Monday, February 22, 2010

This is a really cool quiz I got from Emmy Cecilia. It's more of a Your Personality-Saints match up.

My Results


Your saint is Anthony of Padua.

Anthony of Padua
1195–1231
Feast day: June 13
Canonized in 1232
Anthony is the patron saint of lost articles.

Everywhere Anthony of Padua spoke, he generated spiritual renewal. Anthony could be considered the “Billy Graham” of the thirteenth century. Thousands turned out to hear him speak. Despite his awesome speaking abilities, St. Anthony was physically unimpressive and reticent in his personal life. This combination of opposing attributes is intriguing. Before he was discovered as a great speaker, Anthony served in the kitchen at St. Paul’s monastery in Forli, Italy.

Many people pray to Anthony to recover lost items. Perhaps the practice stems from the occasion when a young friar stole one of Anthony’s valuable manuscripts. Anthony prayed for its return, and a menacing vision stopped the fleeing youth who immediately returned it to the saint.

Poverty is true riches. So precious is poverty that God’s Only-Begotten Son came on earth in search of it. In heaven he had superabundance of all goods. Nothing was lacking there but poverty.
—Anthony of Padua

Other saints whose stories may interest you: John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, Bridget of Sweden


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