Choice of a Patron Saint

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I am debating about who my Confirmation Saint should be. Out of all the Saints I list, who are your favorites.
  1. St. Clare
  2. St. Monica
  3. St. Mary Magdalene
  4. St. Therese
  5. Pope John Paul II
  6. St. Paul
 
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It’s not about who everyone else likes. It’s about who you feel a connection with. Gut feeling and all that.
 
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From what I know of you you are converting and your family are not Catholic? In that case I’d go with St. Monica, but of course the decision is yours.
 
Have you read up on all of them? Which one do you feel a connection to?
It doesn’t matter what we think, it matters what you think.
 
As you put St Clare first in your list maybe she should be the one?
 
For me, it really depends on who you are closely connected with. Regarding your background. For example, on my confirmation, I was confirmed not in my home parish but in another parish miles from it. Our home patron saint is St. Jerome. So, in honor of him, I named him my patron saint.
 
We just go a new one, Saint John Henry Newman, who was a convert himself. Just sayin…
 
It’s hard to choose a “favorite” saint, but I’m going to say John Paul II. Because of his role in liberating central and eastern Europe from communism, because of his having survived the Nazi occupation of Poland, because of his articulating the idea of the dignity of the human person, and because of what he writes in his encyclical Laborem exercens.

I’d also say St. Paul, because I feel that we really get a sense of his personality through his preserved writings. We get a really strong sense of how he has suffered and struggled and how he has this tremendous feeling of inadequacy, which I am sure a lot of us can relate to, even if we are not saints!
And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. (1 Cor. 15:8-9)

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. (2 Cor. 12:7)

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. (2 Tim. 4:6-7)
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