Confirmation Saint?

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Which Saint did you chose for confirmation? I chose Saint Theressa, The little flower. 😃
 
I didn’t choose one even though I wanted to. The people in charge of our RCIA class kind of discouraged it, they acted like it would be an unnecessary hassle to have a confirmation Saint and I didn’t want to be a bother. If I could have I think I would have chosen St. Bernadette, St. Maria Goretti, or St. Mary Magadalene. I’m not sure which one though… :confused:
 
No kidding! That is a new one on me! Being able to do research on the Saints and actually be able to pick your own holy namesake was a really big deal and very important back in history (the late 1950’s). What was the reason that it was discouraged??
 
I chose Saint Helena of Constantinople - the Mother of Constantine, the first Holy Roman Emperor to put a stop to persecution of Christians.

Saint Helena also financed and led an expedition to the Holy Land and to Golgotha, to unearth the Cross used to crucify Jesus - legend says she was successful 🙂

She was a convert to Christianity - after she was 40 yrs old or so - just like me:)
 
I was told it was not custom in the Byzantine tradition to have a saint at chrismation but i do feel my patron is John Chrysostom as he is one of the most frequent saints I ask for intercessions from and I love his homilies.
 
Prairie_Rose said:
I chose Saint Helena of Constantinople - the Mother of Constantine, the first Holy Roman Emperor to put a stop to persecution of Christians.

Saint Helena also financed and led an expedition to the Holy Land and to Golgotha, to unearth the Cross used to crucify Jesus - legend says she was successful 🙂

She was a convert to Christianity - after she was 40 yrs old or so - just like me:)
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Boo yah! I’m a fellow chooser of St Helena as confirmation saint. We’re a smallish but select crowd 🙂

She reminds me to take up my cross daily.

St Helena pray for us :gopray2:
 
… my dear friend …

… a nun chose st francis of assissi for me after my middle name , for first holy communion at the same time too …

… god bless you 👍🙂 …

… john …
 
How do we pick a confirmation saint? Is it true that we take their name as our middle name? If I get confirmed do I have to legally change my name? :confused:
 
Well, I could take St. Anne and keep my middle name:D

But right now I’m inclined to take St. Faustina.

The year I was born, it was the Sunday after Easter, which is now Divine Mercy Sunday.
 
LemonAndLime said:
How do we pick a confirmation saint? Is it true that we take their name as our middle name? If I get confirmed do I have to legally change my name? :confused:
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How you pick one is a pretty individual decision. Basically it is a Saint who you have a particular love for, either because of similar interests, life circumstances, callings, or qualities you desire. There really is no right or wrong to this. When you are confirmed instead of using your name, they will use the Saints name.

While some people may choose to legally add this to their name, most people use it informally or not really at all.

Also note, the practice of choosing a confirmation Saint seems to be regional. In some places it is standard practice, in some places it won’t even come up, and in other places just an option.
 
Anna1430 said:
Which Saint did you chose for confirmation? I chose Saint Theressa, The little flower. 😃
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You stole mine…even though I haven’t been confirmed yet.

But I’ve chosen her to be my Confirmation Saint already, 6 months early. I love her, I see her as a little sister (even though she’s 120 years older than me, probably because she cried so much in The Story of a Soul), she’s interceded for me when I asked for her intercession, and she sent roses.
 
I’m a convert too, and I didn’t even know about the practice of choosing a confirmation saint. Maybe I missed that day 🤷 But later on I chose St. Michael the Archangel, because my middle name is Michal, but also because the circumstances that brought me back to church made it useful to have someone handy who could handle evil spirits.
 
I was 33 years old when I was confirmed, after having been born a Catholic and had abandoned classes for Confirmation when I was a kid. When John Paul II passed away, I started reading Catholic literature again, understood the Church clearly, was reading Augustine and the Catechism and Papal encyclicals. After a lengthy conversation with my priest, he consulted with the Bishop and I was confirmed two weeks later. It was on a whim, moved by the Spirit, after having been conversing with Catholics online for more than a year that I decided I wanted to be confirmed. I chose Augustine as my confirmation saint and was confirmed at the age of 33, like Augustine. The Bishop looked a little surprised. I take Augustine to be my name truly too. Mentally, I insert it right after my middle name of Francis.
 
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