APOSTLES
He was crucified upside down.
PETER
The first Christian Martyr - he was stoned to death
STEPHEN
“Be not afraid” was his well known exhortation. He was the first non-Italian pope.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
She founded the Missionaries of Charity and was awarded the Nobel Peace Price for her work with the poor.
MOTHER TERESA
Represented by an eagle
JOHN
He should not to be confused with the one who betrayed Jesus
JUDAS
HE was struck down from his horse on the way to Damascus and became the Apostle to the Gentiles - was beheaded
PAUL
He convoked the Second Vatican Council in 1962
POPE JOHN XXIII
Nicknamed the Little Flower, she was known for her “little way”, doing little things with great love.
THERESE OF LISIEUX
Represented by a winged lion
MARK
The beloved Apostle, he stood by Jesus on Calvary.
JOHN
He gave his life in place of a family man executed in Auschwitz - poisoned with carbolic acid
MAXIMILLIAN KOLBE
Pope of the Eucharist - he lowered the age for receiving First Communion
POPE PIUS X
Patron saint of Music
CECILIA
Represented by a winged ox or bull
LUKE
The tax collector, turned follower of Jesus
MATTHEW
She led the French army in siege of Orleans but was burned at the stake.
JOAN OF ARC
He was Pope during WWII and proclaimed the Dogma of the Assumption
POPE PIUX XII
She propagated the devotion to our Lady of Lourdes
BERNADETTE SOUBIROUX
Represented by a winged man or angel
MATTHEW
He was with Peter and John at the transfiguration
JAMES
A Christian virgin, she was persecuted for her resolute devotion to religious purity and refusal to deny God. She was beheaded after attempts to burn her at the stake failed.
AGNES
He organized the Holy League that defeated the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Lepanto and instituted the Feast of our Lady of the Rosary in its honor.
POPE PIUS V
Sudanese religious sister who won release from slavery and became the first black Catholic Saint in the modern era
JOSEPHINE BAHKITA
His “protoevangelium” or proto-Gospel focused on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and records events that took place before the accounts of the NT Gospels.
JAMES