# Find your Patron Saint in here.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 4, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844 "2005-03-04T01:52:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/1 "2005-03-04T01:52:47Z")
If memory serves, some time ago somebody on SDMB was handing out sainthoods and I was dubbed,
St. QuickSilver: A mercurial fellow.
Plagued with nagging curiousity and lack of better ways to spend my time, my search led me to this list of [Actual Patron Saints](http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/patrons.asp).
My patron saint (of computers and the internet) is [St. Isidore of Seville](http://www.catholicgreetings.org/Create.asp?card=656), with this [bio.](http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1343)
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/2 "2005-03-04T02:23:35Z")
I grew up reading Saints books. I wanted to be a saint or martyr when I was little.
As I grew up and took my own path, I never forgot one saint that always bothered me as a kid. I was too young to figure out the why’s of it all, but she set off my odd-person vibe even though she was in a book and long dead.
[St. Rose of Lima, Peru](http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1116) If this woman lived today, she would be committed.
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/3 "2005-03-04T02:32:43Z")
[Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=21381) the original thread. It was Swimming Riddles.
I’m apparently the patron saint of blond teenage no-talents with breast implants.
And candy corn.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/4 "2005-03-04T02:47:10Z")
Apparently there’s a patron saint of [Medical Technologists](http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1200)! Well, ok, it says _technicians_ but I’m going to assume St. Albert is flexible.
One thing I wholeheartedly disagree with though, is a quote from lower on the page:
> [@](#):
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> “There are some who desire knowledge merely for its own sake; and that is shameful curiosity.”
What is _that_ about?
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/5 "2005-03-04T03:16:08Z")
Here’s another site for patron saints.
[http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm](http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm)
Apparently there are several saints who look after us bakers, but the one who focuses most directly on it is St. Honorius of Amiens.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/6 "2005-03-04T03:56:07Z")
> [@Garfield226](#):
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> [Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=21381) the original thread. It was Swimming Riddles.
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> I’m apparently the patron saint of blond teenage no-talents with breast implants.
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> And candy corn.
…damn you’re good.
Not surprisingly, my memory fails me. I’m simply the Patron Saint of Thermometers. Still, mercurial isn’t so far off. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/7 "2005-03-04T10:01:03Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> One thing I wholeheartedly disagree with though, is a quote from lower on the page:
> What is _that_ about?
Individual thoughts and opinions are discouraged.
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/8 "2005-03-04T10:26:47Z")
Hmm, counting myself as a librarian, I get **St. Jerome**
Hmm,
> [@](#):
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> St. Jerome
> (345-420)
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> Most of the saints are remembered for some outstanding virtue or devotion which they practiced, but Jerome is remembered too frequently for his bad temper! It is true that he had a very bad temper and could use a vitriolic pen, but his love for God and his Son Jesus Christ was extraordinarily intense; anyone who taught error was an enemy of God and truth, and St. Jerome went after him or her with his mighty and sometimes sarcastic pen.
> …
Bad temper, eh?
Moi?
Who the hell says I’ve got a bad temper? I’ll kick the bastard!
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/9 "2005-03-04T19:35:30Z")
Oh come on now… surely more of you have a patron saint.
I know of a few who really need one!
_bump_
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### Author:  [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/10 "2005-03-04T21:14:27Z")
St Joseph of Cupertino.
Patron saint of Aviators, and not-so-coincidentally, also my confirmation name.
My new [namesake](http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/stideshg.html) is just as good.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/11 "2005-03-04T22:00:33Z")
Maybe someone can help me out with the terminology.
Is a Patron Saint the saint with whom you most identify? Is it job specific? or related to your name or the day you were born? Can you have more than one?
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### Author:  [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/12 "2005-03-04T22:22:40Z")
Meh, I’ve got bunches of ‘em, none particularily fun. There’s ol’ Veronica and her stigmata, Gregory the great who went on to be pope and one of the Catharines who was known for how spectacularily unspectacular she was.
Where are the really freaky ones who were ripped apart or never took baths? I want one of them!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/13 "2005-03-04T22:44:08Z")
St. John Chrysostom
\*John Chrysostom’s preaching, by word and example, exemplifies the role of the prophet to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. \*
“What is nobler than to mold the character of the young? I consider that he who knows how to form the youthful mind is truly greater than all painters, sculptors and all others of that sort” (St. John Chrysostom).
As a high school debate teacher, I kinda like this guy! 😃
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### Author:  [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/14 "2005-03-04T23:17:37Z")
There’s a patron saint of difficult marriages? You’d think she’d be absolutely run off her feet.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/15 "2005-03-05T01:33:18Z")
Let’s see, by combining my names and careers…
one with **two** feast days, March 19 and May Day: Joseph, husband of Mary
one that is NOT a once-living person: Archangel Raphael
and one that is very clear WAS a real person: Thomas More
And going for my avocations and past work, I’d also get some leverage from Archangel Gabriel, and one not-yet-saint, the Blessed Fra Angelico.
Not bad, after all.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/16 "2005-03-05T01:56:39Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> Is a Patron Saint the saint with whom you most identify? Is it job specific? or related to your name or the day you were born? Can you have more than one?
For most Catholics, your patron saint is arrived at by onomastics. Traditionally, your parents give you a Saint’s name upon Christening, and they, or you if you’re of age, may choose another one upon Confirmation, to invoke those Saints’ good traits and ask their intercession for you. These need NOT be your everyday-use name: you can be Dweezil Xavier Michael Jones or Wildflower Magdalene Dymphna Smith and even your Priest know and address you primarily by “Dweezil” or “Wildflower”. In some Catholic cultures you are customarily placed under the protection of the saint that is commemorated on the day you were born or the day of your christening, but that’s not mandatory at all.
You can also have a saint assigned to your Situation/Occupation – If you’re an artilleryman, you are under the aegis of St. Barbara; a TV technician, Clare of Assisi; a news anchorman, Gabriel; if a librarian/information scientist, Isidore of Seville. And so on.
For non-person entities like countries, you can have the entity specifically placed under the advocacy of a particular patron by the Church. Or, an individual becomes a devotee of a particular Saint.
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### Author:  [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/17 "2005-03-05T02:34:11Z")
Technically I’m an attorney, but I’ve never worked professionally as anything other than a writer or editor. Looks like I’m going with [St. Francis de Sales](http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1270).
Upon reading the bio, I see that St. Francis was also a lawyer-writer. I guess there’s a saint for everything.
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/18 "2005-03-05T02:40:21Z")
My patron saint is the same as yours **QuickSilver**
I say we canonize **Cecil** and make him The Patron Saint of Truth and The Straight Dope.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/19 "2005-03-05T02:50:59Z")
Or you can adopt [a patron saint](http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Polycarp.htm) when you’re confirmed. My feast day was two weeks ago, but it didn’t get noticed here.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-patron-saint-in-here/292844/20 "2005-03-05T02:58:34Z")
> [@Polycarp](#):
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> Or you can adopt [a patron saint](http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Polycarp.htm) when you’re confirmed. My feast day was two weeks ago, but it didn’t get noticed here.
FWIW, I notices St. Polycarp while browsing the list and immediately thought of you. Then I noticed he was the Patron Saint of earaches. Not as sexy as some of his better known compatriots… but still, next time I have an earache… I’m coming to you. 🙂
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