It's Sunday! Tell us who is your favorite Saint

St. Anthony-especially when I lose my car keys.

"Please, St Anthony, look around - something's lost and can't be found !"

He never fails me.

I'm not Catholic, but following.

Why, Saint Sebastian, of course. The patron saint of cocksuckers.

Dorcas!

Roger Moore.

Saint West

St. Elsewhere

Are these your Confirmation names?

Joan of arc, Francis of Assisi, Joseph, Catherine of Alexandria, Joseph of Cupertino, John the Baptist

Eva Marie.

Okay, R10 made me 🤣

[quote]St. Margaret of Scotland is considered the patron saint of fashion because of her role in shaping Scotland's fashion during her 11th century reign. She believed that clothing her people in beautiful fabrics and colors with ornamental details would make them feel like a new race, distinct from other countries. To achieve this, she employed foreign merchants to bring her new fashions and fabrics from around the world, and also encouraged her people to learn how to weave with better materials.

Saint Michael the Archangel

Saint Michael the Archangel

Jill

Buffy

Susan Saint James, Buffy Saint Marie, and Eva Marie Saint

Joan of Arc is pretty badass.

Philip Neri is interesting.

St Jude Thaddaeus, patron saint of hope and lost causes and one of the Twelve Apostles. Also, the saint that Danny Thomas prayed to.

St Theresa of Avila for "Far more tears are shed for answered prayers than unanswered prayers." aka "Be careful what you pray for - you might get it."

Cam Fucking Jordan.

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Engelbert

Eunice

Boniface

Peter Damian of Ostia—a scholar who obsessed about tableware

Saint Dymphna

I always liked the prayer to St. Michael. Let's see if I can remember it (I wasn't a Catholic for very long).

St. Michael the Archangel, protect us in battle. Lead us from the wickedness and snares of the devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. [bold]Ooops! Going to have to cheat.[/bold]

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.

Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,

and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts,

by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan,

and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

I always liked the vision of evil spirits prowling about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Yee-ha!

Santa Claus, of course!

Santa Anita

Saint Vitalis

Wash *and* Armor All®

St. Pope John XXIII.

St . Vibiana

St. Genesius of Rome, patron saint of cinema, theater, actors, and musicians.

St. Clare of Assisi, patron saint of television, television writers/workers, computer screens.

St. Isidore of Seville, patron saint of computers and the internet.

St. Vivian of Vance, patron saint of Datalounge

When...

St. Jude - Patrol Saint of desperate cases.

[quote]St. Jude - Patron Saint of desperate cases.

And soiled glass coffee tables

St. Anthony - I pray to him when I’ve lost something and he always comes through

St. Francis of Assisi - he loved animals

St. Blaise - patron saint of ailments of the throat

For DLers:

[quote] ST. DROGO: St. Drogo was so afflicted by a mystery ailment that made him physically repulsive that he’s now considered the patron saint of unattractive people. Entirely unrelatedly, he’s also the patron saint of coffeehouses.

[quote]Bartenders – St. Amand of Maastricht

[quote]St. Amand was bishop of Maastricht (modern-day Belgium) but felt called to carry the Gospel to the regions of France and Germany where it was unknown. By chance, those regions, as we know, became prime producers of beer and wine. Tavern keepers (aka bartenders) then took St. Amand as their patron because of his dedication to the faith in those regions.

St Frances of course

St. Matthias, for being the Cindy Birdsong of the Apostles.

St. Martin de Porres. Another animal lover but less famous than St. Francis of Assisi.

Tony, Tony look around, something is lost and must be found!

My parish was American Martyrs…only much later did I learn the truth of these saints.

Spoiler alert: they were French-Canadien, and not very nice to the First Nations.

I'm not Catholic, but i always liked the idea of the saint of lost causes, whoever that is (if there is such a saint).

[quote] St Jude Thaddaeus, patron saint of hope and lost causes and one of the Twelve Apostles. Also, the saint that Danny Thomas prayed to.

R19 Why did a successful person like Danny Thomas pray to the saint of lost causes? Did it have anything to do with Marlo, his “Little Miss Know-It-All?”

St. Lucy, who had her eyes ripped out. The images of her with them on a platter haunted my childhood.

R45 He was working but not getting much work in Detroit. He prayed to St Jude and promised to build a shrine to him, got work, and moved to Chicago. He prayed some more, got more work, went to Hollywood for "Make Room for Daddy" and when the money started rolling in, remembered his promise and built St Jude's Hospital with the seed money coming from Arab-Americans and Thomas' performances. St Jude's, btw, was the first integrated hospital in the South. In 1962.

Saint Agatha had her tits ripped off.

[quote]I'm not Catholic, but i always liked the idea of the saint of lost causes, whoever that is (if there is such a saint).

Besides St. Jude, there's St. Rita of Cascia.

[quote]St Frances of course

Oh, dear.

[quote]Saint Agatha had her tits ripped off.

Patron saint of FTM post-ops.

Francis

He believed that nature itself was the mirror of God. He called all creatures his "brothers" and "sisters", and even preached to the birds and supposedly persuaded a wolf in Gubbio to stop attacking some locals if they agreed to feed the wolf. His deep sense of brotherhood under God embraced others, and he declared that "he considered himself no friend of Christ if he did not cherish those for whom Christ died”

Another vote for Saint Michael.

Felicity and Perpetua. The names always made me giggle during Litany of the Saints.

My personal favorite Saint is my maternal grandma - she always said “you just have to love everybody” and actually meant it.

Her favorite Saint was Anthony - so him by proxy.

St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Father of the Jesuits.

Patron Saint of the Basque provinces of Spain.

Agatha was a pushy virgin.

Wasn't Felicitas delisted along with Christopher.

St. Jude is the true Patron Saint of Lost Causes.

Saint Agatha of Sicily has a great story. She was tortured by pagans, including having her breasts torn off, to get her to renounce her Christianity. She never gave in, and became a martyr/saint. Today, when her feast day is celebrated in Catania, one of the local delicacies is a pastry (Minne di Sant’Agata) shaped to resemble her sliced off breasts. lol. No shit.

Sergius and Bacchus, patron saints of gay men looking for that special man to spend the rest of their lives with.

St. Vincent

Saint Christopher, patron saint of travelers, who was de-sainted.

St. Benedict, the founder of Western monasticism.

R63 What is "desainted"?

R65, Pope Paul VI dropped St, Christopher's feast day from the Catholic Church's liturgical calendar because of insufficient evidence that he ever existed.

Saint-Saëns

Saint Barnabas

R66 Is he a saint now? Do all saints get a day?

[quote][R63] What is "desainted"?

Triggered.

[quote][[R63]] What is "desainted"?

Surprise anal from Ron DeSantis

St. Sebastian and St. Lawrence, because:

As R3 noted, Sebastian is the patron saint of gay men. And for both because I'm into BDSM. Sebastian...ahunky military man tied up! And Lawrence bound to a grill! Woof, What martyrdom for both!

Best scene about favorite saints: was from "Agnes of God," when Ann Bancroft an Jane Fonda discussed their views of various saints.

St Malachy. His predictions are interesting. He predicted Pope Francis would be our last Pope. The Church of course doesn't say much. But some Catholics - mostly Irish believe his predictions. At least he made it interesting.

I didn't grow up Catholic, but I used to go to mass with a friend and I always liked the *idea* of the Saints: it was like God's first line Call Center when things were going to shit "Can't find something? Hit #1 for Saint Antony; Lost Cause, Hit#2 for Saint Jude; etc." My Methodist upbringing didn't allow for the idea that there was any other option than appealing directly to The Big Guy

Methodists believe enough in Saints to name hospitals after them. St Luke seems to be the patron saint of Protestant hospitals.

Christopher is not a saint anymore. He was watching over bachelors, truck drivers, sailors, travelers, surfers, epileptics, and gardeners, who are now on their own.

They all have back-up saints. Duh.

When I visited Paris for the first time, one of the things I wanted to explore was the legend of St. Denis. I'd imagined him walking down from Montmartre many times, carrying his severed head.

My favorite painting of a saint is in the Andre Meyer Gallery at the Metropolitan in New York. St. Joan is depicted at the time of her calling, and the shades of Sts. Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appear faintly in the background. As Joan gazes into the distance, the sacrifices of pain, sorrow, and the bravery of her vocation are clear in the artist's depiction of the voices. The work has inspired me to take the time to listen to my conscience many times.

[quote] St Jude Thaddaeus, patron saint of hope and lost causes and one of the Twelve Apostles.

The Vatican agrees that this also makes St. Jude the patron saint of DataLounge.

Saint Bonaventure. If you know, you know!

Saint-Subber

Santa Fe

St. John the Beloved

[quote] Saint Agatha of Sicily has a great story. She was tortured by pagans, including having her breasts torn off, to get her to renounce her Christianity.

R60 On DL, that should have read, “Picture it: Sicily 250 AD. Saint Agatha was tortured by pagans…”