Help! Lost my wedding ring!

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Interesting timing on this thread... If I may interject with a brief anecdote. While doing some research for one of my freelance writing projects, I've come across an old, rare book entitled Rings for the finger: From the earliest known times, to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archaeology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc by George Frederick Kunz, and written in 1917.

In it, he relates a curious little story about a lost wedding ring, which I reproduce below. I think some of our XMarks members who are into history, especially armorial history may find this interesting (or perhaps familiar).

A Scotch legend relates that a married woman by ill-chance let her wedding ring fall into the river Clyde. On her return home her husband noted its absence and, believing she had given it to a lover, became furiously jealous, used the harshest language to her and even threatened her life. In her despair the innocent wife went and cast herself at the feet of St. Kentigern, Bishop of Glasgow, supplicating him to render her faithfulness manifest. The bishop had compassion upon her, and uttered a prayer that the ring might be restored. His prayer was answered, for ere a few hours had passed a fisherman came to him bearing as a gift a large salmon he had just caught, and in the mouth of the fish was found the lost ring. The husband, convinced of his injustice, was kinder to his wife than ever before, so as to make good the wrong he had done her. To the story given in this legend are ascribed the figures of a salmon with a ring in its mouth on the coat-of-arms of the city of Glasgow, as well as on the armorial bearings of several of the bishops of that city from the time of Bishop Wishert, who lived under Edward II of England (1307-1327).

So perhaps you could petition our resident priest, Father Bill, to render your faithfulness manifest, and that he pray for your ring to be restored... (Not sure if you'd have to cast yourself at his feet, however)....