She wants to get married...what St. should she pray to?

St Jude, patron saint of lost causes.

Oh no, wait, that's for me, isn't it...

St. Valentine.

Of course.

What if she doesn't want to be tortured to death though?

Archangel Raphael.
C

Well, here are two prayers at this link. Maybe one of them will work for your story. Though not sure how religious you wish to get:

http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=497

also here is a link to 107 saints (there are many more) that come up on catholic site when marriage is put in as the search key word:

http://www.catholic.org/search_site.php?search_term=marriage&qqq=Saints

Hope you find what you are looking for!

Christine

Mary (Virgin Mary, a Saint, of course) is most often invoked for hopes of marriage and especially a happy marriage.

As an example, the day before my own wedding, I went to church and prayed at a Marian shrine for a happy marriage.

St Pauli Girl? Give him enough of those and most anyone would marry her.

JHillman said:

St Pauli Girl? Give him enough of those and most anyone would marry her.

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Ah! there ya go. But what will you give the poor lass? St. Vallium?

Christine

johnnysannie said:

Mary (Virgin Mary, a Saint, of course) is most often invoked for hopes of marriage and especially a happy marriage.

As an example, the day before my own wedding, I went to church and prayed at a Marian shrine for a happy marriage.

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Yepper - the second prayer in that first link I put up ^ there was to Mary. So, you are on to something there.

Christine

Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary.

Google "patron saints."
There are at least three web sites I've seen with a complete list of saints, organized by name and subject of patronage. Marriage is in there somewhere.

What? No, no. You have to go out and get an image or (preferrably) a sculpture of San Antonio and put him upside down, so he's on his head. They you pray to him every day until you get a marriage proposal, then you put him right side up.

Sheesh, that's common knowledge.

willfulone said:

Yepper - the second prayer in that first link I put up ^ there was to Mary. So, you are on to something there.

Christine

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I don't check out links for information that I am not seeking. I do, however, try to provide honest information within my ken to anyone asking.

And sarcasm is what I get for trying. Sigh.

johnnysannie said:

I don't check out links for information that I am not seeking. I do, however, try to provide honest information within my ken to anyone asking.

And sarcasm is what I get for trying. Sigh.

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Wow!

It was NOT sarcasm at you or your post at all. Just replying to OP that you were spot on and that there was a specific prayer she could pull up to view at that link I provided for I had not said who the saints were that I posted prayer link about originally. NOT that you did anything wrong, said anything wrong or were remiss in NOT pulling up a link.

Don't go assuming someone is snarking at you without provocation. For I was not, would not. Had no reason to.

But, just so we are even...sod off.


Christine

In France, girls above 25 who want to marry pray Sainte Catherine and put on a hat they made themselves. This Catholic holiday is on the 25th of November each year. No clue as to how this translates to other countries.

http://www.hku.hk/french/starters/fetes.htm

-cb

St. Catherine is the patron of women seeking husbands in Ireland and among Americans and Canadians of Irish ancestry: the folk-prayer-nursery rhyme is "St. Catherine, St. Catherine, send me a man! St. Catherine, St. Catherine, soon as you can!"

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Ha! The character practices Santeria so there will be a bit of "flavor" invoked in the prayer.

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Well... I'm not sure it has anything to do with Santeria. The remedy I gave you is what every woman in Mexico does when she wants to get married. It's common knowledge here so I was really surprised no one else knew.