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Ever wonder whether your patron saint is a Gryffindor or a Hufflepuff? I didn’t start to consider it until last week when my friend Haley over at Home to Catholicism brought up sorting saints into Hogwarts houses on Twitter (she’s @bakeorbake over there, folks).
But then I couldn’t STOP thinking about it, crowdsourced my queries to Facebook, and ended up with the best thread ever. Granted, I’m partial to Catholic/Potter mashups (remember when I decided the Weasleys are Catholic? Yeah.)
We’ll get to the sorting in a minute, but first let’s do a refresher on the traits of each house:
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Gryffindor
This house is defined by the trait of courage. While students may be brainy (just think of Hermoine!) or have other talents, the Gryffindor is brave, often impulsive, and a fighter. Because the Harry Potter series is primarily about the Gryffindors at Hogwarts it’s easy to consider them as having the best traits. You might be tempted to put every saint in Gryffindor, but the traits of the other houses can lead to virtue as long as they are rightly directed. Martyrs are often Gryffindors.
Slytherin
Hagrid tells us that “there’s not a single witch or wizard who went bad that wasn’t in Slytherin,” but since that’s not entirely accurate, he must have been exaggerating. Because of dark wizards like the Malfoys it’s not always easy to remember that the Slytherin traits aren’t negative characteristics when they are rightly ordered. Slytherins are ambitious, talented, tactful, and charming. At first I had trouble thinking of any Slytherin saints, but then they started to come out of the woodwork. Saints who have great holy ambitions are often Slytherins.
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaws are wise and love knowledge, scholasticism, and the abstract. They can have an ethereal quality (think Luna Lovegood) and love books and the life of the mind. Intellectual saints devoted to knowledge and education are often Ravenclaws.
Hufflepuff
Hufflepuffs seem to rarely get the spotlight. They don’t always have the brilliance of the Ravenclaws, the same ambitious drive of the Slytherins, or the brazen rush to action of the Gryffindors. The Hufflepuff is more focused on relationships. They’re identifying characteristic is loyalty and they highly value friendship and hard work. Because they are caring, giving, and not self-seeking it’s easy to see how they make great saints. Saints who live quiet lives of great service are often Hufflepuffs.
Shall we get out the sorting hat?
St. Maximilian Kolbe…..GRYFFINDOR!
It took great courage for this Polish friar to hide Jews from Nazi persecution, print anti-Nazi publications, and finally offer his life in place for another prisoner in Auschwitz who had been chosen to die of starvation. This martyr’s incredible self-sacrifice screams Gryffindor.
St. Thomas Aquinas….RAVENCLAW!
Probably the most brilliant man to ever walk the earth, St. Thomas Aquinas was a strong Ravenclaw. His classmates thought he was unintelligent because he was a slow speaker and nicknamed him “the dumb ox.” But St. Albert the Great, one of his teachers realized his brilliance and noted, “I tell you this Dumb Ox will bellow so loud that his bellowings shall fill the world.” After giving up wealth in order to live as a monk St. Thomas Aquinas wrote prolifically and penned some of the most influential theological and philosophical texts of all time. Smarty. Pants.
St. Catherine of Siena……SLYTHERIN!
Ambition doesn’t have to be negative if we are ambitious for the right things. St. Catherine’s dearest ambition was to be the bride of Christ. She was relentlessly devoted to her faith and her family even considered her fanatical. Although not an academic (she couldn’t even read until miraculously given literacy later in life) she became a hugely influential advisor to popes and political figures of her time. One of her most famous quotes, “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire” sounds like a driven holy Slytherin to me!
St. Therese of Lisieux….HUFFLEPUFF!
Content to be a “Little Flower” in God’s garden, St. Therese lived a life of love and service to God and others, never seeking fame or accolades. She lived a quiet cloistered life and died from an illness as a young woman, but her great love for Christ and religious writings she left behind impacted the world so greatly that she is one of the most influential saints of the modern age. Like Cedric Diggory, sometimes our good Hufflepuffs do get the spotlight—and in St. Therese’s case, even when they don’t seek it out.
St. Lucy…..GRYFFINDOR!
I named one of my daughters Lucy because I was so struck by St. Lucy’s bravery and fierce devotion to Christ. After a spurned suitor turned her in to the Roman government for being a Christian, St. Lucy refused to recant her faith even when threatened by torture and death. After supernatural protection from being burned alive, housed in a brothel, and being blinded (her eyes grew back after they were removed by her torturers!), St. Lucy became a martyr. Many of her virgin martyr sisters are likely fellow Gryffindors.
St. Joan of Arc…GRYFFINDOR!
Not just a martyr, but a female military leader! It doesn’t get more Gryffindor than that. Unconventional, courageous, warrior saint.
St. Patrick…..SLYTHERIN!
Kidnapped and kept as a slave in Ireland for years only to escape and then return again later to convert his former captors and their countrymen? Very courageous, but also ambitious! And St. Patrick had a great talent in communicating with very influential and powerful people. They say he got all the snakes out of Ireland so maybe he’s a parseltongue?
Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi….HUFFLEPUFF!
You can’t get more Hufflepuff than Francis and Clare. Abandoning lives of wealth, power, and influence in order to serve the poor and work hard for God.
Sts. Benedict and Scholastica…..RAVENCLAW!
The Holy Twins are hard to place, but since St. Benedict wrote his Rule that shaped Western monasticism and focused on the contemplative life I think we’re dealing with a Ravenclaw. And then there’s Scholastica his twin sister who just HAS to be a Ravenclaw with a name like that. And of course we know that (usually) house traits run in families.
St. Isidore of Seville…….HUFFLEPUFF!
St. Isidore of Seville was a faithful man of God who was devoted to prayer and the Mass and who always offered the poor a place at his table. This farmer saint even spends a lot of his time digging in the dirt like the Hufflepuff badger.
St. Ignatius of Antioch…..SLYTHERIN!
I was tempted to put St. Ignatius in Gryffindor because of his martyrdom, but since he wrote about ambition and was so focused on his great quest to follow Christ alone I started to see him as a Slytherin. Listen to his words about his impending martyrdom. Whatever house he belongs in, St. Ignatius is serious about his faith: “Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God. I am God’s wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ’s pure bread. Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God. No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. “ LEGIT.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary……HUFFLEPUFF!
Royal who snuck out with food from the castle kitchens to share with the poor? St. Elizabeth is such a sweetheart. Hufflepuff all the way.
Bl. Miguel Pro…..GRYFFINDOR!
When asked to renounce Christ or be martyred by firing squad during the Cristero Wars in Mexico, Bl. Miquel Pro held out his arms and yelled, “VIVO CRISTO REY!” (Long live, Christ the King!). His refusal to leave Mexico when they kicked out all the priests and wearing disguises in order to offer sacraments to the faithful also sounds like the shenanigans a true Gryffindor would undertake for the right cause.
Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta…..HUFFLEPUFF!
I love how the holy Hufflepuffs who spend their days working quietly and tirelessly for others become the most famous and influential saints. While they never seek fame, we cannot help but be fascinated with their holiness. The soon to be canonized Mother Teresa lived such a faithful life of service to the poorest of the poor and exemplifies what it means to love others fiercely.
St. Lawrence…..GRYFFINDOR!
For some reason I think of snarky humor as a Gryffindor quality and St. Lawrence’s “Turn me over, I think I’m done on this side” quip when he was being grilled alive seems very Fred and George-esque to me.
St. Jerome…..RAVENCLAW!
A grumpy saint who spent years translating the Bible into the Latin Vulgate? He sounds brainy and bookish enough to be a Ravenclaw. (And I just love that the first thing that comes to mind when anyone thinks of St. Jerome is “grumpy.” Even the grumps among us have a chance at holiness, folks.)
St. Nicholas of Myra….GRYFFINDOR!
I hear some good arguments for St. Nicholas being a Hufflepuff (his secret acts of care for the poor like offering the dowries for the young women in need). However, the story about St. Nicholas losing his temper and PUNCHING ARIAS IN THE FACE when he had to listen to him yammer on with heretical claims in the middle of a Church council (and getting kicked out for his outburst) makes me think we’re dealing with an impulsive Gryffindor. Sounds like Santa Claus was the sort of guy that could lose some serious points for his house if he lost his temper on the quidditch field.
St. Paul….SLYTHERIN!
Before taking the road to Damascus, St. Paul was a serious Slytherin and not in a good way. Ambition, power, and knowing the right people was high priority. And he was persecuting Christians in a very Death-Eaterish style. But after encountering Christ, all that ambition, talent, and guile (can I say that about a saint?) was directed at serving the Church.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton……RAVENCLAW!
The first American-born saint to be canonized was a voracious reader and very devoted to the Holy Scriptures. After she became a Catholic she established the first free Catholic school in the United States as well as opening other orphanages and schools. She probably wouldn’t agree that “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure” but she certainly thought highly of education, so Ravenclaw it is!
St. Joseph the Worker……HUFFLEPUFF!
Faithful, constant, loyal, and deeply devoted to his family, St. Joseph sacrificed and worked tirelessly to care for the Holy Family while never seeking the spotlight. He’s a behind the scenes kind of guy, not to mention incredibly humble since he was the only person in his family capable of sin. Can you imagine what it would be like to know that any problems in the household were because of you? St. Joseph is your classic holy Hufflepuff.
St. Peter…..SLYTHERIN!
Impulsivity, one of St. Peter’s traits, is often associated with Gryffindors. Just think of when he cut off the ear of the soldier in the Garden of Gethsemane or when he jumped from the boat to swim to the resurrected Lord on the beach! But courage in the face of danger wasn’t St. Peter’s strongpoint, so I don’t think he can be a Gryffindor. He did have a strong sense of self-preservation during Passion Week when he denied our Lord. But then he ended up becoming the first Pope and being martyred by upside down crucifixion so…..maybe he’s a Gryffindor after all?
Pope St. John Paul II……GRYFFINDOR!
The debate was fierce on where JPII would end up, but I think with “Be not afraid” as his signature phrase and his courageous fight against communism and for the rights of the unborn, we’ve got ourselves a Gryffindor. This beloved saint would make a great Ravenclaw with his love for learning and clever mind or a splendid Hufflepuff with his faithful love and care for his fold. JPII, we love you!
St. Augustine of Hippo……..SLYTHERIN!
Another difficult one! While St. Augustine was a brilliant writer and philosopher, his early days were defined by his ambition and he was an incredibly talented man. While his genius and prolific writings would make him a great Ravenclaw, I’m leaning toward Slytherin. And he stole pears that time so….as a youth he was a sneaky one.
The Blessed Virgin Mary and Our Lord……PERFECT BLEND OF ALL FOUR!
One theory put forward in the embarrassingly lengthy discussions I’ve participated on this very important topic is that Our Lady and Our Lord are the perfect blend of the houses. I think this is the only answer that makes sense!
Other Ravenclaws:
Bl. John Henry Newmann
Pope Benedict XVI (not a saint yet, but what a Ravenclaw!)
St. Edith Stein
Other Gryffindors:
Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
St. Ignatius Loyola
St. Stephen
St. Katherine Drexel
St. Michael the Archangel
Other Slytherins:
Ven. Matt Talbot
St. Louis of France
St. Teresa of Avila
Other Hufflepuffs:
St. Joseph Cupertino
St. Damian of Molokai
St. Jerome Emiliani
St. John Vianney
St. Anthony of Padua
Sorting the saints is, of course, just a fun exercise. But one of the things I discovered when tossing these ideas around on social media was how it got everyone so excited about these amazing holy men and women!
Got a saint that needs sorting? Convinced one of the saints above belongs in another house? Let’s figure it out in the comments!
Disclaimer: If you don’t think that Harry Potter is acceptable reading for Catholics, then you probably won’t like this post. I’ve written about HP many times and I promise I’ve heard your argument against it, but I don’t agree with it. Please don’t use this post as a dumping ground for your dislike for Harry Potter. Thanks!
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Welp, this is one of the best things I’ve ever read. Thank you so much for researching and writing this! :oD
Love this. I am definitely something between a Raven claw and a Syltherin.
St Thomas Aquinas is probably my favorite saint, too.
I am possibly the least Hufflepuff, but many of my favorite Saints are Hufflepuffs.
So fun
I’ve always thought of Mary as a Gryffindor. Her fiat, her presence at the cross…her life was full of courageous acts. She was humble and loving within that courage.
I’m gonna have to agree with this haha. Mary was definitely very brave and willing to die with her son. She was not ambitious so I definitely think the balance is tipped toward Gryffindor.
That’s an interesting take on Saints.
At my children’s Catholic primary school here in London (THE London, not London, Arkansas or London, Kentucky), they also have four houses – and those are directly named after Saints. My kids are in St John Southworth, for example, There are also St Alban, St Faustina and Mother Theresa. I leave it up to you to sort them into Potter categories.
In fact, the secondary school my eldest son is going o attend from next term, they also have houses named after saints, St. Edmund , St. John Fisher, St. Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, St. Thomas More, St. Nicholas and St. Robert Southwell. Actually, I hope he gets into Thomas More or John Fisher, they are among my favourite martyrs.
This is really neat idea!!
How fun!
Ooooh, this gives me a great idea for my classroom this year!
This is spot on! And, now you’ve got my wheels turning…St. Dymphna, Bl. Fulton Sheen, St. Monica, St. Augustine!
Bl. Foulton sheen = ravenclaw… No doubt about that one!
As for Augustine and Monica…hmm may have to think on that one!
Pope Francis tweeted something about all of us being on a journey to our “common house” of Heaven this morning… hah.
I still think St. Lawrence is a Hufflepuff. A courageous and cheeky Hufflepuff, but still. Taking care of the poor and claiming that they were the treasures of the Church? Seems Hufflepuff to me. (And I’ve always thought that if Fred and George were to go anywhere other than Gryffindor, it would have been Hufflepuff.) Same might go for St. Nick in m book – although of course, their deaths were brave.
Won’t lie, even though we all know Slytherin isn’t all bad, I still have discomfort at the thought of any of the people I admire (saints or people I know) being put in Slytherin, haha. Any time one of my friends identifies as a Slytherin I’m sort of just baffled.
I love this so much!! And I think your sorting is spot on!
What a neat idea
love it.
So fun, Haley!! I loved brainstorming how some of my favorite saints fit into Hogwarts!!
This post is a beautiful springboard for saintly research and devotion.
I’m thinking St Padre Pio was probably Ravenclaw…wise and ethereal with all those mystical gifts (stigmata, visions, reading consciences). He was also brave, also a loyal friend…but humble more than ambitious so I couldn’t put him in Slytherin. whew! I’m with Charlotte….it’s hard to choose Slytherin for beloved saints. =)
What do you think?
I tend to agree but he (St. Padre Pio) would make an awesome Gryffindor… All that spiritual warfare and his loyalty to the faithful…
Also my question would be where would St. Mary Magdelene, St. Charles Borromeo, st. Vincent De Paul and St Luke
Also I am asking to reexamine St Paul because yes he would make a great Slytherin I feel he would be like Harry and choose a different house because of the radical changes after he was a witness to Christ. be it through his many letters and thus intellectual acts or by his bravery and courage to reject the ways of the world to live an authentic life.
I think you are totally right about St. Peter being a Slytherin – after all Snape didn’t turn out bad in the end! It would maybe depend on when they were sorted – when they were younger or when they were older. Very interesting!
So cool! I can’t help but think Mother Teresa should be Gryffindor though. She was a servant to the poor but also tenacious and a huge presence, able to influence big politicians and royalty.
I love this! Have you thought about which temperament is best associated with each house? Might help us even more with the sorting. I have something to think about now
I’m a slytherin/gryffindor and St. Paul and JPII are my FAVORITE!!!!
My 14-year-old strongly disagrees about St. Peter being a Slytherin. She says he’s a Hufflepuff! I can see it!
This is great, Haley. Good work!
Love this! My resonance with saints definitely aligns with my own personality as a “Gryffinclaw”… My eldest loves St Cecelia, though…
I bet St. Martin de Porres would be in Hufflepuff. I can’t tell you how much I loved this!
She’s not listed by my favorite Saint is St. Bernadette. She was a humble girl who agreed that she knew nothing about doctrine or dogma and stood before learned men and priests to tell them what Mary said even when she herself didn’t understand. She never sought to be important and even suffered quietly right before she died. Hufflepuff.
I love this, Haley!!! Thank you so much for sharing!! <3
So, I went off my Confirmation saints, Joan of Arc and Francis of Assisi: Gryffindor and Hufflepuff respectively.
I laughed because whenever I take those online HP House quizes, it always pingpongs between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, and the one time I took the combination house quiz, I got Gryffinpuff.
Guess that settles that! Lol! :p
(Just one itty-bitty nitpick: Damien [of Molokai] with an ‘e’, not ‘a’. I’m only nitpicking cause my son is named after him. ; )
There are two St. Damian’s I am aware of: one was a bishop, the other was brother to Cosmos [Cosmos & Damian].
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I love this! I was a teacher and was just thinking the other day about motivating my students and also helping to bring community to our school. Since, I teach 6-12th grade religion I was already thinking of dividing all my students into houses just like HP and was thinking of different saints for different houses. I was also thinking of making up my own names for the houses using variations of the saints name. This is so on par with what I am thinking of that it is certainly something I am going to use in the school year. Thanks a bunch for this post.
PS I really do think St. Peter is a gryffindor, basically because if I were to chose one character in the series who was most like St. Peter I would chose Ron Weasley. Impulsive, a strong desire to be brave, often puts foot in mouth, has the ability to lead even when he doesn’t see it (in the books he became the head boy for his house), needs a little assistance to follow through on his bravery (think Harry “giving” him the luck potion even though it wasn’t actually didn’t. Even his leaving Harry and Hermoine, and then immediately feeling sorry is a lot like Peters denial and then his being lost and trying to come back and it wasn’t until Hermoine said his name that he was able to come back, just like when Jesus asked Peter if he loved him and showed him his forgiveness. Plus its believed the Gospel of Mark is really a telling of Peter’s experience as an apostle and the symbol for Mark is a Lion with wings.
Never in a million years would I have thought of something this clever. Love it.
I have to say, though – it took me some getting used to to see saints identified as slytherins. I have this guttural, negative reaction against that poor house, probably because of Malfoy….
Both my daughter and I were sorted into Slytherin and we both were disappointed, but this really was a great read and I love how you put a positive spin on the least liked house. It gave us a new outlook on Slytherin and it also got us thinking about great Catholic saints and their temperaments and/or houses.?
Looking at all the links to more posts about Catholicism/HP, I can definitively say this is my new favorite blog.
St Patrick speaking parseltongue had me dying. Well played.
St. Maximilian Kolbe definitely belongs in Slytherin. His one goal in life was to give God the greatest glory he could possibly give Him, and he worked toward this goal by starting the Militia Immaculata, making an army of saints consecrated to Mary in order to give glory to God. He prayed to find others with similar aspirations so that they could have a “noble rivalry” by which they would inspire each other to be even more ambitious about glorifying God. He even accepted the name “Maximilian” (“the greatest”) when his superiors gave it to him, since it fit with his holy ambition.
This is so clever! What a great way to discuss the saints!
Not surprised my patron saint St Lawrence is a Gryffindor. This was great!
I love this post. Had to get on Board.
Please first allow me to question or disagree with a few of your strings
Just as martyrs seem naturally to fit in Gryffindor, I think Dominicans have a natural home in Ravenclaw. (Ergo, St. Thomas Aquinas!) My first impulse is to put St. Catherine of Siena there. However, as one who speaks truth to power (rather un-Slytherin) and exhorts popes to be brave and do the right thing, she may, I think, belong to Gryffindor.
St Francis and St Clare: Gryffindor. That whole denouncing their families and running off to brave poverty, ridicule, wild animals, and angry fathers is rather unloyal for Hufflepuffs, I’d say (not that I’m complaining!). On the other hand, it’s very Gryffindoresque.
St Ignatius – Gryffindor. Slytherins don’t strike me as the type to renounce the comforts of the world in such ringing terms.
Not that they aren’t capable of it. I’d actually put St. Lucy in Slytherin. The pride of place she took in her role as bride of Christ seems a good kind of “pureblood” to me. *Toujours pur.*
St Katherine Drexel: Hufflepuff?
Also, I think I would agree that as God the Son, Our Lord would be the perfect combination of all four houses. But Our Lady, as a human (although with God-given perfection), has human personality that can be sorted—and I think I would say she’s the all-time quiet, holy Hufflepuff.
I can totally see the case for St Paul as a Slytherin, but he just seems too bold. Plus that whole Gentile vs. Jew stuff, and he came down on the side of not requiring all the old laws—I would have said Gryffindor.
I had to play with a few myself.
St Thomas Becket: Slytherin. The story of his rise sounds a little like Severus’s.
St John the Baptist: Gryffindor. No question.
St. Helena: Ravenclaw.
Just kidding. She’s a Slytherin. She knows how to seek and serve those in high places, and has a thing for powerful artifacts. 
St. Gabriel, St. Luke, and St. Dominic, though, are all Ravenclaw.
St. Margaret strikes me as a well-directed kind of Narcissa Black. I’d say she’s a Slytherin.
What do you think?
I love this but I absolutely think that Saint Therese would be a Slytherin. She was ambitious and expressed the desire for sainthood from childhood and she was certainly charming and talented as a writer. Being tactful is a huge part of the little way and while she strove to always be little, her way was to create an elevator to God. In her own words “I understand clearly that through love alone can we become pleasing to God, and my sole ambition is to acquire it.” –St. Therese of Lisieux
St Thérèse as a Slytherin?! I actually kind of love that, though. I imagined her as Hufflepuff because of her acceptance of suffering (letting go of her will), submission to others (not even correcting people if they wrongly accused her of something), sensitivity (much more as a child) and joy in simple things (hello flowers. And the Herbology teacher IS a Hufflepuff. Haha). There’s a constant idea of small/childlike-ness from her, whereas I usually think of Slytherins as embracing greatness, being very methodical, having thick skins and never taking the blame for another’s actions (perhaps barring something like family loyalty). I would love to hear more of your thoughts on a Slytherin Thérèse, though!
I would like to know which house these three great Americans would be placed into (all three are Venerables) Fulton Sheen, Solanus Casey, and Michael J. McGivney
St. John the Apostle = Ravenclaw I think. And is my favorite.
Lots of fun! But one small quibble – there are actually two well-known St. Isidores. One is known as St. Isidore the Farmer, who you’ve sorted, but St. Isidore of Seville wrote what was considered the first encyclopedia, and is the (perhaps unofficial?) patron saint of the internet. He fought against temptation to be too much in the world of ideas, and not enough in communion with his fellow man. Ravenclaw for him :)?
I was wondering if you could sort Saint Francis of Assissi. He’d my favorite Saint and I would be curious to see what he would be.
By your logic, I would conclude that my Patron, St. Sebastian, would be a Gryffindor – twice!
I love this. So. Much.
Thanks for sharing this. You were pretty creative mixing religion with Harry Potter.
This is the most amazing post. Best thing I’ve come across in a while! Why did it take me so long to see this!? As per usual, I’m shouting “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE!?”
Great site! I can’t put St. Augustine in Slytherin– after his conversion, he avoided ambition like the plague. I think we’ll have a problem for him, and a few other saints (Ignatius Loyola, maybe Francis of Assisi) because Hogwarts did not have a house whose principal characteristic was passion (or enthusiasm if you want to avoid any sins of the flesh association). Anyone up to adding a house to Hogwarts?
Great idea here, and a great way to make saints real in our lives– by placing them in a work of fiction!
What about st. John & st. James. The “sons of thunder” asked the very Christ to make a place at His side for them in Heaven… Greatest abition ever. Slytherin!!!
Same for st. Dimas.
Maria Goretti–a Gryffindor, yes?
This may be personal bias, as a Slytherin myself and huge fan of St. Mary Magdalene, but I would sort her as a Slytherin. She was so devoted to Our Lord that she was present at his death, and came back to dress him afterwards. She also, allegedly, spoke in front of an emperor on behalf of the faith and lived for years on just the Eucharist brought to her by angels. So I would argue for her drive and ambition towards holiness.
Sorry I never thought I’d come to correct you, just a minor one: it is Siena with one n, the town in Italy from which St Catherine is from. And a typo in your spelling of Lisieux. Thanks. I am a Gryffindor, but only because I am not faithful enough, brainy enough or tactical enough. I am not that brave either but I tend to be rather impulsive. I love your posts, thanks for writing, no need to publish this comment.
Thanks, Silvia! Will correct when I get a minute.