Seeking a patron saint

[seekeroG]

Hi, I need advice on deciding a patron saint.

I am seeking for a male saint who is a people’s person. An outgoing, friendly and one who talks well.

Qualities which I am seeking after

Any male saints you guys have in mind?

 

[Fergal]

The one that comes to mind is St Josemaria Escriva.

Take a look here and read about his life. catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5603

 

[Saint_Gemma]

Hi, I need advice on deciding a patron saint.

I am seeking for a male saint who is a people’s person. An outgoing, friendly and one who talks well.

Qualities which I am seeking after

Any male saints you guys have in mind?

How about St. John Bosco or St. Dominic Savio?

 

[Metaron]

Hi, I need advice on deciding a patron saint.

I am seeking for a male saint who is a people’s person. An outgoing, friendly and one who talks well.

Qualities which I am seeking after

Any male saints you guys have in mind?

I would say our Lord’s earthly father, St.Joseph. He is the patron of manliness, fatherhood, masculinity, work-ethic, and… realtors! My mom’s an Emergent-Evangelical, and a realtor, and she has a little St.Joseph statue on her work desk.

Sorry to detract off topic, but is their a patron saint especially for obtaining conversion of non-Catholics to Catholicism?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hi, I need advice on deciding a patron saint.

I am seeking for a male saint who is a people’s person. An outgoing, friendly and one who talks well.

Qualities which I am seeking after

Any male saints you guys have in mind?

I have a particular prejudice about this, as I believe one’s patron saint has significance, and that the choice of them, even by parents when one is an infant, are not accidental.

But getting on topic, I can’t think of a more outgoing, friendly saint, or one who was better spoken than St. Thomas More. He even joked with his executioner. A couple of years ago, I attended a commencement at a Catholic law school. An extremely musically talented wife of a graduate arranged a choral rendition of St. Thomas More’s last letter to his daughter. You should look it up and read it. I’m a hard-bitten old guy, but it brought tears to my eyes. It really did. As More was an Englishman, his words (and ways of thinking, really) are much more accessible to us English speakers than is often the case with those who spoke other languages.

Anyway, that’s my thought. I wish you the best in your quest!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hmmmm! Looking at the last letter to his daughter, I think the lady extracted a great deal of it, and, as best I recall, added a portion of this statement Thomas More made to his family:

“It is now no mastery for you children to go to heaven. For everybody giveth you good counsel, everybody giveth you good example. You see virtue rewarded, and vice punished, so that you are carried up to heaven even by the chins. But if you live in the time, that no man will give you good counsel, nor no man will give you good example, when you shall see virtue punished, and vice rewarded, if you will then stand fast, and firmly stick to God upon pain of life, if you be but half good, God will allow you for whole good.”

Remember, More was the Chancellor of England; something like being Attorney General and Secretary of State at the same time. Pretty appropriate for graduating law students, I would say.

Not trying to oversell St. Thomas More to you, my friend, but you should Google “Thomas More” and “letter” and “daughter” and you will find a great number of his writings. As practical as an Englishman of affairs, and as holy as, well, a saint.