Free downloadable Catholic coloring pages of female saints.
Saint of the Day: January 4 About the Image: Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized as a saint, is remembered on January 4. She died on January 4, 1821, and became the first American-born citizen to be beatified (1963) and then canonized...
About the Image: Saint Hedwig of Silesia (1174 - 1243) was a duchess who later became a saint canonized by the Catholic Church in 1267. Her feast day is October 16th. She was known for her piety, ascetic lifestyle, and charitable works, especially towards the poor and needy. In imagery,...
About the Image: The Assumption of Mary is a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church that teaches that the Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory1245. This means that Mary is believed to be in heaven, both physically and...
Details: St. Genevieve was a fair and courageous peasant girl born in Nanterre, France around 422[1]. She is the patroness saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions[2], with her feast day being 3 January[3]. She is said to have helped save the city from Attila...
Details: Saint Perpetua (born circa 181, died circa 203) was a Roman noblewoman and Christian martyr who was martyred in third century Roman Carthage[1]. She wrote the account of her own life and arrest, becoming one of the earliest female Christian writers with surviving written work[1]. Perpetua and...
Details: The Visitation is a theme in Christian art, especially in the Catholic Church, which depicts the visit of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. It is an event described in the Gospel of Luke, where Mary travels to visit...
Details: Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was born on January 2, 1873, and died on September 30, 1897. She was a French Catholic nun widely revered in modern times for her simplicity and practical approach to spiritual life. She...
Details: Catherine of Alexandria (also spelled Katherine) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around the...
Details: The Virgin Mary is crowned in heaven by God and Christ. Above her the Holy Spirit (as a dove). Among them, on earth, four saints in worship. From left to right: a male saint, Saint Catherine, Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Jerome. In the margin a caption in...
Details: Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP (born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange; c. 1789 – February 3, 1882) was a Black Catholic religious sister who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African-American religious congregation. She was also, via the Oblates, the first-ever African-American Mother Superior. Her cause for her beatification was opened...
Details: Saint Ephigenia of Ethiopia or Iphigenia of Ethiopia, also called Iphigenia of Abyssinia, is a folk saint whose life is told in the Golden Legend as a virgin converted to Christianity and then consecrated to God by St. Matthew the Apostle, who was spreading the Gospel to the region...
Details: Irmã Dulce, also known as Saint Dulce of the Poor (26 May 1914 – 13 March 1992) was a Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister who was the founder of the Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce also known as the Charitable Works Foundation of Sister Dulce. In 1949, she started caring for the...
Details: Maria Teresa Goretti (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with...
Details: Ludwika Szczęsna, SSCJ (18 July 1863 – 7 February 1916) was a Polish Catholic nun and was also the co-founder of the Sisters, Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which she established with Józef Sebastian Pelczar. She took the name of "Klara" when she became a...
Details: Escape from Chile Laura del Carmen Vicuña was born on April 5, 1891, in Santiago, Chile,[2] to José Domingo and Mercedes Pino. The Vicuña family were Chilean aristocrats, the father in military service and the mother working at home. Forced out of Santiago by the revolution, the family...
Details: Julia Ledóchowska (17 April 1865 – 29 May 1939) was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. Ledóchowska was a prolific supporter of Polish independence which she often spoke about at conferences across Scandinavia while she settled in Russia...
Details: Saint Rafqa, also known as Saint Rebecca, was born in Hemlaya, Lebanon on June 29, 1832. She was the only child of Saber El-Choboq El-Rayess and Rafqa Gemayel. Her parents were devout Christians and taught her daily prayers. According to legend, when she entered the convent and gazed upon...
Details: Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta was a religious sister from Congo who was killed by invading rebels fighting the 1964 civil war. Anuarite Nengapeta was born in Congo in 1939, and was educated in the first mission in her region of Africa. When she entered the religious community of the...
Details: Mother Teresa, commonly known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was a Roman Catholic Albanian-Indian nun who founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. Her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, but she was born Anjez Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Üsküb, which is now the...
Details: Mary Magdalene kneels by a tree. She is holding an open book. In front of her is an ointment jar and a crucifix. At her knee is a skull. Her ascension is depicted in the distance. The frame has four parts consisting of floral motifs. 🙏🏽This image is in...
Details: From the 14th to the 17th century, Mary Magdalene occupied a privileged position in religious art. Only second to Virgin Mary, Magdalene was interpreted by multiple artists across Europe. Her popularity can be attributed to her relativity, after all, she was just a woman who fell into sin but...
Details: Blessed Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata (1562–1617) was a widow, nun, and patron and Foundress of the Order of the Annunciation – or Blue Nuns. Born in 1562 at Genoa, Italy as Victoria De Fornari and died on 15 December 1617 of natural causes. Blessed Maria Vittoria was married...
Details: The anointings of Jesus’s head or feet are events recorded in the four gospels. The account in Matthew 26, Mark 14, and John 12 takes place on the Holy Wednesday of Holy Week at the house of Simon the Leper in Bethany, a village in Judaea on the...
Details: The three Marys at the tomb is the name used for a group of three women who came to the sepulcher of Jesus. In Eastern Orthodoxy they are among the Myrrh bearers, a group that traditionally includes a much larger number of people. All four gospels mention women going...
