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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · October 3, 2026

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

Pen-and-wash drawing of a plain upstairs room with books and spectacles on a table, a violin lying on a rush-seated chair, a black gown on a peg, and an open door onto a staircase, with a college tower seen through the window.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a pen-and-wash English book illustration of about 1900. No person appears in it.

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How he won it

He wins Oxford's top prize and keeps playing his violin

Less than two years after breaking down in his finals, Saint John Henry Newman nearly quit this exam too.

His age
Twenty-one
Where
Oxford, in England
When
April 12, 1822 AD
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Captain refuses Saint Ignatius, saying a saint can walk on water

With no money for the voyage home from Cyprus, Saint Ignatius of Loyola sailed on a small, leaking ship, and a storm came up on the first evening.

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A painting of a bare whitewashed cell at night: a thin tonsured friar lies on a low wooden bed with his hands joined on his chest, while one friar in a black cloak holds a candle, a second kneels wringing a cloth over an earthenware basin and a third stands with clasped hands; a crucifix hangs on the wall, a book, a jug and a cloth sit on a stool, and a small window shows the towers of a city under a starry sky.
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How it began

Christ touches a dying friar, and he gets up cured

Saint Dominic and Saint Francis came with Christ to his bed, but the man who claimed to be Pope kept the friar waiting two more years.

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A painting of a young priest in a black cassock and small white collar sitting alone in a bare room, his right hand pressed to his chest, beside a table with a lit candle, an inkwell with a quill and a blank sheet of parchment; a black cloak and hat hang on the wall by a narrow bed.
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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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Four hard years

Why St. Vincent de Paul wore the Creed over his heart

A priest he knew couldn't even go into a church, so St. Vincent de Paul asked God for the man's doubts instead.

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Today in the Church for kids

Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the day for kids

Saint Théodore Guérin

Saint Théodore Guérin was a woman who gave her whole life to God and lived in Indiana, in the United States. The Roman Martyrology, the Church's official list of saints and their days, remembers St. Théodore Guérin today.

On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1263 According to Catholic Tradition, on the day of the battle of Largs, Sir John Wemyss saw St. Margaret of Scotland riding out from Dunfermline.Source
  • 1897 Crowds walked past the metal grating of the Carmel chapel at Lisieux to see the body of St. Thérèse, and people brought hundreds of medals and rosaries to touch it.Source
  • 1933 At West Park, New York, the Church officially examined and identified the body of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in front of the Apostolic Delegate, the Pope's representative, and her body was later placed in the chapel of her order's house in New York City.Source