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I chose my bffs name. Then we asked if it were the name of a Saint
 
Usige said:
I didn’t use a “confirmation name”, but was rather confirmed with my given name which was also my baptismal.
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This is my case as well, though for a different reason: I was confirmed when I was an infant and in no position to make decisions for myself 😉
 
Francis.

Why?

Everything about his humble love for God and others as beautifully reflected here:

"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life."
 
Lee after St. Leo the Great. We studied about him in elementary school, and He was the saint that explained the Incarnation, and Christ’s 2 natures. He also wrote about the permanency of the Catholic church. He was very good with dealing with heretics, and he successfully negotiated with Atilla the Hun.
 
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I chose Lea at random, really. I picked the name, saw that there was a Saint with that name and I took it. I wasn’t really into my faith then and I just wanted a short name. Unfortunately there isn’t much known about her so I kind of regret choosing that name

And then later on I realized I had some sort of weird connection with Leah (Rachel and Leah), but I don’t know if there’s anything to do with that at all.
 
I am asking everyone and I omitted saying who mine was, sorry about that. My confirmation name is Maria after Maria Goretti, I remembered when Sister told us her story in school . She forgave the person who attacked and stabbed her, she died of her wounds. He gave a testament at her inquiry process for he was repentant. I went to St.Maria Gorettii high school she is much in my life and I think II have just answered a question that I am trying to resolve’ Thank you again St, Maria Goretti
 
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I chose St. Francis because he gave everything he had to serve God and help the poor. An inspiration for us all in this materialistic world we live in today.
 
I chose John at the request of my mother.

My mother considered naming me John but she had a cousin by that name so she chose a different name for me.
 
I’ve never been confirmed, but if I were, I’ve always thought I would choose Bernadette. Lourdes has always spoken very loudly to me, and St Bernadette’s humility is very appealing.
 
Xanthippe – Don’t be too sure that you don’t have a Christian given name, whatever your actual given name might be. There are some pretty darned obscure sources for saints’ names out there, and saints come from all over the world!

Heck, there’s a Saint Xanthippe or Xantippe of Spain (Sept. 23), who traditionally was one of St. Paul’s female disciples along with her husband, St. Probus, and her sister, St. Polyxena. Their written Acts are old but apparently are one of those early Christian historical novels. Still, they got into the Roman and Greek martyrologies; so they probably were real people, even if the story isn’t entirely.

(Of course, everybody thinks of the famous Xanthippe, who was Socrates’ justifiably peevish wife.)

My confirmation name was Sheila (or Sile, if you like Irish spelling), for St. Cecilia. I had some silly and some good reasons, but she puts up with me.
 
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Xanthippe – Don’t be too sure that you don’t have a Christian given name, whatever your actual given name might be. There are some pretty darned obscure sources for saints’ names out there, and saints come from all over the world!

Heck, there’s a Saint Xanthippe or Xantippe of Spain, who traditionally was one of St. Paul’s female disciples along with her husband, St. Probus, and her sister, St. Polyxena. Their written Acts are old but apparently are one of those early Christian historical novels. Still, they got into the Roman and Greek martyrologies; so they probably were real people, even if the story isn’t entirely.

(Of course, everybody thinks of the famous Xanthippe, who was Socrates’ justifiably peevish wife.)

My confirmation name was Sheila (or Sile, if you like Irish spelling), for St. Cecilia. I had some silly and some good reasons, but she puts up with me.
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Xanthippe is actually a character name on a TV show. I refuse to share my legal given name on the internet (safety 101) is completely pagan in origin and has no saint, no matter how you stretch, skew or hang it. None of the versions in any culture have a saint of that name, nor does the name it derives from.

So, yeah, not given a Christian name and was not given a patron saint at baptism.
 
Well, that’s unfortunate. I guess you’ll have to be the saint for the name! Heh! No pressure!

And whatever it is (I totally understand why you’d keep your name off the Internet!), it has to be better than some of those early Christian names, like “Sterquilinus,” little dungheap (a common Christian man’s name, given either to honor the Roman god of manure and feces by pagan farmer parents, or by Christians who rescued him off a latrine pile as an abandoned baby left to die).

Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar’s two volumes of A Dictionary of Saintly Women are excellent for obscure female names and obscure sources, especially since it’s much easier to follow footnotes in an age of digitized research libraries. But there really are an amazing number of weird real saint names. And since many of them were converted pagans, tons of their names are super-pagan, too. So you have company. 🙂

Cataloging saints and blesseds really is like cataloging the stars, and not even the Bollandists seem to have tabulated all the pre-Conciliar saints. But of course, only God knows all the saints’ names!
 
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Well, that’s unfortunate. I guess you’ll have to be the saint for the name! Heh! No pressure!

And whatever it is (I totally understand why you’d keep your name off the Internet!), it has to be better than some of those early Christian names, like “Sterquilinus,” little dungheap (a common Christian man’s name, given either to honor the Roman god of manure and feces by pagan farmer parents, or by Christians who rescued him off a latrine pile as an abandoned baby left to die).

Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar’s two volumes of A Dictionary of Saintly Women are excellent for obscure female names and obscure sources, especially since it’s much easier to follow footnotes in an age of digitized research libraries. But there really are an amazing number of weird real saint names. And since many of them were converted pagans, tons of their names are super-pagan, too. So you have company. 🙂

Cataloging saints and blesseds really is like cataloging the stars, and not even the Bollandists seem to have tabulated all the pre-Conciliar saints. But of course, only God knows all the saints’ names!
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When I was frustrated and upset by my lack of Catholic heritage, despite being born into a “Catholic” family and being baptized Catholic —and because my adopted parents refused to let me change my name (I was a teen adoptee)-- I felt very cheated. I was angry about it. The Lifeteen priest told me just that. “Well, I guess we have a saint in the making–you’ll have to be the saint that glorifies your name!”

It’s a rare name, not a terrible name, but one without Christain merit. For a while I searched high and low for something to relate to my name but never got anything. I’ve come to peace with it, but still very much am saddened by the fact that I had no patron in my early life. I do count St. Kateri as my patron and believe that she took me under her wing for many reasons…far before I ever even knew about her.
 
Joan of Arc. I was really fascinated by her story when I was younger, and decided at age 10 that she would be my Confirmation saint. I was confirmed as a junior in high school (which was the normal age of Confirmation in the rural area where I grew up). As I got older, I really came to appreciate her as so much more, having almost been a mystic in the visions that she received. She showed a lot of courage and strong will in the face of danger and doubt, traits that I would like to mirror.
 
I chose Mark, after the Evangelist, but also for a childhood friend, a neighbor whom I went to school with. His mother also suggested my middle name, Gerard, to my mother before I was born (my mom had miscarried twice before I was born, and St. Gerard is the patron of difficult pregnancies).
 
Am I the only one here who doesn’t remember? I don’t remember anything at all about my Confirmation.
 
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