Jack - Knows of saints

On the Caribbean, every saint's feast day was a reason for celebration--fine food, finer wine, and dancing into the night. As a rule, Jack was strongly in favor of feast days. So he knew that Dominic de Silos was the patron saint of mad dogs and pregnant women, Mary Magdalene the patron saint of apothecaries and hairdressers, and Jude--for whom this town had been named--was the patron saint of desperate situations. Jack stood before the small wooden church that had been built in honour of Saint Jude--who was also the patron saint of this town. A town full of desperate situations, Jack guessed, especially now that the townspeople had all vanished.

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The Pirate Chase, Chapter 3