SAINTS OF THE MONTH: LISTING
Thérèse of Lisieux
Feast Day: October 1
Canonized: May 17, 1925
Beatified: April 29, 1923
Venerated: August 14, 1921
In 1873, Thérèse was born in the small French town of Alencon and was raised in a loving family with her four sisters. Like any child, Thérèse enjoyed playing with her cousins and siblings. When Thérèse was four her mother died, and her father moved the family to…
Read More »Théodore Guérin
Feast Day: October 3
Canonized: October 15, 2006
Beatified: October 25, 1998
Venerated: July 22, 1992
On the French seacoast of Brittany, Anne-Thérèse Guérin was born in 1798 to a French naval officer and his wife. When young Anne made her First Communion, she told the priest that she wanted to dedicate her life to God’s work. But her father was murdered when…
Read More »Francis of Assisi
Feast Day: October 4
Canonized: July 16, 1228
Two events changed Francis Bernardone. First, enemy soldiers captured him and put him in prison. Second, he met a leper.…
Read More »Faustina Kowalska
Feast Day: October 5
Canonized: April 30, 2000
Beatified: April 18, 1993
Venerated: March 7, 1992
Helenka Kowalska was born in 1905 in a small Polish town, one of 10 children born into a poor family.…
Read More »Francis Seelos
Feast Day: October 5
Beatified: April 9, 2000
Venerated: January 27, 2000
Francis Xavier Seelos was born in Fussen, Bavaria, in Germany in 1819. He was named…
Read More »Marie-Rose Durocher
Feast day: October 6
Beatified: May 23, 1982
Venerated: July 13, 1979
Many of our greatest saints and holy people knew that they could raise others up by helping…
Read More »John Henry Newman
Feast Day: October 9
Canonized: October 13, 2019
Beatified: September 19, 2010
Venerated: January 22, 1991
At the 2010 Mass that proclaimed John Henry Newman “Blessed,” some of the hymns sung were written by that very man. But John was not simply a man who wrote hymns. He was someone who inspired others with his life and his writings.
A well-respected priest,…
Read More »Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), Pope
Feast Day: October 9
Venerated: December 19, 2009
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born in Rome, Italy, in 1876. His father hoped that Eugenio would follow in his…
Read More »John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli), Pope
Feast Day: October 11
Canonized: April 27, 2014
Beatified: September 3, 2000
Venerated: December 20, 1999
From her very beginning, the Church has had leaders who have helped us in our search for God. Pope John XXIII was one of those leaders. Pope John XXIII was pope from 1958 until he died in 1963.
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born November 25, 1881, in the…
Read More »Teresa of Ávila
Feast Day: October 15
Canonized: March 12, 1622
Beatified: April 24, 1614
Teresa was born in 1515 in Ávila. She proved at an early age that she was an intelligent and thoughtful person. Teresa and her brother,…
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