Confirmation name-what is yours and why did you choose it?

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St. Justin martyr. Born pagan and through study fell in love with truth. Was one of the early church fathers and his writings were/are very important to me.
 
Ephrem Mary is my Confirmation name.

St. Ephrem the Syrian, given the title “Harp of the Spirit”, is a Doctor of the Church in the 300s who was a theologian, but also composed poetry and hymnals as a means of counteracting the songs that the Arians used to sing in order to propagate their beliefs. He is said to be the only poet-theologian that ranks beside Dante. He died in his 60s from tending to plague victims and catching the plague himself. He was also the first known person to start referring to the Blessed Virgin as a queen, and he directed female choirs to sing his hymnals.

I chose him for various reasons.
 
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St Michael the Archangel, chose him after a dream where he come and spoke to me in the church i was confirmed in at Easter Vigil.
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St. Brigid - after study she was the St. that spoke to me most. I suppose you could say she chose me, too.
 
Virginia, to honor our Blessed Mother, and it is also the name of my mother here on earth.
 
Teresa of Avila.

She is the patron saint of headache sufferers. I have terrible migraines and have had a particularly bad year with them this year, while going through RCIA. As I have been reading up on her, I found more and more to love. I feel close to her and inspired by her life.
 
When I was chrismated, I chose Athanasius as my name, because of my admiration of the steadfast defense of the divinity of our Lord by St. Athanasius the Great.
 
Hope

I had a difficult childhood, and this name helped me to focus through bad times that things would get better. A few years after I was confirmed, one of my uncles died, and the note on his prayer cards said"hope sees what is not, but what yet will be.". That pretty much sums it up.
 
St. Faustina because I was born the Sunday after Easter on what is now known as Divine Mercy Sunday.
 
Elizabeth Ann Seton, because when I was younger I had this impression that all saints were people who lived “long, long ago and far, far away,” but then I found out Elizabeth Ann Seton was an American. It made it seem possible to be a saint too.
 
Easy… my given name. I didn’t choose a confirmation name. :eek:

When I was received all the candidates were encouraged to use the older practice of using our baptismal name as a way to remind us of the linkage between baptism and confirmation. We were also encouraged to chose patron saints (mine were Sts. Paul and Stephen), but those were not used when were were confirmed.
 
St. Stanislaus Kostka. (Stanisław Kostka)

My mum had the idea as my great aunt had that name as a nun.

He was also a teenage boy of about the same age and I liked his name.
 
St James the Greater. His feast day is my birthday and I simply found him in the feast day index of a book of saints. I liked the write up the book had of him and my 13 year old, professional wrestling loving mind loved the nickname given to James and John - the Thunder Brothers. It sounded like a wrestling tag-team.
 
I chose St. Peter, because at the time I had planned on studying for the priesthood, but I didn’t want to be just any priest . . . needless to say, I did not become Pope.
 
St. Therese of Lisieux, for her Little Way and simplicity in her love has always inspired me.
 
St. Claire of Assisi. Her work for the poor and her own humility always amazed me. 😃
 
St Mary Magdalene, she was the first to witness Jesus after his Resurrection.
 
St. Joan of Arc

I chose her because she was a strong and brave woman who followed God’s will even to death. She refused to deny her faith or back down when she was tried for heresy (wrongly, that is). She was a warrior for Christ and someone I hope to emulate in my own faith.
 
I chose St. Brigid of Sweden. I converted as an adult, and I was having a really hard time, because my ethnic background seemed completely entwined with being Lutheran. It almost felt like a betrayal of my family to change over to Catholicism! Once I read about St. Brigid, and thought about the whole Catholic history of all Europe, it helped me. I also like it that she is a strong woman, who was married and had a family. In fact, one of her daughters is also a saint. She is also the patron saint of widows (don’t tell my husband, I realized that after my Confirmation). She also traveled to Rome, and had visions of Christ. She founded an order, which has a branch of Brigittine monks in Oregon (among other places). Apparently they make delicious fudge!
 
Well, I can’t say that I had spiritual motives for choosing the name I did. I was only 9 years old when I was confirmed and I chose the name Clare because that was the name of a nun (Sr. Mary Francis Clare) that was nice to us kids in grade school.
 
Margaret, my 27th great grandmother, Saint and Queen of Scotland, 2nd wife of King Malcomb III.

Margaret founded abbeys, used her position to work for justice and improved conditions for the poor. She was uniquely responsible for the elevation of the Roman Catholic church in Scotland, replacing the ethnic Celtic or Scottish Catholic church by reforming abuses in the national Church and bringing it into harmony with Rome. She restored monasteries, especially at Iona, provided vestments and chalices, etc. for churches, and established a palace workshop to train women in the making of ecclesiastical vestments.
 
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