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Her guardian angel
Her angel vanished whenever St. Frances of Rome did wrong
The angel was as tall as a child of about nine, nobody else could see him, and he was at her side for twenty-four years.
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Catholic Saints for Kids
Junior Edition · October 2, 2026
True stories of the saints for curious readers ages 10–12.
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The big question
St. Carlo Acutis, fifteen, puts together a Vatican academy's website
The Milan schoolboy taught himself to write programs and built a website listing the miracles of the Eucharist from around the world.
- His age
- Fifteen
- Where
- Milan, in Italy
- When
- The summer of 2006 AD
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Growing up
Head nun says aloud the name St. Thérèse kept secret
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux asked at nine to follow her sister into a convent and was told to wait until she was sixteen.
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Leaving home
A piano, a writing desk and four children left behind
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton emptied her house in New York and sailed for Italy with her sick husband, though everyone told her the voyage was close to madness.
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Who guarded them
Every monk had a guardian he could not see
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, in charge of a monastery in France, called his own care of the monks "useless" and gave them words to call out to their angels.
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A letter from prison
The prisoners' messenger comes home and is made bishop
Christians in prison at Lyons sent Saint Irenaeus of Lyons to the Pope with a letter, and at least forty-eight Christians were killed at Lyons, their bishop among them.
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The Holy Guardian Angels
Saint of the day for kids
The Church keeps the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels on October 2, and Pope Clement X made it a feast the whole Church must keep in 1670 AD. The Catechism teaches that their watchful care and prayers surround human life from babyhood to death.
Read their storyOn this day in the Church for kids
- 1627 Pope Urban VIII, in a short official letter given at Rome, allowed the diocese of Spoleto and the whole Order of Saint Augustine to keep the Office and Mass of St. Rita of Cascia.Source
- 1860 A commission began digging in a cellar at Tours for the lost tomb of St. Martin of Tours and found part of the old foundations of the choir of his basilica.Our reportSource
- 2014 Pope Francis preached at the morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, on the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels, that every Christian has an angel who guards him.The Holy Guardian AngelsSource