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Eddie
Head Librarian
Gender:  Number of posts: 2308
Registration date: 2008-07-30
 |  Subject: Your favourite saints  Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:08 pm | |
|  I've always had a soft spot for St Augustine: "Lord, make me chaste- but not yet!"
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audreyfan1
Gender:  Number of posts: 614
Registration date: 2008-11-14
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:38 pm | |
|  I wrote a paper several years ago for a religion course about Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (I got an A  ). She was a very fasinating woman who established the first free school for poor children in America. And she was also the first Native-born U.S. citizen to be canonized. |
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John McLaughlin
Head Wankee
Gender: Number of posts: 1569
Registration date: 2008-06-09
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:08 am | |
| Good choices, both. I've always had a soft spot for St Francis, myself - the last chance for the medieval church to swing Buddhist before it got clanging Gothic, oh well. He was a sweet guy.... |
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ISN
Torin's Mum
Number of posts: 1379
Registration date: 2008-05-28
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:09 am | |
| I don't have a favourite saint, but I was talking to my old headmistress from the Ursuline Convent on the phone (Torin is going to an Ursuline school next year)......she suggested I pray to St Angela the founder of the order.....from the 16th Century..... recently when Torin was worried about vampires, I told him that an angel looks over us (him and me).....because I pray so much.....it was more in desperation than reality because he was fretting.....then I told him the angel is St Angela...... recently I've been telling him that there is nothing to fear except fear itself, and if you're not scared of vampires and witches, they can't get you......  but, I've come to develop a soft spot for St Angela anyway......my mother went to an Ursuline school in Sligo, so it seems to be in the family...... I also like my patron saint, St Catherine (of the Catherine wheel)......
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tatiana
The Floyd
Gender: Number of posts: 414
Registration date: 2008-07-10
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:44 am | |
| i don't know any saints so i don't have a favourite. and i don't know who my patron saint is either. if anyone has any suggestions, that would be good...  |
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Eddie
Head Librarian
Gender: Number of posts: 2308
Registration date: 2008-07-30
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:07 pm | |
| One of the most practical saints is St Fiacre, the patron saint of both gardening AND piles.  St Fiacre. Oh, he's also the patron saint of cab drivers.
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John McLaughlin
Head Wankee
Gender: Number of posts: 1569
Registration date: 2008-06-09
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:10 pm | |
| I like St Jude. Patron saint of hopeless causes. Makes me smile whenever I think of him. |
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Mac Doobie
Number of posts: 358
Registration date: 2008-05-19
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:07 am | |
| Eddie, and Mr. Morbin. RIP |
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tatiana
The Floyd
Gender: Number of posts: 414
Registration date: 2008-07-10
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:10 am | |
| ISN, what happened to St.Anne? |
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ISN
Torin's Mum
Number of posts: 1379
Registration date: 2008-05-28
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:16 am | |
| St Anne was the mother of Mary.....there's no saint with your name, so I thought St Anne would be closest...... Ann is also my mother's name - long story...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Anneisn't it a lovely name though 
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tatiana
The Floyd
Gender: Number of posts: 414
Registration date: 2008-07-10
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:23 am | |
| | ISN wrote: | St Anne was the mother of Mary.....there's no saint with your name, so I thought St Anne would be closest......
Ann is also my mother's name - long story......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Anne
isn't it a lovely name though |
yes, i read the post last night and then it disappeared, so i was hoping you were okay.
unless i have my threads mixed up...  |
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ISN
Torin's Mum
Number of posts: 1379
Registration date: 2008-05-28
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:27 am | |
| Last night I was a bit worse for wear......  I'm not feeling great tonight.....I'm a bit worried cos I lost my job and I won't be able to pay my bills 
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tatiana
The Floyd
Gender: Number of posts: 414
Registration date: 2008-07-10
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:37 am | |
| | ISN wrote: |
.....I'm a bit worried cos I lost my job and I won't be able to pay my bills |
change is scary and sucks, in my opinion anyway.
and yet some people thrive on it. 
you will be okay. |
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ISN
Torin's Mum
Number of posts: 1379
Registration date: 2008-05-28
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:38 am | |
| thanks Tats - I hope so
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tatiana
The Floyd
Gender: Number of posts: 414
Registration date: 2008-07-10
| | Subject: Re: Your favourite saints Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:42 am | |
| | ISN wrote: | | thanks Tats - I hope so |
so do i.
i have to go soon, i am on 14y/o sons computer because mine is still in repair shop and i can't be up late tonight again, his computer is in his room. |
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