Saint Teresa of Calcutta Quote

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

– Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Saint Teresa of Calcutta's patronage: World Youth Day; Missionaries of Charity

Saint Rose of Viterbo Quote

I die with joy, for I desire to be united to my God. Live so as not to fear death. For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening, but sweet and precious.

– Saint Rose of Viterbo

Saint Rose of Viterbo's patronage: people in exile; people rejected by religious orders; Franciscan youth; Viterbo, Italy

Pope Saint Gregory the Great Quote

If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

– Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Pope Saint Gregory the Great's patronage: choir boys; educators; gout; masons; music; musicians; choirs; singers; stonecutters; teachers; popes; students; scholars; against plague; against gout; against fever; England; West Indies

Saint Solomon Leclerq Quote

As for us, we hold to what we believed ten and twenty years ago; to what our forefathers believed one hundred years ago, and one thousand years ago, and to that which the whole Catholic world has always believed.

-- Saint Solomon Leclerq

Saint Solomon Leclerq's patronage: Persecuted Christians

Saint Cyprian of Carthage Quote

The spouse of the Church cannot be defiled. Whosoever separates from the Church and is joined to an adulteress is separated from the promises of the Church. Nor can he who forsakes the Church of Christ attain the rewards of Christ: He is a stranger; he is a worldling; he is an enemy.

-- Saint Cyprian of Carthage

Saint Cyprian of Carthage's patronage: Algeria; North Africa

Saint John Berchmans Quote

Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be.

~ Saint John Berchmans

Saint John Berchmans' patronage: Altar Servers; Jesuit scholastics; and students

Saint Jeanne Jugan Quote

Love God very much; he is so good. Let us entrust ourselves to him.

– Saint Jeanne Jugan

Saint Jeanne Jugan's patronage: The destitute poor.