Question regarding picking a Saint for Confirmation

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I’m going to be receiving my sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion, and Confirmantion in a few weeks on Easter Vigil @ my local church. I had a question regarding the task of finding a Saint for Confirmation…will anybody please give me some guidance on how to go upon accomplishing this or which websites or resources are available in finding one who I can relate to? I’ve looked into St. Rita of Cascia & St. Monica & even St. Theresa (little flower of Jesus) but I can’t quite make up my mind, simply because I haven’t found the information needed upon learning of the lives of the Saints (since every resource I try to find give me different or false information regarding the lives of the Saints)…any suggestions to helping me with this please? Very much appreciated. :o
 
You could read Butler’s Lives Of The Saints, which is reliable. Check your local library.

One way to pick a confirmation is to choose a saint that you’d like to be like, rather than one you can relate to – though that’s a good way to go about it.

Another way is to take your godparent’s name, if it is a Christian one, as your confirmation name, which is what I did. 🙂

Also note that you don’t have to pick a female saint name for your confirmation name. You can choose a male saint and just use the feminine version of it. For example, Paula for Paul; Frances for Francis.
 
Check out the info at the top of the CAF homepage under encyclopedia. All the info on Saints you will need.
 
Is there one who seems to be “following you around” - meaning, do you seem to hear a lot of interesting quotes from one particular Saint, all the time? She or he may be choosing you. 🙂
 
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Is there one who seems to be “following you around” - meaning, do you seem to hear a lot of interesting quotes from one particular Saint, all the time? She or he may be choosing you. 🙂
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Don’t overthink this. It’s a lovely custom and it’s good to take it seriously; but it’s not something to agonize about. All the saints love you; all your choices are equally good.

In the really old days, you usually picked your sponsor’s baptismal name to be your Confirmation name, so you were sharing a patron saint. It’s not a bad option.
 
There seems to be a main thread running through two out of those three. Maybe discerning what is calling you about these particular women may help you find the right Confirmation Saint for you.
 
Some people I know pick confirmation saints with whom they feel they have much in common. Some people’s choices are based on a simple liking of a particular saint’s name. Sometimes, one can pick a saint because of how different s/he is from oneself.

When I was in junior high, I picked up out of a pile a holy card of St. Therese the Little Flower at youth group. I had no idea who she was, nor did I have a devotion to any particular saint at the time. It was pretty much because I liked the picture. 🙂

I did read the blurb about her life on the back of the card, and found her rather interesting because she seemed so unlike me. A few years later, I chose her to be my confirmation saint, not so much because I thought we had a lot in common, but because the things about her that were different were things that I wanted to add to my own spiritual life.

As I have learned more about her, I have found that I relate to her better than I expected to, at least as far as faults go. Still working on the holiness bit. 🙂

As others have pointed out, you really can’t go wrong. They are all excellent patrons.
 
Splagchnizomai said:
You could read Butler’s Lives Of The Saints, which is reliable. Check your local library.

One way to pick a confirmation is to choose a saint that you’d like to be like, rather than one you can relate to – though that’s a good way to go about it.

Another way is to take your godparent’s name, if it is a Christian one, as your confirmation name, which is what I did. 🙂

Also note that you don’t have to pick a female saint name for your confirmation name. You can choose a male saint and just use the feminine version of it. For example, Paula for Paul; Frances for Francis.
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Or/and
Our sunday visitors Encyclopedia of saints

Saints for young readers for every day
 
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