Zone1 about Patron Saints in general

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Today is also the feast day for Joan

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Not St. Joan of Arc?

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Not St. Joan of Arc?

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It is a Joan of Chantal

 

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saint Boniface for Germany

 

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For Spain it is Santiago

 

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It is a Joan of Chantal

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Thank you! I always learn so much from you! Never heard of her. I will do some research.

I tried looking up just "St. Joan", and I got dozens of hits on "St. Joan of Arc".

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She was born 1572 in Dijon, France
yes, there are many saintly Joans!

 

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Thank you! I always learn so much from you! Never heard of her. I will do some research.

I tried looking up just "St. Joan", and I got dozens of hits on "St. Joan of Arc".

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I hope you can find this Joan of Chantal.
She had aninteresting life!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

It is a Joan of Chantal

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Very interesting woman! She will require much more study!

St. Jane Frances de Chantal - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

What a way to start a marriage! Jane no sooner arrived at her new home then she discovered she might lose it. Her husband, Christophe, had not only inherited the title of baron but enormous debts as well. But Jane had not come to the marriage empty-handed. She brought with her a deep faith ...

www.catholic.org

What my eyes immediately went to was how she struggled to forgive the person who killed her husband. I have fought the same fight -- to forgive the person who killed my husband -- until I very recently had an amazing experience -- of forgiving that person very spontaneously.

Forgiveness has always been a struggle to understand for lots of people.

Thank you, as always, for sharing your knowledge.

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Very interesting woman! She will require much more study!

What my eyes immediately went to was how she struggled to forgive the person who killed her husband. I have fought the same fight -- to forgive the person who killed my husband -- until I very recently had an amazing experience -- of forgiving that person very spontaneously.

Forgiveness has always been a struggle to understand for lots of people.

Thank you, as always, for sharing your knowledge.

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you are welcome!

yes, I was also reminded of you when I read that her husband got killed in an hunting accident.

 

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Btw …. In the US her feast day got exchanged with Mary of Guadeloupe

 

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Btw …. In the US her feast day got exchanged with Mary of Guadeloupe

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Yes, the article I linked cleared that up.

There are SO MANY Saints for us to learn about.

I just read that St. Joan (Jane) is the Patron Saint of windows and of in-laws! Amazing! I'll never remember all of this!

There doesn't seem to be a common medal of St. Joan. I've found a few sterling silver ones.

 

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Yes, the lifes of saints make good reading
poor Protestnts miss this tremenous tradition

 

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Yes, the lifes of saints make good reading
poor Protestnts miss this tremenous tradition

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Well, Lutherans recite the Apostles Creed -- they believe in the Communion of Saints -- but not very seriously. I spoke to a Lutheran pastor who told me that they have the same goal as Catholics -- to become Saints.

My Lutheran friend was clueless when I asked her to talk about her favorite Saints, but she has since become very interested. She sends me Facebook posts about different Saints -- specifically St. Padre Pio and St. Faustina. She sees a Padre Pio Holy Card whenever we drive around in my car.

But otherwise, I agree. They miss a whole lot by not studying the Saints the way we do.

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Dec 13 is the day of Lucia of Syracuse.
Famous in Sweden as the Queen of Light!

 

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Today

Franzisca Xaviera Cabrini

 

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Brilliant! I will cut some twigs from my apple tree on Barbara's Feast Day!

Interesting story.

https://www.iamexpat.de/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/barbarazweig-why-germans-cut-cherry-branch-december-4-barbaratag

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Are your twigs in bloom now?

 

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Are your twigs in bloom now?

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No, sadly. It was too cold to go out.

Yes, it gets that cold here.

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[DennisPTate]

There are Patron Saints for many topics.
For Cities, persons, and professions.

Do you know some?

No, I believe that whatever amount of time that I have to put into prayer I had better go directly to The Being of Light of near death experience fame who will review my life with me when I die. I am convinced that this is Jesus in His resurrected body.

[Near death experiencer John J. Davis] :

Life Review​

There is a building in Turkey called the Temple of Artemis, which looked very much like the orientation building—this beautiful Greek building with columns. I don’t know why, but so many of the buildings my guide took me to looked like they were made of marble. The places he took me to seemed almost like being on a college campus, with separate buildings for each department. My guide only took me to a small area of the other side, so what I saw wasn’t everything in totality—it was only a small part. A lot of the buildings he took me to looked like they were made of marble in the Greek type of design.

He took me to many different places. The first place he took me to was another beautiful Greek-looking building. It was rectangular and had columns all along the sides and the front. I cannot express how large these buildings were, but we have nothing like them here on Earth. They were absolutely gigantic.

He took me to the outside so I could see what it looked like, and then he took me inside into one of the rooms there. I was in a large, round room that looked like a traditional theater that we have here. Instead of having a screen in the front, the movie screens were all on the top in a big circle. There must have been fifteen or twenty of these screens.

My guide said, “Everybody has a life review.” As soon as he said that, all of a sudden, each one of these screens lit up. It looked like there was a movie playing. As I looked closer, I realized that every one of these screens had a different period of my lifetime. One was of me as a little toddler. Another screen showed me as an adolescent. Another screen showed me the first day of kindergarten. Every screen was playing a different aspect of my life up to the age that I was at 21.

The reason for that is you want to see how you did. Did you accomplish everything that you set out to accomplish?

Here is the wonderful thing about my experience: I was raised Catholic, and I had a lot of worries and fears about judgment. I found out that nobody judges your life except for you. You are the only judge of your life. The only person who goes with you during your life review is your spirit guide, because they are the ones who helped you plan your life. It was an amazing thing to realize that your lifetime isn’t judged—you’re the only one who judges it.

The thing that is so unique about the life review is that you’re watching these different screens playing, and you can feel what you were feeling in that time period. There was a scene on one of the screens that I had totally forgotten about. God and the other side know that what is really important about your lifetime is how you treat others. Do you live a life of kindness, of compassion, of helping?
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Life Review - John J. Davis Near-Death Experience

There is a building in Turkey called the Temple of Artemis, which looked very much like the orientation building—this beautiful Greek building with columns...

johnjdavisnde.com

 

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Today is the day of Francis of Sales
in German Franz von Sales

Patron Saint of writers and journalists