Saints of the Americas
Called the Lily of the Mohawks, she was the first Native American to be named a Saint.
Who is St. Kateri (Takakwitha)?
The foster father of Jesus.
Who is St. Joseph?
The first Christian martyr who died by being stoned to death.
Who is St. Stephen?
He was the only apostle who died from a natural death instead of as a martyr.
Who is St. John the Apostle?
He brought Catholicism to Ireland and is known for using a shamrock to teach about the Holy Trinity.
Who is St. Patrick?
He saw the Blessed Virgin Mary at Guadalupe, Mexico.
Who is St. Juan Diego?
The grandmother of Jesus.
Who is Saint Ann.
He was a Polish Catholic priest who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz.
Who is St. Maximillian Kolbe?
When sentenced to die, he requested to be crucified on an inverted cross (upside down) because he did not consider himself worthy to die as Jesus had.
Who is St. Peter?
Known as "The Little Flower".
Who is St. Therese (of Lisieux)?
He was the first American bishop made a saint and many Catholic campus ministry centers at secular universities are named for him.
Who is St. John Henry Neumann?
This saint, along with his sister, Jacinta Marto, and cousin, Lucia dos Santos, witnessed the appearance of Our Lady of Fatima.
Who is St. Francisco Marto?
This saint, who was a hero to France, was burned at the stake in 1431 at the age of 19.
Who is St. Joan of Arc?
This apostle was hung upside down on a cross, then sawed in half.
Who is St. Simon (the zealot)?
He is most well-known for helping us find lost things.
Who is St. Anthony (of Padua)?
This saint came from a wealthy Philadelphia family and used her great wealth to help educate Native Americans and African Americans.
The mother of St. Augustine.
Who is St. Monica?
This deacon saint of the early Church was martyred by being roasted on a gridiron.
Who is St. Lawrence?
This Apostle is known as the saint of "impossible causes" and shares a feast day with St. Simon.
Who is St. Jude (or St. Jude Thaddeus or St. Thaddeus)?
This saint was known for helping the "poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
Who is St. Theresa (of Calcutta)?
The first Saint born in what would soon become the United States, she also started the first Catholic school in the U.S.
Who is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?
The sister of St. Benedict, she became a nun and helped her brother found the Benedictine Order.
Who is St. Scholastica?
This English martyr fell out of favor with King Henry VIII and had his head chopped off by him. His last words were: "The king's good servant, but God's first."
Who is St. Thomas More?
This Apostle was martyred by being skinned alive and is the patron saint of dermatologists and butchers.
Who is St. Bartholomew?
Who is St. Bernadette?