Saints

What are saints and why pray to saints?

Saints are persons who have died and have gone to heaven. They lived a life of heroic virtue because of their love for Jesus Christ. The saints are the good and faithful servants of the Lord (cf. Matthew 25:21), they are the blessed ones who have inherited the kingdom (cf. Matthew 25:34).

Christians need to be reminded of the saints because although saints are human persons like us, they inspire us to live a life of heroic virtue out of love for Jesus Christ. We ask the saints to pray for us so that we too can live a life that is pleasing to the Lord. We can always pray directly to God, but God has given us the saints to be our helpers. In this life, God always sends people to help us. In the same way, God also sends angels and saints to help us, even if we don’t see them with our eyes.

Saints of the Month

St. John the Baptist
m. 28–29 AD

Saint John the Baptist (martyred 28–29 AD) Feast Days: June 24 and August 29 The voice of one crying in the wilderness (From a sermon by Saint Augustine) The Church observes the birth of John as a hallowed event. We have no such commemoration for any other fathers; but it ...

St. Barnabas
m. 61 AD

Saint Barnabas (martyred 61 AD) Feast Day: June 11 The way of light Consider now the way of light; any man who is bent on reaching his appointed goal must be very careful in all he does. Now these are the directions that have been given to us for this ...

St. Justin Martyr
100-165 AD

Saint Justin Martyr (100-165 AD) Feast Day: June 1 From the first apology in defense of the Christians The celebration of the Eucharist No one may share the Eucharist with us unless he believes that what we teach is true, unless he is washed in the regenerating waters of baptism ...

St. Irenaeus
130-202 AD

Saint Irenaeus (130-202 AD) Feast Day: June 28 The covenant of the Lord In the book of Deuteronomy Moses says to the people: The Lord your God made a covenant on Horeb; he made this covenant, not with your fathers but with you. Why did God not make this covenant ...

St. Cyril of Alexandria
378-444 AD

Saint Cyril of Alexandria (378-444 AD) Feast Day: June 27 If I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you After Christ had completed his mission on earth, it still remained necessary for us to become sharers in the divine nature of the Word. We had to ...

St. Boniface
672-754 AD

Saint Boniface (672-754 AD) Feast Day: June 5 The careful shepherd watches over Christ’s flock In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep ...

St. Anthony of Padua
1195-1231 AD

St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231 AD) Feast Day: June 13 Actions speak louder than words The man who is filled with the Holy Spirit speaks in different languages. These different languages are different ways of witnessing to Christ, such as humility, poverty, patience and obedience; we speak in those languages ...

St. John Fisher
1469-1535 AD

Saint John Fisher (1469-1535 AD) Feast Day: June 22 If anyone has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father Our high priest is Christ Jesus, our sacrifice is his precious body which he immolated on the altar of the cross for the salvation of all men. The blood that ...

St. Aloysius Gonzaga
1568-1591 AD

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591 AD) Feast Day: June 21 God’s mercies shall be my song for ever May the comfort and grace of the Holy Spirit be yours for ever, most honored lady. Your letter found me lingering still in this region of the dead, but now I must rouse ...

Holy Martyrs of Uganda
m. 1886

Holy Martyrs of Uganda (martyred 1886) Feast Day: June 3 The glory of the martyrs—a sign of rebirth (From the homily at the canonization of the martyrs of Uganda by Pope Paul VI) The African martyrs add another page to the martyrology—the Church’s roll of honor—an occasion both of mourning ...

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