan, Pope
  • Jocus Porphyrias (phrase)
  • Jogues, Isaac
  • John XXIII
  • Johnson, Lyndon
  • Joyce, James
  • Justinian, Sister

K

  • Kai-Shek, Chiang
  • Keep Your Hands to Yourself (publication)
  • Kerymagazine (magazine)
  • Khayyam, Omar
  • Knights of the White Sepulchre
  • Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)

L

  • Lament for St. Floradora (poem)
  • Last Gospel (Gospel of John)
  • Latifundia (O.F.F.), Mother
  • Latin
  • Legion of Decency
  • Leitotes
  • Lent (liturgical season)
  • Leptis Magna
  • Letters to an Astigmatic Stigmatic (book)
  • Levée
  • Life (magazine)
  • Lights, Vigil
  • Lintel's Abbey, Saint
  • Listening to Architecture (article)
  • Litany for a Happy Death (prayer)
  • Litany of Saint Fidgeta (prayer)
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Los Honchos, Spain
  • L'Osservatore Romano (publication)
  • Louis IX, Saint
  • Louis XIV (chair)
  • Lourdes, Our Lady of
  • Lumber Falls, Colorado
  • Lüneberg, Germany
  • Lust Panty (magazine)

M

  • M., A. (Mrs.)
  • Mainz, Germany
  • mal de siècle (phrase)
  • Manchuria (region)
  • Manhattan Island (City of New York, New York)
  • Man's Rape (magazine)
  • Marian Titles
  • Mariner spacecraft
  • Maritain, Jacques
  • Marx, Karl
  • Mass
  • Mater Si-Magistra No (phrase)
  • Mavra, Sister
  • May Hymn, A (song)
  • May Procession
  • Mencken, Henry
  • Mental Reservations and Other Traps (book)
  • Merton, Thomas
  • Miller, Henry
  • Min, Aunt
  • Moist Heart, The (book)
  • Monks' Bread
  • Monophonic Heresy
  • Montana Women's College
  • Montmartre (Paris, France)
  • Mopsuestia
  • Mougir, Étienne
  • Mount Athos College (Corfu, New York)
  • München, Germany
  • My Darling Clementine (song)

N

  • Napoleon I of France
  • National Catholic Student Synod (NACSTUS)
  • Nero
  • Nero, Golden House of
  • Nestorius
  • Nil Inultum Remanebit (phrase)
  • Nymphadota, Saint

O

  • Oasthouse
  • Oeufs, France
  • Ogee
  • Ogmus, Saint
  • Orb (publication)
  • Order of Faithful Fidgettines (O.F.F.)
  • Oriental Institute (Chicago)
  • Ostia, Italy
  • Ouija board
  • Our Father (prayer)
  • Ouvrage, France
  • Oza, Sister

P

  • Paganism
  • Pan-Am Building (Manhattan, City of New York, New York)
  • Papal Swiss Guard
  • Papal tiara
  • Papella
  • Paradigmatic Sunday Sermon, A
  • Patmos (Greek Island)
  • Patrick’s Cathedral, Saint (Manhattan, City of New York, New York)
  • Patriotism Award (Montana Women's College)
  • Paul VI, Pope
  • Peach
  • Peavey Street
  • Pedagogue
  • Pedasculus
  • Penance
  • Pepsi-Cola
  • Peter's Basilica, Saint (Vatican City)
  • Phobus IV, Pope
  • Pike, James
  • Pinsk
  • Pisa, Italy
  • Pius IX, Pope
  • Pius XII, Pope
  • Plethora (publication)
  • Plinth (publication)
  • Plitheroe, Dr.
  • Plotch, Father
  • Plum
  • POAU (organization)
  • Pompeii, Italy
  • Pontine Marshes
  • Pope, Alexander
  • Porphyry
  • Prayer Against Enemies (prayer)
  • Prayer for a Holy Woman Not a Virgin, Commemorative (prayer)
  • Prayer for Earthquakes (prayer)
  • Prayer for Fair Weather (prayer)
  • Prayer for Rain (prayer)
  • Prayer for Relief from Uneasiness (prayer)
  • Prayer for the Speedy Demise of a Bishop (prayer)
  • Preiselbeersaft, Oswald
  • Principle of Double Intent
  • Projected Thoughts of Popes (book)
  • Prynne, Nepomuk
  • Puccini, Giacomo
  • Pudibunda (O.F.F.), Saint
  • Putricordes
  • Pylos, Sandy

Q

  • Question Box

R

  • Ragbash
  • Ratkissonescu, Bishop
  • Ravenna, Georgia
  • Reichsmotif, Professor
  • Religious skepticism
  • Renaissance
  • Retching-under-Tweed, England
  • Rhabdomancy
  • Rheims, France
  • Rhine River
  • Roachburg (city)
  • Rome, Italy
  • Rood screen
  • Roodscreed, Father
  • Rosary (prayer)
  • Rosary prayer beads
  • Rose Bowl (stadium) (Pasadena, California)
  • Rubens, Peter Paul
  • Rugg, Mrs. Annie
  • Rumania
  • Runcet, Hamish

S

  • Sacrosticky
  • Sago, Mr.
  • Saigon, Vietnam
  • Saint Fidgeta (statue)
  • Saint Fidgeta Chastised by Saint Jerome (artwork)
  • Saint Fidgeta in Ecstasy (artwork)
  • Salome (window)
  • Samp, Dr.
  • Samson
  • Samsonite, I. H.
  • San Pietro in Vincoli (Church)
  • Sandra's College, Saint (Shoat, Iowa)
  • Sansfoy, Purina (Miss)
  • Santa Fidgeta (church) (Tormento, Italy)
  • Sanzio, Raphael
  • Scataphorus
  • Schema on Holy Madness
  • Schema on the Jews
  • Schlechty, Professor
  • Schotto, Cardinal
  • Schwiegermutter, Professor
  • Scrupularian Heresy
  • Seal of Confession
  • Sebastian Dying in a Bed of Zinnias, Saint (artwork)
  • Secretariat on Saintliness
  • Sector of Rheims
  • Seinte - Ha! (article)
  • Semina's Grade School, Saint (Los Angeles, California)
  • Sforza, Scintilla
  • Shamprey, Elda
  • Sheen, Fulton J.
  • Sherds (publication)
  • Shoat, Iowa
  • Short Guide to Catholic Church History, A (book)
  • Sick-call kit
  • Sims, Arthur (Mr. And Mrs.)
  • Sistite Si Bobis Placet (phrase)
  • Sluicegate Weirs, England
  • Smith, Alfred
  • So You Think Chastity is a Joke! (publication)
  • Some Calm Observations on a Few Lettered Tiles and Old Bones (article)
  • Some Puzzling Remnants (book)
  • Spanish Steps (Rome, Italy)
  • Sparber, Charles Cardinal "Buzzy"
  • Spatulus III, Pope
  • Spellman, Francis Cardinal
  • Spigonari
  • Spoleto, Italy
  • Sporus Being Begged by the Curia Not to Abdicate and Go To Live on Patmos as a Hermit, Pope (artwork)
  • Sporus Debating with Aristotle, Pope (artwork)
  • Sporus Duelling with the Spirits of Nestorius and John Hus, Pope (artwork)
  • Sporus VI, Pope
  • Spug, Dalmatia
  • Spulci, Posidonio
  • Spumanti
  • Squab
  • Stalin, Joseph
  • Stercoraria
  • Strunk, Nebraska
  • Studium Monastery (Constantinople)
  • Sugar cone
  • Summa Contra Omnes (book)
  • Sunday Intruder (publication)
  • Syllabus of Error (book)
  • Syllogism

T

  • Tanqueray, Septa
  • Tarcisius, Father
  • Tarentum, Pennsylvania
  • Tertullian
  • Third Vatican Council (1985)
  • Thomas, Saint
  • Thomism
  • Thurifer, Father
  • Tiber River
  • Tiberius' Leap (Villa Jovis)
  • Tickety-boo and Tyler Too (word)
  • Tiddly-pom (word)
  • Time (magazine)
  • Times Literary Supplement (TLS) (publication)
  • Times Square (Manhattan, City of New York, New York)
  • Tipover, Becky May
  • Tissaphernes (emperor)
  • Toledo, Ohio
  • Topless Bathing Suit and the Bottomless Pit, The (publication)
  • Tormento, Italy
  • Tract
  • Transmigration, Redemptive
  • Trenton, New Jersey
  • Trocadero, Abbott of
  • True History of St. Fidgeta, Virgin and Martyr, The
  • Tumid Awakening (film)
  • Tumpline, Father
  • Tumpty-um-tum (word)
  • Tweb (word)
  • Twilight of the Gonads (book)

U

  • Ud
  • Ulfag
  • United Nations (Manhattan, City of New York, New York)
  • United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
  • University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England)
  • University of the Funicular (Ostia, Italy)
  • Uranium
  • Ursuline
  • Urtext
  • Usk, Father

V

  • Vacca, Orduri della
  • Vagrant, The (publication)
  • Vallombrosa, Italy
  • Vatican City
  • Vatican Library (Holy See)
  • Vatican Museum (Vatican City)
  • Venial Sin
  • Venus (planet)
  • Verona, Italy
  • Via Caligula, 68
  • Via Pulcinella, 38
  • Viet Cong
  • Viet Nam
  • Villa Pasta
  • Vinci, Leonardo da
  • Virgin's Girdle

W

  • Wampyir, Father
  • Wayne, John
  • Weintraub, Mr.
  • Whip, penitential
  • White House (Washington, D.C.)
  • White Sepulchre (Armbruster, Pennsylvania)
  • Whority and Sons
  • Whority, Arthur E.
  • Whortleberry
  • Widdershins, O.P., Father
  • Wisney, Father
  • Wolohan, Arthur "Dutch"
  • World War II

X

  • Ximenes, Mother

Y

  • Yankee Stadium (The Bronx, City of New York, New York)
  • Yaws, synthetic
  • YMCA
  • Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)

Z