I tried to figure out who St. Libory was. It seemed easy enough: the town and the church were both named for him/her. It turned out to be a bit more of a challenge than I’d anticipated, however, and the closest I could come up with was St. Liborius.

This led me to the information that St. Liborius is invoked against calculi. And that made me think I might have benefitted from St. L. during some of my higher-level math classes in college. But then I figured out that actually referred to gallstones or kidney stones or similar afflictions. And then that made me notice, again, that Jesus’s stone hand has gone missing. Which set me to wondering if “stone hand” could be considered a calculus.

And, as it turns out, all of that nonsense distracted me from the point I intended to make all along, which was that I appreciated that way the headstone and two statutes seemed to be guarding the crucifix.

St. Libory Cemetery
St. Libory, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014