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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · September 25, 2026

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

A painting in the style of an early Italian fresco shows a street of pink and white houses. A thin young man in a plain grey-brown tunic, with a staff and a bowl, stands with his hands joined while a ragged barefoot old man raises a small cross over his head. A stout man in a red gown and blue mantle points at them, and two townspeople watch.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of an Assisi fresco, from the paper's reference portrait based on Legend of St. Francis, scene 3: Dream of the Palace (Giotto di Bondone, 1296–1298 AD, Upper Church, Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi) View source artwork.

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The big question

St. Francis's father curses him, so a beggar blesses him

Saint Francis of Assisi gave his rich father back the money and even his clothes, but Pietro Bernardone still cursed his son in the street.

His age in 1206
Mid-twenties
Where
Assisi, in Italy
When
1206 and 1207 AD
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An old bald priest in a black soutane and skullcap sleeps upright in a wooden armchair in a bare grey room, his bandaged feet on a low stool, with crutches against the wall, a narrow bed behind him, and two men in black cassocks watching from an open doorway.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of French oil painting of the middle of the seventeenth century, from the paper's reference portrait based on Portrait de saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) (Anonymous, after a model by Simon Francois de Tours, circa 1660, Musee Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris) View source artwork.

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Keeping a secret

The secret name in the sealed box

Saint Vincent de Paul, seventy-nine and unable to stand, had himself carried to the priest he had secretly chosen to lead after him.

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An engraving in sepia ink of a boy in a dark jacket and bow cravat, a book under his arm, standing at a door at the top of a narrow plaster stairwell and looking back at a priest in a black cassock and broad-brimmed hat who climbs the stairs below him, seen from behind.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a monochrome relief engraving of the Turin devotional press of the 1850s, from the paper's reference portrait based on Dominic Savio (Pupil of the Ven. Don Bosco), the frontispiece plate to 'The Life of Dominic Savio' by John Bosco (unknown engraver, Salesian Press, 1915 AD, Internet Archive) View source artwork.

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How did he know?

St. Dominic Savio finds a dying man and never says how

The boy led St. John Bosco through three streets of Turin to a third-floor door, rang the bell hard and walked away.

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Today in the Church for kids

Friday in the 25th week of Ordinary Time

Saint of the day for kids

Saint Finbar

Saint Finbar was the bishop of Cork, in Ireland. A bishop is the leader of the Church in one area, so St. Finbar was in charge of the Church's people in Cork.

On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1660 At about noon at Saint-Lazare in Paris, St. Vincent de Paul fell into a deep sleep in his chair, and it lasted longer than any of his attacks before it.Our reportSource
  • 1887 In the Church of the Gesù in Rome, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini knelt at the altar of St. Francis Xavier and made a solemn promise to go to the missions of the East with six sisters once the Holy See approved her institute.Our reportSource