About

About this site

Confirmation Saint Finder helps you find a patron saint to walk with you for life.

What it is

The site gathers 229 saints, each with a short life, feast day and patronages, along with saint quizzes for kids, teens and adults and guides to the relics and incorruptible saints you can visit. It was created by a parish priest of The Catholic Diocese of Spokane.

Who it is for

Confirmation candidates and their sponsors, parents and catechists, adults entering the Church through OCIA, and anyone looking for a saint to know better.

How we choose what to include

We follow the judgment of the Church. We list the saints and blesseds the Church honors, and only the miracles, apparitions and relics that the Church, or the shrine that keeps them, recognizes. Facts are checked against official Church sources, such as the Holy See, dioceses and the shrines themselves. Where the Church has not ruled on an experience, such as a vision or the stigmata, we say so. Please talk over your choice of a Confirmation saint with your catechist or pastor.

Contact

Questions and suggestions are welcome at [email protected]. If you find a mistake, please let us know there and we will fix it.

Image credits

Homepage painting. An arched altarpiece of saints composed from paintings by FrankinTheWoods, used under a purchased commercial license. The gold ground, tooling, frame and finish were drawn for this site.

FrankinTheWoods. Some saint portraits are paintings by the artist FrankinTheWoods, used under a purchased commercial license: Agnes of Rome, Augustine of Hippo, Brendan, Carlo Acutis, Catherine of Alexandria, Catherine of Siena, Clare of Assisi, Dominic, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Germaine Cousin, James the Less, Joan of Arc, José Sánchez del Río, Kateri Tekakwitha, Leonard of Port Maurice, Lucy, Mary, Mother of God, Patrick, Paul the Apostle, Peter the Apostle, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Scholastica, Thomas Aquinas, Thérèse of Lisieux. They are resized, and wide paintings are cropped to the square card shape.

Other portraits are adapted (cropped and given a painterly filter) from artworks on Wikimedia Commons, most of them in the public domain. These works are used under licenses that ask for credit:

Athanasius: Saint Basil and Saint Athanasius, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Basil the Great: Saint Basil and Saint Athanasius, by Alonso Sánchez Coello. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Cajetan: Apparition of Jesus to Saint Cajetan of Thiene, Umbrian school, c. 1700 to 1750, by Sailko. License: CC BY 3.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Charles Lwanga: Stained glass window of Karoli Lwanga, Uganda Martyrs Shrine, Namugongo, by photo by Philipp Jakob. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Edward the Confessor: St. Edward the Confessor, by Aidan Hart. License: CC BY 3.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Gregory the Great: Francisco de Zurbarán, San Gregorio Magno (17th century), by photo by Jl FilpoC. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Hildegard of Bingen: Hildegard of Bingen, altar figure, Rochuskapelle, Bingen, by photo by RomkeHoekstra. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Isaiah: 'Isaiah Sistine Chapel ceiling' by Michelangelo JBU36, by Jörg Bittner Unna. License: CC BY 3.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Isidore the Farmer: Saint Isidor Farmer (18th cen, anon). License: CC BY 2.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Jeremiah: Jeremiah. Chromolithograph by Storch and Kramer after Marian. License: CC BY 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
John Paul II: Pope John Paul-II, by Beyond Forgetting. License: CC BY 2.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
John of God: Saint John of God, colour photogravure, 1898, by Wellcome Collection. License: CC BY 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Martin of Tours: Madonna and Child with the saints Martin of Tours and Anthony the Abbot - Jacopo dal Ponte, by GoldenArtists. License: CC BY 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Raphael the Archangel: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, San Rafael and Bishop Francisco Domonte, by photo by José Luis Filpo Cabana. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Stanislaus Kostka: Saint Stanislaus Kostka, attributed to Agnese Dolci (17th century), by photo by Sailko. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Thomas Becket: Girolamo da Santacroce, San Tommaso Becket, San Silvestro, Venice, by photo by Didier Descouens. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).
Wenceslaus: Painted statue of St Wenceslas attributed to Peter Parler (1373), St Wenceslas Chapel, St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, by photo by Packare. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted (cropped, painterly filter).