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For Holy Week, here’s how you can match your Myers-Briggs personality type to a patron saint

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By Sarah Pulliam Bailey March 29 at 10:03 AM  

Image used with permission of Church of the Resurrection (Wheaton, Ill.).

If your personality were matched to one of the Christian church saints, which one would it be? Now you can use the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to match your personal church style.

During Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter, during which Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, different personalities will be attracted to different expressions of worship. For example, introverts might be found hiding in the bathroom while the extroverts might hoard Palm Sunday leaves for display.

Church of the Resurrection, an Anglican Church in Wheaton, Ill., has created the following graphic to illustrate how the different personalities of patron saints correspond with Myers-Briggs personality types. Are you St. Francis or perhaps St. Joan (of Arc)? Check it out.

Image used with permission of Church of the Resurrection (Wheaton, Ill.).

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Sarah Pulliam Bailey is a religion reporter, covering how faith intersects with politics, culture and...everything.

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Dagan Crofter

10:02 PM EDT

If you comingle your Myers-Brigg's type, your astrological sign, your Asian zodiac animal, and the results of a palm, tarot card, and I Ching reading, all after having drunk two entire bottles of your favorite wine while asking two old lovers what they *really* think of you, you'll know for certain... you're no saint.

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malusk03

9:25 PM EDT

Myers-Briggs is less accurate than astrology, but then, as I'm both an INTJ and a Leo, I can't help but be really cynical. 
Besides, the Venerable Bede is a much better fit for INTJ than that papist know-it-all Aquinas and his great chain of being. It's just that no one bothers to read Bede's theological and scientific work anymore.

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Woodette

6:16 PM EDT

So proud to be a St. Francis! 
This is just delightful.

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3rdmilcassandra

6:05 PM EDT

The comments section of the Post has an application for reporting a comment as "offensive". How can I report this repugnant article as "offensive"? I'm not a Christian and haven't been for many years, but this sick merde wouldn't be tolerated were any other religion - Judaism, Islam, Hindi, etc. - being so demeaned. 

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GeoType

6:14 PM EDT

1. it's not a news article 
2. it's in 'just' i.e. for fun. 
3. lighten up and get a life.

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GeoType

6:14 PM EDT

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James Inwood

4:40 PM EDT

Zinzendorf, Cranmer, Wilberforce...Anglicans have a great sense of humor.

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mil12

7:08 PM EDT

Zinzendorf started the Moravian church, Wilberforce was a strong voice (in Parliament) to end the slave trade and Cranmer was the King's man (Henry VIII) and for that became a martyr...all had faults, like all humans but Anglicans tend to look at the bright side of their lives (OK, even I dislike Cranmer but still.....this is for humor after all).

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