What female saint is a role model to women?

Question

I am doing an assignment on saints for religion and I was wondering if anyone knew of a saint that is or was a role model for all women. If you can also write why that would be appreciated but you don't have to :)

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*Also must be Catholic

Answer 1

i'm a fan of st cecelia. she was a young girl tragically murdered for standing up for God. she was also a virgin so if that's something you're struggling with - she's a good role model.

Answer 2

The present day Saint is the hugging saint Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. She cannot be treated as a role model because she is extraordinary. To reach her state of achievement is a Himalayan task. There are days when she went on hugging and consoling people for more than 26 hours without moving from her seat. Details about her can be got from www.amritapuri.org.

She is a living miracle. Kindly do not call her a Hindu because she has gone beyond all religions and with the same love accepts everyone and consoles them and helps them to solve their problems in life by helping them change their attitudes.

Answer 3

The only one I can think of is Saint Bridget. Of course there is a lot of debate over that because of the fact that it is unclear if she was ever a real person or if the Church "adopted" her from the British Goddess Bridget when they were converting Great Brittan from paganism to Christianity.

Regardless She makes an excellent role model for women.

Answer 4

saint comes from sanctifide by God all christians should be saints the way the catholic church uses the term is an insult if a pope is not knowing God ( a saint) while alive what hope has he after death.

Answer 5

As far as I am concerned they all are,but Mary the Mother of Jesus is the greatest of them all.
www.catholic.org/saints

Answer 6

I love saint uncumber : http://tse.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstr...




Uncumber is the name of a legendary, androgynous saint, prayed to in many Western European countries. She is usually depicted crucified and wearing a full beard.

Of the myriad saints in Catholicism, perhaps none is stranger than Uncumber. Neither historical nor official, this legendary personage, originally known as St. Wilgefortis, got her colloquial name of Uncumber in England, where before Henry VIII's break with the Church in Rome, it was believed that women dissatisfied with their husbands or pestered by unwanted suitors could make an offering of oats to the saint and pray to be relieved or "uncumbered" of their male deadweights. This was actually a corruption of the belief that the child saint could help the faithful to accept death free from anxiety, in German, ohne Kummer. This earlier and more proper belief is evidenced by her names in other countries - Kummernis, Komina, Comera, Cumerana, Hulfe, Ontcommene, Ontcommer, Dignefortis, Eutropia, Reginfledis, Livrade, Liverade, Liberata, Liberada, Debarras, and Ohnkummer. What made her unusual was the fact that she had a full beard, and that this beard had been a gift from God.

http://outcyclopedia.0catch.com/uncumber...

Here's another:
E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Uncumber (St.),

formerly called St. Wylgeforte. “Women changed her name” (says Sir Thomas More) “because they reken that for a pecke of otys she will not faile to uncumber them of their husbondys.” The tradition says that the saint was very beautiful, but, wishing to lead a single life, prayed that she might have a beard, after which she was no more cumbered with lovers. “For a peck of oats,” says Sir Thomas More, “she would provide a horse for an evil housebonde to ride to the Devill upon.” 1
“If a wife were weary of a husband, she offered oats at Poules … to St. Uncumber.”—Michael Woode (1554).

[translation for above Elizabethan English: "Because they reckon for a peck of oats she will not fail to uncumber them of their husbands" = Meaning: for a small gift to the Saint, the saint will get rid of the praying woman's husband." ]

http://www.bartleby.com/81/16953.html...


Here's another :

20. Rid Yourself of a Husband: Saint "Uncumber"


Today marks the old feast day for St. Wilgefortis, also known as Saint "Uncumber." According to an old legend, Wilgefortis was the daughter of a Portuguese King. Having taken a vow of chastity, Wilgefortis prayed for deliverance when her father arranged for her marriage. Miraculously, her prayers were answered with a full beard!

Her angry father had Wilgefortis crucified. In England, she became known as "Uncumber" or "Liberata" and was invoked by women who wished to "unencumber" themselves of difficult husbands or suitors. (top)


http://www.me2u.com/lovelore/calendar/ju...



Here's a bit of Elizabethan history: (from my own research and knowledge of the period)
Many saints were "created" during the Elizabethan period as a means for the uneducated to continue their Pagan ways in a more acceptable form. Polytheistism was the Pagan (non-christian) tradition of the Peoples of the area. When Monotheism took over, the people clung to their old ways by infiltrating their traditions with the new religion.
It was quite common to hear of Saints for all sorts of ails, events, hopes...etc.

Here are some resources on this:
http://www.guildofstgeorge.com/holiday.h...

http://elizabethan.org/compendium/11.htm...



ANON!

I chose this as a best answer. "DEATH" did this research so i copied it to here.

Answer 7

mother Teressa

Answer 8

Muriel Alene. She loved my atheist father.

Answer 9

(lol) Emily Rose ... j/k but Mother Teresa

Answer 10

ST. KADIJA SESAY.. SHE WAS REMARKABLE!