This year for RE I wanted to follow the liturgical calender and teach the children about the patron saints they have been given for the year.
Tom's patron is St. Vincent De Paul and Amelia's is St. Veronica.
Does anyone know any good books aimed at 7 and 8 year old's about these two saints or have any online resources that I can use to help them learn about their saint?
Thanks
Therese
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Good Morning Therese, you can check out Seton..the books are very inexpensive. I know they have on on St. Vincent De Paul, but not sure about St. Veronica. My daughter uses these as her book report books for 2nd grade.
http://www.setonbooks.com/viewone.php?ToView=M-RDB3-16
Hi Therese, I don't know about any books, but how about making it a kind of research project for them, where they have to research the saint themselves? (Or would they be too young for that?!) :-)
I was just about to recommend the same book on St. Vincent. =) I can't think of any off hand about St. Veronica...
Saint Veronica from the stations of the cross is hard to find. In the Mel Gibson movie she was called Serafina or something like that - I think from Bl Anne Catherine Emmerich's writings. Devotion to the Holy Face might be worth tracing instead. Wikipedia says Veronica is a latinisation of the Macedonian name Berenice (Phere-nike bearer of victory). Another book I was reading had Froniga as a gypsy version of the name. Some class St. Veronica with St Christopher as legendary rather than historical saints. I guess its one of those questions that will only be sorted out in the life to come. There's St. Veronica Giuliana instead? Anyway, St Therese of the Infant Jesus and the Holy Face probably has something to say about St Veronica. I'm interested if anyone else has ideas on this. There's a book of Memoirs of St Vincent de Paul on Project Gutenberg - an account of his work with the Native American Indians in Canada.
That St. Vincent De Paul book which Dawn mentioned was very good! I'd send it to you if I weren't saving it for my daughter.
I found a printout for St. Veronica of Milan. Not sure if she is your daughter's patroness, and this may be a little advanced:
http://tinyurl.com/7djgls and
http://tinyurl.com/7f4zn5
Let me know if these links don't work and I can give them to you again. The pages are from the Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a vintage text at Google books. I had it in my Google book library. There is a pretty illustration on the second page. It's in public domain and free to print, just right click on the image of the page to save and/or print.
HTHs :)
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