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Have there been any saints whose names kept popping up in your life enough that you decided to take a more serious look at them?
I now have two children who were born on August 21. Their late paternal great-grandfather (who died when my husband was about 9) was also born on that day. (And for that matter, the late mother of my believing Christian but non-Catholic doula, who played a pretty big role during my labor with the second Aug. 21 baby.) It's the feast day of Pope St. Pius X. Well, my husband was baptized in a church named after the same saint, and his parents were married in that church. St. Pius is also a patron of the archdiocese of Atlanta, where my husband's parents lived for a number of years (his father died earlier this year but his mother still lives there, along with some other family members.)
And today I read that St. Pius X was ordained a priest this day in 1858. Today is the anniversary of the Baptism of our 4yo son, one of the children who was born on August 21.
From what I've read already, Pope St. Pius X sounds to me like a particularly interesting saint. Maybe we should name our homeschool after him or something like that! Though the only child who's "officially" being homeschooled at this time was born on the feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity and baptized on the 82nd birthday of Pope John Paul II.
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Well our newest little one turned out to be a boy.. but when I was pregnant I kept running into the name Cecelia.. we'd never considered it before.. and I mentioned it to my dh and he liked it and it was the name we would have used for a girl. Why we kept running into the name when the baby was a boy I don't know..
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Our Lord continues to place Mary in my life.
I can run, but can't hide. LOL
No, seriously, I always try to step around Mary, having her at a respectful, yet comfortable distance. (That's hard to explain properly.....)
Any way, Our Lord has made sure I don't overlook His momma.  
Off the top of my head:
DH and I were married on September 8, which now I know is the birthday of Mary.
My oldest son's birthday is September 15, the Memorial for Our Lady of Sorrows.
I had a miscarriage on August 15, the Assumption.
Youngest dd's birthday and oldest ds was baptised on December 28 the Holy Family (Mary), and we were told of my father's death on the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, Jan 1.
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Somewhat off-topic on my own thread again, but this morning my husband and son went on a field trip to a blood bank with some of the parish homeschoolers.
Guess whose feast day one of the parents just e-mailed to let the group know is today? St. Januarius, patron of blood banks 
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I always think it is neat that our daughter is named Bernadette and her baptism fell on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
The Divine Mercy devotion has been popping into my life ever since high school when my polish grandmother and I spent a day driving out to her old polish parish to donate a lovely image of the devotion. "Jesus, I trust in You" were the only words my tired brain could wrap around when I was losing another baby through miscarriage a few years back. I did not know that it was the part of the Divine Mercy image until a few years later. I fell into a deep, peaceful sleep after saying that over and over again. Then, when my polish grandmother died, she requested that all of her daughters recite the Divine Mercy chaplet after the rosary. None of them knew it, so they didn't do it and my mom felt very guilty about that. I told her she should learn it and recite it during the Church's novena for it. I also made a promise at her grave that I would relearn it. We recited it as a family during the novena after Easter and right after that I decided I wanted to read Sister Faustina's diaries. A few days later my husband found a copy of Sister Faustina's book, Divine Mercy In My Soul at a library bag sale. I think Our Lord may be trying to tell me something. T 
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Topic: developing interest in particular saints
