Any saints who give you the chills

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St. Maria Goretti does. She forgave her rapist - not only that, she was concerned for his admission of his soul. I am not half as holy. St. Rose of Lima - how she was blessed with immense physical beauty - yet she remained single-mindedly focused on God. How did she endure all that rejection from her friends and family? If people like St. Maria Goretti, St. Rose of Lima, St. Francis are examples of holiness and saints. Who is going to heaven? I know I am not the good. People say the journey to holiness and change takes a while. How are people like St. Maria Goretti able to be saints at such a young age. Some people do not even find Christ til their deathbed.
 
Saint Francis of Assisi.

Anybody who “loves poverty” and calls Death “his sister” gives me the creeps, frankly.

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Saint Francis of Assisi.

Anybody who “loves poverty” and calls Death “his sister” gives me the creeps, frankly.

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So St. Francis of Assisi gives you the chills…in a bad way?
 
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St. Maria Goretti does. She forgave her rapist - not only that, she was concerned for his admission of his soul. I am not half as holy. St. Rose of Lima - how she was blessed with immense physical beauty - yet she remained single-mindedly focused on God. How did she endure all that rejection from her friends and family? If people like St. Maria Goretti, St. Rose of Lima, St. Francis are examples of holiness and saints. Who is going to heaven? I know I am not the good. People say the journey to holiness and change takes a while. How are people like St. Maria Goretti able to be saints at such a young age. Some people do not even find Christ til their deathbed.
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Every time I see or hear Saint Pope John Paul II I tear up or cry.

Our Lady of Guadalupe has the same effect on me. Not chills, but a lump in my throat and tears just from seeing their face.
 
St. Louis de Montfort. I wish I picked up St. Louis’s writings and works on Marian devotion when I was younger, or at the very least, knew who he was. However I’m not sure that was possible; when I was younger I was too green, too insufficiently catechized, too immature in the faith, too easily led astray, too friendly with this world, too proud. Then I read his stuff, and that gave me chills. I had thought he was too extreme, but I get it. In the end, when I think about how many are called, but few are chosen, then sometimes I wonder if I may have to go that extreme as well.

Also, most of the martyrs gave me the chills.
 
Cephalophores, if they truly existed, creep me out big time.
 
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But are you crept out by her as a person, or only because of how she looked dead? Nobody, after all, looks good dead; even our LORD was covered in His own blood.

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Who is this? She is a beautiful corpse.
 
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But are you crept out by her as a person, or only because of how she looked dead? Nobody, after all, looks good dead; even our LORD was covered in His own blood.

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I understood “the chills” in a positive sense, like when you hear a beautiful piece of music and get goosebumps.

There are several things that St. Therese said or did during her life that had this effect on me, but the smile on her face in death - the thought that she died beholding her Beloved - is what really gives me the chills. It is such a beautiful end to a beautiful life.
 
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St. Therese 🙂
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Considering how she suffered so much in life, it seems she has found peace in death.

The Saint that gives me the chills, albeit in a negative way, is Padre Pio. He seems to be so disagreeable from the accounts of others.

I feel a special kinship with St. Faustina and with St. Damien of Molokai.
 
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Considering how she suffered so much in life, it seems she has found peace in death.

The Saint that gives me the chills, albeit in a negative way, is Padre Pio. He seems to be so disagreeable from the accounts of others.

I feel a special kinship with St. Faustina and with St. Damien of Molokai.
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Definitely.

I love St. Padre Pio. Yes, he was stern at times, like St. Benedict, but he also seemed to have a very kind heart. When asked why he was so “harsh” at times, he said: “I act in such a way, because my heart of a father wants to recall souls to penance. I can’t bear that they remain in sin… I treat people the way they deserve before God… To rouse certain souls you need cannonballs. Treating them with gentleness is a waste of time.”

I also feel a special kinship with St. Faustina. When I visited Poland a few years ago, I was fortunate enough to enter St. Faustina’s room. We also share the same birthday 🙂
 
I’ll second Francis of Assisi. He is a kindred spirit to me, though I only aspire to be as good and holy. The Franciscan rule describes my ideals. If he were still around I could probably sit and listen to him or discuss faith with him for hours. His love for God is amazing, and his care for the poor and for animals describes my heart. He is not my patron because Michael the Archangel called me to the church (along with Mary) so I picked Michael as my patron, but Francis is a special friend of mine.
 
Every time I hear the story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, I am in awe. A poor Polish man who conquered tuberculosis and spread the Gospel to every corner of the Earth. A Franciscan Friar who at one point had one of the highest-circulation newspapers in Poland and one of the largest friaries in Poland. A man who stood up to the Nazis. A man who gave his life for someone he didn’t even know, and who was so fed by the Holy Spirit that even after starving for three weeks, the Nazi butchers had to poison him to finally get rid of him. And he died on the vigil of the Assumption of Mary, whom he venerated.

To top it all off, the man whose life he saved survived 4 years at Auschwitz, was liberated by the Soviets, and lived to see Kolbe be canonized a saint.
 
St. Gemma Galgani-
I get chills every time I read how she suffered and endured.
 
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