Pick a Saint, Any Saint
We All Want Someone Upstairs Looking After Us. Which Patron Saint Would You Choose?
It’s the week of Halloween, that legacy of All Hallows’ Eve, and sainthood is thus in the air. Many of us have role models. Some of us also have (we believe) heavenly intercessors, saints who pray for us in heaven much as mortals might pray for us on earth. But, with thousands of canonized figures in the Catholic Church, there are many from whom to choose. Therefore, in advance of the Zócalo/Getty Center event “Why Do We Need Saints?”, we asked four Catholics to answer the following question: Who is …