confirmand

The school was founded in 1925 by St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Fond du Lac because a confirmand of the 1925 class wished there were a place where she and her classmates could continue to learn God's word after they finished 8th grade.

For the confirmand it increases the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord), unites more fully to Christ and the Church, and gives strength to confess Christ and defend the faith.

In many English-speaking countries it is customary for a person being confirmed in the Roman Catholic Church to adopt a Confirmation name, that may be used as a second middle name, and is without effect in civil law, unless, of course, the confirmand pursues the appropriate legal avenues.