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Catholic Saints for Kids

Today’s Junior Edition · October 11, 2026

True stories of the saints for curious readers ages 10–12.

An icon panel: a young bearded man in a plain undyed tunic and mantle stands with his hand on a small girl's head outside a mud-brick house, while two veiled women in linen reach out to receive her, with date palms and the desert edge behind.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a Byzantine and Coptic narrative icon in egg tempera on a gesso panel, from the paper's reference portrait based on the wall painting of St. Anthony by Theodoros Apsevdis, December 1192 AD, Church of the Panagia tou Arakos, Lagoudera, Cyprus View source artwork.

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The big question

Forty years later, St. Anthony's little sister leads other women

Saint Anthony of Egypt gave his orphaned sister's money to the poor too, then left the little girl with women who could raise her.

His age
About eighteen or twenty
Where
Coma, a village in Egypt
When
About 271 AD
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A painting of a bare convent cell lit by a small high window: a nun in a black veil and white linen collar sits up in a narrow wooden bed while a man in a brown coat on a chair beside her rests his hand on her arm, and a second nun stands at the foot of the bed holding a bowl.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a French seventeenth-century religious oil painting, from the paper's reference portrait based on Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (Unknown artist, 19th century, Monastery of the Visitation, Paray-le-Monial) View source artwork.

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In the convent

Her doctor says she will live. She smiles and disagrees.

St. Margaret Mary's doctor found nothing dangerous, so her Superior refused her the Communion given to the dying.

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Pen-and-wash drawing of a two-storey stone house with lit upper windows beside a square church tower and churchyard, bare trees, a stone wall and gate, and a rutted lane running away towards dark hills under an evening sky.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of an English topographical pen-and-wash book illustration of the 1830s. No person appears in it.

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Best friends

A dying friend's face lit up in the dark

Saint John Henry Newman left his closest friend, Hurrell Froude, at a Devon rectory in 1835 AD, and the two never met again.

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A Byzantine-style mosaic of a thin, dark-bearded man in a dark cloak bending towards a white-haired old man propped up in a wooden bed, while a young servant holds a bowl and a snow-capped mountain shows through a round window behind them.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a Byzantine wall mosaic, from the paper's reference portrait based on Parete palinsesto: Basilio e Giovanni Crisostomo (post 649) and Gregorio Nazianzeno e Basilio (705-707) (Anonymous, post 649 AD and 705-707 AD, Santa Maria Antiqua, Roman Forum, Rome) View source artwork.

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A quarrel mended

St. Basil's bishop makes peace and dies in his arms

For two years St. Basil had refused to share communion with the bishop who baptised him, until the sick old man sent for him.

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A hand-coloured print of an old woman in a grey mantle and white veil reading from loose pages before a crowned boy on a red throne, a bearded man with folded arms and a sword, a crowned woman and a crowd of courtiers, with a ship and a sea wall seen through the arches behind.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a hand-coloured woodcut of the Revelationes printed at Lübeck in 1492 AD, from the paper's reference portrait based on Revelationes caelestes, fol. 16v: St. Bridget enthroned between the clergy and the princes (unknown Lübeck woodcut designer, printed by Bartholomaeus Ghotan, 1492 AD, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, BSB Ink B-530) View source artwork.

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A message for a king

A boy king hears Cyprus must change or be wiped out

Saint Bridget of Sweden, sick on her way home from Jerusalem, read Christ's message to the court, and it ended with a promise to carry back anyone who returned.

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Today in the Church for kids

The Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  • Saint John XXIII, a pope who led the whole Catholic Church

Saint of the day for kids

Saint John XXIII

Saint John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, a farmer's son from Sotto il Monte near Bergamo, and he worked as a diplomat for the Pope and then as Patriarch of Venice. He was elected Pope in 1958 AD at seventy-six, called and opened the Second Vatican Council, and died in 1963 AD.

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On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1954 Pope Pius XII declared Mary the Queen of Heaven in a letter called Ad Caeli Reginam, teaching that she is a queen above all because she is the Mother of God.Our Lady of the RosarySource
  • 1962 Bishop Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who would become St. John Paul II, was in Rome for the first session of the Second Vatican Council, which opened that day.Saint John XXIIISource
  • 2012 Fifty years after St. John XXIII opened the Council, Pope Benedict XVI began the Year of Faith in St. Peter's Square and quoted St. John XXIII in his homily.Saint John XXIIISource