Favorite Lesser Known Saints?

[tnavarro61]

[quote name='JenDeMaria' timestamp='1304878412' post='2238740']
I must confess it bothers me a twee bit that Jesus' own grandparents are being listed as lesser known saints. Gracious, who do you need to be connected to around here?


[url="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Leseur"]Servant of God, Elizabeth Leseur[/url]


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Her life is the best!! And his husband!!

Thanks for sharing this!

[faithcecelia]

[quote name='JenDeMaria' timestamp='1304892753' post='2238816']
And regarding that other book you read on the Compiegne martyrs, if it was an English translation of [i]Le Sang du Carme[/i]l, please tell me about it!! I was under the impression that other history of the martyrs was only available in French.

And I would love to travel to Stanbrook Abbey some day to see the relics of the Compiegne martyrs. This House of Brede is the first book on Catholicism I ever read and according to Wikipedia, Rumer Godden based much of her material on Stanbrook Abbey [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanbrook_Abbey"]http://en.wikipedia....Stanbrook_Abbey[/url]
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i think it may have been, we definately has it in French, but mine is too poor to read in it. I will ask next time I have a chance to talk to my old prioress about anything other than psychiactric assessments!

[InPersonaChriste]

[quote name='MargaretTeresa' timestamp='1304812955' post='2238528']
St Margaret of Scotland. Very hard to find any info on, but a wonderful loving person.
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She is my Patron Saint! I have a whole booklet on her life. She actually was considering religious life during the time when she met her future husband.

As for the question,
My favorite not well known saints are:
St. Gemma Galgani
St. Peregrine
St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
Blessed Pier Giorgo
Blessed Imelda

[FutureSister2009]

I like Blessed Miguel Pro and St. Gemma. I have to look for more that I don't know very well. St. Monica, my Confirmation Saint is not as well known as her son St. Augustine but I do still pray to her.

[Lisa]

[quote name='FutureSister2009' timestamp='1304961084' post='2239151']
I like Blessed Miguel Pro and St. Gemma. I have to look for more that I don't know very well. St. Monica, my Confirmation Saint is not as well known as her son St. Augustine but I do still pray to her.
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I loveeeee St. Monica!!!!!!!!!!
[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10482a.htm"]http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10482a.htm[/url]

[TeresaBenedicta]

[url="http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=43"]St. Dominic Savio[/url]

He's my confirmation saint, and while many know his teacher, St. John Bosco, few are familiar with little Dominic. But I love him dearly! It was his feast day just the other day. :-)

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

+JMJ

Blessed Marie Celine of the Presentation, P.C.C.

Blessed Laura Vicuna

I'd have to think about the rest...

[MargaretTeresa]

What does PCC stand for?

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='MargaretTeresa' timestamp='1305069290' post='2239849']
What does PCC stand for?
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Poor Clare Colettine I'm going to be joining her family soon!

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='Piccoli Fiori JMJ' timestamp='1305069896' post='2239855']
Poor Clare Colettine I'm going to be joining her family soon!
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I just got a letter from a friend of mine who is a Poor Clare

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1305071274' post='2239859']
I just got a letter from a friend of mine who is a Poor Clare
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Hooray! How exciting! I did read your post in the other thread. I know the feeling! A Sister friend of mine was given permission to write me after I told her I was discerning! It is a wonderful feeling...

[MithLuin]

Veronica is my confirmation saint

Another lesser known saint that I admire is St. Anselm of Bec. I wrote a paper on him in college, and he wrote [i]Cur Deus Homo[/i] which was a dialogue exploring the meaning of the Incarnation. Very interesting guy. Also used the phrase 'faith seeking understanding' to explain his theological speculations. Didn't make such a great bishop, though. As Archbishop of Canterbury, he spent a lot of time in exile, because his king was William Rufus (son of William the Conqueror) and [i]not[/i] a friend of the Church.

Speaking of papers I wrote in college, I also wrote about St. Odo of Cluny and his [i]Life[/i] of St. Gerald of Aurillac. He was the second abbot of Cluny, which was a reform of the Benedictines in the tenth century, basically.

[Luigi]

St. Roch, aka San Rocco (in Italian). Ministered to plague victims until he caught it himself, then went off into the woods to die without infecting other people. A dog brought him bread every day, and he - neither Roch nor the dog - never did die of the plague.

A holy "boy and his dog" story.

Edited May 11, 2011 by Luigi

[Don John of Austria]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1304865301' post='2238704']
St. Foo - Patron of ninjas
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Kilroy will have to add him to her list

[Don John of Austria]

Saint Eugene De Mazenod


St. Constantine and Blessed Charlemange (everybody knows about them but not that they are a Saint and Blessed)

[Maximilianus]

St. Serapion of Algiers.
Born Irish, fought with King Richard the Lionheart in the Crusades, eventually he wound up in Spain serving King Alfonso VIII.
While in Spain he met St. Peter Nolasco.
In 1222 he joined the The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
He was martyred after offering himself as a hostage in place of a Christian captive.

Edited May 11, 2011 by Maximilianus

[LaPetiteSoeur]

St Dymphna
Does St. Columba count??
St Margaret of Scotland.
St. Genesius

I seriously like them all. I have trouble picking my favorite lesser known ones.

[tnavarro61]

Blessed Charles de Foucauld

[InPersonaChriste]

Well with phatmass these saints aren't going to be lesser-known for long!

[MithLuin]

[quote name='LaPetiteSoeur' timestamp='1305109328' post='2240007']
St Dymphna
Does St. Columba count??
St Margaret of Scotland.
St. Genesius

I seriously like them all. I have trouble picking my favorite lesser known ones.
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I have an aunt named Dymphna.

And how could I forget the saint my mother was named for?

St. Camillus de Lilles, patron saint of gamblers. He was one of those led-a-degenerate-life-and-then-had-a-conversion saints . Military man turned hospital worker.