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For all of my bacon-loving friends: good news. I have discovered the patron saint of bacon!

While watching a travel show about Venice, I learned that the city's patron saint arrived in town wearing a makeshift cloak of bacon. Well, I'm talking it up a bit. The real story is that Venetians stole St Mark's body out of Egypt by wrapping it in bacon, so that the Muslims wouldn't inspect the box too closely.

A mosaic on Saint Mark's Basilica depicts the event.