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Author Topic: Top 5 Favorite Saints!  (Read 2549 times)
Catholic777
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« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2008, 08:22:PM »

There is a certain official precedence among the highest Saints, so perhaps we should generally exclude the "confiteor saints" (the Virgin Mary, St. Michael, St. John the Baptist, Sts. Peter and Paul) and St. Joseph.

Excluding those:

1) St. Thomas More
2) St. John of the Cross
3) St. John the Apostle
4) St. Thomas Becket
5) St. Francis of Assisi

not necessarily in that order, however

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« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2008, 08:25:PM »

Keeping in mind SCG's caveat, i.e., aside from the Blessed Mother of Our Lord and His foster father St. Joseph, my favorite saints are as follows: 

1) St. Anthony of Padua, my patron saint, who's forever helping me find a job in the land of unemployment.   
2) St. Augustine of Hippo, for his libertarian streak ("What are kingdoms but great robber bands?").
3) St. Ambrose of Milan, who denied the Emperor Theodosius entry to the church pending his penance for slaughtering the Corinthians (see my avatar).  
4) St. Jude the Apostle, because I'm such a lost cause.
5) St. Therese of Lisieux, for her sweet and simple holiness and for spending her Heaven doing good on earth. 

~Anam-Chara
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« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2008, 09:11:PM »

It's hard to narrow it down to five, but these are right up there:

St Francis of Assisi
St Benedict
St Thomas Aquinas
St Edmund Campion
St Maximilian Kolbe

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Archbishop_10K
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« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2008, 09:14:PM »

St. Thomas More
St. Thomas Becket
St. Edmund Campion
St. John Fisher
St. Jeanne d'Arc


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OLOMC
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« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2008, 09:19:PM »

St. Anne
St. Elijah
St. John Chrystendom
St. Charles Borromeo 
St. John Cantius
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« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2008, 10:31:PM »

St. Joseph
St. Michael the Archangel
St. Philomena
St. Raphael
St. Helena

Of course, I have a few more.  
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StevusMagnus
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« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2008, 10:48:PM »

St. John Vianney
St. Stephen
St. Therese
St. John
St. Augustine

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St_Josephs_Man
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« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2008, 10:54:PM »

St. Joseph (not that my avatar or user name are any hint, right?)
St. Michael the Archangel
St. Anthony of Padua
St. Jude
St. Nicholas
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« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2008, 11:15:PM »

John the Evangelist- my patron saint. The most faithful of all the Apostles- the ONLY one that followed Jesus to the Cross.
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« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2008, 11:30:PM »

Saint Peter, Elijah the Prophet, Saint George, Saint Joan of Arc, and Saint Columbanus.

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