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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Learning about the Saints

This site has biographies of many saints for kids.  http://www.loyolapress.com/saints-stories-for-kids.htm?cId=402682
Post a comment with an interesting fact you found about your saint, or about your patron saint, or about the saint whose feast is on your birthday.
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19 comments:

  1. sarahNovember 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    Mary appeared to BERNADETTe when she was a child at Lourdes, France.

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  2. BernadetteNovember 15, 2011 at 5:10 PM

    My saint is St. Lucy and a fact about her is that she is the patron saint of blindness and that her feast bat is in the middle of Advent.

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  3. NICOLENovember 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM

    The saint I was given was St.Cecelia's her name means "lily of heaven".

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  4. SOPHIA!!!November 15, 2011 at 6:34 PM

    Mary was a woman who cared for Jesus and his apostles on their journey.

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  5. CaraNovember 15, 2011 at 7:06 PM

    my birthday is saint Aloysius Gonzaga's feast day

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  6. ShannonNovember 15, 2011 at 7:20 PM

    St.Joan of Arc was born during violent times. During her childhood,King Henry V of England invaded France (where St.Joan of Arc lived)and seized Normandy.

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  7. annaNovember 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    St. Katherine Drexsle was beatified by Pope John Paul 2nd on November 20, 1988!

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  8. jasonNovember 16, 2011 at 4:20 PM

    St.franci xavier died on an island from a high fever.A man on the island bared him in the sand

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  9. LaurenNovember 16, 2011 at 4:25 PM

    St.Elizabeth Ann Seton was the firs person in the United States to be named a saint.

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  10. emilyNovember 16, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    St.Rose of Lima was a wonderful person! She took one room in her house and made it a medical clinic for children who are poor,and for old people.There is not a saint on my birthday but that is ok.

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  11. CameronNovember 16, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    st.paulmiki and companions were crusified just like Jesus.

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  12. MichaelNovember 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    I learned that St. Charles Borromeo sold all he owned and borrowed money for the poor.

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  13. dannyNovember 16, 2011 at 5:30 PM

    Juan Diego was poor, simple, humble, and devoted to the Eucharist. He spent the next 17 years traveling throughout central Mexico, bringing others to the faith and delivering Guadalupe's message that Mary loves us and wants to help us. Juan Diego was beatified in 1990 and canonized in 2002.

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  14. jacksonNovember 16, 2011 at 5:35 PM

    St.John Neumann could speak 7 different languages.

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  15. Chris KNovember 16, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    During World War II Father Kolbe, a Polish priest volunteered to take another prisoners place when he was sentenced to death. He gave his life to save another.

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  16. JENNA!!!!!November 16, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    Between 1673 and 1675 Jesus appeared to St.Margaret Mary in visions.

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  17. JENNA!!!!!November 16, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    St. Vincent of Collioure's feast day is on my birthday,April 19th.

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  18. kikiNovember 16, 2011 at 8:25 PM

    St.Clare was good friends with St.Frances of Assis.

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  19. tommyNovember 16, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    St. Martin De Porres cured sick people!!!!!

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