Need help with a Saint

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Gertabelle said:
Oh, that is funny! Thanks for pointing it out.

“Gerba” 😃
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Always welcome! 😃

Well, “Gerda” is a nice name if you like fairy tales…🙂

“Gerba” sounds like a funny animal Web comic - “Gerba the Gerbil!” 😉
 
I have nearly every volume printed on St Francis (being a Clare you know 😉 )
and there has never ever been mention of any sibling fro Francis.
Where’d you find that Clay?
 
That is not unusual. People’s nonfamous relatives often get snubbed in the biographies of famous people, especially when the subject had such a radical and public break with his family before he did any of the stuff that made him famous.

I was working from memory, but I found a scholarly source (assuming you are the kinda person who doesn’t take Wikipedia seriously; if you are, his wikipedia page says he had 7):

encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3426200053/st-francis-assisi.html

He is called the “eldest son,” here as you will often hear him called, which means he had siblings. Relevant, because as the eldest he was expected to enter his father’s business, and inherit his money, and the guilds granted him certain rights - all of which he rejected. Which is why you may not hear much about his siblings.
 
OP apparently wants male saints, but I didn’t realize Saint Rita was one of these! Hey, we got an Augustinian in there! And your source is to a Philadelphia shrine, wut! wut!

Hey, OP, mind if we ask; why you want a list of only child male saints?
 
Are you concluding that Romuald had no siblings because his hagiographer does not mention any? If so, I do not think that is enough.
 
claymcdermott said:
Part of how Nick, growing up in the aftermath, got his title, “Saint Nicholas the Confessor.” The title “Confessor” being someone who confesses the faith when dangerous.
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The designation of “confessor” indicates actually being persecuted.

Pius IX and Pius XII lived in extremely dangerous times, but they didn’t suffer actual persecution, they wouldn’t be “confessors” from my understanding.

If Henry VIII had just locked Thomas More in the tower of London, instead of have him decap’ed, he would have been a confessor instead of a martyr.
 
Oh, yeah, good point. I guess I was not being precise enough, not making distinction between the times being dangerous and the individual being in danger as a result of the statement. He got locked up for it, I guess I should have mentioned.
 
There are a lot of saints in history like that. But I am not quite knowldgeable about it, try my personal saint, St. Maria Goretti
 
No, Maria Goretti was from a big Italian family. That was why helping support her family as a servant was heroic.

Guys, most humans who ever lived were not only children. If you are not sure, they probably had siblings. And you not having heard of one is not evidence.
 
While not a male only child, I’m surprised no one mentioned Mother Mary. Tradition states she was an only child, right?
 
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