Saint Guinefort; plus, what Pope Francis says about animals

   
   "Saint Guinefort; plus, what Pope Francis says about animals"
  
   Yes, yes--I get it.  Fantasy.  Myth.  Yet all of that is rooted in truth.  Remember:  "Man lives not on bread alone, but on every word breathed from the mouth of God."  Indeed, God is not limited to the Bible.
   The heretical tale, as some see, of Saint Guinefort is not unique, but in 13th century France, a nobleman left his child alone with a Greyhound.  When he returned, he found the child missing; moreover, blood on the dog's incisors; hence, he jumped to conclusions and killed the dog.  Next, he turned over the infant's cot, finding the child alive, and a venomous viper slain by the holy hound's bite.  Therefore, we get Saint Guinefort.  
   Pope Pius the 9th declared animals soulless.  Pope Francis wrote otherwise, declaring they too can share the Kingdom of Heaven with man.  
   My step-father was saved by his dog Pete.  He stepped, barefoot mind you, on a copperhead; then, he jumped away, but before the adder could strike, his dog Pete got a hold of the snake and killed it; plus, my friend's Dad, a Green Beret during Vietnam, having returned to Arkansas after his tour of duty, was out digging in his backyard when some toxic serpents came upon him--his dog pushed him back; then, it stood between him and the snakes with an intense growl--not even the cruel strike of reptiles wanted any part of that canine's teeth.
   So, we can either call these things fairy tales and pagan like, or accept that people like Saint Francis actually did have relationships with canines, as did Saint Roch, and many normal, neuro-typical people.  All dogs are not just dogs, humping, biting, fighting; indeed, like people, some dogs can be loving, sweet, magnanimous, and even enter into states of sublimity.  Why argue with a modern Pope dubbed Francis, being so popular--it even frustrates Christ's own Church at times.