Our Class Saints

Each of our classes at St Thomas of Canterbury, has its own Class Saint.

Early Years

St Martha

Feast Day - 29th July

“Life in God makes us experience wonders that we could not believe possible"

St Patrick

Feast Day - 17th March

"O God, who chose the Bishop Saint Patrick to preach your glory to the peoples of Ireland, grant, through his merits and intercession, that those who glory in the name of Christian may never cease to proclaim your wondrous deeds to all ."

 

St Gabriel

Feast Day - 29th September

“For with God nothing is impossible.”

The Lily Pad

St Lilian of Cordoba

Feast Day - 27th July

“Live a life that is true to your convictions”

Year 1

 

 St Angela

Feast Day - 27th January

“Have faith and keep up your courage.”

 

St Martin De Porres

Feast Day - 3rd November

"“Do not complain, that shows discontent with the will of God in the present moment. That is also proof of impatience.” “Always consider others as more holy and more worthy than you, at the same time strive to be as holy as you can be.”"

Year Two

St Francis of Assisi

Feast Day - 4th October

"For it is in giving that we receive"

 

St Therese of Lisieux

Feast Day - 1st October

"Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love."

Year Three

 

St Jude

Feast Day -  28th October

" No child should die in the dawn of life."

St Maria

Feast Day - 6th July

“He Loves, He Hopes, He Waits”.

Year Four

St David

Feast Day - 1st March 

 “Be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that you have heard and seen me do”.

 

St Edward the Confessor

Feast Day - 13th October

“I shall not die but shall live. Departing from the land of the dying, I hope to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.”

 

 Year Five

 St Rose

Feast Day - 23rd August

“When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbours, because in them we serve Jesus.”

 

St Catherine of Bologna

Feast Day - 9th March

“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” 

 

Year Six

 

St Vincent de Paul

Feast Day - 27 September

“We must love our neighbour as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.”

 

St Michael the Archangel

Feast Day - 29th September

“He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.”