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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · September 29, 2026

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

A painting in the style of a medieval manuscript shows a girl in a red wool dress and white linen cap standing among cabbages and leeks in a fenced garden, one hand at her breast, with a small stone church and a graveyard behind her under a gold sky that shines brightest above the church.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a 15th-century French manuscript illumination, from the paper's reference portrait based on Jeanne d'Arc with Judith holding the head of Holofernes, Martin Le Franc, Le Champion des dames, fol. 101v (anonymous illuminator, workshop of Arras, 1451, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Francais 12476) View source artwork.

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The big question

St. Joan, 13, hears a voice she hides from her father

An angel's voice told the farm girl to leave her village and go to a king who had not yet been crowned.

Her age
About thirteen
Where
Her father's garden, Domremy, France
When
1424 or 1425 AD, in summer
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A painting in muted earth tones of barefoot, tonsured friars in patched grey-brown habits gathered before a small stone chapel and straw huts below a hill town, some weeping and kneeling, while one small friar lies face down with arms outstretched at the feet of another who stands looking down at him.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of buon fresco of the Assisi cycle, 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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Stepping down

St. Francis gives his order away, then promises to obey

The founder of the Friars Minor lay face down in front of Brother Peter of Cattaneo while his friars cried out loud.

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A painting in an early Italian manner of a small stone church. Three barefoot, tonsured friars in grey-brown habits walk towards an open door carrying sacks and a clay jar, while two veiled women watch from behind an iron grille in the wall.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of an Umbrian panel painting in egg tempera on poplar, from the paper's reference portrait based on Santa Chiara d'Assisi — single-figure detail of the fresco of St Clare and St Elizabeth of Hungary (Simone Martini, 1322-1326 AD, Cappella di San Martino, Lower Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi) View source artwork.

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Who decided

St. Clare sends away the friars who bring the bread

Pope Gregory IX had cut her sisters off from the friars who preached to them, and when he heard her answer he gave way at once.

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An engraving-style drawing of a young widow in a black gown, short black cape and white cap, kneeling in profile at a plain wooden chair in a narrow room, hands folded over an opened letter, with a window on the left and a door ajar on the right.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of an 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

A mother gives her children a school holiday to pray

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton could not decide whether to become a Catholic, and she wrote that her soul was like a bird struggling in a net.

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An ink-and-wash drawing of St. Peter's Basilica seen across its square, with the dome, the obelisk, a fountain and the curving colonnade, and a few people in 1930s coats and hats crossing the paving.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a 1930s reportage drawing in pen and ink with wash.

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Who decided

One priest for every 33,000 Catholics, by law

Pope Pius XI wrote that two other Mexican states allowed even fewer: one priest for 60,000 Catholics, and one for 100,000.

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Today in the Church for kids

Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels

  • Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels — three of God's chief angels, named in the Bible

Saint of the day for kids

Saint Michael the Archangel

Saint Michael the Archangel is named in the Book of Daniel, the Letter of St. Jude and the Apocalypse, where he leads the angels against the dragon. The Church keeps his feast on September 29, together with St. Gabriel and St. Raphael.

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On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1273 On the feast of St. Michael, St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the definitors, the leaders chosen to make decisions, at a meeting of the Dominicans held in Rome, and it was the last time he took part in the order's business.Source
  • 1582 On the feast of St. Michael, St. Teresa of Ávila suddenly got worse at Alba de Tormes and was moved into a small sickroom with a window looking onto the high altar, and she never left that bed.Source
  • 1884 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini opened a boarding school in Milan for young women training to be teachers.Source