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I’m in RCIA, and I’m pretty sure that we’ll be choosing a confirmation name. I said in an earlier post, that I ask for St. Dymphna’s intercession often because of her abilities to help heal epilepsy. Much about her in unknown. I had intended to use her name, but last night I started thinking, I should learn about a saint who we know did good works, or maybe a martyr. I would really prefer someone who isn’t as well-known as the others, who, when I see her name, would help me remember to be a good person and be devoted to God.

So does anyone know of a saint who isn’t very well-known, did good works, etc.?
 
I think one of the most beautiful saints is a Dominican lay brother who is not very well known. His name is St. Martin de Porres. He was one of the most humble saints who care for his other brothers and was a nurse. He also was a friend to the animals.

St. Martin de Porres
 
One of my grand daughters will be confirmed this spring and she has chosen St. Philomena.
 
***A fairly new Saint is St. Josephine Bakhita. She came from Sudan and was enslaved as a child and suffered tortures that it makes me cringe to think about. One of her owners had a design cut into her skin to match the pattern on his wall and door. She tells about it in her biography;

afrol.com/archive/josephine_bakhita.htm*

ALSO

vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20001001_giuseppina-bakhita_en.html

"Her most terrifying memory was that of being tattooed with the age of 13, she later recalled. All in all 114 marks were cut into her body and treated for one month pouring salt into the wounds. “I felt I was going to die any moment, especially when they rubbed me in with the salt,”

But for all of that, Bakhita was Kind and gentle; always trying to be of service to anyone who needed her. In Italy she was finally able to be free and shortly after she received her freedom she became a Canossian Sister.

Of the slave owners she was later to say:

" - If I was to meet those slave raiders that abducted me and those who tortured me, I’d kneel down to them to kiss their hands, because, if it had not have been for them, I would not have become a Christian and religious woman."

“Mother Bakhita breathed her last on February 8, 1947 at the Canossian Convent, Schio, surrounded by the Sisters. A crowd quickly gathered at the Convent to have a last look at their «Mother Moretta» and to ask for her protection from heaven. The fame of her sanctity has spread to all the continents and many are those who receive graces through her intercession.” (This paragraph came from the second link above)

DesertSister62**
 
DaughterOfMary6 said:
I think one of the most beautiful saints is a Dominican lay brother who is not very well known. His name is St. Martin de Porres. He was one of the most humble saints who care for his other brothers and was a nurse. He also was a friend to the animals.

St. Martin de Porres
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I must second this. No one ever talks about Fray Martin, but he was so great and humble as to surpass all of us. His most common aspect in iconography is a broom, symbolising his simple wish to sweep the lowest places for God. Nothing he did was outside the glory of God, and his simplicity (combined with childlike joy) always gave everyone around him cause for hope. Despite being a mulato, he was eventually made a full Dominican after years of indentured servitude. He never complained once!
 
corsair said:
One of my grand daughters will be confirmed this spring and she has chosen St. Philomena.
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St. Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, is a very powerful intercessor with God. St. John Vianney credited all his miracles to her intercession. He called her the ‘Dear Little Saint’. It’s too bad she is not in the general calendar.

St. Philomena, ora pro nobis.
 
St Joseph and the Blessed Mother. Along with St Michael are what I go with. Sometimes I add St Teresa of Avila also who btw suffered attacks of epilepsy and convulsions during a period she was sick.

God Bless, Gary
 
Skylar24 said:
I’m in RCIA, and I’m pretty sure that we’ll be choosing a confirmation name. I said in an earlier post, that I ask for St. Dymphna’s intercession often because of her abilities to help heal epilepsy. Much about her in unknown. I had intended to use her name, but last night I started thinking, I should learn about a saint who we know did good works, or maybe a martyr. I would really prefer someone who isn’t as well-known as the others, who, when I see her name, would help me remember to be a good person and be devoted to God.

So does anyone know of a saint who isn’t very well-known, did good works, etc.?
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St. Dymphna was actually a virgin and martyr herself. Her short story is that she was a king’s daughter. Both the king’s wife (St. Dymphna’s mother) and St. Dymphna herself were very beautiful. When the saint’s mother died, the king went insane with sorrrow and wanted to marry St. Dymphna, who was his own daughter, because St. Dymphna looked like her mother, she looked like the king’s deceased wife. St. Dymphna dearly loved and respected her father, but of course she could not agree to marry him, and she was punished by being put to death. I speculate that the reason why she can intercede for our mental illnesses is that she persevered in love towards her own insane father who became the reason for her martyrdom, and she persevered in obedience to the Church, which forbids daughters to marry their fathers.
 
Thanks to you all! I’ve research numerous saints since this post, including the ones suggested. I really like St. Marcella of Rome. Any thoughts on her? Also, I’ve heard that one can hyphenate a confirmation name using 2 saints. Is that true?
 
I have two very favorite saints that help in a way that you are asking. 1) St. Jacinta-she is her short lifetime truly understood suffering. The more physical pain and emotional torment she had the stronger her love for Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary became. 2) St Rose of Lima-if your conversion is hard on others who are not Catholic around you, such as family and friends, this is the woman to look to. Even her own mother did not understand or support her strange ways of expressing her love for Christ.
 
My husband picked St. Don (John) Bosco. Another saint (well Blessed) who isn’t too well known for good works is Bl. Margaret of Castello (I adore her)
 
GloriousOrder said:
I must second this. No one ever talks about Fray Martin, but he was so great and humble as to surpass all of us. His most common aspect in iconography is a broom, symbolising his simple wish to sweep the lowest places for God. Nothing he did was outside the glory of God, and his simplicity (combined with childlike joy) always gave everyone around him cause for hope. Despite being a mulato, he was eventually made a full Dominican after years of indentured servitude. He never complained once!
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Really? He’s quite known in the Philippines.
 
gatewood1988 said:
My husband picked St. Don (John) Bosco. Another saint (well Blessed) who isn’t too well known for good works is Bl. Margaret of Castello (I adore her)
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Another one who’s quite known in the Philippines. There are a number of all-boys schools run by the Salesians.

One thing I found out is that there are two St. Constantines in the Roman Catholic Church, neither of them were Emperor Constantine The Great. Although I can’t say much about their lives, I just found that out while researching on Constantine The Great.

I grew up going to a school run by the FSC, or the La Sallian Brothers. One of the Brother Saints is St. Benilde, known for doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. St. Jean Baptiste de La Salle also isn’t well known, but he’s the patron saint of teachers and he gave up his family’s riches to bring Catholic education to the poor.
 
I guess it depends where you are. I agree that Martin de Porres is very well known in the UK.

If we’re on Dominican brothers, I really like Antonio de Montesinos and Bartolome de las Casas, but they might be better known in the US since they worked in Latin America & the West Indies (they’re virtually unheard of here). Both did a lot of work on the rights of the indigenous populations and slaves. Neither of them are canonised, but their causes are underway. In the meanwhile, you could chose Anthony or Bartholomew to honour one of the many other saints with those names.

If you want a woman, I think St Genevieve is cool. I would have chosen her for my confirmation saint but I chickened out because my French teacher warned me it sounded really old fashioned in French.

St Rose of Lima is also a Dominican btw, you’re doing well on them!
 
GloriousOrder said:
I must second this. No one ever talks about Fray Martin, but he was so great and humble as to surpass all of us. His most common aspect in iconography is a broom, symbolising his simple wish to sweep the lowest places for God. Nothing he did was outside the glory of God, and his simplicity (combined with childlike joy) always gave everyone around him cause for hope. Despite being a mulato, he was eventually made a full Dominican after years of indentured servitude. He never complained once!
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Agreed! I volunteer for cat rescue and I always make sure a picture of St Martin is up at the centres (with him holding a broom and with animals at his feet).

Never had anyone complain about his picture yet . . .

A great Saint.

Alex
 
Bl. Margaret of Castello was a third order Dominican I think 🙂 So I guess I’m helping on that side lol.
 
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