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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · October 5, 2026

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

A pen-and-wash drawing in cut-away section of a row of old town houses between two tall square stone towers, with the ground beneath opened to show ancient column bases and, under the central house, a lamp-lit vaulted cellar dug out with a shovel and pickaxe on the spoil.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a nineteenth-century reportage drawing in pen, ink and wash. No person appears in it.

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The big question

Tours ran two streets across St. Martin's church on purpose

Kings once prayed at St. Martin's grave, but by 1860 AD searchers had to dig for it in a cellar.

Tomb destroyed
1562 AD
Where
Tours, in France
When
October 2, 1860 AD
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A painting in the manner of an old Italian fresco: a pope in a white mitre and red mantle sits on a stone dais with two cardinals in red hats beside him, while a young cleric drops a book into a flaming iron brazier and three friars stand watching at the right, the nearest a tall, heavy, tonsured Dominican in white under a dark cloak, holding a closed book.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a Trecento fresco, from the paper's reference portrait based on Saint Thomas Aquinas, from the Demidoff Altarpiece (Carlo Crivelli, 1476 AD, The National Gallery, London) View source artwork.

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Who decided

A man stopped St. Thomas's sermon to read an attack

Saint Thomas Aquinas said nothing and kept preaching, and that autumn the Pope had the book against the friars burnt in front of him.

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An oil painting of a black-bearded priest in a black cassock at a wooden table, pausing with a quill over a letter and looking up. A small wooden crucifix and a book are on the table, and a window shows palms and sailing ships at anchor on a river. Through a doorway on the left, a sick man lies on a cot in a hospital ward while an attendant in white cotton carries a brass jug.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of the Portuguese painters of c. 1620, from the paper's reference portrait based on Saint Francis Xavier preaching in Goa (André Reinoso, c. 1619, Museu de São Roque, Lisbon) View source artwork.

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A letter home

St. Francis Xavier wishes he could be in ten places

From a hospital room in Goa, St. Francis Xavier told his friends in Rome about the sick, the prisoners, the lepers and more than 300 boys.

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Today in the Church for kids

Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time

  • Saint Faustina Kowalska, a woman who gave her whole life to God and never married

Saint of the day for kids

Saint Faustina Kowalska

Saint Faustina Kowalska was born Helena Kowalska in Poland and became a sister with the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, where she cooked, gardened and answered the door. Jesus gave her the image and feast of Divine Mercy, and she died in Kraków in 1938 AD, aged thirty-three.

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On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1378 When St. Catherine of Siena heard that the rebel cardinals had chosen a rival pope, she wrote from Siena to Pope Urban VI and told him to stand firm.Our reportSource
  • 1451 Pope Nicholas V issued a bull, an official papal letter, ruling that the body of St. Vincent Ferrer should stay in the cathedral of Vannes even after he was declared a saint.Source
  • 1858 The people of Lourdes asked the Emperor for help, and the men who had put up barriers around the grotto where St. Bernadette saw the apparitions took them down.Our reportSource
  • 1946 St. Pio's House for the Relief of Suffering, a hospital at San Giovanni Rotondo, was officially recognised and given its legal founding rules.Saint Pio of PietrelcinaSource