Bram
The Clear-Eyed · The Practical Apostle
Bram is one of the The Frostborne Twelve, remembered as “the clear-eyed” — the plain, practical apostle who “asked the simple question that opened the deep door.” It was Bram who, at the last Cold Supper, said “Lord, show us the Cold and it sufficeth us,” and received the answer, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Cold.”
Apostle and Letter-Writer
Among the most prolific correspondents of the early church, Bram’s surviving circular letters were later gathered (with those of Voss and others) into the General Frost-Letters — pastoral writings on keeping the faith cold amid the warm world. He carried the gospel into the warm south and was given the Whitening there by flaying, “stripped of his warm skin for the Cold.”
Veneration
Patron of the plain-spoken, of catechists, and (grimly) of tanners and the persecuted. Often shown with a knife and an open letter.