Today I came across this beautiful lady (Saint Maria Goretti) in an old coloring book that was colored about 10 years ago by Michelle (now a college student). We are adding it to our "saints parade" and the boys are excited to see if Michelle notices her art work hanging with their pictures. :)
Our featured saint's feast day today in our Saints for Young Readers book that we read each morning (well, most mornings ;)) was Saint Martin de Porres. We also listened about him on Franciscan Radio (about a 90 second blurb). I found this cool slideshow later in the day at the apostleshipofprayer site. We'll watch that tomorrow. *
In the meantime, while the boys colored, I read some excerpts from Saint Maximillian Kolbe: Mary's Knight. I read just a page from the book about his childhood and then the very end when Fr. Kolbe offers his life in exchange for another. Very compelling, inspiring reading!!
And then, finally, St. Francis and Blessed Miguel Pro. The boys have always been inspired by Miguel Pro. It is a story of true adventure and heroism that any boy can appreciate! Paul (11yo) has decided to choose him for his confirmation saint when the time comes. :) *
Our bedtime conversation tonight was about the heroism of saints- one of the boys mentioned that a particular saint was heroic. Paul gave a rather snippy "well, most saints are heroic" (kind of in a no-duh tone of voice). Rather than getting snippy back (yes, I was tempted), we had a fun discussion about the ways that different saints are heroic. Some are less obvious, so it was an interesting!
**if anyone is tempted to point out that not all clothing is accurate in color, I deferred to each artist's opinion when coloring his saint picture. I did try and point it out and was told (with great conviction) that it looks nice this way. :)
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