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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · September 28, 2026

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

A painted panel split down the middle by a gilt column: on each side a group of churchmen in scarlet mantles and broad red hats, seen from behind, face a small man in a dark hooded robe at the far end of a plain hall; on the left a picture of an angry crowd hangs on the wall, and on the right a window opens onto dry hills and olive trees.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a fifteenth-century Italian panel painting in egg tempera and early oil on gessoed poplar, from the paper's reference portrait based on Scene from the Life of St. Vincent Ferrer: the Saint Tempted by the Devil before the Altar and in His Cell, and Consoled by the Mother of God (Agnolo degli Erri, c. 1470-1490 AD, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) View source artwork.

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The big question

Same cardinals choose two different popes in five months

Young St. Vincent Ferrer had to pick a side when the cardinals said their vote for Pope Urban VI hadn't counted.

St. Vincent
A young Dominican friar from Valencia
Where
Rome and Fondi, in Italy
When
April to September 20, 1378 AD
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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 François de Tours, circa 1660, Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris) View source artwork.

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A saint's journey

St. Vincent de Paul's bones were hidden in a man's house

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Who decided

The governor wouldn't fight, so the Pope paid for peace

Saint Gregory the Great, a monk who had been Pope for a year, ran Rome's defence for ten months and ended it by buying a truce with the Church's money.

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Today in the Church for kids

Monday of the twenty-sixth week of Ordinary Time

  • Saint Wenceslaus, who died for his faith in Jesus
  • Saint Lawrence Ruiz and companions, who were killed for their faith in Jesus

Saint of the day for kids

Saint Wenceslaus

Saint Wenceslaus was Duke of Bohemia in the tenth century, and his grandmother, Saint Ludmila, brought him up as a Christian. He was killed after his brother Boleslaus betrayed him, and the Church honours him as a martyr, someone who died for the faith.

On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1230 Pope Gregory IX sent out an official letter called Quo elongati, which explained what the Rule and the Testament of St. Francis of Assisi meant and said that friars could not go into the monasteries of St. Clare's sisters without his permission.Our reportSource
  • 1975 Pope Paul VI declared St. John Macías a saint; he was a Dominican from Lima, and his case for sainthood had been worked on alongside St. Martin de Porres's since the seventeenth century.Source
  • 2008 Father Michał Sopoćko, the priest who heard St. Faustina Kowalska's confessions at Vilnius, was declared Blessed at Białystok.Source