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Saint’s Names…Female
Tired of Mary, Martha, Anne, Elizabeth, Joan, and that tired crew of saints? Here are some less-used and abused names of female saints for your Catholic baby.
Drusilla:
Dymphna: patron saint of insanity.
Germaine:
Genevieve: patron saint of disasters.
Lydia:
Marina (of Antioch): patron saint of death, among other things. Also known as Margaret of Antioch.
Saint’s Names…Male
So you’re Catholic, and it looks like your son is going to be the thirtieth Michael, seventy-first Matthew, twentieth Mark, or fifteenth Joseph at St. Drogo’s Church of the Holy Blessed Ascension of Christ. Why not give a few of these saints a go?
Gabriel: an archangel.
Jude: patron saint of lost causes
Luke: writer of the Gospel of Luke
Marcellus:
Matthias: (for those fifty-nine of you who REALLY had your heart set on Matthew, but are looking for a counterweight to his sister Germaine)
Raphael: an archangel.