Good morning Year 6!
It’s feeling very cold this morning but the sun is shining! Yesterday I went on a walk to get some fresh air and I saw a duck with 10 ducklings-they were so small and fluffy!
Religious Education-Saints
Today your challenge is to research a Saint.
Present your research in the Blog below and try to chose a saint that no one else has done!
St Patrick
I have been researching on st patrick here are some facts about him that I know and I have found about him:
Saint Patrick (about 402 – March 17, probably 491 or 493) is the patron saint of Ireland and Nigeria. He was born in a village in the UK . When he was 16 years old he was captured and sold into slavery. Saint Patrick came from a Christian family. He was the son of Calpornius, who was a deacon. He brought Christianity to Ireland. He converted many pagans to Christianity. He also challenged many of their leaders and druids such as Aodhan the Brave also known as Chief Aodhan. St.Patrick eventually converted Chief Aodhan and they worked together to convert many other pagans.
On the 17th of March it is St Patrick’s day to commemorate him.
St. Joseph
Joseph was the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus. He is patron of the Universal Church, unborn children, fathers, workers, travelers, immigrants, and a happy death. He is seen as a compassionate, loyal protector.
His feast day is March the 19th and we know he was a carpenter, a working man, for the skeptical Nazarenes ask about Jesus, “Is this not the carpenter’s son?” (Matthew 13:55).
Joseph respected God. He followed God’s commands in handling the situation with Mary and going to Jerusalem to have Jesus circumcised and Mary purified after Jesus’ birth. We are told that he took his family to Jerusalem every year for Passover, something that could not have been easy for a working man.
I chose to write about St. Vincent de Paul .
St. Vincent de Paul was born on April 24, 1581, Pouy,France and died September 27, 1660, Paris. He is known as the patron saint of charitable societies.
St. Vincent de Paul was born to a peasant family in France in 1580. Although he later achieved fame for his dedication to the poor.
In 1605, Vincent was returning home by boat from a trip. He had been on his way to sell some property he had received from a wealthy patron. While travelling, he was captured by pirates, who brought him to Tunis in Northern Africa. He was sold into slavery and he was a slave for two years. During this time, he prayed to God, telling Him that if his life would be spared and he was freed, he would devote the rest of his life to the service of the poor.
Good morning Miss Gorick and Mrs Healy,
I would have loved to have seen those ducklings too, they sound so cute.
Saint Anne
Christians believe that Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Anne’s husband was Joachim. In the Gospel of James, which is part of the Apocrypha, you will find the story of Saint Anne. She and her husband Joachim were unable to have a child, even though they tried to do so and really wanted a baby. However, one day an angel came to them and told them that they would have a child. Since she was so overjoyed, Saint Anne promised that she would dedicate this baby’s life to the service of God. Their daughter Mary was born.
Saint Anne produced an extraordinary child, as she was born free from original sin. Being born free from original sin is known as an Immaculate Conception. Therefore, part of the reason why Saint Anne is so famous is because she produced a child born of Immaculate Conception.
Saint Anne read the scriptures to Mary when she was a very small child because she had promised that she would give her child to the service of God,and she kept her. When Mary was three years old, her parents brought her to the Temple and gave her to the service of the Temple. They did not see her again.
Although she had wanted a child so badly, Saint Anne knew that she had to honor her promise to the Lord. Saint Anne and Joachim would not be able to raise the child since Mary needed to be raised in order to become the mother of Jesus Christ.
Full name: Anne
Born: c. 50 BC
Feast: 26 July (Roman Catholic), 25 July (Eastern Orthodox)
Died: 12 AD (aged circa 62)
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Parents: Emerentia, Stollanus
She is said to be the patron saint of storms
The saint I researched was Saint Clare of Assisi.
Her full name was actually Chiara Offreduccio, and she was an Italian saint. She was born on the 16th July 1194, and died on the 11th August 1253. St. Clare was one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Saint Clare was born into a wealthy family. As a child, she was devoted to prayer, and when she was a teen, she heard St. Francis preach for the first time, and was determined to dedicate the rest of her life to God.
St. George:
St George was born in Cappadocia, an area which is now called Turkey and lived in 3rd century AD. Both his parents were christian and later on in his life moved to Palestine. When he was there he became a roman soldier but he didn’t like what the romans were doing so he protested against the persecution of christians in rome. St. George was imprisoned and badly tortured but he still stayed true to his faith. When the people had heard and seen enough of George they beheaded him in Lydda in Palestine.
Saint Peter
Saint Peter’s real name is Simeon but Jesus called him Peter and he used to be a fisherman. He was born in AD 1 in Bethsaida. He was an apostle and denied that he knew Jesus when he was crucified. His feast day is 29th June. As a former fisherman, he is the patron saint of netmakers, shipbuilders, fishermen and because he holds the “keys of heaven,” he is also the patron saint of locksmiths.
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Saint Joan of Arc
Historiated initial depicting Johan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, allegedly dated to the second half of the 15th century but presumably art forgery painted in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, according to medievalist Philippe Contamine.[1]
Martyr and Holy Virgin
Born Jeanne d’Arc (modern French)
circa 1412
Domrémy, Duchy of Bar, Kingdom of France
Died 30 May 1431 (aged approx. 19)
Rouen, Normandy
(then under English rule)
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
Anglican Communion[2]
Beatified 18 April 1909, St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome by Pope Pius X
Canonized 16 May 1920, St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome by Pope Benedict XV
Feast 30 May
Attributes Armor, banner, sword
Patronage France; martyrs; captives; military personnel; people ridiculed for their piety; prisoners; soldiers; women who have served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service); and Women’s Army CorpsSignature.
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d’Arc[3][4] pronounced [ʒan daʁk]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431),[5] nicknamed “The Maid of Orléans” (French: La Pucelle d’Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years’ War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d’Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in northeast France. Joan claimed to have received visions of the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years’ War. The unanointed King Charles VII sent Joan to the Siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII’s consecration at Reims. This long-awaited event boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory.
On 23 May 1430, she was captured at Compiègne by the Burgundian faction, a group of French nobles allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English[6] and put on trial by the pro-English bishop Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges.[7] After Cauchon declared her guilty, she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age.[8]
In 1456, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, debunked the charges against her, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr.[8] In the 16th century she became a symbol of the Catholic League, and in 1803 she was declared a national symbol of France by the decision of Napoleon Bonaparte.[9] She was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. Joan of Arc is one of the nine secondary patron saints of France, along with Saint Denis, Saint Martin of Tours, Saint Louis, Saint Michael, Saint Rémi, Saint Petronilla, Saint Radegund and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
And Saint Joan of Arc was a women solider!!!!
I follow her in scouts !
Her friends were Guillemet, Zabille,t Havilletand Isabellet
When France was in war she was always seen as hope and she would show the french soliders that they weren’t weak they were strong and they would win . A few years later she was about to become queen but the king didn’t want that so she was sent to England . The english didn’t like french people so they burnt her and she died. ?
St Philomena
St Philomena was a young consecrated virgin whose remains were discovered on May 24/25 1802 in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb bore an inscription, Pax Tecum Filumena, that was taken to indicate that her name was Filumena, the English form of which is Philomena.
Born: 10 January 291 AD, Corfu, Greece
Died: 10 August 304 AD, Rome, Italy
Nickname: The Wonder-Worker
Feast: August 11
I have chosen Saint Francis of Assisi, he is the Patron Saint of Animals. Here are some facts about him,
He was born around the late 1181 or early 1182 in Assisi, Duchy of Spoleto, Italy. He was one of eight children with an Italian father and French mother. He was born into a very wealthy family.
In about 1202 he joined the military against Perugia. He was then taken as a prisoner at Collestrada, spending a year in imprisonment. He had got an illness by then which concluded him to re-plan his life.
Once he returned to Assisi in 1203 he went back to a carefree life until soon after 1205 he went on a pilgrimage to Rome which he joined the poor begging. He saw a vision of Jesus in his time of being loneliness which told him to rebuild the church. Francis did so and his father wasn’t pleased, his father locked him in a storeroom soon to be let out by his mother to carry out his mission. He then did more for others after building by nursing leprosy.
He died on October 3, 1226 in Assisi, Italy and was Canonised for his love to God and his creations on the 16th July 1228.
The reason he is the Patron Saint of Animals/pets and nature is because of the way he saw God through his creation which made him very suitable to be portrayed with animals.
ST LIDWINA (a saint you’ve probably never heard of before)
St Lidwina was born with a family of 9 children. When she was 15, she was Ice skating when she fell and broke her rib. she never recovered and she soon became paralysed all except her left hand. This turned out to be a “happy accident” and allowed her to take time to pray and offer her suffering to God. She drew closer to God in a deep relationship and was given many mystical visions. Lidwina was known by all in the town as a holy woman and healer.
When she died, it was reported that she claimed to see Jesus walking towards her.
Life span: 1380-1433
Feast Day:April 14th
Patronage: The chronically ill, ice skating, the town of Schiedam
St Nicholas
St Nicholas of Myra was born in Patara on March 15 270 AD. He is also known as Nicholas of Bari, and was an early Christian Bishop of the Ancient Greek maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire. He also has the title, Nicholas the Wonderworker because of many miracles to his intercession. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, prostitutes, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students.
His beliefs evolved among the faithful, which would commonly happen for early Christian saints and so was his ‘legendary’ habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of, Santa Claus, through Sinterklaas.
Very little is known about this historic saint. The earliest accounts of his life were written centuries after his death, and many contain legendary elaborations. It is said that he was born in the Greek seaport of Patara, in Lycia in Asia Minor to wealthy Christian parents. The Asia Minor is the western peninsula of Asia. In one of the earliest attested and most famous incidents from his life, he rescued three girls from being put into prostitution by dropped a sack of gold coins through the window of their house for three nights, so their father could pay a dowry for each of them.
There are other stories of him, including: a story about him calming a storm at sea, saving three innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and chopping a tree down, a tree possessed by a demon! In his youth, he made a pilgrimage to Egypt to Israel! From all this information, you can tell that he really trusted God to guide him and give him strength.
He died 6th December 343 AD, age 73, in Myra. Two hundred years later, a church was built and named after him under the orders of Theodosius II over the site of the church where he had served as bishop and his remains were moved to a sarcophagus in that church.
Grear research Year 6. I have loved reading about all the different Saints.
St Patrick:
St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, he is known for bringing Christianity to distant parts of Ireland which now are responsible for the Christianisation of some of the Anglo-Saxons.
St Patrick was born in Roman Britain and kidnapped at the young age of 16 to be a slave in Ireland. Luckily, he escaped! He went on to establish monertries, schools, churches!
St. Therese of Lisieux
She is the patron saint of aids sufferers, florists and the sick.
Therese is a french catholic who became a Carmelite nun at a young age.
From an early age she wanted to be a saint. She was born into a loving family, during her childhood her mum died from breast cancer. The next couple of years of St. Therese’s life was a time of inner confusion. She was unhappy at school, eventually her father agreed for her sister, Celine, to teach her at home.
After a year or two, her sister agreed to leave home to go to the local Carmel Convent at Lisieux. Soon after, Therese suffered a really bad illness. She said she lost her childhood immaturity and felt a strong calling to enter the Convent.
At the unprecedented early age of fifteen, she was drawn to pray for sinners, 9 years later she died.
Born: January 2nd 1873
Feast day: 3rd October
Canonised: 17th May 1925 by Pope Pius (26 years after her death).