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EmilyK
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Posted: Oct 12 2009 at 7:08pm \| IP Logged

cowboy.

I'm ecstatic that DD (age 6) wants to be Blessed Kateri. I want to find a cowboy saint for two DS (3 & 1).

Any ideas out there?

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Posted: Oct 12 2009 at 7:23pm \| IP Logged

Rats! If only Roy Rogers had been Catholic! My boys just love Roy.

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Posted: Oct 12 2009 at 7:39pm \| IP Logged

Yee haw....

Don't think I can help though - there really are not any cowboy saints - since cowboys are a particular element of western US history without much piety associated with them

. And any missionary priests of that time and place won't look too much like a cowboy - which I'm sure is what you are going for.

Now the closest to a cowboy saint might be Eusebio Kino - the padre on horseback - as he was known in the southwest. His riding attire might come close .

He is not a canonized saint, but his cause has been opened.

We always hoped to find a saint that dressed like a "prairie girl" -

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Posted: Oct 12 2009 at 8:18pm \| IP Logged

I was going to say Fr. Kino too!

Mary M. for your prairie girl you could do Sister Blandina Segale. Google her too.

Oh and a big cowboy stretch would be Blessed Miguel Pro. He wasn't in our American West, but he was in Mexico. He dressed in disguises to get to people, a mechanic, a policeman, even pretending to have a girlfriend. He was always dodging the gov't. A bit of a stretch...but he was cowboy at heart maybe???

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Posted: Oct 13 2009 at 7:59pm \| IP Logged

Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio looks kind of like a Mexican cowboy. He went around riding a horse and waving the Mexican flag with our Lady of Guadalupe in the middle of the flag instead of the eagle on the cactus. This was in the time of the Cristeros in Mexico. (Of which, btw, my grandfather was a general and got shot while escaping execution!)

Jessica at Shower of Roses has a picture of her son as Blessed Jose.

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