Miniature Stories of the Saints
Book II
Item Number: 1730
These lives of the saints are written in an easily understood and entertaining story form. Each story, one page in length, also has a full-page picture. The stories will leave a lasting impression on children. This volume contains stories of Saints:
Agnes
Ann-the mother of the Blessed Virgin
Catherine of Alexandria
Clare
Cecilia
Dorothy
Elizabeth of Hungary
Frances of Rome
Gertrude
Helen
Jane Frances de Chantal
Joan of Arc
Julia
Lucy
Margaret Mary
Mary Magdalen
Rita
Rose
Theresa the Little Flower.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 01/21
Tridentine Calendar - 01/21
Patron Of:
Crops, Girl Scouts, Betrothed Couples, Chastity
Profile
At age 12 or 13 Agnes was ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods and lose her virginity by rape. She was taken to a Roman temple to Minerva (Athena), and when led to the altar, she made the Sign of the Cross. She was threatened, then tortured when she refused to turn against God. Several young men presented themselves, offering to marry her, whether from lust or pity is not known. She said that to do so would be an insult to her heavenly Spouse, that she would keep her consecrated virginity intact, accept death, and see Christ. Martyr Foster-sister of Saint Emerentiana. Mentioned in first Eucharistic prayer. On her feast day two lambs are blessed at her church in Rome, and then their wool is woven into the palliums (bands of white wool) which the pope confers on archbishops as symbol of their jurisdiction.
Died
beheaded and burned, or tortured and stabbed to death, or stabbed in the throat (sources vary) on 21 January 254 or 304 (sources vary) at Rome; buried beside the Via Nomentana in Rome
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Tridentine Calendar - 11/25
Patron Of:
Potters, Students, Theologians, Scholars, Philosophers, Teachers, Lawyers, Tanners, Dying, Apologists, Girls, Libraries, Mechanics, Millers, Preachers, Schoolchildren, Spinners, Turners, Wheelwrigths
Also known as
Katherine of Alexandria
Profile
Apocryphal. Nobility. Learned in science and oratory. Converted to Christianity after receiving a vision. When she was 18 years old, during the persecution of Maximus, she offered to debate the pagan philosophers. Many were converted by her arguments, and immediately martyred. Maximus had her scourged and imprisoned. The empress and the leader of Maximus' army were amazed by the stories, went to see Catherine in prison. They converted and were martyred. Maximus ordered her broken on the wheel, but she touched it and the wheel was destroyed. She was beheaded, and her body whisked away by angels.
Immensely popular during the Middle Ages, there were many chapels and churches devoted to her throughout western Europe, and she was reported as one of the divine advisors to Saint Joan of Arc. Her reputation for learning and wisdom led to her patronage of libraries, librarians, teachers, archivists, and anyone associated with wisdom or teaching. Her debating skill and persuasive language has led to her patronage of lawyers. And her torture on the wheel led to those who work with them asking for her intercession. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
While there may well have been a noble, educated, virginal lady who swayed pagans with her rhetoric during the persecutions, the accretion of legend, romance and poetry has long since buried the real Catherine.
Died
beheaded c.305 in Alexandria, Egypt
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Representation
spiked wheel; woman strapped to the spiked wheel on which she was martyred; woman arguing with pagan philosophers
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 11/17
Tridentine Calendar - 11/17
Patron Of:
Bakers, Countesses, Falsely Accused, Nursing Services, Tertiaries
Profile
Princess, the daughter of King Andrew of Hungary. Great-aunt of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal. She married Prince Louis of Thuringa at age 13. Built a hospital at the foot of the mountain on which her castle stood; tended to the sick herself. Her family and courtiers opposed this, but she insisted she could only follow Christ's teachings, not theirs. Once when she was taking food to the poor and sick, Prince Louis stopped her and looked under her mantle to see what she was carrying; the food had been miraculously changed to roses. Upon Louis' death, Elizabeth sold all that she had, and worked to support her four children. Her gifts of bread to the poor, and of a large gift of grain to a famine stricken Germany, led to her patronage of bakers and related fields.
Born
1207 at Presburg, Hungary
Died
1231 at Marburg of natural causes; her relics, including her skull wearing a gold crown she had worn in life, are preserved at the convent of Saint Elizabeth in Vienna, Austria
Canonized
27 May 1235 by Pope Gregory IX at Perugia, Italy
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 11/16
Tridentine Calendar - 11/15
Patron Of:
Nuns, West Indies
Profile
We don't know who her parents were or what became of them. She was raised in the Cistercian abbey of Helfta, Eisleben, Saxony from age five. An extremely bright student, and gentle person. At age 26, when she had become too enamored of philosophy, she received a vision of Christ who reproached her; from then on she studied the Bible and the works of the Church Fathers. Received many visions and mystical instruction, which formed the basis of her writings. Helped spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. Her writings have been greatly praised by Saint Teresa and Saint Francis de Sales, and continue in print today.
Born
6 January 1256 at Eisleben, Germany
Died
on a Wednesday of Easter season in 1302 of natural causes; relics in the old monastery of Helfta
Canonized
never formerly canonized; received equipollent canonization and a universal feast day declared in 1677 by Pope Clement XII
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 05/30
Tridentine Calendar - 05/30
Patron Of:
Imprisoned, Prisoners, Rape Victims, Soldiers, France, Martyrs
Profile
One of five children born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romee. Shepherdess. Mystic. From age 13 she received visions from Saint Margaret of Antioch, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Michael the Archangel.
In the early 15th century, England, in alliance with Burgundy, controlled most of what is modern France. In May 1428 Joan's visions told her to find the true king of France and help him reclaim his throne. She resisted for more than three years, but finally went to Charles VII in Chinon and told him of her visions. Carrying a banner that read "Jesus, Mary", she led troops from one battle to another. She was severely wounded, but her victories from 23 February 1429 to 23 May 1430 brought Charles VII to the throne. Captured by the Burgundians during the defence of Compiegne, she was sold to the English for 10 thousand francs. She was put on trial by an ecclesiastical court conducted by Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, a supporter of England, and was excuted as a heretic. In 1456 her case was re-tried, and Joan was acquitted (23 years too late).
"About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter." - Saint Joan of Arc, as recorded at her trial
Born
6 January 1412 at Greux-Domremy, Lorraine, France
Died
burned alive on 30 May 1431 at Rouen, France
Beatified
11 April 1905 by Pope Saint Pius X
Canonized
16 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 05/22
Tridentine Calendar - 05/22
Patron Of:
Torture Victims
Profile
Carthaginian Christian nobility. Captured by invading Vandals in 616, and sold into slavery to a pagan Syrian merchant named Eusebius. When the slave ship landed at Cape Corso, Corsica. A pagan festival was in progress, and she was ordered to join in; some versions indicate that participation would have won her freedom. When she refused, her hair was torn out of her head, and she was martyred.
Born
6th-7th century Carthaginian
Died
beaten and crucified c.616-620 at Cape Corso, Corsica; relics at the Benedictine abbey at Brescia, Italy, which became a middle ages pilgrimage site
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 12/13
Patron Of:
Blind People, Throat, Authors, Laborers, Blindness, Cutters, Eye Diseases, Eyes, Peasants, Peddlers, Saddlers, Salespeople, Glaziers, Stained Glass Workers, Sore Throuts, Martyrs, Against Eye Disease
Also known as
Lucia of Syracuse
Lucia de Syracuse
Memorial
13 December
Profile
Rich, young Christian of Greek ancestry. Raised in a pious family, she vowed her life to Christ. Her Roman father died when she was young. Her mother, Eutychia, arranged a marriage for her. For three years she managed to keep the marriage on hold. To change the mother's mind about the girl's new faith, Lucy prayed at the tomb of Saint Agatha, and her mother's long haemorrhagic illness was cured. Her mother agreed with Lucy's desire to live for God, and Lucy became known as a patron of those with maladies like her mother's.
Her rejected pagan bridegroom, Paschasius, denounced Lucy as a Christian to the governor of Sicily. The governor sentenced her to forced prostitution, but when guards went to fetch her, they could not move her even when they hitched her to a team of oxen. The governor ordered her killed instead. After torture that included having her eyes torn out, she was surrounded by bundles of wood which were set afire; they went out. She prophesied against her persecutors, and was executed by being stabbed to death with a dagger. Her name is listed in the prayer "Nobis quoque peccatoribus" in the Canon of the Mass.
Legend says her eyesight was restored before her death. This and the meaning of her name led to her connection with eyes, the blind, eye trouble, etc.
Born
c.283 at Syracuse, Sicily
Died
stabbed in the throat c.304 at Syracuse, Sicily; her relics are honoured in churches throughout Europe
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Name Meaning
light; bringer of light (= Lucy)
Patronage
against blindness
against dysentery
against epidemics
against eye disease
against hemorraghes
authors
Begijnendijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
blind people
Conzano, Italy
cutlers
eye problems
glaziers
laborers
martyrs
Mtarfa, Malta
peasants
Perugia, Italy
saddlers
salesmen
sore eyes
sore throats
stained glass workers
Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
throat infections
Villa Santa Lucia, Latium, Italy
writers
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 10/16
Patron Of:
Against Polio, Loss of Parents, Sacred Heart
Profile
Healed from a crippling disorder by a vision of the Blessed Virgin, which prompted her to give her life to God. After receiving a vision of Christ fresh from the Scourging, she was moved to join the Order of the Visitation at Paray-le-Monial in 1671.
Received a revelation from our Lord in 1675, which included 12 promises to her and to those who practiced a true to devotion to His Sacred Heart, whose crown of thorns represent his sacrifices. The devotion encountered violent opposition, especially in Jansenist areas, but has become widespread and popular.
Born
22 July 1647 at L'Hautecourt, Burgundy, France
Died
17 October 1690 of natural causes; body incorrupt
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Patron Of:
Latin America, Philippines, South America, Vanity, Americas, Florists, Gardeners, Needle Workers, Peru, Embroiderers
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 10/01
Tridentine Calendar - 10/01
Roman Rite Calendar - 01/10
Patron Of:
Aviators, Tuberculosis, Florists, Missionaries, Missions, Domestic, France, Loss of Parents, African Missions, AIDS Sufferers, Air Crews, Aircraft Pilots, Flower Growers, Illness
- Also known as
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Teresa of the Infant Jesus;
Therese of the Child Jesus;
the Little Flower;
the Little Flower of Jesus
Profile
Born to a middle-class French family. Her father, Louis, was a watchmaker, her mother, who died of cancer when Therese was 4, was a lace maker, and both have been declared Venerable by the Church. Cured from an illness at age eight when a statue of the Blessed Virgin smiled at her. Carmelite nun at age 15. Defined her path to God and holiness as "The Little Way," which consisted of love and trust in God. At the direction of her spiritual director, and against her wishes, she dictated her famed autobiography Story of a Soul. Many miracles attributed to her. Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1997 by Pope John Paul II.
"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy." - Saint Therese of Lisieux
Born
2 January 1873 at Alcon, Normandy, France
Died
7pm Thursday 30 September 1897 at Lisieux, France of tuberculosis
Venerated
14 August 1921 by Pope Benedict XV
Beatified
29 April 1923 by Pope Pius XI
Canonized
17 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI
All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.
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