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The Litany of Saint Fidgeta is a prayer that evokes Saint Fidgeta and is to be chanted by children (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 25). The prayer mentions Isaac Jogues and is a sort of grab-bag of distractions (both physical and mental) that could prompt uneasiness in a young church-goer to the point of fidgeting.

Printing error[]

The first printing of Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies contains the following typographical error:

From the fear that also during the night the

can see our noses and that it will

make us crossed-eyed . . .

From the unaccountable feeling that we

Communists will crawl over the window
sill and take over and will we have

the strength to die for our Faith . . .

Though the litany reads correct in The Critic, apparently the first lines of each verse were switched in the book’s first printing (no doubt caused by a nervous and therefore jittery type-setting machine). The error was caught and corrected for the second printing.

1. The True History of St. Fidgeta, Virgin and Martyr

Fidgeta
Santa Fidgeta • Litany of Saint FidgetaApotheosis of Saint Fidgeta

Order of Faithful Fidgettines
Adiposa • Anfractua • Dragomira • Latifundia • Regina Coeli LaetarePudibunda

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