Saints of Your Nationality

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I’m Slovenian, so Blessed Anton Martin Slomsek, bishop of Maribor who died in 1862 and was beatified in 1999, is a good choice.

I’m also English and German, so St. Boniface, the English Benedictine who became known as the Apostle to the Germans is a good saint to cover both of those.
 
We Australians only have one saint and I have forgotten her name. Some nun who had been excommunicated for insubordination which is very Australian. We have great devotion to her. Just wish I could remember who she was.
 
For most folks on CAF, the only answers would be Mother Cabrini and Elisabeth Ann Seton.

I am a second / third generation child of immigrants; my nationality is a citizen of the USA.

As Roosevelt said, there is “no room for hyphenayed Americanism.”

As one Catholic people who share in the entirety of the Communion of Saints, there is no reason to pick a saint based on national identity when most, if not all US Citizens are immigrants or children of immigrants.
 
Miserissima said:
For most folks on CAF, the only answers would be Mother Cabrini and Elisabeth Ann Seton.

I am a second / third generation child of immigrants; my nationality is a citizen of the USA.

As Roosevelt said, there is “no room for hyphenayed Americanism.”

As one Catholic people who share in the entirety of the Communion of Saints, there is no reason to pick a saint based on national identity when most, if not all US Citizens are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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I don’t think it’s wrong to feel about our own heritage even as we are native born americans… It’s kind of cool to look into our past…I’m a daughter of the American revolution and some Irish folks! so I have to watch out for too much exposure to the sun… hehe…

How about St. Kateri Tekakwitha?
 
Karen107 said:
I don’t think it’s wrong to feel about our own heritage even as we are native born americans… It’s kind of cool to look into our past…I’m a daughter of the American revolution and some Irish folks! so I have to watch out for too much exposure to the sun… hehe…

How about St. Kateri Tekakwitha?
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Agreed.

Ethnic / racial / cultural heritage is not nationality.
 
Petaro said:
We Australians only have one saint and I have forgotten her name. Some nun who had been excommunicated for insubordination which is very Australian. We have great devotion to her. Just wish I could remember who she was.
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ST MARY MACKILLOP! how could you forget? 😮
 
Karen107 said:
I don’t think it’s wrong to feel about our own heritage even as we are native born americans… It’s kind of cool to look into our past…I’m a daughter of the American revolution and some Irish folks! so I have to watch out for too much exposure to the sun… hehe…
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I agree 100%
 
Miserissima said:
For most folks on CAF, the only answers would be Mother Cabrini and Elisabeth Ann Seton.

I am a second / third generation child of immigrants; my nationality is a citizen of the USA.

As Roosevelt said, there is “no room for hyphenayed Americanism.”

As one Catholic people who share in the entirety of the Communion of Saints, there is no reason to pick a saint based on national identity when most, if not all US Citizens are immigrants or children of immigrants.
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I PROUDLY identify myself as Italian-American and will do so until the day I die!
 
Greek Saints: Hundreds, if not thousands.
American Saints (from the United States; I don’t think it’s fair to consider Saint Peter the Aleut or Saint Herman of Alaska as an American as I mean it): Saint Raphael of Brooklyn, Saint Aleksei, Saint Vasily Martysz, Saint John Kochurov, Saint John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco, Saint Nikolaj Velimirović, Saint Seraphim of Uglich, Saint Tikhon of Moscow, Saint Barnabas the New Confessor, Saint Anatole Kamensky of Irkutsk, and Saint Oleksandr Hotovitzky. Some Saints who predated the Alaska Purchase include: Saint Peter the Aleut, Saint Herman of Alaska, Saint Innocent of Alaska, Saint Jacob Netsvetov of the Aleutians, and Saint Juvenaly of Alaska. If Saint Brendan ever did make it to America, I guess he double counts for me because my Father is Irish-American.
 
I am Italian, it would take some time 😃

But I would mention S. padre Pio, S. Francis of Assisi, S. John XXIII, S. Catherine of Siena, S. Giovanni Bosco, s. Domenico Savio, … Sorry if I don’t always translate the italian names.
 
Pax Christi!

Poland has been graced with St. Hedwig, St. Hyacinth (who walked on water TWICE), St. Faustina, and that Pope that brought down the Iron Curtain.

Since JP II there haven’t been many Polish jokes going around, seems to me.

Yah, I Polack-Merican!

God bless.
 
Just Saint Mary of the Cross; although I do love her, I feel more affinity for the saints from my ancestral homelands; the Venerable Bede, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Saint Simon Stock in particular.
 
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
In 1221 Elizabeth was married to Louis of Thuringia.
She built the Franciscan hospital at Marburg.
She devoted herself to the care of the sick until her death at the age of 24 in 1231.
Elizabeth was canonized by Pope Gregory IX.
 
Excuse if this is a repost because my PC just went ballistic and I lost the page I was on. So, here goes again: I am of Polish and Italian decent, with my father being Polish and, obviously, my mother being Italian. I was once told I should join a Polish church because that’s where my heritage is. I said something like “Why, I am Roman Catholic and happy with where I go to church now.” (Many years later I happened to visit the Shrine/Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Pennsylvania, which, by the way, is an exact duplicate of what they (the Polish people) built in Poland – very stunning, too.) Years after that, I signed up for a trip to the Shrine of Mother Cabrini in NYC and was asked right off the bat about my last name which is Polish. (What if I marred a Polish man or was adopted by a Polish family???) I explained that I am half Italian from my mother’s side. I was told that Mother Cabrini is an Italian saint and that the Mass at the shrine will be in Italian. I responded that a Mass in any language is still a valid Mass and the saints are for everybody!! I was asked by Irish people why I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with me saying “He’s still a Catholic saint and I am Catholic!!” I feel that too many ethnic groups grab hold of the saints who share the ethnicity as only theirs and selfishly do not “share the saints” with others and totally miss what the saints have taught us and what messages the saints leave us as how to live our lives! So, in conclusion, I repeat emphatically in capital letters: THE SAINTS ARE FOR EVERYBODY!
 
Saint Laszlo (Laszlo I)
Code: 
 Saint Laszlo was the son of King Bela I of Hungary.      
  Laszlo was elected King of Hungary by the nobles in 1077. He reigned until 1095.        
 He encouraged Christian missionaries and built many churches.
 
Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242-1271)
Code: 
  Margaret was the daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary.       
 She became a Dominican novice at twelve in a royal convent built on an island in the Danube River.
 
Saint Emeric (Saint Imre) of Hungary

Saint Emeric (1007-1031) was the son of King Stephen I and Giselle of Bavaria.
His feast day is November 5.
 
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