Class Saints

What is a Saint?

A saint is a person who was given special graces from God. Saints lived their lives loving God and making a difference to others through their actions and words. God called them to do his will and they listened.

At Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School we are guided by The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Sacred Heart of Jesus: I place all my trust in You.

“Lord Jesus Let my heart never rest until it finds You, who are its centre, its love, and its happiness. By the wound in Your heart pardon the sins that I have committed whether out of malice or out of evil desires. Place my weak heart in Your own divine Heart, continually under Your protection and guidance, so that I may persevere in doing good and in fleeing evil until my last breath. Amen.” – St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Year Group	Saint Name	Feast Day	Patron Saint for…	Blurb
Nursery	Saint Nicholas	6th December	Patron of sailors, merchants, archers, children, toymakers, and students.	Saint Nicholas helped small children of poor families by giving them gifts: usually good things to eat: apples, oranges, nuts, and cookies and sweets. Saint Nicholas secured a reputation for himself as a father-figure to all children.
Rec A	Saint Matthew	21st September	Patron of accountants, bankers, tax collectors, and the city of Salerno, Italy.	Saint Matthew was an apostle who was also called Levi, or Matthew the Levite. He was born in Galilee and worked as a tax collector at Capernaum when Christ called him to follow him. Matthew was the author of the first Gospel, written between 60 and 90 AD.
Rec B	Saint Mark	25th April	Patron of barristers, Venice, Egypt, and the city of Mainar in Spain.	Saint Mark lived at the time of Jesus. Although he was not one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, he was a cousin of Saint Barnabas, an apostle. Mark is called an evangelist because he wrote one of the four gospels. Mark’s gospel is short, but it gives many little details that are not in the other gospels.
Year 1C	Saint Luke	18th October	Patron of artists, bachelors, physicians, surgeons, students, and butchers.	Saint Luke was not one of the original twelve disciples of Jesus but became a follower and later a close associate of the apostle, Saint Paul. Saint Luke is credited with writing the Gospel of Luke, one of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, along with the Acts of the Apostles.
Year 1D	Saint John	27th December	Patron of love, loyalty, friendships, authors, booksellers, art-dealers, editors, publishers, scribes, examinations, scholars, theologians.	Saint John was the son of Zebedee, a Galilean fisherman, and Salome. John and his brother St. James were among the first disciples called by Jesus. John the Apostle, the Evangelist, often referred to as the Disciple whom Jesus loved.
Year 2E	Saint Veronica	9th July	Patron of laundry workers, photographers, and images.	St. Veronica was a renowned legendary woman who, moved by the sight of Christ carrying his cross to Golgotha, gave him her handkerchief to wipe his brow, after which he handed it back imprinted with the image of his face.
Year 2F	Saint Bernadette of Lourdes	16th April	Patron of illness, poverty, shepherds, shepherdesses, and Lourdes, France.	Saint Bernadette was a simple peasant girl and was chosen to give the message of love God has for all mankind “as the adopted children of His Blessed Mother.” Bernadette had the experience of eighteen apparitions of Our Lady in the Grotto of Lourdes.
Year 3G	Saint Catherine of Siena	29th April	Patron of fire prevention, Italy, sick people, nurses.	Saint Catherine was a mystic, activist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature and on the Catholic Church. Born and raised in Siena, she wanted from an early age to devote herself to God, against the will of her parents.
Year 3H	Saint Augustine	28th August	Patron of brewers, printers, theologians, and a number of cities and dioceses.	Saint Augustine of Hippo was a bishop and a theologian who lived during the fourth century. He is best known for his ground breaking philosophical teachings, which were extensively documented in books, essays and letters. Saint Augustine is the most significant Christian thinker after Saint Paul.
Year 4I	Saint Thérèse of Lisieux	1st October	Patron of florists, missions, Russia, loss of parents, tuberculosis.	St Thérèse was born in France. She always wanted to become a nun and joined the Carmelites in Lisieux when she was 15. She was only 24 when she died. Thérèse helped others with small acts of kindness.
Year 4J	Saint Jude Thaddeus	28th October	Patron of desperate cases and lost causes	Saint Jude was a friend and cousin of Jesus, the son of God. He was asked by Jesus to be one of His special followers called an Apostle. Like all Apostles, St. Jude was sent to tell people about Jesus.
Year 5K	Saint Rose of Lima	23rd August	Patron of vanity, Peru, indigenous people of the Americas, gardeners, florists, Latin America, and the Philippines.	Saint Rose of Lima was known for performing many miracles that followed her death: there were stories that she had cured a leper, and that, at the time of her death, the city of Lima smelled like roses; roses also started falling from the sky.
Year 5L	Saint Francis of Assisi	4th October	Patron of animals, the environment, Italy, merchants, stowaways, and the city of San Francisco, California.	Saint Francis is known for his ministry to the poor and underprivileged, his care for nature and animals, and founding the Franciscan order. Son of an affluent cloth merchant, St. Francis of Assisi lived in wealth and ease until God used a meeting with a leper to change his heart.
Year 6M	Saint Chad	2nd March	Patron of Mercia, Lichfield Cathedral, and disputed elections.	St Chad, the Apostle of the Midlands, was born in Northumbria, one of four brothers, all of whom became priests. He was an abbot, Bishop of the Northumbrians and then Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People.
Year 6N	Saint Cecilia	22nd November	Patron of musicians, singers, composers, and poets.	Saint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians and Church music because, as she was dying, she sang to God. It is also written that as the musicians played at her wedding she ‘sang in her heart to the Lord’.