SBCA
Sodality of Blessed Carlo Acutis
St. Francis of Assisi
Born: 1181 or 1182 in Assisi, Duchy of Spoleto, Holy Roman Empire, IT
Died: 3rd October 1226 (44 years old)
Assisi, Umbria, Papal States, IT
Feast day: 4th of October
Patron Saint: Animals and Ecology
He is venerated as Saint Francis of Assisi, also known in his ministry as Francesco, was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, mystic, and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land.
Francis is known for his love of the Eucharist. In 1223, Francis arranged for the first Christmas live nativity scene. According to Christian tradition, in 1224 he received the stigmata during the apparition of a Seraphic angel in a religious ecstasy, which would make him the first person in Christian tradition to bear the wounds of Christ's Passion. (Wikipedia)
St. Dominic Savio
Born: 2 April 1842 in Saint John, a frazione of Riva presso Chieri, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia, IT
Died: 9 March 1857 (14 years old)
Mondonio, frazione of Castelnuovo d'Asti Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardina, IT
Feast day: 6 of May
Patron Saint: Choirboys, falsely
accused, juvenile delinquents
He was an Italian adolescent student of St. John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. He is the only person of his age group who was declared a saint not on the basis of his having been a martyr, but on the basis of having lived what was seen as a holy life. He was noted for his piety and devotion to the Catholic Faith, and was eventually canonized. (Wikipedia)
Beloved Saints
of Blessed Carlo Acutis
St. Luigi Gonzaga, SJ
Born: 9 March 1568, Castiglone delle
Stiviere, Italy
Died: 21 June 1591 (23 years old)
Rome, Italy
Feast day: 21 June
Patron Saint: Plague Victims,
Aids sufferers and their caregivers,
Christian Youth
St. Luigi was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic.
In 1729, Pope Benedict XIII declared Aloysius de Gonzaga to be the patron saint of young students. In 1926, he was named patron of all Christian youth by Pope Pius XI. (Wikipedia)
St. Tarcisius
Born: 263 AD in Rome Italy
Died: 275 AD in Rome, Italy
Feast day: 15 August
Patron Saint: Altar servers and first
Communicants
St. Tarcisius was a martyr of the early Christian church who lived in the 3rd century. The little that is known about him comes from a metrical inscription by Pope Damasus I, who was pope in the second half of the 4th century. (Wikipedia)
St. Francisco Marto
St. Jacinta Marto
Born: Francisco: 11 June 1908
Jacinta: 11 March 1910
Aljustrel, Fatima, Ourem,
Portugal
Died: Francisco: 4 April 1919 (age 10)
Aljustrel, Fatima, Ourem, Portugal
Jacinta: 20 February 1920 (age 9)
Feast day: 20 February
Patron Saint: Bodily ills, Portuguese
Children, Captives, People, Ridiculed for their piety, Prisoners, Sick people, Against sickness
Both Saints Francisco and Jacinta are siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005) witnessed three apparitions of the Angel of Peace in 1916 and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Cova da Iria in 1917. The title Our Lady of Fátima was given to the Virgin Mary as a result, and the Sanctuary of Fátima became a major centre of world Christian pilgrimage.(Wikipedia)
St. Bernadette Soubirous
Born: 7th January 1844
Lourdes, France
Died: 16 April 1879 (44 years old)
Nevers, France
Feast day: 16 April
Patron Saint: Bodily illness, Lourdes
France, shepherds,
shepherdesses
Against poverty,
People ridiculed to their
faith
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing Marian apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto at Massabielle. These apparitions are said to have occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the woman who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception."
After a canonical investigation, Soubirous's reports were eventually declared "worthy of belief" on 18 February, 1862, and the Marian apparition became known as Our Lady of Lourdes. Since her death, Soubirous's body has remained internally incorrupt. The Marian shrine at Lourdes (Midi-Pyrénées, from 2016 part of Occitanie) went on to become a major pilgrimage site, attracting over five million pilgrims of all denominations each year. On 8 December 1933, Pope Pius XI, declared Soubirous a saint of the Catholic Church. Her feast day, initially specified as 18 February – the day Mary promised to make her happy, not in this life, but in the other – is now observed in most places on the date of her death, 16 April. (Wikipedia)