Vocations and the Church

Any of these can be asked. There is no order of precedence and no wrong choice, so pick whoever the story fits.

• St. Alphonsus LiguoriA lawyer, a moral theologian, and a lifelong sufferer of scrupulosity and crippling arthritis.
• St. Catherine of SienaA dyer's daughter who told the pope to his face to come home to Rome, and he did.
• St. Charles BorromeoThe reforming cardinal who stayed in plague-struck Milan when the officials fled.
• St. DominicFounder of the Order of Preachers, and the name tradition attaches to the rosary itself.
• St. Francis XavierIgnatius's roommate, who carried the faith from India to Japan and died within sight of China.
• St. Ignatius of LoyolaA vain soldier rebuilt by a cannonball, who wrote the manual for finding what God wants from you.
• St. John VianneyThe failing seminary student who became the confessor all of France travelled to see.
• St. ScholasticaBenedict's twin sister, who prayed up a thunderstorm to keep her brother one more night.
• St. Thérèse of LisieuxWrote that small ordinary things done with love are the whole of it.
• St. Thomas AquinasThe Church's greatest mind, locked in a tower by his own family, asked for by students.
• St. Alphonsus RodríguezWidowed doorkeeper, forty years at one door; patron of doorkeepers and the overlooked.Page coming
• St. AnsgarApostle of Scandinavia; patron of missions that fail first.Page coming
• St. Charles de FoucauldHermit among the Tuareg, killed at his door; patron of hidden lives.Page coming
• St. Claude de la ColombièreMargaret Mary's steady confessor; patron of spiritual directors.Page coming
• St. EphremThe deacon who taught theology in hymns; patron of church musicians and poets.Page coming
• St. John Chrysostom"Golden-mouthed" preacher exiled for naming the sins of the powerful; patron of preachers.Page coming
• St. John DamasceneDefended the holy images; patron of iconographers and artists.Page coming
• St. John NepomuceneDied rather than break the seal of confession; patron of confessors and against slander.Page coming
• St. John of ÁvilaThe preacher whose sermon converted John of God; patron of Spanish clergy.Page coming
• St. Justin MartyrThe philosopher who found the faith reasonable; patron of philosophers and apologists.Page coming
• St. LawrenceRoasted alive and joked about it; patron of cooks and deacons.Page coming
• St. Leopold MandićTiny, stammering confessor, hours daily in the box; patron of confessors and of people with speech difficulties.Page coming
• St. Manuel González GarcíaBishop of the abandoned tabernacle; patron of Eucharistic adoration.Page coming
• St. Paschal BaylonLay brother and cook; patron of Eucharistic devotion and of kitchens.Page coming
• St. PeterThe fisherman who denied three times and led anyway; patron of the Church.Page coming
• St. Peter Julian EymardApostle of the Eucharist; patron of adoration chapels.Page coming
• St. Rafael Arnáiz BarónYoung Trappist with diabetes; patron of diabetics and of interrupted vocations.Page coming
• St. StephenThe first martyr; patron of deacons.Page coming