Saints that converted to christianity

[nMbR1BaRlOwGiRl]

I’m trying to help my sister choose a confirmation name. She said she is looking for a saint that was struggling in their faith or had no faith at all, and then somehow converted to Christianity. (She’s looking for female saints)

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
-Jaclyn

 

[Sunflake9]

St. Teresa Benedicta

She lost faith in Judaism by age 13. Converted in 1922.
Hope this helps:thumbsup:

 

[PhanxicoXavier]

Hi,

I am sorry I don’t know of any female saints that converted to Catholicism, but I think that your sister might enjoy reading “The New Glories of the Catholic Church” – which contains many edifying stories about martyrs of Asia - both male and female…

vanitasomnia.blogspot.com/2009/07/very-good-book.html

 

[Cider]

St Helena, newadvent.org/cathen/07202b.htm

 

[judechild]

I think St. Theresa of Avila struggled for a little while (maybe not with faith, but with “worldliness”).

 

[CB_Catholic]

I’m trying to help my sister choose a confirmation name. She said she is looking for a saint that was struggling in their faith or had no faith at all, and then somehow converted to Christianity. (She’s looking for female saints)

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
-Jaclyn

How about looking in the New Testament for the names of the Christian women who are mentioned, such as in the Acts of The Apostles or in St. Paul’s epistles. They were all converts in those early days.

 

[Linda_Marie]

From the Patron Saints Index:

Saints who were converts
saints.sqpn.com/saints-who-were-converts/

Saints mentioned in the New Testament
saints.sqpn.com/saints-mentioned-in-the-new-testament/

 

[FCEGM]

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is one such Saint.

 

[Claire_from_DE]

St. Teresa Benedicta

She lost faith in Judaism by age 13. Converted in 1922.
Hope this helps:thumbsup:

Since her name before becoming a nun was Edith Stein, Edith would be a possible name also.

 

[Claire_from_DE]

Or maybe ‘Rose’.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S Puritan ancestors settled in New England with the hope of cleansing the Anglican Church of any Roman Catholic taint. They would have been appalled to hear that one of their own had converted to Catholicism, let alone become a candidate for sainthood. And yet in February, Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York began canonization proceedings for Hawthorne’s daughter, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. She became a Catholic in 1891, and-with the assistance of Alice Huber, an art student-began caring for terminal cancer patients in a three-room tenement flat on Mott Street in New York.

 

[Chatter163]

St. Augustine. Female forms of this name would include Augusta or Augustina, though nothing prevents a female from using the male version.

 

[ora_pro_nobis]

How about St Margaret Clitherow, one of the English Martyrs. She was a convert at the age of 18 and was a great help to persecuted priests. She was arrested for harbouring priests and, refusing to plead, she was pressed to death.
What has always attracted me to this saint is her ordinariness - a married woman with a family, living an ordinary life and living her faith in the face of terrible persecution. She refused to plead because she knew that if there was a trial her children would be brought in to testify and she did not want to put them in that position.

 

[GeorgeSword]

Perhaps St. Mary Magdalene?

 

[mswood]

What about St. Monica, while not a convert she is known for her years of prayers for her sons conversion. She prayed for her son St. Augustine’s conversion for 17 years before he converted.