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Lovehound
July 17th, 2006, 09:58 PM
Does anyone here do any prayers or votive offerings to any of the saints? Do they have a favorite saint they focus on?

Myself, some of my favorite saints include:

Patrick
Columba
Francis
Bridget
Hildegard (von Bingen) - and I'm not 100% sure if she's a saint, really.

Any others?

Agaliha
July 17th, 2006, 10:20 PM
I'm not Christian or Catholic. Or theistic.
Yet I am fond of some saints. Michael. Gabriel. Francis. Lucy. Mother Theresa. Mary Magdalene.
--Michael from when I was into the Christian phase of my life (it was quite short). He's the partron of police officers and I wanted to be one (for 8+ years of my life). I got a metal of him and wore it for a long time.
--Gabriel. I just love that name. I like what he's the patron of. Communications. Writing. Speaking. Things like that. He's also an important angel.
--Francis. Animals. I love them. I like some of his prayers and poems too.
--Lucy. Patron of blindness. My vision is crap, any worse and I'd be legally blind. I wrote a prayer to her once...long ago.
--Mother Teresa. Shoud be a given, she was an amazing woman.
--Mary Magdalene. She's just interesting. With an interesting past and history. There is lots to discover about her.
Oh and Mother Mary.

I don't pray to any saints though. Or gods.

David19
July 18th, 2006, 07:29 PM
Like Agaliha, i'm not Christian or Catholic (but i do believe in the existance of the gods, i'm a 'hard' polytheist so i believe every god exists, including the Christian god, Jesus, Mary, the Saint's, etc).

I'm interested in the Saint's, especially one called St. Tarcisis, he's a patron of gay people (or gay Catholic's) (and that's true), he was a 13 year old boy who died in the arms of a soldier (his lover?), he sounds an interesting Saint, and i thought about maybe just looking into him, maybe honouring him in someway (despite not being Christian or Catholic).

I'm also interested in other Saint's too.