Saints question

[caleb83]

I didn’t know where to post so I just picked one. I want to find out about converts to Catholicism, not raised Catholic, or not raised Christian, or who especially atheist,

Who became saints.

I have read so much about saints and so much about them I just can’t relate to because they seem to have a solid background in their upraising and culture that is SO different from me.

The only saint I have studied who relates in his life story is Augustine.

Any saint experts?

 

[Trishie]

St Edith Stein was German-Jewish. In 1922, she converted to Christianity and was baptized into the Catholic Church, much to her Jewish mother’s distress. She joined the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was taken from the convent because of her Jewish birth and killed at Auschwitz on August 9, 1942.
She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by Pope John Paul II in 1998. She’s usually known as “Saint Edith Stein”.

 

[Trishie]

St Elizabeth Seton was raised in the Episcopal Church. She married a wealthy businessman and gave birth to five children When her husband died she came in contact with a Catholic family. Within two years, she converted to Catholicism, thus losing the support of disappointed friends and family. To support her children she set up a school in Baltimore which failed due to anti-catholic bigotry. Eventually she established a community in Maryland for children of the poor, the first free school in America. She thus helped to establish the first religious community of apostolic women founded in the United States.

She set up St. Joseph’s Academy and Free School in order to educate young girls to live by Christian values. She struggled with others’ misunderstandings and conflicts, and the deaths of two daughters and family, and young sisters in community. She died of tuberculosis at age 46 in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

 

[Trishie]

The apostles that Jesus chose of course weren’t raised as Christians. They were Jewish. They provide a variety of saints. St John is ‘the beloved" who rested hhis head against Jesus at the Last Supper. St Peter was the outspoken, big-hearted, bumblingly human man. He put his foot in things sometimes, he let Jesus down at the worst time of Jesus’ life, but Jesus forgave all…and still gave him the vocation He intended for him.