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Come not between Dragomira and her wrath
The story of Saint Dragomira, patroness of edged weapons

There seems to be a bit of historical similarity between the story of Dragomira and the family of Wenceslaus, the Duke of Bohemia. First, Dragomira's name echoes that of Wenceslas' mother, Drahomíra. Second, and more noteworthy, both saints were murdered by their brothers – Dragomira by Bogeslaw and Wenceslaus by Boleslav.
Commentaries:
A
  • Abdiel ()
    • One of Hamish Runcet's predictions is that Charles de Gaulle will turn out to be this angel, whose ambition is to reverse the direction of the earth's spin [104].
  • Acanthus ()
    • Whority and Sons defend their style of architecture on St. Gorboduc's, which is influenced by the “functionalized shapes” in everyday life, “just as Greek architects used acanthus leaves" [38].
  • Act of Contrition ()
    • Mother Ximenes' Handbook for Grade School Nuns features a section that points out how difficult it is to make a perfect this prayer before death [108].
  • Adiposa, Saint ( )
    • Author of anti-ascetic tracts. Her life principal of caloric immolation caused much debate about her status as a martyr [16].
  • Adriatic Ocean ()
    • Ragbash retires to an island in this ocean [59].
  • After Marriage: All Systems GO?
    • One of the pamphlets authored by Father Gumpert [98-9].
  • Aggiornamento ()
    • The preface of chapter ten asks if " ...the advocates of this so-called ‘aggiornamento’ [will] denude the Church of all its special clubs and devotions" [97]
  • Albigensian (Catharism)
  • Alexandria, Egypt ()
      • Scataphorus is the patriarch of this city [53].
  • Alhambra (wunderlust)
    • The conqueror Ishbar converted the Cathedral of St. Gorboduc into a mosque, adding a Moorish interior that was often compared with the interior of a theatre in South Bend, Indiana, itself modeled after this ancient Spanish mosque [34].
  • Allied Invasion of Italy (1943) ()
    • The Apotheosis of St. Fidgeta was hidden during this invasion [19-20].
  • Altar boy ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" mention that short Secret Service men could be disguised in altar boy outfits (with censers) [27].
  • Altoona, Pennsylvania ()
    • Sister Regina Coeli Laetare's book is published in this city [20].
  • American Civil Liberties Union (Washington, D.C.)
  • Amun-Ra (deity)
  • Andorra
  • Anfractua ()
    • Dragomira converted from paganism by this missionary [18]
  • Apotheosis of St. Fidgeta ()
    • Famed painting in the church of Saint Fidgeta [20].
  • Aquinas, Thomas ()
    • The Question Box moderator sites this person's remarks about olives, though he probably "had no mystical foreknowledge of the martini" [39].
  • Aretino, Pietro
  • Aristotle
  • Army of Truth
  • Aston Martin ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," Jesuits will lend their car to the pope [27].
  • Atropos, Kentucky
  • Avars ()
    • Band of savages who, in the fifth century A.D., overran the parents of St. Fidgeta [11]
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B
  • Babylon, Missouri ()
    • Location of the famous Catholic architects, Whority and Sons [36].
  • Balbo, Cardinal ()
    • Cardinal of Genoa, Italy in attendance at election of Pope Sporus VI [53].
  • Baltimore Catechism ()
    • During Vatican III, an elderly American bishop got the idea that a nuclear cataclysm had occurred in Baltimore, Maryland having (somewhat humorously) misinterpreted the discussion of the Baltimore Catechism [93].
  • Baltimore, Maryland
  • Barbican, Father
  • Belfast, Ireland
  • Belloc, Hilaire
  • Bernini's colonnade (Vatican City)
  • Bibbiena, Cardinal
  • Bobbo, Cardinal
  • Boboli Gardens (Florence, Italy)
  • Bogeslaw ()
    • Clubbed his sister, Dragomria to death [18].
  • Bonbon ()
    • One of the edible items Adiposa compares to St. Fidgeta [16].
  • Bosnia ()
    • St. Dragomira is consided the warrior nun of this conutry [18].
  • Bouche, Gruyere de la ()
    • Added to the Cathedral of St. Gorboduc [36].
  • Bozo Theatre (Strunk, Nebraska)
  • Breviarum Defunctorum (book)
  • Brothel as Sanctuary, The (article)
  • Brown, Contraceptua, Saint
  • Buckley, Bill ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" are thankful this person never carried out his threat to buy a block of seats at Yankee Stadium [29].
  • Buddha ()
    • A bell tower on the Cathedral of St. Gorboduc consists of four twenty-foot-high cherubs squatting in a circle, supporting a Buddha with a clock in its belly; however author Samp speculates the Buddha is nothing more than a "very fat cherub" [34].
  • Buggog (planet)
  • Bugloss, Orcus
  • bulla oblongata (phrase)
  • Bunty, Father ()
    • The Question Box moderator cites this preist's book [43]
  • Burgerbitz, Father
  • Bustard, Dr.
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C
  • Capri, Italy
  • Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da ()
    • Alleged painter of St. Fidgeta Chastised by St. Jerome [20].
  • Carius
  • Casuistry
  • Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter)
  • Catholic Action
  • Catholic Casting Company ()
    • Constructed statue of St. Fidgeta for the church that bears her name [12].
  • Catholic University of America, The (Washington, D.C.)
  • Catholic Worker (publication)
  • Censer ()
    • Object that could be used as a smoke grenades in case of riot when the pope returns to New York [27].
  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • Central Park (wunderlust)
    • President Lyndon Johnson makes a stop at Central Park as a diversion (“just to see if [it] is still there”) as part of his surprise run-in with the Pope [30].
  • Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
  • Chicago, Illinois
    • The Catholic Casting Company of this city built a statue of St. Fidgeta for her shrine [12].
    • Purina Sansfoy sees what she thinks is a bowling ball rosary in this city and men carrying a banner that says to Canonize Barry Fitzgerald [43].
    • Twelve churches in this city named for Saint Floradora were renamed to honor St. Nymphadota when Floradora's name was dropped from the Roll of the Saints [83].
  • Church of San Pietro (Vincoli, Italy)
  • Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)
  • Circus Maximus (Rome, Italy)
  • Clapp, Mrs. Modine
  • Claudel, Paul ()
    • A potential sign in Times Square in preparation for the next papal visit could read, "Paul Claudel smoked Gauloises" [27].
  • Clorabel
  • Clotilde
  • Clottovecchio, Ercolaneo
  • Clute, Monsignor ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" indicate this religious official believes the pope and president should have prostrated themselves before a wax image of the other [29].
  • Coca-Cola ()
    • The Apotheosis of St. Fidgeta was thought to be camouflaged as a sign for this product [20].
  • Communist Manifesto (book)
  • Comnenus, Isaac ()
    • Thought to have destroyed the icon of St. Fidgeta in the Studium of Constantinople [18].
  • Compositor, The (publication)
  • Coney Island (wunderlust)
    • The ad man thinks the papal tiara looks like something you'd win here [28].
  • Contraceptua Youthful Anti-Smut League, Saint
  • Cordwain, Father
  • Corfu, New York
  • Coroda, Sister
    • Head of chemistry department at the Montana Women's College; her fifty years of service and the ius primae usufructus on all college equipment is noted during the Easter address [72-4].
  • Corvo, Bishop
  • Council of Trent ()
    • St. Adiposa's status as a martyr was much the debate but this council shelved the matter [16].
  • Crapple, Anthony Adverse ()
    • Writes letter to Father Plotch in Sunday Intruder [24].
  • Credo quia absurdam (phrase)
  • Crostaciano, Father
  • Crudelissimi, Bragghimento dei
  • Crusades
  • Cuminseed Press (publisher)
  • Curia, Roman (Vatican City)
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D
  • D., Mrs. L.S. ()
    • Asks the Question Box moderator what she gets if she makes five First Fridays and what, "if anything is in the last Fatima letter" [40]?
  • De Angelis
    • Book that discusses the notion that St. Fidgeta disrupts the angelic hierarchy with her twitching [22].
  • Death-watch beetles
  • Diagonal (architecture style) ()
    • Added to the Cathedral of Gorboduc: "Cinquefoild ogees, cross-purposed groining, crockets, finials, and imitation cane rood screen that mark this style as very early Diagonal" [24].
  • Dido, Sister
  • Dog at the Rome: Famous Pets of Popes, The (book)
  • Doxology, Solemn
  • Dragonmira, Saint
    • The warrior nun of Bosnia and patroness of edged weapons [18]
  • Droit sans honneur (phrase)
  • Dropsus
    • Half-brother of Isaac Comnenus, made to eat the pieces of a destroyed Fidgettine icon [18].
  • Dudmer, Charles (Mr. & Mrs.)
    • During the Easter address, Sister Justinian notes, "for you impatient men" there is a powder room located at this family’s house [75].
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E
  • Econophanic Heresy
  • Edwy, King and Giant, Church, Saint
  • Eiger, Professor
  • Empire State Building (wunderlust)
    • Iit is suggested the papal tiara be hung on top of this building as a prize for whoever is able to retrieve it [28].
  • Et Antiquum Documentum (phrase)
  • Ex cathedra (phrase)
  • Exfoliations from a Blazing Tulip (book)
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F
  • Faldstool, Caxton ()
    • Made up the First Mondays devotion [23]..
  • Faldstool, Emily ()
    • Writes letter to Father Thurifer in Sunday Intruder [22].
  • Faldstool, Eudoxia ()
    • Six-year-old who twitches and fiddles endlessly during Mass [22].
  • Faldstool, Voltimand
    • Holds the consecutive Communions record at the Saint Ogmus parish [22].
  • Fátima, Our Lady of ()
    • Mrs. L.S.D. poses the question, "And finally, what, if anything, is in the last Fatima Letter?" to the Question Box moderator [40].
  • Fidgeta and the Problem of the Catholic Artist in an Altogether Too Secularized Society
    • A text by Sister Regina Coeli Laetare that retorts cupids are allegorica [20].
  • Fidgeta, Saint
  • Fidgetaslied und der Deutsche Geist, Das
    • Book by Schwiegermutter that discusses the validity of St. Adiposa's written work [16].
  • Fifth Commandment
  • Fiorello, M. (Sister)
  • First Friday devotion ()
    • In an effort to stop her daughter, Eudoxia, from fidgeting, Emily Faldstool made ninety-two First Fridays [23].
  • First Monday devotion
    • In an effort to stop her daughter, Eudoxia, from fidgeting, Emily Faldstool made twelve First Mondays [23].
    • The Question Box moderator is asked what someone gets if they make five First Fridays [40].
  • First Saturday devotion ()
    • In an effort to stop her daughter, Eudoxia, from fidgeting, Emily Faldstool made fifty-six First Saturdays [23].
  • Fitzgerald, Barry ()
    • In Chicago, Purina Sansfoy sees a sign promoting canonization for this actor [44]
  • Flash Gordon (comic)
  • 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 ()
    • St. Fidgeta's shrine is in Tormento, which is near the city of Fobbio [12]. A Fidgettine convent is also located here [11].
  • Fogarty, Iowa
  • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré ()
    • Alleged painter of Saint Fidgeta in Ecstasy [20].
  • Fragonards Fidgetabild und Romantische Weltschmerz ()
    • Book by Schlechty that complains of the impropriety of having cupids pinching and tickling Saint Fidgeta [20].
  • Frem, Gertie
  • Frère Jacques (song)
  • Frognall and Companions Church, Saint
  • Frostauger, T. Oates (Professor)
  • Furens, Hercules
  • Furze
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G
  • Galileo
  • Gambatto, Cardinal
    • Bishop Ratkissonescu blamed this cardinal, "who supposedly wished to keep him from voting on the Schema of Holy Madness" [95].
  • Ganymede V, Pope
  • Garagiola, Sandro di
  • Gargan, Professor
  • Gasogene Books (publisher)
  • Gaulle, Charles de
  • Gauloises (tabacco) ()
    • A potential sign in Times Square in preparation for the next papal visit could read, "Paul Claudel smoked Gauloises" [27].
  • General Grant (chair)
  • Genoa, Italy
  • Gertrude-by-the-Tarn School, Saint
  • Goar, Saint
  • Gobart, Monsignor
  • Gorboduc, Cathedral of Saint
    • Named for the slain cousin of the Visigothic chief Harg. Begun in 623, the cathedral was eventually completed in 1962 (they were delays) [33].
  • Gorboduc, Saint ()
    • Murdered by his cousin Harg; after Harg's conversion to Christianity he began construction on a cathedral that would bear his slain cousin's name [33].
  • Goretti, Maria (Saint)
  • Gorgo (dog)
  • Gormenghast, Thomas O'Hogarty
  • Gormless, B. U. (S.J.)
  • Gozzoli, Benozzo
  • Grabney, Father
  • Grand Central Schism
  • Green Stamps
  • Greenland ()
    • The accidental atomizing of this country had led the unnamed Pope at Vatican III to call forth a number of encyclical texts [90].
  • Gregory of Mopsuestia ()
    • Thought to have used fidgeting as a prelude to mystical experience [14].
  • Groin (magazine)
  • Gumpert, Clodian
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H
  • Ha-Du-Ku-Ba-Saïd-Na (phrase)
  • Hagia Sophia Church (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Hail Mary (prayer)
  • Handbook for Grade School Nuns (book)
  • Harg ()
    • Murderer of his cousin of Gorboduc; began building the cathedral that would bear his slain cousin's name [33].
  • Harlem (wunderlust)
    • Pope could stop here again when visiting New York City [28].
  • Heavenly host ()
    • It was said that Fidgeta disrupts this heavenly body just as any earthen army [22].
  • Heilige - Ja! (article)
  • Hibernus
  • Hoagy, Ariel (Mrs.) ()
    • Wrote an article ("Listening to Architecture") for the magazine, Plinth [36].
  • Holy Water ()
    • At pagan grammar school, St. Fidgeta was caught with an inkwell of this substance [12].
  • Hoover, J. Edgar ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," it is suggested this person dress up as Orthodox Patriarch [27].
  • Horror of 1292
    • The Moorish conqueror Ishbar converted the church into a mosque following the Horror of 1292 [34].
  • How Would You Know (article)
  • Humpf
  • Hus, John
  • Husk, Dean
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I
  • Idolatry ()
    • At pagan grammar school, St. Fidgeta would fidget ceaselessly through these sessions [12].
  • Il Monasterio Segreto (The Turkish Bedstead) (opera)
  • Index Librorum Prohibitorum
  • Indulgence
  • Inquisition
  • Instituto Superbo
  • Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
  • Iron Curtain
  • Ishbar
  • ius primae usufructus
    • Member of faculty at the Montana Women's College; her fifty years of service has allowed her “right of first use” on all college equipment [72-4].
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J
  • Jan ter Koot (Dutch mystic)
  • Janiculum
  • Jesuits ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," this group says they will lend their Aston-Martin to the pope [27].
    • Hamish Runcet makes a prediction that a Jesuit Air Force will strafe and bomb world centers of atheism [104].
  • Jeuna, Sister
    • Member of faculty at the Montana Women's College. From the derogatory nickname given to her by Sister Justinian during the Easter address ("Sister Visual Aids") one may assume both her occupation and popularity with others [72].
  • JMJ ()
    • A wax tablet (preserved in the convent of the Fidgettines in Fobbio) features this abbreviation [11].
    • This graffiti can be found in the study at the Montana catholic women's college: on the wall and on the nun's dais [73].
  • Joan, Pope
  • Jogues, Isaac ()
    • A line in The Litany of St. Fidgeta reads "...deliver us from nuns who describe exactly what the Indians did to St. Isaac Jogues and his friends [25].
  • John XXIII, Pope ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" hint that Buckley would have carried out his threat if the papal visitor had been this person, rather than Paul VI [29].
  • Johnson, Lyndon ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" speculate what could happen in an imaginary encounter between the Pope and President Johnson and of the gifts they could give each other, including a Byzantine icon of this president [29-31].
    • Hamish Runcet makes a prediction that Johnson will turn out to be a brass automaton, with clockwork insides, operated from the planet Buggog [104].
  • Joyce, James ()
    • Author referenced by Father Wampyir at Vatican III [92].
  • Justinian, Sister ()
    • The president of a Catholic Women's College in eastern Montana and the one giving the titular Easter address to the faculty [71].
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K
  • Kai-Shek, Chiang
  • Keep Your Hands to Yourself (publication)
  • Kerymagazine ()
    • Elda Shamprey contributes a letter to this publication [81].
  • Khayyam, Omar
  • Knights of the White Sepulchre
  • Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)
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L
  • Laetare, Regina Coeli ()
    • Author of Fidgeta and the Problem of the Catholic Artist in an Altogether Too Secularized Society; retorts hotly that the cupids are allegorical [20].
  • Lament for St. Floradora (poem)
  • Last Gospel (Gospel of John) ()
    • Mrs. Crapple’s son used to break into uncontrollable laughter during this reading [23].
  • Latifundia, Mother ()
    • The name Scintilla Sforza took after Saint Fidgeta appeared to her at Tormento [14].
  • Legion of Decency
  • Leitotes ()
    • Following the death of her parents, young St. Fidgeta was left in the care of this pagan uncle, who sent her to pagan grammar school [11].
  • Lent (liturgical season) ()
    • A question is asked about martini olives breaking the Lenten fast [39].
  • Leptis Magna
  • Letters to an Astigmatic Stigmatic (book)
  • Life ()
    • Photographers from this magazine visited Vatican City to photograph the list of Marian Titles stretching from St. Peter's to the Sims house [92].
  • Lights, Vigil
    • Father Usk turns these electric lights off every night [23].
  • Lintel's Abbey, Saint
  • Listening to Architecture
    • Article written by Mrs. Hoagy for the magazine, Plinth [36].
  • Litany for a Happy Death (prayer)
  • Litany of Saint Fidgeta
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Los Honchos, Spain ()
  • L'Osservatore Romano (publication)
  • Louis IX, Saint
  • Louis XIV (chair)
  • Lourdes, Our Lady of ()
    • Water from Our Lady of Lourdes is used to make Sacrosticky [40].
  • Lumber Falls, Colorado
  • Lüneberg, Germany (wunderlust)
    • Professor Schwiegermutter's book was published in this city [16].
  • Lust Panty (magazine)
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M
  • M., A. (Mrs.)
  • Mainz, Germany
  • mal de siècle (phrase)
  • Manchuria (region)
  • Manhattan Island (wunderlust)
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" propose for the next Pope's visit to America that Mass could be at night in a blimp over this island [32].
  • Man's Rape (magazine)
  • Marian Titles
  • Mariner spacecraft
  • Maritain, Jacques ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," a potential sign in Times Square could read, "Jacques Maritain says 'Try Pepsi-Cola, the drink that is'" [27].
  • Marx, Karl
  • Mater Si-Magistra No ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" are thankful Buckley never bought a block of seats at Yankee Stadium and had people flashing cards spelling this phrase during the pope's Mass [29].
  • Mavra, Sister
  • May Hymn, A (song)
  • May Procession
  • Mencken, Henry ()
  • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" “thank God Mencken is dead" and go on to mock his writing style [29].
  • ff
  • Mental Reservations and Other Traps (book)
  • Merton, Thomas ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," a potential sign in Times Square could read, "Thomas Merton says 'Buy Monks' Bread'" [27].
  • Miller, Henry
  • Min, Aunt
  • Moist Heart, The (book)
  • Monks' Bread ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," a potential sign in Times Square could read, "Thomas Merton says 'Buy Monks' Bread'" [27].
  • Monophonic Heresy
  • Montana Women's College
  • Montmartre (Paris, France)
  • Montmartre, France
  • Mougir, Étienne
  • Mount Athos College (Corfu, New York)
  • München, Germany (wunderlust)
    • Professor Schlechty's book was published in this city [20].
  • My Darling Clementine (song)
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N
  • Napoleon I of France
  • National Catholic Student Synod (NACSTUS)
  • Nero, Golden House of
  • Nestorius
  • Nil Inultum Remanebit (phrase)
  • Nymphadota, Saint
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O
  • Oeufs, France ()
    • During the Grand Central Schism the French faction left Rome and fled to this French cathedral town to elect the antipope Carius [58].
  • Ogmus, Saint
    • The Faldstool family attends this parish [22-3].
  • Orb (publication)
  • Order of Faithful Fidgettines (O.F.F.)
    • Religious order founded by Mother Latifundia [14].
  • Ostia, Italy
  • Ouija board ()
    • The Handbook for Grade School Nuns tells the eventful story of what happened when this device was used by a group of irreverent young people [107].
  • Our Father (prayer) ()
    • The living rosary seen by Purina Sansfoy features men with foghorns as the Our Fathers [44].
  • Ouvrage, France
  • Oza, Sister ()
    • Sister Oza is an instructor of Becky May Tipover [48].
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P
  • Pan-Am Building (wunderlust)
    • The ad man says this building is as good as any for a Pope and President “accidental” run-in [30].
  • Papal Swiss Guard
  • Papal tiara ()
    • The pope's headgear looks like something you'd win at Coney Island and should be hung on top of the Empire State Building [28].
    • During Vatican III, an American bishop donated a matched pair of ICBM (Intercontinental ballistic missiles). "They are the perfect squelch to Stalin's crack about how many divisions the Pope has" [90]
  • Papella
  • Paradigmatic Sunday Sermon, A
  • Patmos (Greek Island)
  • Patrick’s Cathedral, Saint (wunderlust)
    • Hamish Runcet makes a prediction that the wax statue of Piux XII in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral will be given the power to see and hear and will some day rule New York [104].
  • Patriotism Award (Montana Women's College)
  • Paul VI, Pope ()
    • On October 4, 1965, this pope made the first papal visit to the Western Hemisphere when he visited the United Nations Headquarters in New York [27-32].
  • Peavey Street ()
    • During the Easter address, Sister Justinian notes, "for you impatient men" there is a powder room located at the Dudmer residence on this street [75].
  • Pedasculus
  • Pepsi-Cola ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," a potential sign in Times Square could read, "Jacques Maritain says 'Try Pepsi-Cola, the drink that is'" [27].
  • Peter's Basilica, Saint ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" speculate what could happen in an imaginary encounter between the Pope and President Johnson and of the gifts they could give each other, salt shakers made like St. Peter's Church and the United States Capitol, would be virtually identical [31].
    • Attendees of Vatican III obviously see this building while visiting Vatican City.
  • Phobus IV, Pope
  • Pike, James
  • Pinsk ()
    • The most famous Fidgettine apparition was over this city when Fidgeta appeared as fluffy pink cloud and “reduced the soldiers of the Prophet to nerveless idiocy” [20-1].
  • Pisa, Italy
  • Pius IX, Pope ()
    • Repeatedly warned against a desire for novelty when discussing the construction of the Gorboduc Cathedral [36].
    • Tanquerary cites this pope's Syllabus of Errors as to why her husband has condemned the furnace, even though the family is freezing to death [42-3].
  • Pius XII, Pope
  • Plethora (publication)
  • Plinth ()
    • Mrs. Hoagy wrote an article ("Listening to Architecture") for this magazine [36].
  • Plitheroe, Dr.
  • Plotch, Father
    • Priest asked questions by readers in the Sunday Intruder [22].
  • POAU (organization)
  • Pompeii, Italy
  • Pope, Alexander
  • Porphyry ()
    • At pagan grammar school, St. Fidgeta's teacher would frequently quote from this author's now lost attack on Christianity [11].
  • Prayer Against Enemies
    • Prayer attributed to Dragomira [26].
  • 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
    • Credited to St. Adiposa; a St. Fidgeta devotional, is said to be effective within 24 hours [24].
  • Prayer for the Speedy Demise of a Bishop (prayer)
  • Preiselbeersaft, Oswald
  • Principle of Double Intent
  • Projected Thoughts of Popes
    • Book by Bunty about what a Pope would have thought about certain things had he lived long enough [43].
  • Prynne, Nepomuk
  • Puccini, Giacomo
  • Pudibunda, Saint
  • Putricordes ()
    • St. Fidgeta's teacher at pagan grammar school; a religious skeptic [11].
  • Pylos, Sandy
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Q
  • Question Box
    • A chapter is devoted to questions about the Catholic faith from a hodge-podge of parishioners and answered by an acid-tongued moderator [39-50].
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R
  • Ragbash
  • Ratkissonescu, Bishop
  • Ravenna, Georgia
  • Reichsmotif, Professor
  • Retching-under-Tweed, England ()
    • English village within forty miles from the site of a medieval Fidgettine or Ursuline convent [24].
  • Rhabdomancy
  • Rheims, France
  • Rhine River
  • Roachburg
    • Book Some Puzzling Remnants was published here [36].
  • Rome, Italy
  • Roodscreed, Father
  • Rosary ()
    • At pagan grammar school, Saint Fidgeta was known more for "string[ing] rosaries" [12].
    • Mrs. A.M. wonders what to do with fragments of rosary beads [40].
    • In Chicago, Purina Sansfoy sees what she thinks is a rosary made of bowling balls [43].
    • The Human Rosary is the most important part of the May Procession [113].
  • Rose Bowl (stadium) (Pasadena, California)
  • Rubens, Peter Paul ()
    • Alleged painter of Apotheosis of St. Fidgeta [20].
  • Rugg, Annie
    • One of the people who pose a question to the Question Box moderator [42].
  • Rumania
  • Runcet, Hamish
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  • Sacrosticky ()
    • Type of glue made from Lourdes water [40].
  • Sago, Mr.
  • Saigon, Vietnam
  • Saint Fidgeta Chastised by St. Jerome ()
    • Allegedly painted by Caravaggio [20].
  • Saint Fidgeta in Ecstasy
    • Allegedly painted by Fragonard [20].
  • Salome ()
    • The Moorish conqueror Ishbar converted the Cathedral of St. Gorboduc into a mosque, adding a window named for this person [34].
  • Samp, Dr. ()
    • Author of Some Puzzling Remnants, who contests the Buddha with a clock in its belly is, architecturally speaking, nothing more than a "very fat cherub" [34-6].
  • Samson
  • Samsonite, I. H.
  • Sandra's College, Saint (Shoat, Iowa)
  • Sansfoy, Purina ()
    • One of the people who poses a question to the Question Box moderator [43]
  • Santa Fidgeta
    • Shrine of St. Fidgeta [11-2].
  • Sanzio, Raphael
  • Scataphorus
  • Schema on Holy Madness
  • Schema on the Jews
  • Schlechty ()
    • Author of Fragonards Fidgetabild und Romantische Weltschmerz that discusses cupids pinching and tickling the saint [20].
  • Schotto, Cardinal
  • Schwiegermutter ()
    • Author of Das Fidgetaslied und der Deutsche Geist that discusses the validity of St. Adiposa's written work [16].
  • 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 ()
    • After Saint Fidgeta appeared to this woman, she changed her name to Mother Latifundia and founded the Order of Faithful Fidgettines [14].
  • Shamprey, Elda ()
    • Contributes a letter to Kerymagazine [81].
  • Sheen, Fulton J.
  • Sherds (publication)
  • Shoat, Iowa
  • Short Guide to Catholic Church History, A (book)
  • Sick-call kit ()
    • Mother Ximenes' Handbook for Grade School Nuns features a section that suggests at Christmas children can sell these items to raise money for the praish [113].
  • Sims, Arthur (Mr. And Mrs.)
  • Sistite Si Bobis Placet (phrase)
  • Sluicegate Weirs, England
  • Smith, Alfred
  • So You Think Chasity is a Joke! (publication)
  • Some Calm Observations on a Few Lettered Tiles and Old Bones (article)
  • Some Puzzling Remnants
    • Book by Samp that discusses Cathedral of St. Gorboduc [36].
  • Spanish Steps (Rome, Italy)
  • Sparber, Charles Cardinal "Buzzy"
  • Spatulus III, Pope
  • Spellman, Francis Cardinal ()
    • According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," a chair carried by dwarves could be used to carry this high-ranking church official [27].
  • Spigonari
  • Spoleto, Italy ()
    • Cardinal Posidonio Spulci was from this city [88].
  • 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
    • From Spoleto, in attendance at Vatican III; planned to make artificial Birth Control a Venial Sin [87].
  • Spumanti ()
    • Location of Pope Spatulus's house and gardens, built of rock candy; "took his mistress there for unspeakable rites" [52].
  • Squab ()
    • One of the edible items Adiposa compares to St. Fidgeta [16].
  • Stalin, Joseph
  • Stercoraria (Gaul) ()
    • St. Fidgeta was born in this tiny little village [11].
  • Strunk, Nebraska ()
    • A contingent of The Knights of the White Sepulchre once encircled the Bozo Theater in this town [99].
  • Studium Monastery ()
    • Monastery in Constantinople where there might have been an icon of St. Fidgeta [18]
  • Sugar Cone ()
    • One of the edible items Adiposa compares to St. Fidgeta [16].
  • Summa Contra Omnes ()
    • Book by St. Thomas and quoted by Question Box moderator when discussing olives, martinis, and Lenten fasts [39].
  • Sunday Intruder ()
    • Weekly Catholic paper that documented a case of fidgetiness cured by prayers to St. Fidgeta, as seen in the "Catholic Problems" column [22].
  • Syllabus of Error (book)
  • Syllogism
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  • Tanquerary, Septa ()
    • Notes to the Question Box moderator that her "children and I are freezing to death...because my husband claims that...Pius IX condemned the furnace as a modern invention [42].
  • Tarcisius, Father
  • Tarentum, Pennsylvania
  • Tertullian ()
    • Said that fidgeting is (or can be) useful unto salvation [14].
    • Nepomuk Prynne concludes his letter from Vatican III by saying he and others will retire to Circus Maximus where fireworks "will spell out Tertullian's maxim Credo quia absurdam [95].
  • Third Vatican Council (1985)
  • Thomas, Saint ()
    • Believed that St. Fidgeta disrupts the angelic hierarchy with her twitching [22].
  • Thomism
  • Thurifer, Father ()
    • Priest asked questions by readers in the Sunday Intruder [22].
  • Tiber River
  • Tiberius' Leap (Villa Jovis)
  • Tickety-boo and Tyler Too ()
  • Tiddly-pom
  • Time (magazine)
  • Times Literary Supplement (TLS) (publication)
  • Times Square (wunderlust)
    • Animated signs here could show the Pope blessing people as well as other religious promotions about Claudel, Merton, and Maritain [27].
  • Tipover, Becky May
  • Tissaphernes ()
    • Emperor who led his mighty host against the Byzantine city of Ud [22].
  • Toledo, Ohio ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" mock Mencken’s writing style, which reference people from this city [29].
  • Topless Bathing Suit and the Bottomless Pit, The (publication)
  • Tormento, Italy ()
    • St. Fidgeta's shrine is the church of Santa Fidgeta in this village [12].
  • Transmigration, Redemptive
  • Trenton, New Jersey
  • Trocadero, Abbott of ()
    • No work was done on the Cathedral of Saint Gorboduc until the thirteenth century when this abbot built the first wooden Gothic church [34].
  • Tumid Awakening (film)
  • Tumpline, Father
  • Tumpty-um-tum
  • Tweb
  • Twilight of the Gonads (book)
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  • Ud ()
    • Ancient Byzantine city [22].
  • Ulfag
    • Hermit that effected the Visigothic chief Harg's conversion to Christianity [33].
  • United Nations (wunderlust)
    • The unknown ad man considers the written account of Paul VI’s visit to the UN Headquarters as composed by Thomas Mencken [29].
    • The son of I.H, Samsonite claims "the Pope endorsed the UN by his visit" [49].
  • United States Capitol ()
    • The "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive" speculate what could happen in an imaginary encounter between the Pope and President Johnson and of the gifts they could give each other, salt shakers made like St. Peter's Church and the US Capitol, would be virtually identical [31].
  • University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England)
  • University of the Funicular (Ostia, Italy)
  • Uranium
  • Ursuline ()
    • The remains of a medieval convent are located within forty miles of Retching-under-Tweed [24].
  • Usk, Father ()
    • Ogmus Parish is apparently led by this priest who turns off vigil lights every night [23].
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  • 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 ()
    • Fictional road in Rome where the Secretariat on Saintliness met to discuss St. Floradora [81].
  • Via Pulcinella ()
    • Fictional road in Rome; the list of Marian Titles extends from the altar of St. Peter's to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sims, located here [93].
  • Viet Cong ()
    • A nun waving a Viet Cong flag was spotted the during the pope's visit to New York [27].
  • Viet Nam
  • Villa Pasta
  • Vinci, Leonardo da
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  • Wampyir, Father
  • Wayne, John ()
    • Hamish Runcet makes a prediction that this governor of California will sentence Bishop Pike to death [104].
  • Weintraub, Mr.
  • Whip, Penitential ()
    • At pagan grammar school, St. Fidgeta was known more for plait[ing] (or braiding) these items [12].
  • White House (Washington, D.C.)
  • White Sepulchre (Armbruster, Pennsylvania)
  • Whority and Sons ()
    • St. Gorboduc's went unfinished until this famous Catholic architectural group from Babylon, Missouri, undertook the task to do what previous centuries could not [36].
  • Whority, Arthur E.
    • Catholic architect [36].
  • Whortleberry ()
    • One of the edible items Adiposa compares to St. Fidgeta [16].
  • Widdershins, O.P., Father
  • Wisney, Father
    • An article in Time speculated what the Secretariat on Saintliness was discussing about Saint Floradora, interviewing this priest as he twiddled his beads on the Janiculum [82].
  • Wolohan, Arthur "Dutch"
    • Asks the Question Box about ransoming pagan babies [41].
  • World War II
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  • Ximenes, Mother ()
    • Owner and/or author (or both) of the Handbook for Grade School Nuns [107].
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  • Yankee Stadium (wunderlust)
    • The unknown ad man is thankful William F. Buckley never carried out his threat to buy a block of seats at Yankee Stadium [29].
  • Yaws, synthetic
  • YMCA
  • Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)
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  • Zephyrinus the Anchorite ()
    • St. Fidgeta was canonized after she cured this person of nervous shakes [12].
  • Znerb (word)
  • Zosimus II ()
    • During the Grand Central Schism, most claimants to the Papal throne meet in Verona to elect this person [59].
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