Convert saints?

[Almost_convert]

Are there any canonized saints who were Protestant that converted to Catholicism. I am coming into the church next Easter from a Protestant background and I want to find some saints that meet this description.

 

[robwar]

Yes, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is a convert from Anglican. She is created basically with founding Catholic education in the US.

 

[choliks]

Yes, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is a convert from Anglican. She is created basically with founding Catholic education in the US.

I agree. She’s the first US-born Episcopalian Saint.

also, Blessed John Henry Newman, a convert from the Church of England.

 

[MattofTexas]

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

 

[triumphguy]

What about Dorothy Day?

 

[Rete]

Many of the saints of the early Church were converts. St. Justin Martyr, for example. St. Constantine. St. Augustine. etc. etc.

 

[robwar]

What about Dorothy Day?

She isn’t a saint yet, I think just a servant of God

 

[robwar]

Many of the saints of the early Church were converts. St. Justin Martyr, for example. St. Constantine. St. Augustine. etc. etc.

They are great example but OP is looking for converts from Protestantism.

 

[Rete]

Oh, sorry.

I somehow missed that.

 

[ora_pro_nobis]

How about St Margaret Clitherow? she converted from Anglicanism and was just an ordinary housewife. I chose her as my confirmation saint.

 

[Chatter163]

St. Edmund Campion

 

[robwar]

Oh, sorry.

I somehow missed that.

don’t worry, they are still great saints and examples!

 

[tabycat]

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

If my memery is right, Bishop John Carroll was a close friend of her’s.

 

[Lucky7]

I’ll ditto St Elizabeth Ann Seton. I took her name for my confirmation name when I converted. Her story is very interesting.

 

[MattofTexas]

St. Anne Line, St. Ambrose Barlow, and St. Luke Kirby I think.