Post on 11-May-2015
SAINTS
We Celebrate
TERMS:1. Apostle – one who is sent on a mission
2. Canonize – to declare someone to be a saint
3. Disciple – a follower; a student devoted to a teacher
4. Doctor of the Church – a saint of special importance due to their writings
5. Ecstatic – having to do with a spiritual, mystic experience
6. Forty Hours Devotion - a special 40-hour period of continuous prayer made before the Blessed Sacrament
7. Intercession – prayer on behalf of another person
8. Native born – born in the country indicated
9. Vulgate – common language; the language understood by the people
• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
• Feast Day January 4
• Born in 1774 in New York, raised in the Episcopal Church
• Married a wealthy businessman and had five children
• When her husband died, she converted to Catholicism in 1805
• Opened the first Catholic school in the U.S.
• Started a community of sisters called the Sisters of Charity
• Canonized in 1975
• First native-born American saint
• St. John Neumann
• Feast day January 5
• Born in 1811 in Bohemia; dedicated his life to missionary work
• Became the fourth bishop of Philadelphia in 1853
• John Neumann founded the first Catholic school system in the U.S.
• Instituted the Forty Hours Devotion
• Canonized in 1977
• St. Mary Magdalene
• Feast day July 22
• A disciple of Jesus who appears in all four gospels
• Followed Jesus and the Apostles as Jesus preached
• Mary Magdalene was a witness to the death and Resurrection of Jesus
• Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene first after he rose from the dead
• She told the Apostle the Good News
• She is known as “the Apostle to the Apostles”
• Sts. Ann and Joachim
• Feast day July 26
• The parents of Mary, the Blessed Mother – Jesus’ grandparents
• Strong examples of love and faith
• St. Jeanne Jugan
• Feast day August 30
• Also called Sister Mary of the Cross
• Grew up in France during the French Revolution, when practicing the Catholic faith was outlawed in France
• Founded the Little Sisters of the Poor
• St. Jerome
• Feast day September 30
• Around A.D. 382, he translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into Latin, a more common language at the time
• His translation became known as the Vulgate
• St. Teresa of Avila
• Feast day October 15
• Born in Spain in 1515
• Entered the Carmelite Order at a young age
• She experienced “ecstatic visions”
• Teresa of Avila reformed her order and others, with the help of St. John of the Cross
• She wrote several spiritual works, such as Interior Castle (about spiritualism) and The Way of Perfection
• Canonized in 1622, named a Doctor of the Church in 1970
• St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
• Feast day October 17
• Born in 1647 in France
• Entered the convent at age 22
• St. Margaret Mary had a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Through her intercession, devotion to the Sacred Heart spread throughout Europe
• Canonized in 1920