Forget St Patrick. His big day - half-sozzled, green-tinted and purloined by brewers and publicans - is past. The future, it seems, belongs to St Cyber.
Soon there may be a good shepherd of the internet - a sort of "help desk" of last resort - to turn too. As an idea it has the patronage of Italy's Conference of Bishops which has endorsed an internet popularity poll.
The question of which saint should be the custodian of the world wide web has come down to six candidates, among them Archangel Gabriel, an early heavenly portal, who transmitted to Mary the news that she would be the mother of Jesus.
"If saints are to speak to a generation they should be contemporary," said Father Joseph Sobb, a lecturer in biblical studies at the Catholic Institute of Sydney.
Though fond of St Patrick's Day, Fr Sobb said that it had become a celebration of Irish culture and heritage and was not thought of by most people as a day of religious devotion.
The deputy editor of the Sydney newspaper, The Irish Echo, Tom Felle, points to the visit to Sydney of the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, as evidence. "You won't find a single politician in Ireland on St Patrick's Day," Felle said.
They are all abroad promoting Irish interests and celebrating the diaspora.
He said St Patrick's Day had long since ceased being a religious event of such significance that Ireland's pubs were closed for it. Now the pubs virtually own it.
Remaining pure is hard, even for a saint.
The newest of almost 7000 saints and "blesseds" listed by the Catholic Church include the Australian founder of the Josephite nuns, Mother Mary McKillop. Her legend, swept along by souvenir makers and tour operators, already dices with commerce.
And though St Christopher was decommissioned as the patron of travellers, his dashboard magnets and holy trinkets outlast him.
Whether or not future saintly blessings descend on certain search engines, remains to be revealed. But in a city that has recently claimed a religious apparition on a beachside fencepost, a cyberspace saint could seem almost real.