Catholic Ping!
Post your favorite saint’s name, picture or quote!
Dominic Guzman. He wept and pleaded for sinners.
St. Andre Bessette of Montreal.
I am often reminded of this and it always brings a chuckle when I read it from Mother Angelica; she calls it, "The Patron Saint of the Grouchy."
Did you ever see a statue of a grouchy saint? I saw one once. It was the most gorgeous statue I ever saw. It was Padre Pio, who was a grouch, you know. Now, everybody excuses the poor guy and says, "Well, he had the stigmata and he was suffering." Come off it. He was a grouch; he was a typical Italian grouch - which I can relate to! So I bought that statue in New Orleans a few years ago. He has the most beautiful, grumpy look on his face. See, that's my kind of saint. I want a saint who struggles like I do. There's no such thing as perfection. There is only the struggle for holiness.
St. Clare of Assisi, because I long to be free of all the Stuff
St. Helena, Empress of Rome, because her son turned out so well
St. Martha
St. Juan Diego
Mine is and has always been Saint Bernadette. Her humility and humbleness draw you to her.
Favorite quotes.
Q.was she beautiful?
Oh! Oh! Yes indeed! And even more than that!”
“so lovely that, when you have seen her once, you would willingly die to see her again!”
“How do you know if it’s really the Blessed Virgin who appeared to you, that it’s not an illusion, a trick of the devil?”
Oh, no! I threw some holy water at her and the apparition made the sign of the cross. She told me. “I am the Immaculate Conception.” and said the rosary with me.