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Saint names

43 replies

SpareBread · 30/08/2021 21:34

What are your favourite names that have been the names of Saints?

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seething1234 · 30/08/2021 22:48

Blaise
Kyran

TangoTarantella · 30/08/2021 22:45

Aidan
Crispin
Godric
Edwin
Wilfrid

Brollypackedforscottishholiday · 30/08/2021 22:39

I have a Gabriel

LynetteScavo · 30/08/2021 22:39

St Tatiana

St Martha

St Merryn

St James

St Joseph

St Maximilian

(DD insists will call her future child Bede)

MinesAMassiveSalad · 30/08/2021 22:37

Francis
Clare
Katherine ( maybe Barbara)
Magnus
Along the lines of names I like but wouldn't use: the Cornish saints in place names like
St Austell, St Merryn, St Kew, St Blazey, St Ives.

WeDidntMeanToGoToSea · 30/08/2021 22:23

Boniface
Columba
Lucia
Swithin
Cecilia

HerRoyalRisesAgain · 30/08/2021 22:22

Bernadette
Christopher

SionnachRua · 30/08/2021 22:17

Anthony ( patron saint of lost things, always the man to call on with an aul prayer)
Patrick
Eric
Daniel
Julian
Christopher
Dominic

And I would never, ever, ever use it...but I quite like Bede!

annacondom · 30/08/2021 22:16

Sebastian.

tillytoodles1 · 30/08/2021 22:15

Therese.

PeskyRooks · 30/08/2021 22:09

Patrick
George
Mary
Joan

MrsSnarget · 30/08/2021 21:45

Bede
Ignatius

Cecilia
Leoba

LubaLuca · 30/08/2021 21:45

Barbara and Jeremy.

ParkheadParadise · 30/08/2021 21:45

Anthony
Matthew
Patrick
Peter
Jude

Catherine
Teresa

Classica · 30/08/2021 21:40

Catholicism has a loooooooot of saints. There's even an obscure Irish saint called Saint Tallulah which I always find amusing.

PetuniaButterworth · 30/08/2021 21:37

I love Jude for a girl. He was the patron Saint of lost causes.

Babalish · 30/08/2021 21:36

Jude

GoodnightGrandma · 30/08/2021 21:36

I love St John (pronounced Sinjun)