What Russell Wilson’s Genealogy Says About America

April 7, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

As old religious-miracle tales go, The Legend of the Beer Mug has to be one of my favorites.
Here are the basics: Some seventh-century peasants in what is now Northern France were moving the coffin of their beloved St. Arnulf of Metz—bishop, governor, reformer and all-around pre-Renaissance man—from his countryside monastery to the town church for reburial. It was thirsty work on a hot day, and the laborers were short on supplies. A parishioner named Duc Notto prayed in the name of Arnulf for something to drink.
In one version of the legend, a lone mug of beer miraculously kept refilling itself so all of the laborers could quench their thirst. In another, beer actually burst forth from Arnulf's casket, and his faithful parishioners drank it, proof that they really loved him and were really, really thirsty.
St. Arnulf of Metz leads off this football column because: (a) Any saint who provides unlimited beer is the kind of saint NFL fans should know more about; ...

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