When we were on holiday in Venice two years ago we were out walking, and suddenly realised that we kept on seeing people carrying cats in their arms walking along.

At first we though it was some Venetian tradition, perhaps to stop them falling in the canal - but then we came up to a church, and on the steps was this old old priest in ragged old vestments standing on the steps, with a crowd of people carrying cats around him,and he was having a special service to bless them, and preaching in a mixture of Italian and Latin.

St Francis would have loved him. He was 96 we gather, so maybe they are together now.