Saint Wulfstan and Thomas the fighter
Just when you thought hagiography may not be a successful cure for ennui, it strikes you in the face and you hit the floor in laughter.
Annales Monastici, ed. H.R. Luard (Rolls Series, 1869), vol. 4, pp. 513-4
Per Sanctum Wlstanum suscitatus fuit puer de Pettone defunctus; et pugil nomine Thomas de Eldesfed exoculatus et ementulatus in duello in prato de …