I am doing a project, I need to relate my personal hero to a saint or Catholic hero. It's hard to do search engines on saints without having already known their name. I just need ideas of saints who have lost their families, children, personal strength, courage, integrity, or like my hero is a woman who came from laos to America and lost all he siblings and children.
Does anyone have any sites? Or saint ideas?
2007-10-09 10:52:16 · 10 answers · asked by Katie-Grace 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Job is a hero of the Bible who lost his family, possessions, health, etc. but never gave up on God.
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/job/job1.htm
With love in Christ.
2007-10-09 17:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died on September 5, 1997, in her convent in India. She was 87. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, she joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928. She took the name "Teresa" after St. Teresa of Lisieux, patroness of the Missionaries.
Mother Teresa gained worldwide acclaim with her tireless efforts on behalf of world peace. Her work brought her numerous humanitarian awards, including : the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In receiving this award, Mother Teresa revolutionized the award ceremony. She insisted on a departure from the ceremonial banquet and asked that the funds, $6,000 be donated to the poor in Calcutta. This money would permit her to feed hundreds for a year. She is stated to have said that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world’s needy.
2007-10-09 12:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Start here:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/patron.php
2007-10-09 10:55:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
After a ton of research. (hours and hours and hours) I chose St. Teresa of Avila as my patron saint. Look her up on Catholic.org
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2007-10-09 11:44:24 · answer #4 · answered by Ten Commandments 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This site lets you search by PATRONAGE, so you can look for people who fit what you are looking for:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/stindex.php
2007-10-09 12:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go to www.catholic.org and click on "Angels and Saints." You can then go to a list of saints by what they are the patron saint of.
2007-10-09 10:54:13 · answer #6 · answered by rojo_jojo 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
http://www.catholic.org/saints/
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm
2007-10-13 06:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a good alphabetical list:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/
Another good one:
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/byname.asp
I use this one as well:
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/patron02.htm
2007-10-09 10:56:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Look up St. Rita of Cascia. She should do nicely.
2007-10-09 10:54:19 · answer #9 · answered by Kevin 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Bible says that every believer is a saint, including every living believer today. So this false doctrine of catholicism should be ignored. It is man worship, which fits in nicely with the catholic idolatry that flows through the entire catholic cult.
Catholics are not saved Christians.
2007-10-09 10:56:15 · answer #10 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 9⤋