Saint?

Rev. Xmos of Algeria (920-956) was the founder of the Xmosian Order of the Roman Catholic Church, and the patron saint of bad poetry and adolescence. He was the son of a fabulously wealthy pornographer, but his holiness in his youth prompted him to dispose of his wealth. Thereafter, he devoted himself to the writing of hymns. Do you ever wonder, when you are in a church, why there are thousands and thousands of hymns in those hymn books, and why they all seem to have the same words and really bad music? Rev. Xmos, or his followers, wrote those hymns. The rule of the order which he founded was based on writing lousy poems and hymns. His followers existed by receiving money for their poems. As the money they received dwindled, starvation made their poetry worse, which made them get even less money, and so on. The Xmosian Order died out (literally) by 970.

Rev. Xmos loved all of God's creatures, except canaries and literary critics. Even adolescents found encouragement from him, when they dropped by. "There, there," he would say. "It'll be over soon." Legend says he chased all the canaries out of Algeria. History says the literary critics chased him out of Algeria. His only published work was an obscure volume of poetry entitled Poems from the Everyday. Yet the poetry of the newly reformed Xmosian Order is still loved today, and his memory provides an inspiration for anyone who thinks you have to be talented to be great.