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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · October 6, 2026

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

A medieval manuscript painting in blue, red and gold: a bishop in a white mitre anoints the forehead of a kneeling, bare-shouldered boy with oil from a flask, beside an altar bearing a crown, while mitred clergy stand at the left and armed lords watch from the right.
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Who was in charge?

Paris fills the road to bring its boy king home

Rebel lords set a trap for the boy king, Saint Louis IX of France, until crowds from Paris marched out for him.

His age
Twelve
Where
Reims, Montlhéry and Paris, France
When
November 1226 AD and 1227 AD
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Into exile

Thrown from his litter at night, St. John Chrysostom reaches exile

The empress who chose his mountain village died in October 404 AD, and still no order came to bring St. John Chrysostom home.

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Who decided

Ninety-four people were taken to court for crossing a fence

The fence shut people out of the grotto at Lourdes until the Emperor, Napoleon III, sent a telegram ordering it down.

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A painting in the Sienese panel style of a woman in a white veil and tunic and a black mantle, seated on a bench in a pink-brick room at night, while a young man in a red-brown gown writes at a sloping desk across from her. A second veiled woman stands behind her holding a candle, a crucifix hangs on the wall, and a letter sealed with red wax lies on the floor.
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Two Popes at once

A dyer's daughter tells the Pope to have no fear

Saint Catherine of Siena was thirty-one and held no office, but the Pope she wrote to had known her at Avignon.

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In a dim plastered farmhouse bedroom with a beamed ceiling and a small dark window, a pale young woman in a white linen shift sits up in a wooden bed with her hands joined, while an older woman in a brown gown, white collar and white coif stands in the open plank door holding a lit candle; a plain crucifix hangs on the wall.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of French seventeenth-century oil painting, from the paper's reference portrait based on Apparition du Christ à Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (unknown artist, 18th century, Musée du Hiéron, Paray-le-Monial; photograph by Benjamin Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0) View source artwork.

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Getting better

The surgeon said wait for spring. She said one month.

A surgeon couldn't heal the sores on sixteen-year-old Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque's legs, so she and her mother prayed together for nine days.

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Today in the Church for kids

Tuesday in the 27th week of Ordinary Time

  • Saint Bruno, a priest

Saint of the day for kids

Saint Bruno

Saint Bruno was born in Cologne and taught theology at Reims, then went with a few companions to live in the wild country of the Chartreuse, near Grenoble, where the Carthusian order began. Pope Urban II called St. Bruno to Rome, and he died in a hermitage in Calabria in 1101 AD.

On this day in the Church for kids

  • 404 The Empress Eudoxia died at Constantinople, four months after St. John Chrysostom was sent away into exile at Cucusus.Our reportSource
  • 1574 St. Teresa of Ávila finished her three years as prioress, the nun in charge, of the Incarnation at Ávila and went back to St. Joseph's, where the nuns elected her prioress.Source
  • 1991 Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass in Piazza Farnese in Rome for the six hundredth anniversary of the day St. Bridget of Sweden was declared a saint.Source