Faith, doubt, and returning
Any of these can be asked. There is no order of precedence and no wrong choice, so pick whoever the story fits.
- St. Benedict of NursiaWrote the rule that shaped western monasticism, and is invoked against evil.
- St. Faustina KowalskaA Polish nun with a fourth-grade education whose diary became the Divine Mercy devotion.
- St. Mary MagdaleneThe first witness of the resurrection, and the patron of second chances.
- St. MonicaPrayed seventeen years for a son who had left the faith.
- St. PatrickTaken as a slave, went back freely, and is invoked against fear.
- St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.
- St. Teresa of ÁvilaA Carmelite reformer who prayed dry for twenty years, asked for by headache sufferers and anyone whose prayer feels like nothing.
- St. Thérèse of LisieuxWrote that small ordinary things done with love are the whole of it.