I'm in grade 8, and I'm 14 years old .
I'm taking my confirmation class this year, and I don't know which saint to choose.
I like dancing

Your best bet is to go to the public library and ask a reference librarian for help. There are saint name books at 282 to check out and some reference books in the same number. There's a description of each saint.

One boy I helped liked St. Blaise Pascal because the first named sounded like "Blaze" and he thought that was cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints
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St. Vitus is the patron saint of dancers (and comedians), but it's also the name of a nervous condition (and it's a male name). St. Cecelia is the patron saint of musicians. Moses' and Aaron's sister Miriam danced, but I'm not sure if you can use her name since she's not a saint. (Exodus 15:20, "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.")

Saint Vitus is the patron saint for dancing.

One boy I helped liked St. Blaise Pascal because the first named sounded like "Blaze" and he thought that was cool.



You may be confusing Blaise Pascal with St. Blaise - two very different people.

Blaise Pascal lived in the 16th century in France and was a mathematician who was an early influence on computers. He also wrote Pensees which many consider to be the most perfect French prose ever written.

St. Blaise was purported to be a Bishop in the 4th century who performed a number of miracles and who was remembered in the Catholic Church on February 3 - the day of "the blessing of the throats".

St. Blaise is not attested to historically, but his veneration has lasted an amazingly long time. He may be legendary.

You may be confusing Blaise Pascal with St. Blaise - two very different people.


I was going to ask about that too. Plaise Pascal was a huge contributor to mathematics and science, so I was surprised to see that he might have be a Roman Catholic Saint. But I can't find anything on-line to support this notion. Probably a case of confused names here - sort of like thinking that St. George was George Washington.