Which saint is practiced the most simplicity

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What do you mean by simple? A saint that had a simplistic lifestyle? A saint that practiced simple theology?

The Marian Fabian Windeatt books are excellent storytelling of saints. A few are simple and written for children but quite a few are more advanced. Yet they are all very straightforward, well-written tellings of saints lives. In a word, simple.

I liked “Saints Behaving Badly” for stories of saints that had wild pasts and turned to God.
 
I think St. Therese of Lisieux, as was already mentioned by littlesoul. 🙂
 
Simple can mean a lot of things, but maybe you would like the Capuchin Friar Solanus Casey, who will be beatified this November in Detroit. He had so much difficulty with his priestly training, he was finally ordained as a “simplex priest,” able to say Mass but not able to hear confessions or preach sermons. He spent most of his life as a porter, or doorkeeper, at Franciscan friaries in New York, yet he touched many lives in this humble capacity. The book “God’s Doorkeepers” tells his story, as well as Saints Andre Bessette and Padre Pio.
 
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St. Francis & St. Clare, they both gave up a material life for a life of austerity.
 
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Simplicity is a hallmark of all great saints, I suppose.

But I have my favorites!

A lesser known saint I’m devoted to is quite a gem. St Germaine Cousin. I am tempted to post her image, as well, but if you feel led, look her up. She’s great. Very simple. A shepherdess.
 
St. Benedict Joseph Labre, Patron of the Homeless, Franciscan tertiary .
 
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That sounds interesting. A saint that doesn’t brood, dwell or think too much.
 
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That sounds interesting. A saint that doesn’t brood, dwell or think too much.
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I’m not sure you’re going to find one. Most saints got to where they were because they were very mindful of God and how to best serve Him.
 
A saint that is not too mystically bent. I have read much about the saints.
 
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A saint that is not too mystically bent. I have read much about the saints.
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🤨 How can one read “too much” about the saints but yearn for more? Do you mean that you read too much into the innerworkings of their hearts?

Saints are people, humans with the same thoughts, flaws and foibles as the rest of us. For a vast number of modern saints–say 1700’s and onwards we have preserved many of their writings that show that they are very much the same as each one of us. Yet each and every one had a mystical encounter or a great revelation or a “conversation” with God that lead them to do amazing things on earth.

It’s only the ancient saints–the martyers and the first missionaries–that we know little. However, they are probably just as complicated, if not more so, than the saints who’s writings give us insight into the complications of being a Catholic in an ever-changing world.
 
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