# Name that saint! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 3, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779 "2014-01-03T07:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/1 "2014-01-03T07:09:11Z")
[By request.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16980648) My proposal: An older boy, not yet a teen, one of those who are bright-blonde as little kids and have light-brown or ash-blonde hair as adults, holding a palm of martyrdom; he may be holding a spear or halberd, or holding the palm as if it was one, and has a defiant expression. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/2 "2014-01-03T10:38:26Z")
Is the kid formally canonized? If so, from what tradition? Roman Catholic or Orthodox? ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/3 "2014-01-03T14:34:43Z")
A halberd? Mmmm, what’s he wearing? Is this in Spain? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/4 "2014-01-03T19:49:43Z")
My guess is the Tsarevich Alexei. Many Orthodox revere his family(four sisters, mother, and the Tsar Nicholas) as martyrs. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/5 "2014-01-03T21:04:26Z")
[St. Pedro Calungsod?](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_8C1YEtgFAw/UM_-MQ6eO0I/AAAAAAAABxk/rqJsa0mSlqk/s320/Pedro+Calungsod+02.jpg) My turn. Former treasurer, roasted alive and naked on an iron grate. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/6 "2014-01-03T21:34:28Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > [St. Pedro Calungsod?](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_8C1YEtgFAw/UM_-MQ6eO0I/AAAAAAAABxk/rqJsa0mSlqk/s320/Pedro+Calungsod+02.jpg) > > My turn. Former treasurer, roasted alive and naked on an iron grate. Oh that one is easy!(I think) St. Lawrence?I remember reading that when I was a kid, in a book a friend had. The mental image sticks with you!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/7 "2014-01-04T07:52:57Z")
Baker, correct! He is my birtday saint. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/8 "2014-01-04T08:57:49Z")
Here’s one from me. Reluctant bishop(aren’t they all?) Born to a noble family French Sometimes depicted with a hand coming from heaven offering him the Host for communion, or with a baker’s peel and three loaves, to symbolize the Trinity. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/9 "2014-01-05T00:32:46Z")
Nope, still pondering that one… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/10 "2014-01-05T01:02:18Z")
Here’s another hint: Early seventh century, I’ve see a certain type of business named for him. Oh, and his nursemaid didn’t believe in his holiness. > [@Baker](#): > > Here’s one from me. > > Reluctant bishop(aren’t they all?) > > Born to a noble family > > French > > Sometimes depicted with a hand coming from heaven offering him the Host for communion, or with a baker’s peel and three loaves, to symbolize the Trinity. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/11 "2014-01-05T16:26:24Z")
Honoratus of Amiens, but I had to cheat. She gets crucified, but also has an epically awesome hipster beard. (any regional/language variant acceptable) ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/12 "2014-01-05T17:21:05Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > Honoratus of Amiens, but I had to cheat. > > She gets crucified, but also has an epically awesome hipster beard. (any regional/language variant acceptable) Cool. I never heard of Honoratius and of the [female saint you](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilgefortis) mentioned. Ok, I will to try and make the next one hard to google. (Very) recent saint, from Italy, always wore gloves. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/13 "2014-01-05T17:31:09Z")
Papa Pio? The one with the stigmata? ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/14 "2014-01-05T18:43:27Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Papa Pio? The one with the stigmata? That’s the one! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/15 "2014-01-06T02:06:52Z")
I first read about Papa Pio in an article about an American girl, a Baptist, who supposedly showed signs of the stigmata. Don’t know what ever became of her, but several other folks who’d exhibited them were also featured, including Pio. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/16 "2014-01-06T05:21:56Z")
Sorry people, those cabins in the mountains turned out to be more in the boondocks than expected… some of my friends were going into net withdrawal! The OP was about St Pelayo, Pelai, Peyo or Paio, patron saint of the purity of children. It’s one of those cases where the better stories are those least likely to approach the truth. The most likely to be true version is that he was the nephew of Hermoginio, bishop of Tuy; uncle and nephew were captured by the troops of Abd-a-Rahman III after the battle of Valdejunquera. The uncle was released first; the nephew stayed in captivity for three years and was eventually executed. The stories say that, being a pretty kid, he received and rejected advances, hence his patronage. Papa Pio? PADRE Pio, or Pappa Pio! He was a monk, not a Pope! (Padre is Father, Pappa is Daddy) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/17 "2014-01-06T10:42:15Z")
Oops, my bad, I was doing the spelling from memory and forgot the extra “p” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/18 "2014-01-06T12:10:34Z")
I’m probably going to hell for the fact that I read the title in my mind like the Wheel of Fortune intro. “Name! That! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINT!” Anyway, I’ll throw one in which is either really hard or really easy, since this is a story that’s always kind of amused me; A boy is born to a pagan king known for persecuting Christians, and the king is told by a fortune-teller that his son would grow up to become a Christian. Therefore, the king keeps the prince cloistered in the palace; but despite the king’s best efforts, the boy meets a Christian beggar who converts him, and the prince runs away from the palace to become a monk. ---
**Author:** ![Cognitive\_Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cognitive\_Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognitive_Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/19 "2014-01-06T12:15:07Z")
Saints are craziness personified. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-saint/677779/20 "2014-01-06T20:24:32Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I’m probably going to hell for the fact that I read the title in my mind like the Wheel of Fortune intro. “Name! That! SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINT!” > > Anyway, I’ll throw one in which is either really hard or really easy, since this is a story that’s always kind of amused me; > > A boy is born to a pagan king known for persecuting Christians, and the king is told by a fortune-teller that his son would grow up to become a Christian. Therefore, the king keeps the prince cloistered in the palace; but despite the king’s best efforts, the boy meets a Christian beggar who converts him, and the prince runs away from the palace to become a monk. Whoa, that’s one I don’t know. If nobody comes along in a day ot two I’ll Google it.