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[Edward Michael]

I have now read back over all the saints in the previous pages.  It is quite impressive.   You have been active more than anyone so I knew you would come up with something that would be good even if your daughter asked you to change your decision.

This Forum is no Utopia but it is a lot of fun.

[cajunrick]

This Saint was married twice and the father of four children.  He was a very high ranking official of government who refused to abandon his faith on the King's order.  He was tortured and beheaded.

He was declared patron of politicians and statesmen by Servant of God John Paul II in 2000.

So do we need a hint?  It's Showtime!

[Edward Michael]

I thought I already gave the hints..... and you want More?  To the Tower with you!

[cajunrick]

Hey, I'm just trying to help stir up some interest.  You don't have to cut my head off!

[Edward Michael]

hmmmm is this saint associated with a particular season of the year or is he a man for all seasons?

[Edward Michael]

No one is going to jump in here, so I will:

St Thomas More
"I love my King and my country but I love God more".

He is a great example of having the "right order"  in your life.   God first always!

[cajunrick]

St Thomas More

You're right, of course.  Tag, you're it.

[Edward Michael]

Here is one for you.

This Bishop stood almost alone against his king who had defied the one true faith.  The good Bishop was martyred.  He was executed by a king whom he had tutored  when the king was a  child.  After his beheading, his head was displayed in public and then thrown in the river.

He held true to the faith when many others committed the sin of apostasy.  He wrote to another bishop who had apostatized:

"Had you but tasted one drop of the sweetness which inebriates the souls of those religious from their worship of this Sacrament, you would never have written as you have, nor have apostatized from the faith that you formerly professed."

A true successor of the apostles.

[Edward Michael]

OK  here is a clue.

The King was Henry the 8th

[cajunrick]

A true successor of the apostles.

I was hoping someone else would answer.  I'll hold mine off until later tonight.

[Edward Michael]

Rick - No one else  must be following the thread right now.  Go ahead and post the correct answer and do one of your own. 

I chose this saint to honor the courageous Archbishop of St Louis, Raymond Burke.  Abp Burke is a true successor of the apostles.   He is a prayerful holy man.  I hope we have more than one such in the USA.  i am a little discouraged after Cardinal George's cowardly retreat from Mrs Bill Clinton this week.

[cajunrick]

If I'm not mistaken, it's St. John Fisher.

[Edward Michael]

Bingo Rick!  St John Fisher, Pray for us and our bishops.

[cajunrick]

A native of Italy, this saint emigrated to Brazil with her parents as a ten year old child.  She made her First Holy Communion at 12, and began to work in ministry including teaching catechism to children, cleaning the church, and visiting the sick.  At age 25 she and a friend began caring for the sick as vowed religious, and founded a religious order.  She was elected "Mother Superior for Life" in 1903, but resigned the position in 1909 at the order of her bishop, who sent her to care for the sick at a hospice.  She returned to the order in 1918 and spent the rest of her life caring for elderly members of her order.

She was acknowledged as “Venerable Mother Foundress” in 1933, and was honored during the order's 50th anniversary in 1940.  She died in 1942 of complications from diabetes.  Her final words were "God's will be done."
She was beatified as the first saint of Brazil in 1991, and canonized in 2002, by Pope John Paul II.

[Edward Michael]

My guess is St Paulina of the  Agonizing Heart of Jesus.