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Baby Name Needed – What Do You Think of Phineas?

8 Comments | 7 April 2010
A reader named Virginia is expecting a baby in September. For a boy, she’d selected the name Phineas. She liked “that it was unusual without being bizarre,” and that it started with ph. But now she’s not so sure about the name: All was fine and dandy until I read an article about violence in [...]
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Unique Female Saint Names – Clelia, Kateri, Rosalia, Sabina

5 Comments | 19 February 2009
Here’s the fourth post of my five-post series on interesting female saint names… St. Clelia Barbieri, Italian, 1847-1880. Feast day: July 13. Bl. Kateri Tekakwitham, Mohawk, 1656–1680. Kateri is a Mohawk rendering of the name Catherine. Feast day: July 14. St. Kinga, Polish, 1224-1292. Also known as Cunegunda and Kunigunda, she is the patroness of [...]
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