Story behind your confirmation name?

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Miserissima said:
I know two gentlemen whose confirmation names are both “Fabian.” No kidding…after the star.

I considered BrigidBrigid or Anne (since my parents made a pilgrimage to Ste Anne de Beaupre to pray for a baby --’ then I came along eight months later).

But a dear friend suggested St. Teresa of Avila, and said, “read up, and you’ll know why.” He was fairly confident, like he had been led to tell me about it.

Yep…because she had a quick wit and a smart mouth. She’s my gal, and I’m hers.
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St.Teresa of Avila is also my confirmation patron saint, but it was also my grandmother’s name (middle name from other grandmonther).

St.Teresa of Avila did have a bit of a smart mouth. One that I’ve heard is that she was having a rough time on a trip and home she went to the Chapel and said 'Lord, if this how You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!:" 🙂 😃
 
I chose the name “Agnes” at Confirmation (in case you couldn’t tell by my user name:p)

On a super basic level I liked the way her name sounded and liked the way she was depicted–with a lamb. This makes me think of being a lamb of God, our shepherd, and is really humbling.

On a deeper level, I thought that the way Agnes stood up to all the persecution against her belief in Christ and protection of her purity that eventually ended up with her dying for her faith was amazing. She was a lay person, and a young one at that, and still proclaimed her belief in Jesus even though it required enduring punishment. I thought that was an important attitude to our world today. She was a Christian when it was hard to be one, and so I shall be a Christian through all my struggles as well.
 
My confirmation name is “Pieta.” I chose this because my aunt was “Sister Pieta” while she was a nun. She was my sponsor.
 
Francis was my confirmation name. It was the name I wanted from the beginning because Francis/Frances is a family name on both sides of my family. I remember while studying for confirmation I read up on the saints and there were a few saints named Francis/Frances. I like them all but St Francis of Assisi was my favorite. I planning beforehand at the time of being confirmed to say St Francis of Assisi, … De Sales and …Xavier.

So came time of confirmation and the bishop ask the name and I just said “Francis” I remember the bishop saying there are many if them, which one? and I froze nervously and couldn’t say all that.
 
St. Francis and St. Faustina. My great-aunt had given me some religious material on the saints when I was first trying to become Catholic. She gave me booklets on St. Francis and then Sister Faustina. (St. Therese would’ve been a third, but I didn’t want to use too many names. :)) It would’ve been Faustina Francis Therese.
 
I think because Peter was the rock ? but it has served me as a reminder of the one true Church, later in life. St.Peter was quick to act without thinking or listening carefully then acting to quickly,matches me to a tee very often.

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on_the_hill said:
I thought it sounded cool.

A really insufficient reason, and one I wouldn’t pick again, but I’m stuck with it.

I’m the only person I’ve ever known to have picked it, so I won’t tell you what it is.
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Me too and me too! So glad I am not the only one. Ashamed of the reason for my choice now of course, and would put more thought behind it if I could do it again. By saying that however, I don’t want to give the impression that I am not grateful for assistance I may not be aware that I have received from my confirmation saint. 😊
 
I’m getting confirmed this November. I chose Saint Michael the Archangel, because I thought he was, you know, awesome. Being the lead angel and protector of the church and all, he’s awesome.
 
Jenny35 said:
Me too and me too! So glad I am not the only one. Ashamed of the reason for my choice now of course, and would put more thought behind it if I could do it again. By saying that however, I don’t want to give the impression that I am not grateful for assistance I may not be aware that I have received from my confirmation saint. 😊
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A on_the_hill and Jenny:

Look at it this way…if you really are the only one around to pick that name., you’ve got someone on your case full time! Not like the bazillions who chose Patrick! LOL
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Some of those popular saints must be really overworked. J/k
 
BeetleJuice said:
I’m getting confirmed this November. I chose Saint Michael the Archangel, because I thought he was, you know, awesome. Being the lead angel and protector of the church and all, he’s awesome.
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Yes, an awesome patron. We had a beloved and very amazing Monsignor, whose first name was Michael. Everyone wanted to name their baby after him. He would always say: thank you so much, I’m flattered, but just know, since Michael kicked the butt of the prince of lies…he tends to harass all Michaels. I always thought that was a funny story.
I like your choice! God bless you!
 
David because at the age at which I was confirmed, I was still in elementary school and now that I look back on it I wasn’t even sure at that age what I was getting into. I don’t know why the Church confirmed kids at such a young age back then. But I remember just liking the story of David vs Goliath.
 
My confirmation saint is St. Elisabeth of Hungary. I don’t have as much of a deep and emotional story as some people here do. I was baptized Catholic but grew up in a mostly non-religious household, so by the time of my confirmation, I knew very few saints. I knew the most famous ones, St. Mary of course, St. Joseph, the apostles - mostly just the names you pick up while reading the gospels - but I never felt much of a relation towards any of them. Besides them, the only one I knew was St. Elisabeth, because my middle name is Elisabeth and I honestly always felt more connection to my middle name than my first name, so you could say that St. Elisabeth and I clicked (at first) on a shared-name basis.

In addition, the only saints I had ever prayed to were St. Mary and St. Elisabeth. I didn’t really know any other saints, not well enough to pray to anyways. And with my confirmation a week away, I didn’t want to search through the archives of thousands of saints on the off chance that I made a better connection than I already had with St. Elisabeth of Hungary. I wanted her to be my confirmation saint. And so now she is. And I am truly happy <3
 
I chose Viviana because I thought it was a really cool, exotic sounding name, and I’d always hated my birth name – Linda – because it seemed so plain (I later legally changed my name!). I knew exactly nothing about St. Viviana at the time.

A friend of mine chose Abraham for his confirmation name because Abraham was the first name on the boys’ list of Saints names, and he didn’t want to fuss over it.

Ah, the joys of American Catholicism in the late 1970s and early 80s…::rolleyes:

God bless you all!

Gertie
 
I love Joseph. What an example of a man.

My confirmation name is Magdalene.

I love that name and the sound of it.
I had my confirmation as an adult at 18 yrs old at the request of my father primarily.

Now I am so glad I had it and now I see the work of the Holy Spirit in me.

My first name means miracle.
My whole name is Mary of the Miracles and my confirmation name is Magdalene

So my whole name is Mary of the Miracles Magdalene… can’t get more Catholic than that…
 
Mine is Nicholas. I was never moved by a religion until I went to a Catholic high school and fell in love with the faith ( I still believe it was God’s arrangement ). I was baptized ( they also do confirmation at the same time) by one of my theology teacher-he is also an Eastern priest. I choose the name Nicholas just admiring his charity and generosity for the poors. Surprisely, the priest told me that St. Nicholas is also the patron of Eastern Church!
 
Me and my most of my class picked St. Declan since we are from the village that he lived in and since we heard his name so much he was the Saint that came to mind. Here in Ireland you get Communion(aged 8) and Confirmation(aged 11 I think) with your school(I’m talking about public schools) because the Catholic Church paid for most the schools or something like that. Most schools have the local priest in the council and he gives the pupil’s confessions yearly. And we have graduation masses instead of just graduation like in secular countries. I went really off topic there but I wanted to explain what I meant by “my class” since in most countries you wouldn’t do it with your school class.
 
I chose St. Patrick.
In hindsight, the reason was quite shallow, my dad is Irish and so I picked it for purely that reason; although, after my Confirmation I did a lot of research about St. Patrick and he is such an inspiration to me and I do not regret choosing him ONE BIT.
 
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