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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · September 15, 2026

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

A faded nineteenth-century photograph of a Carmelite monastery building with a domed apse and bare winter trees; two nuns in habits stand at left near the trees, and three more stand together by a doorway and steps at right.
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How it worked

A camera goes into a convent nobody may leave

Céline Martin took forty-one of the forty-seven pictures of her sister St. Thérèse, and each one meant holding still for nine seconds.

Céline's age
Twenty-five
Where
The Carmel of Lisieux, in Normandy
When
September 14, 1894 AD
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How she answered

The man who came to insult a sick old nun

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The big secret

Eight editions of the book, and her name in none

St. Catherine Labouré was the one the Blessed Virgin told to have the medal made, and when the first medals arrived she took one with the other sisters and said nothing.

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A painted street scene of a low whitewashed house with a tiled roof and an open round-arched door, a cloak on a peg beside it and writing tablets, a pen, an inkpot and a closed wooden-boarded book on a bench under the window; through the doorway a flagged passage leads to a small courtyard with a water jar and a fig tree, and dry hills rise behind the roof. No person appears in it.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of buon fresco on lime plaster, from the paper's reference image based on The School of Tagaste (scene 1, north wall), from the Life of St Augustine (Benozzo Gozzoli, 1464-1465, apsidal chapel of Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano) View source artwork.

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Who paid for school

The year St. Augustine stayed home waiting for school fees

Patricius spent more on his son's schooling than richer men of Thagaste spent on their own sons.

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Today in the Church for kids

Tuesday in Ordinary Time — Our Lady of Sorrows

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Saint of the day for kids

Our Lady of Sorrows

The Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, stood at the foot of his cross outside Jerusalem, and there he gave her into the care of St. John the Evangelist. Today the Church remembers her sorrows, the first of which Simeon foretold in the Temple.

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On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1668 The Servites were given a second feast of the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, kept on September 15 as a double of the first class with an octave and a vigil.Source
  • 1966 Pope Paul VI published his letter Christi Matri on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, asking for prayers to Our Lady of the Rosary and for the gift of peace.Source
  • 2008 Pope Benedict XVI said Mass for the sick at Lourdes on this memorial, preaching that at the foot of the cross Simeon's prophecy of the sword was fulfilled, and recalling the smile St. Bernadette Soubirous saw on March 3, 1858 AD.Our reportOur Lady of SorrowsSource
  • 2010 Pope Benedict XVI gave a general audience on St. Clare of Assisi, calling her the first woman in the Church's history to write a Rule and send it to a pope for approval.Source