Catholics: How do you choose who your saint is going to be?

Answer 1

When teaching pre-confirmation classes, I encourage the participants to read short summaries of the lives of various saints (children's saint books are a good way to do this). Then when you find one who sounds like someone who inspires you by their service to God and His Church and their life of exemplary holiness, get a more detailed version of his/her biography. Choose someone who can be a role model for you personally. There are saints with every possible kind of background, occupation, race, nationality, age, etc. So choose someone you can relate to on that level. This one of the ways the "Communion of Saints" - one of the core beliefs we profess in the Apostles' Creed - operates in the lives of Christians.

Answer 2

I didn't know we were suposed to "choose" a saint. We venerate them all. There are patron saints for different things,but individuals do not choose a saint as a personal patron,typically. Maybe before Vatican II.

Answer 3

There's a saint for every ailment. That's what my grandmother used to say. She's Catholic - even though the way she worships her saints makes me argue the fact that she might be a Pagan... - and I was born and raised - by herself - Catholic.

Answer 4

Mine is Gambrinus.... The patron Saint of beer... He found me, I did not seek him...