Mine is St. Anthony of Padua, patron Saint of Lost Things and Miracles. When I converted I took him as my Confirmation name because the parish I went to in Boston as a student was a shrine to him. How about you? Non-Catholics with saints are encouraged to answer.
2007-02-27 06:44:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Camillus. When I was getting confirmed, I felt that St. Camillus' life had certain parallels to mine. He used to be a fighter, and had a lot of personal problems. He was a large, strong man and could get what he wanted through force. But his life was totally changed, and instead of fighting, he became a famous organizer of hospitals, and worked to heal people in both body and soul. At that point in my teens, I had a lot of problems, too, and got in plenty of fights. I was larger (taller, more muscular) than the majority of my classmates. So I picked a saint who was strong and who wasn't perfect by any means, but whose life was completely reformed by God. I wanted God to reform me like that, too.
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2007-02-27 07:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by solarius 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I was still Catholic, my patron saint was St. Thomas Aquinas, because I was determined to become an apologetist for the Roman Catholic Church and I viewed him as a powerful role model of that after having read the Summa Theologicae.
I still have high regards for hime though I no longer quite think him quite as thorough a thinker.
2007-02-27 06:48:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
St. Raphael the Archangel. Personal reasons.
2007-02-27 06:49:19 · answer #3 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No need of a "confirmation name"...
We don't have saints... any one who is a child of God... is a saint.... we are all special in the eyes of God.
2007-02-27 06:49:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋