Your Favorite Saints

[OnlySunshine]

I am becoming very close to St. Gemma Galgani. She and I have experienced much of the same things, such as the desire to serve God in religious life, but not being able to because of our health. I feel very close to her.

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I am becoming very close to St. Gemma Galgani. She and I have experienced much of the same things, such as the desire to serve God in religious life, but not being able to because of our health. I feel very close to her.
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I was thinking of you when I was learning a bit about her so I'm glad she's helping you

[Noemi]

My favourites:

Holy Mary
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint Teresa of the Andes
Saint Philipp Benizi
Our Seven Holy Founders (of the Servite Order)
Servant of God, Mother Maria Eleonora (Servite Nun)

and of course the Hungarian saints, blesseds, servants of God (like: Stephan Kaszap, Marcell Marton OCD)

[LaPetiteSoeur]

Saint Catherine Laboure: I know, I'm biased She was the ninth of eleven children, born Zoe Laboure in the Burgundy region of France. Her older sister was a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent dePaul so she couldn't join immediately. After working in her uncle's restaurant, she joined the order. When she was 24, Mary appeared to her in the chapel. Mary asked that a medal be struck that said "O Mary concieved without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." It happened. However, Catherine lived her life anonymously. Even though the medal became very popular, the only people who know who Mary had appeared to was Catherine, her confessro, and her mother superior. She died at age seventy, after many years of serving the sick and dying.

Saint Joan of Arc: I think everyone knows her story. She is my Confirmation saint! Her bravery and strength is amazing.

Blessed Edmund Bojanowski: He's a relatively new addition. Edmund was very sickly as a child but loved God intensely. He could not become a priest, but he began the iLittle Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Poland almost 160 years ago. The Sisters work primarily with children, the sick, and the poor. During WWII, Edmund's 'daughters' hid many Jewish children in their convents. (If any of you ever saw the movie with Anna Paquin about the woman who was responsible for the hiding of thousands of Jewish children during the war, the sisters make an appearence----when she takes the children to the convent. It's that order). His sisters now are located in four locations in Poland and are in Poland what the DSMMEs and the Nashville Dominicans are here. They have many, many novices and postulants. In the States, there is a smaller group located in south NJ and they work all over the world. His sisters work entirely for Jesus and his Mother, Mary.

That's it. There are so many more. But so little time...