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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · September 27, 2026

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

In a fresco, a small girl in a blue fur-trimmed coat and a haloed bonnet is handed down from a covered wagon by richly dressed adults, beneath a vine of roses and white doves.
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Growing up

Little St. Elizabeth's 'who's tallest' game hides a secret prayer

Sent at four to a castle full of strangers, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary made a friend who later told the Church about her games.

Her age
Four when she arrived
Where
The Wartburg castle, Eisenach, Germany
When
1211 AD and the years after
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A painting of a balding, grey-bearded priest in a black cassock standing in a bare whitewashed room, one hand resting on a sheet of parchment on a wooden table from which a round lead seal hangs on a cord, with a biretta, inkwell and quill beside it and a crucifix on the wall.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of mid-sixteenth-century Roman oil portraiture, from the paper's reference portrait based on Portrait of Ignatius of Loyola (Jacopino del Conte, 1556 AD, Curia Generalizia of the Society of Jesus, Rome) View source artwork.

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Who decided

One cardinal said never. Ten men answered with Masses.

A cardinal who wanted no new orders at all held up Saint Ignatius of Loyola's order for a year, while thousands of Masses were said for it.

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A sepia engraving of a plain church interior with white box pews and tall clear windows, where a young widow in a black cape and white cap sits alone in a side pew with a book in her hands, her face in profile turned toward the window, while the rest of the congregation faces a distant table.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of early nineteenth-century American stipple and line engraving, from the paper's reference portrait based on Portrait of Elizabeth Ann Seton (Amabilia Filicchi, after the Ceroni engraving of c. 1868 after Saint-Memin's engraving of 1797; Daughters of Charity / National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg) View source artwork.

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A hard choice

Sitting in one church, she prayed toward another

A widow with five children and no money had relatives who would help only if she stayed out of the Catholic Church.

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Today in the Church for kids

Today the Church remembers Saint Vincent de Paul, a priest

  • Saint Vincent de Paul, a priest

Saint of the day for kids

Saint Vincent de Paul

Saint Vincent de Paul was a French priest who grew up in a poor farming family in Gascony. St. Vincent started a group of priests to preach to poor country people and, with St. Louise de Marillac, the Daughters of Charity, and he died in Paris in 1660 AD.

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On this day in the Church for kids

  • 591 In Rome, Pope St. Gregory the Great got news that Ariulf, the Lombard duke of Spoleto, was thought to be marching his army toward Ravenna or even toward Rome.Our reportSource
  • 1804 In New York, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, a widow, sent her children outside to play, knelt down to pray about whether to become a Catholic, and that afternoon wrote a letter to her friend Antonio Filicchi.Our reportSource
  • 2017 On the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the Vincentian family to mark four hundred years since the first Confraternity of Charity began at Châtillon.Source