What's your Confirmation Name?

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John, for St. John of God. He was a soldier, and a patron Saint for Depression. He was a Spanish soldier for many years, but at age 40 started to consider the sinful life he had led. He was hospitalized in a mental hospital for publicly beating himself. He committed his life to helping the sick poor, initially begging for money, when people saw the good work he was doing and money and provisions started coming in to support his cause. After his death his followers formed the Brothers Hospitallers, a religious order.
 
Cool! I’m going to be Confirmed this spring and and I’m probably going to choose Cecilia as my Confirmation name as well. I’m a pianist, although that’s quite evident given my username. 🎹🎶😃
 
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I was confirmed at age 3 and my husband was as 2. We weren’t given saint names other than our baptismal names. That still isn’t a tradition where we are each from as far as I know. My nieces and nephews were all raised here and were all told to pick a saint. Some even has to write a report about their chosen saint.
 
I was confirmed in 1960 or 61 and it wasn’t the custom in our area to choose a Confirmation name. In fact, my two oldest were confirmed and my goddaughter was confirmed with me as her sponsor and I still hadn’t heard of this custom.

It wasn’t until 1998 when I got involved in sacramental preparation that that custom crossed my radar. And that was when parents were told the kids were to be confirmed under their baptismal names and one mom got very upset.
 
Anne.

My father chose it for me. There was never a question about what I would choose as he told me that was it. I was 12. I did not even think to ask why I couldn’t pick who I wanted.

It was the late 60s. We still had nuns at our parish running CCD. She said everyone was to pick a saints name and write it on this little card she gave us. I remember her going down the line until she came to this one girl. She took the card from her, read it silently, and announced for all of us to hear: "There.is.no.St.Christy."
 
St. Joseph!

He’s the patron of my home Diocese, Patron of those who fight against communisim and against abortion, patron of Civil Engineers (my profession), and has “travel” listed and I commute a lot for work.

Just somehow always knew who my confirmation saint was, long before being confirmed
 
John.

Suggested by my mother.

I would have been named John except that there was already a John in the family.
 
St. Andrew the Apostle, because his first name is my middle name. That’s it.

The decision was made years before I became serious about my faith.
 
Bernadette after St Bernadette of Lourdes - I found her fascinating especially that she saw Mary from what I recall anyway but to be honest I had a friend when I was younger and my mom tells me she thinks it was part in memory of her (we moved away). Her name was Bernadine.
 
Theresa, or maybe it was spelled Teresa. I contacted the church I went to while growing up but the didn’t have a record of the spelling. It was my moms first name, but she spelled it both ways.
 
At 12-13 yrs. old when the good Sister asked what name I wanted I told her Donald because it was the name of my friend. Sister vetoed that and gave me, to my forever joy, the name Francis after the poor one of Assisi.
 
Jude the Apostle. I admit that I didn’t put much thought into my saint when I was a kid, but I still feel a connection to the patron of lost causes.
 
Hello. My confirmation name is Frances. I had my confirmation on the 9th of March, the feast day of St Frances of Rome. Thanks.
 
I’ve not heard of that. My given name is also the name of several saints so I might have been ok with that.
 
Vincent. I picked it primarily because that was the name of my Uncle, who is also my Godfather and my Confirmation sponsor.

But also due to St. Vincent Pallotti. There is a house of Irish Pallottine priests near our family home. They were good friends with my parents, and were often over for dinner and family events. The tales they told of their mission work in Africa was very exciting and inspiring to me. It was a large influence on why I am still involved with the Pallottines today, and do mission work in Africa myself.
 
St. Monica, patron of mothers of prodigal children and difficult husbands. Mother of St. Augustine. She spent years praying and crying for the conversion of her son - and also spent years of long suffering dealing with her angry pagan husband and his mother (who also lived with them!)

It was another situation of being “chosen” by her, rather then choosing … and it wasn’t until years later as my children grew to adulthood that I realized, as you would assume, St. Monica knew I’d need her help along that difficult path!
 
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