Who is your favorite saint?

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For me, praying to many saints is very comforting and knowing Jesus hears their intercessory prayers assures me that I’m never alone. Our Lady is my #1, I love the Rosary and Our Lady of Lourdes especially.
I also like angels, but this topic is for who your favorite saint is (not Mary or angels).
For me, it is…

St. Maria Goretti, because she was so young and came from a poor family but still trusted God 100% and did not give in to her attacker’s attempts at sexual assault. It is also so amazing how she had such forgiveness and love in her heart, even for the one who had killed her. I think she is a great role model for teen girls - as well as all women.
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I’m biased lol St. Joseph because he’s my patron saint. Also I was born in St. Joseph’s hospital lol.😃
 
It’s a tie with St. Anthony and St. Cecilia. The first never fails to find anything that I’ve lost (though some people have told me that St. Anthony won’t find anything for them!) and the second is the patroness of musicians, so an obvious choice for me.
 
St. Ignatius of Loyola-
his ***Spiritual Exercises ***changed my life! :getholy:
 
I’ve just started studying the saints, but so far, St. Dymphna. It’s not so much of an admiration, but I can relate to her very much. It doesn’t hurt that her relics are said to help cure epilepsy, which I have. I have a third class relic that I wear and I ask for her intercession. It comforts me greatly.

edited to add: this is a great idea for a thread! Thank you!
 
This is a difficult one for me. My patron Saint is Thomas Aquinas. I find myself drawn to Dominican Saints. But I have strong ties to several sainted Popes, Pius x, Leo, Pius ix through xii, and of course Mary.
 
It’s pretty much a tie between St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Dominic, for me. 🙂

On the one hand, St. Thomas shows me who I am, and he is the reason I converted from atheism by the head. Being a rather bookish person like Benedict XVI, and not a peopleish person like John Paul II, I find Aquinas’ personality and way of holiness very appealing. He convinced me that God exists, and that faith must be approached by reason - even if reason must be given up at some point in favour of faith. St. Thomas dispelled the notion in my head that God is just a bearded man, thus removing the ridiculous, anthropomorphic aspect I perceived in religious belief. In appealing to simple logic and the innocent human love of truth, he struck to my very core. Whenever I have trouble with something the Church teaches (and the Scripture has not convinced me), I go to the Summa Theologiae. Our Lord usually clears things up for me along those lines.

On the other hand… St. Dominic tells me who I should be, and is the reason I became a Christian by heart. This beautiful and amazing man ignited the whole of Southern France on fire with a spiritual fervor in God’s Name. He gave us the rosary devotion, and preached with such charitable love that it was almost beyond understanding. He loved his precious books, but when a famine broke out in Toulouse he sold all the painstakingly hand-written tomes, explaining: “a thousand dead skins and scripts are not worth one human soul”. He showed me that the way of poverty and true fiery love for God and all men is actually possible, and not just a dream. Dominic makes me want to be among the poor, because he shows me how poor I am without our Lord Jesus Christ.

I love St. Dominic because his life accuses me of my deficiencies, and I love St. Thomas because his life instructs me about my gifts. Both have prayed for me, there is no doubt, and continue to do so in that spirit of pure Charity which they hold together in Heaven under the sight of Majesty. I think Thomas “takes the cake” as my favourite saint, though, for being such a rigorous heresy-destroyer. 😉
 
St. Francis de Sales. I was drawn to him after reading Invitation to the Devout Life.
 
coconutty said:
For me, praying to many saints is very comforting and knowing Jesus hears their intercessory prayers assures me that I’m never alone. Our Lady is my #1, I love the Rosary and Our Lady of Lourdes especially.
I also like angels, but this topic is for who your favorite saint is (not Mary or angels).
For me, it is…

St. Maria Goretti, because she was so young and came from a poor family but still trusted God 100% and did not give in to her attacker’s attempts at sexual assault. It is also so amazing how she had such forgiveness and love in her heart, even for the one who had killed her. I think she is a great role model for teen girls - as well as all women.
Ora pro nobis, Nostrum Eternus Era!

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coconutty said:
For me, praying to many saints is very comforting and knowing Jesus hears their intercessory prayers assures me that I’m never alone. Our Lady is my #1, I love the Rosary and Our Lady of Lourdes especially.
I also like angels, but this topic is for who your favorite saint is (not Mary or angels).
For me, it is…

St. Maria Goretti, because she was so young and came from a poor family but still trusted God 100% and did not give in to her attacker’s attempts at sexual assault. It is also so amazing how she had such forgiveness and love in her heart, even for the one who had killed her. I think she is a great role model for teen girls - as well as all women.
That would be St. Paul of me. I was named after when Paul VI became pope. And I was just drawn to St. Paul.
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I can’t pick one. I have an ongoing relationship with St. John Vianney, Padre Pio, St. Theresa and St. Joseph. Understand that the Blessed Virgin is in a class by herself for me and I call upon her intercession at the conclusion of all prayer. My patron is Maria Goretti, and I am ashamed she doesn’t get called upon by me often. I shall remedy that. Oh, and I almost forgot, St. Francis de Sales, of course!!
 
Dominic, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Jordan of Saxony or, when I just want a little light-hearted relief, Simeon Stylites.
 
Wow - that’s tough. It’s like asking which of my children I love best. Impossible.

I can give you a list of my favorites right now (but it’s probably because there are so many I don’t know right now).

Current favorites:
Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St Philomena, St John Vianney, St Pius X, St Andre Bessette, St Dominic Savio, St John Bosco, St Faustina, St Augustine, St Therese of Lisieux, St Dominic, St Francis of Assisi, Padre Pio, St Catherine Laboure, St Monica.
 
I love St. Maria Goretti, because of how amazingly forgiving she was! I pray that I can be as forgiving as her! Other ones I really, really like are: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Margaret the Barefooted (obscure saint…), St. Therese of Lisieux, and St. Cecelia. They (and all the other saints) rock!
 
Our Lady
St Francis Of Assisi.
Padre Pio Of Pieltrecina
Holy Olaf II (He christened my country and made our church grow there)
St Hallvard
 
My favourite saints would have to be St Thomas the Apostle and St Thomas Beckett. The apostle because it goes to show that even the pessimistic can be brave and loyal. Even though he thought Jesus was doomed he still followed him and was willing to lay his life down for him. He helped me through a very black time in my life. I got a tattoo of him on my inner bicep. Beckett because he was a major party animal but once given the task of defending the word and kingdom of God, he stepped up and died for his faith. Also, none of this has to do with my name being Thomas…
 
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