New Kids on the Block
This (soon to be declared) saint's remains rest in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore at the Sanctuary of Spogliazione in Assisi, the home of St. Francis and St. Clare. Perhaps the only saint to be found wearing Nikes in their tomb.
Who is St. Carlo Acutis
This saint is best known for being very active and adventurous, the most famous photo of them has them climbing up a mountain.
Who is St. Pier Giorgio Frassati
"Totus Tuus", meaning "Completely Yours" was first expressed through the writings and Marian devotion of this saint.
Who is St. Louis de Montfort
A saint known to being a relative to Jesus and living in the wilderness as a prophet who ate locusts and wild honey.
Who is Saint John the Baptist
This saint had 24 siblings and was also a twin.
Who is St. Catherine of Siena
This saint was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for their work in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress.
Who is Mother Teresa of Calcutta
This saint's popularity is largely a result of collection of epistolary essays in which they convey their loving pursuit of holiness in ordinary life.
Who is St. Therese of Lisieux
After receiving the stigmata while praying in a church, it was said that the smell coming from the saint's wounds smelled of floral perfume.
Who is Saint Padre Pio?
Refusing to sanctify King Henry VIII's Act of Succession, this saint was imprisoned and eventually sentenced to death by beheading. Final moments before his execution, this saint recited Psalm 51 to the spectators and requesting their prayers for the Church and the king.
Who is Saint Thomas More
This saint asked a donkey to decide if they should commit murder.
Who is St. Ignatius of Loyola
This young saint was a flagbearer during Cristero War in Mexico (1926-1929).
Who is St. Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio
This saint began their life as royal but after the death of their spouse they left and took refuge with their uncle, Bishop Eckbert of Bamberg. After their death in 1231, this person was declared a saint in 1235.
Who is St. Elizabeth of Hungary
You are never too old to go skiing and this saint proves it. The future saint continued to ski until they were 73 years old, some of their slopes were in Poland.
Who is Saint John Paul II
Allegedly being the first Bishop of Paris, this saint carried his own severed head for miles preaching to the people after being martyred.
Who is Saint Denis
While visiting a nun, who was midst mystical prayer and levitating high above the ground, this saint looked up at her and said, "You have ugly feet."
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas
Although at a young age yelling during the Mass, "Bad priest! Bad priest! That's my doll!" because the priest had secretly borrowed their doll to be used as the Christ Child in his creche, this future saint would enter the Carmelite convent in Dijon, France in 1901. Where they would focus their life on immersion in the Godhead and the Trinity's immersion in them.
Who is Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
Who is Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
By witnessing the dedication of this future saint's mother had to the Blessed Virgin Mary, this saint would become known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary.
Who is Saint Maximilian Kolbe
In May of 1535, Pope Pius III declared this saint a Cardinal before he was beheaded a month later on June 22, 1535. The day of this saint's feast day.
Who is Saint John Fisher
This saint became Pope after a dove flew into the crowd and landed on their head, but first they had to be ordained a deacon, priest, and bishop to then become the pope.
Who is St. Fabian
In a legal case involving a Dominican-priest-turned-Evangelical and this future saint, the saint was found guilty of libel and was fined 100 pounds (approximately $16,600 in todays US dollars).
Who is Saint John Henry Newman
Making promises to enter into religious life in hopes to be miraculously healed, this future saint quickly forgot about these promises after being healed twice. It was was during a procession that this saint sensed Our Lady looking at him and heard the voice, "Keep your promise." Moving this future saint to enter the Passionist Order.
Who is St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
At the age of 14, this saint had the Blessed Virgin Mary appear to them. Due to this encounter, the saint became very particular to what paintings they would pray. Hence why the paint of Our Lady of Cambrai and Our Lady of Lourdes look so similar.
Who is Saint Bernadette
While sheltering and hiding a priest from the Roman soldiers stationed in Britain, this future saint had a conversion to the Christian faith due to the courage displayed by the priest and their conversations. When the Roman soldiers had discovered where the priest was hiding, the saint swapped clothes with the priest and presented himself to the soldiers to take the place of the priest. Refusing to give up the actually priest, the saint was sentenced to death by beheading.
Who is Saint Alban
In the Diocese of St. David's in Wales there are four churches named after this saint, who also founded a monastery.
Who is St. Lawdog