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You are most welcome here, Oxford. I always feel deeply moved by your posts. They are so heartfelt and honest. We could use another St. Bernard right now. I think you picked one of the super saints, as Bob and Penny Lord like to say.

I join those who chose St. Michael the Archangel as the "persona" to defend the Faith, as I became a soldier for Christ ... ergo Michelle.

Michael is the name of my Guardian Angel and I also went on to St. Michael's Girls High School.

We were steeped in the Lives of the Saints all through my schooling ... as we were in the Eucharist, and other now, less "popular" devotions, such as Benediction, the Rosary (nightly family affair at my house), Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and attendant Adoration, Formal Novenas with the parish participating and of course, Missions that lasted for weeks. We had "mandatory" attendance at the 9:00 Mass every Sunday and if we were out of town we had to bring a note from whichever priest celebrated Mass wherever we had gone.

In Pageants, we celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, had May Crownings of Mary, etc.