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Catholic Saints for Kids

Junior Edition · October 8, 2026

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

A painting in the Tudor manner of a panelled hall at evening: a dark-haired boy in a plain black page's gown carries a covered pewter dish past a fire, followed by a bearded player in a red gown and crown and by servants with dishes and a jug, while men in fur-collared gowns and black caps sit at a long white-clothed table to the right.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of oil and tempera on oak panel after Hans Holbein the Younger, from the paper's reference portrait based on Portrait of Sir Thomas More (Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527, The Frick Collection, New York) View source artwork.

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Growing up

Serving dishes at thirteen, England's Lord Chancellor at fifty-one

Saint Thomas More waited on the man who kept the King's great seal, and in 1529 AD the seal was his.

His age
Thirteen
Where
Lambeth Palace, London
When
1491 AD
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A painting of two Jesuits in black cassocks standing by a half-open wooden door. An old, balding lay brother with keys hanging at his side places a small worn book into the hands of a younger bearded man in a black cloak, who looks down at it.
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AI-generated image, in the manner of a seventeenth-century Spanish oil painting, from the paper's reference portrait based on Saint Peter Claver. Engraving by J. Vitta after P. Gagliardi (Giuseppe Vitta after Pietro Gagliardi, after 1888 AD, Wellcome Collection, London) View source artwork.

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Teacher and student

A book nearly taken at the door, kept for forty years

An old Jesuit doorkeeper on Majorca wrote it out by hand for Saint Peter Claver, who carried it all the way to the Indies.

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Today in the Church for kids

Thursday in the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary Time

Saint of the day for kids

Saints Sergius and Bacchus

Saints Sergius and Bacchus lived in Syria, where they followed Christ. The Church honours St. Sergius and St. Bacchus as martyrs, which means they were killed because they would not give up their faith in Christ.

On this day in the Church for kids

  • 1372 On the way home from the Holy Land, Saint Bridget of Sweden and the pilgrims travelling with her landed again at Famagusta in Cyprus, where the queen and the young king welcomed them.Our reportSource
  • 1690 Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque went to bed ill at Paray-le-Monial on the first day of her community's retreat, and no one in the house was worried.Our reportSource
  • 1863 While in Paris on business, Saint Louis Martin received Communion at Notre-Dame des Victoires, lit a candle there for his family and wrote to Saint Zélie that the church was "like a little earthly paradise".Source