Biography: Saint Philomena

Germaine never wanted to miss Mass even though she was in charge of the flock. When the bell rang for Mass at the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, she would pray and ask her guardian angel to look after the sheep while she was at Mass. The sheep never got hurt while she was at Mass even though there were wolves around. Throughout the Church, St. Germaine learned all about the love of God. One of the most important things she learned was that sufferings bring grace. All of the sufferings we must go through in life have meaning to God because of his great love for us. Perhaps it’s because everyone else was so mean to her that St. Germaine was able to see how very much God loves her and it was through the Church that

The newest question that aroused in the Wheatley family, was that since now Phillis could speak fluent English, could she explain her past and development. "All she could remember of her past was an image of her mother pouring water on the land before the rising sun, honoring the new ay by the rite#".(pg 95 Women in the American Revolution) This shows that Phillis could have learned the Arabic language. She was often told that Phillis should consider herself lucky because she brought into a land of Christianity. However, her Bible tells her that "the black children of Cain are marked for perdition#".( pg 96 Women in the American Revolution) Phillis was noted for her prayer, in which she wrote in her Bible for God to save her, "Oh my Gracious Preserver! ..Tho conceived in Sin & brot forth in iniquity yet thy infinite wisdom can bring a clean thing out of an unclean, a cessel of Honor filled for Thy glory---grant me to live a life of gratitude to Thee for the innumerable benefits---O Lord my God! Instruct my ignorance and enlighten my darkness." (pg 96 Women in the American

Perpetua’s father visited her often and begged her to denounce her faith. He pleaded with her to do this for his sake and her infant son’s sake. Perpetua would not do this even knowing what she was facing. Even though her mother and brothers were

“One day, when she was about thirteen, Joan sat in her father’s garden…A sudden flash of light seared her eyes… Somewhere out in the darkness, she heard a powerful male voice ‘Joan,’ it called” (25-26). This was the first time that this had happened and it wasn’t going to be the last time ether. Overtime she had got better at picking out this voice and finally one morning when she was daydreaming she had looked up and had saw the archangel Michael standing right beside her. Then after some time she was visited by the two saints she has always looked up to Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret. She took this as a calling to go and have the young dauphin Charles VII crowned (27-28).

(Padre Pio of Pietrelcina) One example, is when Consiglia De Martino of southern, Italy was suddenly struck by a terrible disease and would have need surgery to survive, but the night prior to the surgery she prayed to Padre Pio and the next morning she was completely healed. Padre Pio's feast day is on September 23rd and he is the patron saint of civil defense volunteers and Catholic adolescents. (A Padre Pio Celebration)

Perpetua was a true woman of faith. Perpetua was a twenty-two-year-old, a Christian, a mother, a daughter, and a martyr. The story of The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas is the story of the execution of Perpetua and her Christian companions. This story reveals the difficulty Christian’s went through during this time, the chasm between the Roman and Christian communities, and the experience of Christian persecution for going against the Roman cultural norms. Perpetua’s personal prison diary expresses her extremely deep faith in Christianity. Perpetua and her Christian companions were prepared to be tortured, publicly humiliated, and in the end, lose their lives for their faith. Perpetua had a young baby still nursing her and Felicitas was

I chose St. Margaret as my patron saint because she gave a lot of time and money to the poor. She read the Bible daily, even though people (like her husband) didn’t have the same beliefs as her. She was focused on her faith and encouraged people in her life to live a devout life and grow in prayer and holiness. I admire that she barely slept every night and fasted often in order to spend more time worshipping the Lord. St. Margaret is someone who I will continue to admire even after my

I am choosing St. Anastasia because she made it through tough times with her faith always in God. St. Anastasia was not canonized, she has been declared a saint by the early Christian community based on her life of heroic virtue and her martyrdom. St. Anastasia spent her time caring for the prisoners. She would feed them and care for them if they were ill. The prisoners she cared for were not there for any violent crimes, but were locked up for being Christian. A virtue that I identitfy with St. Anastasia is charity because I help people that are in need and out of the kindness of my heart. St. Anastasia was so self-less about helping other people, even if it meant risking her life. Her father was a pagan and her mother was secretly a

Saint Philip Neri is an important person to learn about. He was born in Florence, Italy on July 21, 1515, and died on May 26, 1595. His feast day is on May 26. He was canonized on March 12, 1622. Symbols that represent Saint Philip Neri are rosaries, lilies, and an angel holding a book. The lily represent Saint Philip’s purity.

Quote: “Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in the deserts, but she would not forsake his altars. Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise- a heaven of striagthairded, thin-lipped, high-nose bones white seraphs” (145)

My saint is saint cecilia of Rome. Saint cecilia is the patroness of musicians. At her wedding musicians were there playing while she was there singing her heart to the lord. Her feast day is celebrated in the Latin Catholic church, Eastern Catholic church, Anglican church, and Eastern Orthodox churches on November 22. Saint Cecilia's full name is Saint Cecilia of Rome. In the fourth century a Greek romance on the Loves of Cecilia and Valerian was written in glory of virginal life with the purpose of taking the place of back then romances. Until better evidence is produced, we did not know about saint Cecilia until about the time when Pope Gelasius introduced her name into his Sacramentary. They said there was a church dedicated to St. Cecilia

Patrias faith was so strong that her family considered her a spirit baby before she could even speak. The first time readers hear from Patria she says “No one had to tell me to believe in God or to love everything that lives”. In these words she shows how she could never question God or his choices. Every thing in the world is perfect and the way god planned in Patrias eyes at this moment. Her mother even speaks about how she believed

In this vision, Pomponius the deacon lead her to the middle of an arena. While in the area she was stripped naked then suddenly turned into a man. Afterwards, as common with all gladiators, she was rubbed down with oil and to her amazement the beast was not set out against her; however, an ill-favored Egyptian and his helpers were sent to fight her. After winning the fight, the master of the gladiators gave Perpetua the branch. Perpetua then began to go with Glory to the gate called the Gate of Life. She believed this vision meant that her fight was not against beasts, but it was against the devil because the victory was already hers. The Narrative of Martyrdom states that Perpetua wanted to taste pain on the day she died. When the swordsman hand had slipped, as a strength of her power, she put the sword to her own

“Your Reverence may suppose that it would have needed no great effort to behold those hands and that beauteous face…. I began to feel such certainty and security that my fear was soon lost,” (St. Teresa 42).

Saints are always different from everyday people, thus no one understands them in their lives, only a lot of years after their death. Joan of Arc was a saint like this as well, she was too far ahead of her times and was killed by her fellow men, because they didn’t know what else to do. She was canonized in 1920, after 489 years of her death. In my opinion, she was not only a saint, but meant to be an angel and showed a good example to all of us, how to behave ourselves in the name of honour, honesty, and glory.