A Saint is a person acknowledged as holy or virtuous and regarded in Christian faith as being in heaven after death. Saints are important to Catholics as they are role models and inspire young people who are a part of God’s Kingdom that have lived as Jesus taught. During their life, they have shown many virtues and have done many good deeds. They all have devoted their life to Christ and have performed many miracles. My Saint is Saint Clare Assisi. She became a saint as she devoted her life to Christ, did many good things for others, especially the poor, and performed many miracles. One of the miracles being, she cured the sick when she made the sign of the cross over them.
Most of Saint Clare’s education took place in the Cathedral, which was her local church, being not far from her home. Even as a child and young woman, Clare was known as being dedicated to prayer, obedient to her parents, and generous and compassionate to the poor. She had heard a young man, St. Francis of Assisi, preaching in the piazzas of Assisi, and as soon as she saw him, she became determined to live the Gospel in a more thorough way. She then went to a nunnery and found the order of Franciscan women, who became known as the “Poor Clares”, or simply “Clares.”
Saint Clare was born on July 16, 1194 in Assisi Italy. Her full name was Chiara Offreduccio and she had two younger sisters, Agnes and Beatrice. She was the foundress of an order now called “Poor Clares” and her feast day is 11th August. She was one of the first follower of Saint Francis and the first woman in Church history to produce a written Rule, approved by the Pope.
One of the ways the Holy Spirit was influenced in Saint Clare’s life was when her sister, Agnes, was saved from twelve of her...
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St Marie was born in the year 1872, in the town Nazareth,Israel.When her mother died while birthing the ninth child, her father had to move to find work She was adopted by a village family When she was 15, she had been entered into the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. She had took the name Marie Amandine. She worked as a nurse in France Then she worked at a mission hospital and a orphanage Saint Marie was also known as “The Laughing Foreigner” Saint Marie was the patron saint of laughter. Her Joyfulness seemed to gain the esteem of the chinese.
A saint is a virtuous person that is honored by church after death who is considered to a degree of holiness and is blessed. In most Christian denominations think all people are saints in the Catholic Church the term saint is given to a person whom which the church has officially been canonized. Furthermore, the Catholic Church explains that they do not create or make a saint; however, they recognize saints. In fact, Frances Xavier Cabrini or as many people refer to her as Mother Cabrini is the first person to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
Warner's book details the special importance of the Virgin Mary throughout Christianity and explores her religious and secular meaning. She discusses such things as the Church's attitude toward virginity, the role model of the Virgin martyr, the Virgin's relics, and her role as an intercessor with God.
Bernadette Soubirous is the saint of Lourdes, France. Visionary and messenger of the Immaculate Conception, she told us the very words of the Virgin Mary, spoken in the native Basque tongue of Southern France and Northern Spain. She spoke words teaching of the merits of prayer, penance, poverty and church. In the first and most widely recognized Marian apparition of modern times, a personal message was delivered also to Bernadette—She would not find happiness in this world, but only in the next.
The depiction of Madonna and Christ is among the most ancient and common in Christian iconography and has an extensive number of variations because apart from its symbolic religious functions, it allows one to interpret the link between mother and child in many aspects. (8)
Little is known of the early life of the Flemish Cistercian nun, Blessed Beatrice of Nazareth. Beatrice of Nazareth was born in the year 1200 in the town of Tienen, Belgium (Lindemann Ph.D n.d.). She was the youngest of six children (Lindemann Ph.D n.d.). De Ganck (1991, xiii) concludes that Beatrice is of middle class, “well-to-do, but not wealthy as has sometimes been asserted.”
Teresa Sánchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada lived in Avila, Spain where she was born in 1515 and lived during the Reformation until her death at age 67. She was canonized in 1622, forty years after her death. St. Teresa's grandmother was forced to be converted from a Jew into a Christian during the Inquisition. Without her grandmother’s conversion, St. Teresa would never have become a Christian saint. Her parents were Godly people and showed tremendous integrity.
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Teresa’s first book, Life (1565), is a partial autobiography, but it is primarily a book of prayer and the account of her own personal graces from God, intended only for the small group of her spiritual advisers . The Way to Perfection (1582) was originally a letter to St. Teresa’s sisters of the Order on advice about prayer, contemplation of spiritual life. The Inner Castle is a profound reflection on the soul’s progressive discovery of the divine indwelling .
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Saint Catherine was born in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. She was one of twenty-five children, and she had a twin but she died when she was just an infant. Her father, Giacomo di Benincasa, was a cloth dyer and her mother, Lapa Piagenti, was the daughter of a poet. Catherine grew up being a very happy child. It is reported that when she was around 6, she she had a vision of God. When she was 7, she vowed to give her whole life to God.
“Saint Joan” is filled with many religious characters but the only one who truly believes they are doing God's work is Joan. Even though there is no proof that Joan is hearing these voices...
Saints, broadly speaking, are those who follow Jesus Christ and live their lives according to his teachings. Catholics, however, also use the term narrowly to refer to especially holy men and women who, through extraordinary lives of virtue, have already entered Heaven. (Ritchert)
"St. Gabriel, the Archangel - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online." St. Gabriel, the Archangel –