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