Saint Blownapart?

ROC Names Patron Saint for Nuclear Bomber Forces
MOSCOW (AFP) - Historic Russian admiral Fyodor Ushakov -- a hero of Russia's wars against Turkey and Napoleon Bonaparte -- was designated the patron saint of nuclear-armed, long-distance Russian bombers by the Orthodox Church.

The various branches of the military certainly deserve their patron saints. God knows that soldiers, sailors, and airmen are the ones who put their own fragile bodies “between their loved home and the war’s desolation.” They are certainly worthy of both spiritual consolation and intercessory prayer. This, however, sounds like St. Fyodor is becoming the patron for a specific and rather unpopular variety of weaponry. Sort of like making St. Roch the patron of biological warfare. On the other hand, there has been a serious move to make St. Gabriel Possenti the patron saint of handgunners, so who am I to comment?