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Is there a St. Kim or St. Kimberly in the Roman or any of the Eastern Churches ? My girlfriend (soon wife) is named Kim. Thanks. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No Saint Kim, but here's a fun trick:

Kimberly means "royal" or "ruler" in Old English.

And what name means "royal" or "kingly" in Greek?

Basil/Vasilios.

Is there a feminine form of Basil?

Yes--Basila and Basilissa, and there are saints of both these names.

So no Kim, but there's something close.

Dave

There is Saint Kim in Catholic Martyrology, but this Kim is male not female.

St. Andrew Kim Taegon (some write Daegon), the first Korean Catholic priest, martyr. His feast day is September 20.

KIMBERLY
Gender: Feminine
From the name of a city in South Africa which was originally named for Lord Kimberley, whose surname means "land belonging to CYNEBURGA" in Old English.

March 6

St. Cyneburga (Kyneburga) and St.-᠃yneswide (Kuneswide), & St. Tibba
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Died c. 680. Cyneburga and Cyneswide were daughters of Penda, the pagan
king of Mercia who fiercely opposed Christianity. Cyneburga married a
Northumbrian prince and later became abbess-founder of Dormancaster (now
Castor) in Northamptonshire, and was succeeded by her sister as
abbess.Tibba was their near kinswoman, who joined them in the convent.
Their relics were enshrined in the abbey of Peterborough, where the trio
are particularly venerated (Attwater, Benedictines, Gill).

This group is portrayed in art as two abbesses and a nun, sometimes they
are shown with the Abbey of Castor (Roeder).

See
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints/message/1851

Dear Alfonsus,

This reminds me of the fellow who went into a predominantly Korean neighbourhood looking for his friend and shouted out: "Hey, Kim!!"

And 94 people walked up to him . . .

Alex

Yeah, I stopped using the name Kim on ESL tests because my Korean students always wrote "he" and then the rest of the pronouns got all messed up.

Gotta love those Celtic saints. Great names. I've got a beef with the people who say "St. Columbanus" when his name was Colmcille!

Colmcille abu!

Alex,

You got it right. Kim is the most popular family name in Korea. Runner up is family name "Lee", followed by "Park/Pak". Around 22% of Koreans have "Kim" as family name.

Yes, I once dated a Korean girl named Agnes Kim. She was a former Carmelite novice, who left because of health reasons. Two of her brothers were priests and a sister was a nun.
So I suspect there are lots of "St Kims"!
-Daniel