Are there any Catholic saints for…?
crime solving/ solvers
puzzle/ problem solvers
i.e. people in the forensics field: anthropologists, pathologists, psychiatrists, etc.
Also, for confirmation, do confirmation names need to be of your own gender?
I’ve been looking it up for hours now… I just need some help.
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May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Saint Dominic is the patron saint of scientist. But your conformation name needs to be from your own gender.
Here are some ones that might be helpful
http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-blandina-the-slave/
http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-christina-the-astonishing/ (she’s the patron saint of psychiatrists)
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
search patron saints on google and you should find numerous things about it.
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
most people throw a hussafuss about it being the same gender, for psychiatrist and psychologists I know St Raphael the archangel and St. Dymphna
raphael the patron saint and guardian of healers, and St. Dymphna the patroness of mental health
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I’ll look it up. I do know that the saint you choose has to be of teh same gender.
Blessings
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Confirmation names do not have to be your own gender (e.g. St. John Mary Vianney, St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, St. Anthony Mary Claret, etc.)
This site gives a number of choices for patron saints of doctors:
http://www.catholicpatronsaint.com/
And I know St. Michael is the patron of police officers, which would probably include detectives.
God bless!
Dave
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Your life is the sum of your thoughts.
You can’t not exist.
Prepare to live forever.
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I wasn’t able to find anything that matched up with those exactly, but here’s a good website for information on saints: http://saints.sqpn.com/.
Also, I’ve never heard any specification that you have to choose a confirmation saint of the same gender as you.
Good luck!
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I don’t know about the patron saint part but you do not have to pick a saint of your own gender for your Confirmation saint. A girl friend of mine choose St. Peter Chanel.
May 21st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Possibly, St. Martin de Porres.
St. Martin de Porres was born at Lima, Peru, in 1579. His father was a Spanish gentleman and his mother a coloured freed-woman from Panama. At fifteen, he became a lay brother at the Dominican Friary at Lima and spent his whole life there-as a barber, farm laborer, almoner, and infirmarian among other things.
Martin had a great desire to go off to some foreign mission and thus earn the palm of martyrdom. However, since this was not possible, he made a martyr out of his body, devoting himself to ceaseless and severe penances. In turn, God endowed him with many graces and wondrous gifts, such as, aerial flights and bilocation.
St. Martin’s love was all-embracing, shown equally to humans and to animals, including vermin, and he maintained a cats and dogs hospital at his sister’s house. He also possessed spiritual wisdom, demonstrated in his solving his sister’s marriage problems, raising a dowry for his niece inside of three day’s time, and resolving theological problems for the learned of his Order and for bishops. A close friend of St. Rose of Lima, this saintly man died on November 3, 1639 and was canonized on May 6, 1962. His feast day is November 3.
or
St. Albert the Great
Patron of Scientists
Albert the Great was one of the Church’s greatest intellects. He studied at the University of Padua and later taught at Hildesheim, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Regensburg, and Strasbourg. He then taught at the University of Paris, where he received his doctorate in 1245. He was among the first and greatest of the natural scientists, gaining a reputation for expertise in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geography, metaphysics, and mathematics. He was also very learned in biblical studies and theology.