Posted on 10/27/2007 10:15:15 AM PDT by Salvation
1. I am the apostle to the Gentiles whose letters you read in the Bible.
2. I am the first American citizen to be canonized whose work among the immigrants gave me the title of 'Patron of All Immigrants.'
3. I am the Carmelite saint whose "Little Way" shows us how offering joys and sorrows daily can make us a great saint.
4. I am the foster father of Christ and the patron of a happy death.
5. I am the cousin of Jesus who prepared the way for the Lord.
6. I am the woman who offered my veil to wipe Jesus' face when He was carrying His cross.
7. I am the apostle chosen by Christ to be head of His Church.
8. I am the missionary who made Ireland famous for its piety and learning.
9. I am the beloved apostle and the writer of the fourth gospel.
10. I am the cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary whose baby was Presanctified.
11. I am the patron saint of music because I sang the praises of God while I was cruelly put to death.
12. I am the modern day saint who chose martyrdom rather than to be impure.
13. I am the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus.
14. I am the valiant young girl who led France to victory over England and then suffered death by being burned at the stake.
15. I am the 'Little Poverino' whose order is now the largest in the world and who so resembled Christ in my life that I was privileged to bear His sacred wounds in my own body.
16. I am the 'Wonder Worker' of Padua and a Doctor of the Church.
17. I am the Patron saint of schools who was once called the Dumb Ox by my classmates but who wrote many treatises on the faith. My teacher was St. Albert the Great.
18. I am the saint who reformed the Carmelite Order and who became the first woman Doctor of the Church.
19. I am the simple parish priest who was tormented by the devil because my great sanctity brought my people closer to God.
20. I am the Visitation nun to whom Jesus appeared showing His Sacred Heart and to whom He delivered His message of love and plea for reparation.
Choices:
| St. Peter | St. Therese of Lisieux |
| St. Anthony | St. Joan of Arc |
| St. Elizabeth | St. Anne |
| St. John the Baptist | St. John the Apostle |
| St. Margaret Mary | St. Patrick |
| St. Maria Goretti | St. Paul |
| St. Teresa of Avila | St. Cecilia |
| St. Elizabeth Ann Seton | St. John Vianney |
| St. Joseph | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| St. Francis Assisi | St. Veronica |
* 20 point bonus for those who know the century in which their saint lived.
* 5 points for each piece of information you know about your saint.
I found them both on Google and GoogleEarth, but I didn’t see anything about the architect.
I sure wish I could remember his name. St. Syl’s is a mission church of St. John Vianney, and was built entirely out of local stone from a local farm. My husband played the organ there for probably 15 years, and played for the architect’s funeral.
I’ve got a bad case of CRS tonight. ;-D
My father is from Leonard, in Shelby County in the northeast. The Catholic Church there is St. Michael’s, but it’s closed except for funerals. A little white frame building, like the houses, nothing special architecturally.
People are moving away from MO rural areas, except older folks. There were about 25 families at St. Syl, but during the summer a lot of tourists come, because of the Alley Springs and Jacks Fork and Current Rivers.
We even saw friends we knew from our St. Louis County parish there.
Cute, isn’t it?
I wasn’t aware of a different name for the Eastern Church.
LOL! Don’t you have the answers?
**That was fun, but someone ought to devise a harder one, with more obscure saints. :)**
LOL! I just found it on Catholic Culture and thought it would be great for all of us.
Are you game for the harder ones? Send me an Freepmail with five questions each and I’ll put them together are an FR test! LOL!
All someone would have to do is look back over the calendars, pick a saint, and then do a search on FR.
For example, I know there are other younger saints besides St. Maria Goretti>
Who was the saint who is always depicted with all those arrows in his body? And one of my personal favorites is St. Fiacre, his statue is often confused with St. Francis, but St. Fiacre is the one with the shovel. ;-D
PS, St.Fiacre is the patron of a lot of...ahem....interesting things, including taxicabs and gardens.
**Why the shovel?**
Patron saint of gardeners.
We are two saints who are doctors. (I believe also martyred.)
He asked his bishop for some land, and the bishop told him he could have as much land as he could dig a trench around. Well, miraculously, everywhere he dragged his shovel, the trench appeared, and he got a huge amount of land.
Apparently, he would not allow women anywhere around him (I think he felt susceptible). Such a curmudgeon! But there was a hotel named after him, he was a hermit and reputed to be very holy. Taxicabs were called fiacres after him.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintf13.htm
I have a statue just like the one in the picture on that site, in my garden.
St. Gregory (the Gregorian chant pope) and St. Brendan (the explorer) are the ones my older grandsons are named after. Granddaughters are Rachel Elizabeth and Bethany Marie, their little brother is Jacob Robert.
Yea, it's one of those things that only a religious nerd might know about, (such as the Pope;)
Berenike is the Greek for "bringer of victory". Veronika (verus - Latin="truth" and Ikon - Gr. = "image") makes her name "true image".
A wide tradition (small "t") in both the East and West has her as the woman who had a 12 year blood flow healed by Jesus in the synoptic Gospels. If her given name for Greek was Bernice, then Veronika would be a title given her because of the event meditated on in the 6th station of the Cross.
There is, of course, a whole story about her life (getting married to a Christian convert, carrying the veil around, etc.) post Resurrection of Jesus.
Christ imprinted His image in her heart before all else and she freely transformed her life to correspond to His Grace. That really is all that is important for us to reflect upon. Is His image imprinted in our hearts as well?
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