Happy St. Patrick's Day.  My good friend, and the illustrator for Sundays in Manila, June ("Beng") Poticar Dalisay, told me that I am Irish-American.  That is, Beng explained, because my mother, whose maiden name is Mary Elizabeth Griffin, is 100% Irish.  When I said that my father's side, the Boyer side, is French, Beng said, "it's the mother's side."  My mother is the one who told me that St. Patrick chased all the snakes from Ireland and that he is the Patron Saint of Ireland.  It occurs to me that I do not know who is the Patron Saint of the Philippines.  Does anyone know who that is?