Saint of your birthday

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St. Thomas Aquinas is mine, and I’ve always felt particularly blessed by that happy little coincidence. ❤️
 
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There are only a few for my birthday and I haven’t heard of any of them… and I don’t know my date of baptism *sigh
 
My birthday saint is St.John the baptist, but as I wasn´t baptized back then I chosed Saint Olga of Kiev.
 
It means that the saint of that day can hear more readily your prayers if you pray to him/her. But the saint whose name you bear from Baptism is more powerful over you, because it is more important when you enter the Church of God than the moment of your physical birth. Unless you’re born and baptized the same day and then… lucky you!
 
I think that would be on file at the Parrish of your confirmation.
 
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I mean date of baptism. Not necessarily conformation date. If you know
the Parish you were baptized in that should have record.
 
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I was asked at confirmation if I wanted a name. Spiritual name I now know. I just went by my actual name. I was Baptized and confirmed at the same time coming in through RCIA. None of my family is/was Catholic and I decided to go to RCIA. If I was going to do it, I was going to do it right was my opinion.
 
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I picked St. Joan of Arc for my patron saint at confirmation (I was baptized in the Methodist Church).

The saint whose feast day falls on my birthday is St. Germaine, who has a sad but lovely story.
 
I was born on St.Dominic’s feast day. ☺️
I hope he looks out for me this year, because my birthdays are usually terrible.
 
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Mnohaya lita! Ad multos Annos! Many years!

(Slavonic, Latin & English respectively)
 
True story: St. Padre Pio was baptized on his birthday (May 25) which is the Feast of the Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Baptist. He passed away Sept. 23, the Feast of the Conception of St. John the Baptist.
 
My birthday is April 12. Is there a Saint for that day? 2 years of my life ( I am 30) my birthday has been on Easter Sunday. I will get to experience it only one more time in my lifetime in a few years.
 
The feast of St. Ann is July 25 on the Byzantine calendar and July 26 on the Latin calendar as well as Sept. 9th which includes St. Joachim as well. You get 3 days to celebrate!
 
The saint book I got for Confirmation had the old calendar saints day by day, and I must confess I was never terribly moved by the most prominent one whose day was my birthday (sorry St. P). The new calendar, however, has a whole bunch of saints on my day whose stories have fascinated me for quite some time since I was bumbling around Wikipedia and read them in the night. Namely, the North American Martyrs, a group of Jesuits who were all killed by Native Americans, primarily Iroquois. Several were slowly tortured to death and a few more, including St. Isaac Jogues, were killed mercifully fast; however, Jogues had been tortured for years prior, and just didn’t die of it. The stories of their deaths are right up there with the Native Americans torturing Daniel Boone’s son and his buddy to death. Probably not the greatest stuff to be reading at 4 in the morning, but I read a lot of gory stuff.
 
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The saint book I got for Confirmation had the old calendar saints day by day, and I must confess I was never terribly moved by the most prominent one whose day was my birthday (sorry St. P). The new calendar, however, has a whole bunch of saints on my day whose stories have fascinated me for quite some time since I was bumbling around Wikipedia and read them in the night. Namely, the North American Martyrs, a group of Jesuits who were all killed by Native Americans, primarily Iroquois. Several were slowly tortured to death and a few more, including St. Isaac Jogues, were killed mercifully fast; however, Jogues had been tortured for years prior, and just didn’t die of it. The stories of their deaths are right up there with the Native Americans torturing Daniel Boone’s son and his buddy to death. Probably not the greatest stuff to be reading at 4 in the morning, but I read a lot of gory stuff.
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I had never heard of St Isaac Jogues until my friend told me about him after I lost my index finger in an accident (an accident, by the way, that had nothing to do with suffering for the faith). He is one of my favorites now!
 
There is a St. Isaac Jogues church in this area that has a statue of him out front giving the blessing with his hand missing the fingers. If I hadn’t read the story on him I would have just thought the statue was broken or was “artistically” representing (it’s in a slightly modern style).

There was a story about him in my Catholic reader in grade school, but it was way, way, way expurgated. I did not realize everything he went through until I happened to read the Wiki article on him. The story of St. Jean de Brebeuf is way worse.
 
😱 Just read about the martyrdom of St Jean de Brebeuf – holy cow!
 
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