What's a good Saint to choose?

Question

I need to choose a Saint to sponsor me in my upcoming Confirmation. There anme will be my middle name. I lke the anme Christiana, but does Christ count as a Saint? Or is there any other Saint's with that name? I need to write a full biography on them though, so I need information.

Answer 1

My Confirmation name is Francis...for several reasons...He is Patron of Animals, Patron of the Poor, and Patron of so many orders...also he is the patron of my Grandfather on my mother's side.

Christiana is a good name and if you look up St. Christiana on your search engine, you will find the following:

CHRISTIANA
Memorial 24 July
Profile Anglo-Saxon princess. Nun in Flanders.
Born 7th century England
Died Flanders, Belgium
Canonized Pre-Congregation
Patronage Termonde Belgium
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and then there is this:

Religious Fables, Folklore, Legends, and Stories


ST. ORINGA, OR CHRISTIANA, V. (1310.)
Submitted by Yuri Klitsenko, Russia


[Her life, from an ancient MS., in the Convent of S. Clara, at Florence, was published by Silvanus Razzi, and reprinted in the Acta Sanctorum.]

The Blessed Oringa was born at Sancta Croce, on the Arno, in the year 1237, of poor parents, who died whilst she was young. She kept the cattle on the farm occupied by her two brothers. The cows were taken by her into the woods to pasture, and they became so docile that they obeyed her voice in all things. When she grew to a marriageable age, her brothers determined that she should become the wife of a small farmer in the parish; but she ran away, and escaping across the river, made her way to Lucca.


The way was long, and night falling, the young girl lost the road, and wandered in a forest. At the same time her fancy conjured up horrible forms to frighten her. She would had died of terror, but for the companionship of a little hare which played about her skirts, as tamely as if it had been a favourite kitten, and rested on her lap all night, when she cast herself down in weariness. Next morning, the hare gamboled before her, and led her into the road, after which it ran away.


At Lucca she entered the service of a pious family. As she was annoyed on account of her beauty, she stained her skin with walnut juice. Having gone on a pilgrimage to Mount Gargano, on which the archangel Michael had once appeared, for she held the angels in great reverence; on her return, some men with whom she fell in on the road, towards dusk, misled her with evil purpose; but S. Michael himself flashing out of the darkness at her side, protected her, and led her in the right road.

Later in life she visited Rome, and took service in the house of a pious widow, named Margaret, who treated her as a daughter rather than as a domestic. At Rome she was called Christiana, instead of her baptismal name of Oringa. She occasionally fell into ecstasies as she prayed, and saw into futurity.

When aged seventy she was struck with paralysis, in which she lay three years. As she died, her face is said have shone with a celestial light.

~S Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints, January, London, Hodges 1872 p146-147



Good Luck and blessings to you on your up-coming confirmation

Bishop David Francis Milne DD

Answer 2

There's a saint Christina, if you like:

St. Christina was the daughter of a rich and powerful magistrate named Urbain. Her father, who was deep in the practices of heathenism, had a number of golden idols, which our saint destroyed, and distributed the pieces among the poor. Infuriated by this act, Urbain became the persecutor of his daughter. He had her whipped with rods and then thrown into a dungeon. Christina remained unshaken in her faith. Her tormentor then had her body torn by iron hooks, and fastened her to a rack beneath which a fire was kindled. But God watched over His servant and turned the flames upon the lookers-on. Christina was next seized, a heavy stone tied around her neck, and she was thrown into the lake of Balsena, but she was saved by an angel, and outlived her father, who died of spite. Later, this martyred suffered the most inhuman torments under the judge who succeeded her father, and finally was thrown into a burning furnace, where she remained, unhurt, for five days. By the power of Christ, she overcame the serpents among which she was thrown; then her tongue was cut out, and afterwards, being pierced with arrows, she gained the martyr's crown at Tyro, a city which formerly stood on an island in the lake of Balsena in Italy, but was long since swallowed up by the waters. Her relics are now at Palermo in Sicily.

Her feast day is July 24th.

Answer 3

I picked Anastasia, but to be honest, I don't remember a thing about her.

I only remember St. Dymphna.... she's the saint to protect those with mental illnesses. A girl I know picked that because she was going into psychology at Ohio State.

If you like Christina, go for it!

Answer 4

St Francis of Assisi's, he was a solitaire man, living in a cave able to communicate with nature and talk to the Animals. Been him self part of the Franciscan order.

Answer 5

drew brees is a good Saint to pick I think he will do well in the New Orleans type offense if they can get some pieces to put around him

Answer 6

I'd go with one of the New Orleans Saints.