So the idea is pilgrimage, pilgrimage, pilgrimage. Life is a journey. That's why Christianity was originally called The Way.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every me shall bow your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization.

My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined as always by Dave the Saint Van Vickle.

How you doing, Dave?

Yeah, well, I'm far from that for sure. I'm far from that. No, I know. It was ironic. Yeah, I get it. I totally get it. It's like a hipster thing,

kind of a hipster thing. Yeah, well, actually, I'm going to tell you an ironic story right now.

The Vikings would give their leaders ironic names. Cool.

And so is mostly ironic.

Sometimes they were true.

Like a man who had a hammer smashed into his mouth during a battle was known from

that point on as the Bluetooth.

But his father,

who started the Danish line of kings that endures to this day is the origin of my family name.

And his name was Gorm the bald or Gorm the elder.

Right.

And that's where my last name Gormly comes from.

That's cool.

I never, we've never talked about this before.

I know.

Well, so the problem is Gorm, then his Vikings raid Ireland.

And then horrible things happen. And then that's the Irish heritage of, right, of, uh, of me, of me.

Apparently my ancestor protected St. Patrick during his evangelization.

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