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Have you got your 2013 patron saint?
Using Jennifer Fulwiler's Saint's Name Generator I got St. Adelaide of Brugundy. Patron saint of abuse victims and princesses... interesting
I think it's a good way to get to know new saints, or become even more familiar with one I already know.
So what about you? What saint, if any, will be your patron saint for 2013?

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Line

"I can do anything through Christ crucified, for I know truly that He does not lay a heavier load on His creatures than they can bear."
~ St. Catherine of Siena

Our Father does not inspire us to do what cannot be done

I used the patron saint finder here http://truthandcharity.net/starting-the ... off-right/ and drew St. Faustina Kowalska which made me very apprehensive about the new year. I don't know... I find her writings scary.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

I like saint Faustina and the Divine Mercy Chaplet, but it took me forever to get through her Diary. It's heavy...

... and I had to try the saint generator you linked to, so my second patron saint for 2013 will be Saint Agnes

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Line

"I can do anything through Christ crucified, for I know truly that He does not lay a heavier load on His creatures than they can bear."
~ St. Catherine of Siena

Our Father does not inspire us to do what cannot be done

If you want to put stock into the results from random number generators it's mildly amusing that on the 'truth and charity' site, St Faustina has been 'assigned' to drawings of the number 42 ... which is, as anybody who has read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything."

p.s., a nice feature of the site that Line linked to is that the html code includes a 'hidden' litany to the saints. very nice touch.

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Jamais le mal n’aura le dernier mot. La foi et l’amour déplacent les montagnes de la haine.
- Marguerite (Maggy) Barankitse

Hahaha! Yes, I also had to have another one. St. Barnabas, patronage: Against Hailstorms; Cyprus; Invoked as Peacemaker.

Where do you see 42?


Sorry, what are you talking about?

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

That made me laugh

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Line

"I can do anything through Christ crucified, for I know truly that He does not lay a heavier load on His creatures than they can bear."
~ St. Catherine of Siena

Our Father does not inspire us to do what cannot be done

Hi Grace,

It's in the 'source code'. The page that Line linked to uses the following correspondence between numbers and saints:

http://www.truthandcharity.net/js/drawsaint.js



Again, it's just a matter of looking at the source code ... what browser do you use? Most will let you look at the raw html code that generates what you see on screen.

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Jamais le mal n’aura le dernier mot. La foi et l’amour déplacent les montagnes de la haine.
- Marguerite (Maggy) Barankitse

Grace,


wow!

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Line

"I can do anything through Christ crucified, for I know truly that He does not lay a heavier load on His creatures than they can bear."
~ St. Catherine of Siena

Our Father does not inspire us to do what cannot be done

Are you a computer programmer or do most normal people know this stuff?

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

I'm not a programmer by trade, but I used to hand code html for our work web site back in the day ...

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Jamais le mal n’aura le dernier mot. La foi et l’amour déplacent les montagnes de la haine.
- Marguerite (Maggy) Barankitse

Aha!

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla