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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · September 24, 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 Church of Panagia tou Arakos, nave, south bay under dome, wall paintings, Lagoudera, Cyprus - West wall, St. Anthony, before cleaning (Theodoros Apsevdis, wall painting December 1192 AD, Church of the Panagia tou Arakos, Lagoudera, Cyprus) View source artwork.

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The big question

St. Anthony gave away three hundred acres at nineteen

His father and mother had just died, and the farm, the house and his little sister were suddenly his.

His age
About nineteen
The land
Three hundred acres, and a house
When
About 270 AD
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The third thing St. Augustine asked God for

He was seventy-five, an army had shut his city in, and he asked God to take him out of the world.

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AI-generated image, in the manner of an oil and tempera panel by Hans Holbein the Younger, from the paper's reference portrait based on Portrait of Sir Thomas More (Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527, The Frick Collection, New York) View source artwork.

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The big question

A plan for getting poorer, one step a year

St. Thomas More lost the job that paid for everything, and eleven grandchildren were living in his house.

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An oil painting of a dark carved Spanish table in a whitewashed room: a thick handwritten volume lies open on a red cloth, its left leaf covered in close brown ink and its right leaf blank but for one short line in a larger, hastier hand; quills, an inkwell, a sand caster, a stick of red sealing wax, a stack of folios and a leather-bound book lie about it, an empty leather chair stands behind, and through a shuttered window beyond are a lake, a plain, a bare hill and a small white chapel at its foot. No person appears in it.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of New Spanish colonial baroque oil painting, from the paper's reference portrait based on The Virgin of Guadalupe with the Four Apparitions (Nicolas Enriquez, 1773, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) View source artwork.

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Who decided

Nine men, fourteen questions — then six words ended it

The Archbishop of Mexico put nine men on oath over a sermon against the chapel at Tepeyac, and then stopped his own case.

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Five barefoot friars in patched grey-brown habits tied with knotted ropes stand and crouch around a small table in a bare white room, reading an opened sheet of parchment with a round lead seal hanging from it, an arched opening on the right showing a hill town and green country.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of buon fresco at Assisi, from the paper's reference portrait based on Legend of St. Francis, scene 13: Institution of the Crib at Greccio (Giotto di Bondone and workshop, 1296–1298 AD, Upper Church, Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi) View source artwork.

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How it worked

Joining St. Francis's friars now takes a whole year

The same letter says a friar who has made his vows may never leave the order.

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Today in the Church for kids

Thursday of the 25th week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the day for kids

Our Lady of Ransom

Our Lady of Ransom is a title the Roman Martyrology gives to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is honoured as the patroness of the ransomers, the men who worked in her name to buy back Christians who had been captured and held as slaves.

On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1660 Father René Alméras arrived at Saint-Lazare in Paris so worn out that he was carried straight to the infirmary, and the next morning St. Vincent de Paul had himself carried there too for a long last talk with him.Source
  • 1815 Father Louis William Dubourg was made Bishop of New Orleans at Rome, and began gathering the missionaries, Vincentians among them, who would bring St. Vincent de Paul's Congregation of the Mission to the United States.Source
  • 1829 Bishop John England visited St. Joseph's at Emmitsburg and told the sisters what he had first thought of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, whose rule he had carried south to a community he had started himself.Source