Adesha Celestine student of encounter school of ministries Testimonial

as she said she's from Connecticut and opening up a branch of encounter school of ministries there in the diocese she lives in

This day in history, Christians faced an aggressive Muslim force in the Mediterranean. October 7,

Born

25 April 1214 at Poissy, France

Died

• 25 August 1270 at Tunis (in modern Tunisia) of natural causes

• relics in the Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, France

• relics destroyed in 1793 during the French Revolution

Canonized

1297 by Pope Boniface VIII

Patronage

• against the death of children

• barbers

• bridegrooms

• builders

• button makers

• construction workers

• Crusaders

• difficult marriages

• distillers

• embroiderers

• French monarchs

• grooms

• haberdashers

• hairdressers

• hair stylists

• kings

• masons

• needle workers

• parenthood

• parents of large families

• passementiers

• prisoners

• sculptors

• sick people

• soldiers

• stone masons

• stonecutters

• tertiaries

• trimming makers

• Québec, Québec, archdiocese of

• Saint Louis, Missouri, archdiocese of

• Versailles, France, diocese of

• Blois, France

• Carthage, Tunisia

• La Rochelle, France

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• Oran, Algeria

• Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France

• Saint Louis, Missouri, city of

• Versailles, France

• Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Louis

Representation

• crown

• crown of thorns

• king holding a cross

• king holding a crown of thorns

• nails

Born

11 September 1556 at Peralta, Barbastro, Aragon, Spain in his father's castle

Died

• 25 August 1648 at Rome, Italy of natural causes

• buried at Saint Panteleone, Rome

Canonized

16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII

Patronage

• Catholic schools (proclaimed on 13 August 1948 by Pope Pius XII)

• schools, colleges, universities

• students, schoolchildren

• Congregation of Christian Workers of Saint Joseph Calasanz