I was tagged by SFO Mom days ago.

“If you could meet and have a deep conversation with any five people on earth, living or dead, from any time period, who would they be?” (Explaining why is optional.)

Name five people from each of the following categories: Saints, Those in the Process of Being Canonized, Heroes from your native country, Authors/Writers, celebrities.

Five Saints:

1. St. Therese of Lisieux
2. St. Michael the Archangel
3. St. Augustine
4. St. William of Gellone
5. The Blessed Mother

Those in the Process of Being Canonized:

1. Pope John Paul II
2. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
3. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
4. Blessed Charles de Foucauld
5. Pope Pius XII

Five U.S. Heroes:

1. Patrick Henry
2. George Mason
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. Benjamin Franklin
5. George Washington

(I’m in a Revolutionary War rut, I admit.)

Five Authors/Writers:

1. Robert Louis Stevenson
2. Jane Austin
3. William Shakespeare
4. William Safire
5. Danielle Bean !!

Five Celebrities:

1. Bill Cosby
2. Anne Rice
3. Dr. Laura Schlessinger
4. Michelle Malkin
5. Bill O’Reilly

Tag Five People:

1. Amy at Raising Angels
2. Suzanne at Raising Saints
3. Catholic Mom
4. Melissa
5. The Kitchen Madonna