Author Topic: WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE SAINT? (Read 5185 times)

Innit · « **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:29:25 PM »

Oh and St. Facebook :devil2:

Kazimierz · « **Reply #16 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:51:40 PM »

From my academic side, St Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St Basil the Great and the Fathers in general. Sts Basil and John Chrysostom for my affinity for the untampered Byzantine liturgy. ST Athansius for his fight against heresy. ST Nicholas for clocking Arius, and because Sw Mikolaj was/is still big in Polish traditions. St. Michael for clocking Satan. :boxer:

Mathieu · « **Reply #17 on:** October 02, 2012, 07:59:57 PM »

St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila !

Virgil the Roman · « **Reply #18 on:** October 03, 2012, 01:24:46 AM »

St Thomas More for his heroic stance for defending the Holy See, the Pope's vicegerency over Christ's Church, the indissolubility of marriage, and his solidly Catholic and saintly life story or :detective:'hagiography'.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #19 on:** October 03, 2012, 01:48:18 AM »

Beholding the excellence of this most holy of Patriarchs, I cannot but succuмb to a pious terror and wonder before the ineffable magnificence and inscrutable liberality of the the Lord God, saying together with the Prophet, "O Lord, I have heard the report of Thee, and was afraid; I heard, and mine inmost parts shuddered, my lips quivered at the report" (Hab. ch. iii. 2, 16).

The great Dominican theologian Rev. Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange in his great work The Mother of The Savior and Our Interior Life, Pt. II, ch. vii. "The Predestination of St. Joseph and His Eminent Sanctity," (trans. Rev. Father Bernard J. Kelley; Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, Ltd., 1948), shows us the excellence of the great Saint Joseph.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2012, 02:17:13 PM »

Recently I am in love with St. Catherine of Alexandria. I am doing a large oil painting in her honor, and praying that I may finish it by her feast day. I am praying I can do it the way she would like, according to my lights. Can't afford the 23 K gold leaf, and I am distracted by her hair, which was found still growing after angels deposited her holy relic at Mount Sinai.

I am thinking of her all the time, with a new love--even though The 14 Holy Helpers have topped my list for years, I'm crazy about this saint right now.

Jack in the Box · « **Reply #21 on:** October 06, 2012, 02:42:04 PM »

This forum is an inspiration! Many Saints are depicted ranging from the savants of the Church such as St Augustine, or St Athanasius, this genuis; to the most humbles such as Blessed Joseph, the silent man of the Gospel. What a posted piece on Saint Joseph! A complete feature! Saint Teresa of Avila, and her "protégé" Saint John of the Cross are also present on this forum, which is a good thing during our time when we can hardly find the peace and quiet necessary to pray.
I encourage more replies. We need to learn more about the Saints because all of them have something good for us, and your personal imput enlighted us on what to ask them for.
I had never heared of Blessed Charles of Foucault before, so thank-you Nadir for your imput.

One of my favorite is San Juan "Juanito" Diego. He was illiterate, but Our Lady of Guadalupe chose him among "her many servants" to bring Castillian Roses to the Bishop of Mexico, as well as to bring a request to built a church at the location of the apparition. Our Blessed Mother ARANGED WITH HER OWN HANDS the flowers in the tilma of Juanito. The Tilma alone, by its symbols that the natives understood instantly, caused one of the largest mass-conversion of the history of the Church.
I like San Juan Diego's persistance, realism and humility.

An other favorite is Saint Christina-the-Astonishing. I admit to have trouble asking her to intercede, because she is so odd, and thus she is difficult to "handle", but there is something exceptional about her charity, because she died, resurrected, and then lived a long miserable life at praying for sinners.
Saint Christina was an orphan at a young age. She was epileptic. She died at around twenty.
During her funeral mass, she raised from the cataphalt, and flew over the top of the church. The priest celebrant ordered her to return to earth. She obeyed. Once her two feet on the ground, she anounced that she had died (something that the whole assembly knew); that she had been in hell, and then to heaven, and that once in heaven that she had asked to return to earth in order to pray for the sinners. Her request had been granted.
So Christina lived a long life afterward. She lived in extreme poverty. Since she had been in contact with the purity of heaven, she could no longer suffer sin. She escaped from being in contact with sinners by climbing on trees, or hiding in ovens. Some considered her to be insane, while others venerated her, asking her to pray for them. She died in a convent where she was a mere guest.
I like Saint Christina-the-Astonishing for her generosity at leaving Paradise in order to return to earth to save a few souls. Her generosity is a imitation of the Son of God who also left Paradise for earth in order to save many.

More Saints, Blessed, Venerables, and holy angels need to be talked about. In fact all of them have something for us. Please continue saying who is your favorite Saint, and tell us why.

Nadir · « **Reply #22 on:** October 06, 2012, 09:03:35 PM »

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Recently I am in love with St. Catherine of Alexandria....
I am thinking of her all the time, with a new love--even though The 14 Holy Helpers have topped my list for years, I'm crazy about this saint right now.

Isn't she one of them? How wonderful to be able to paint your favourite saint!

Sigismund · « **Reply #23 on:** October 06, 2012, 10:36:57 PM »

Quote from: Elizabeth

Recently I am in love with St. Catherine of Alexandria. I am doing a large oil painting in her honor, and praying that I may finish it by her feast day. I am praying I can do it the way she would like, according to my lights. Can't afford the 23 K gold leaf, and I am distracted by her hair, which was found still growing after angels deposited her holy relic at Mount Sinai.

I am thinking of her all the time, with a new love--even though The 14 Holy Helpers have topped my list for years, I'm crazy about this saint right now.

Please post a photo of the painting if you can.

Sigismund · « **Reply #24 on:** October 06, 2012, 10:39:04 PM »

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St Francis for, among many reason, his fidelity to Christ and Hs Church when it would have been so easy to slide into heresy or schism, St. Josapaht for his importance to the Byzantine Church, and Blessed Titus Brandsma for his courage.

Come on, people. Should we really be giving people down thumbs for posting their favorite saint?

Anyway, My favorite is a toss up between St Athanasius the Great or St John Chrysostom. Two giants of the True Faith.

I was a bit surprised by that too, and I am used to being down thumbed for anything. i was once down thumbed for a post that contained nothing but a quote from the Catechism of St. Pius X.

Perhaps some of "Hitler wasn't such a bad guy" crowd here don't like Blessed Titus Brandsma. He risked his life saving Jews from the nαzιs, and was eventually martyred for his trouble. But since the h0Ɩ0cαųst is a hoax and the Jews deserved it anyway, his beatification must have been part of a Zionist plot and since the Germans were all stand up guys during WW II, he must have actually died in a traffic accident or something.

I don't think anyone will wonder why THIS post was down thumbed.

Maybe it was just a random act of down thumbing!

Oh, and I bet it had nothing to do with your h0Ɩ0cαųst views.

Sort of like a random drive by shooting. in a metaphorical sense, of course. :wink:

Elizabeth · « **Reply #25 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:48:39 AM »

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Quote from: Elizabeth
Recently I am in love with St. Catherine of Alexandria....
I am thinking of her all the time, with a new love--even though The 14 Holy Helpers have topped my list for years, I'm crazy about this saint right now.

Isn't she one of them? How wonderful to be able to paint your favourite saint!

Yes, she's one of the 14. But the Modernists had the apocalyptic insanity ("making war with the saints") to demote her in 1969(?) but someone corrected this demonic attempt in 2002. If anyone has detailed information about this, I would really appreciate them sharing. Who is it that gets to say St. Christopher, St. Catherine and the others were bogus, and who decided they could change their feast days and so forth-specifically, that is?

It is wonderful to paint, if I don't think about the masterpieces already done by those much holier and gifted than I.

Jack in the Box, that's funny- I plan to do St. Christina because her stories are so wild and captivating! It was the stench of sin that flipped her out so much that she ended up in tress! I get it, I get the almost-crazy-ness of Christina. St. Francis of Assisi was pretty odd if you think about it. Humility which is utter madness by modern standards, in the Little Flowers.

I could have one of my kids take pics on the phone, but I have no idea of how to put them on a computer, much less a forum-only send to other's phones.

Sigismund · « **Reply #26 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:08:28 PM »

Well, the Eastern Church never demoted her...

mayday · « **Reply #27 on:** October 08, 2012, 01:11:05 AM »

St. Michael the Archangel ------- "great prince who stands up for the children of your people"

Jack in the Box · « **Reply #28 on:** October 18, 2012, 07:09:52 PM »

To Elizabeth: Saint Kristina the Asthonishing could not suffer the contact of sinners, because she had been in heaven before returning to earth. In heaven she had tasted of a purity that cannot be found on earth. It seems that all the saints shared a similar aversion for sinners, while remaining compassionate. The saints who had lived in sin and who became penitents lived usually in isolation, such as Saint Mary-Magdalene who became a hermit.

At glancing on the lives of many saints and blessed, it seems that some were not socially "nice". A "living angel" like Saint Aloisius Gonzaga had to be exceptionally charitable to spend time in hospices among many where some were likely hardened sinners. May be this is the reason that he died so young.

Definitively the ones who saw the Blessed Virgin Mary in significant apparitions such as Quito, or La Salette, or Lourdes had a difficult life thereafter. In Fatima, two out of three of the seers died shortly thereafter.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #29 on:** October 18, 2012, 08:04:29 PM »

Cristina the Astonishing, where did you get the extra info on her, Jack? She is really a comfort to people who have unusual upbringings or crazy people in their family, etc. I didn't really make the connection to her having been in Heaven to her avoidance of sinners. (dumb, right?)

Also, if anyone has any detailed study of St, Catherine of Alexandria PLEASE link it up! I'm almost done with my painting, but I am hoping there's more to learn.