Sanctus Simplicitus

I'm a bit slow in taking and sharing a picture from our Feast of St. Linus celebration. In all honesty the only reason I took a picture was because I was chaging our domestic altar for the Feast of the Holy Rosary. We used a red cloth to signify St. Linus' martrydom along with the red glitter and paper behind his holy card. The lilies are purity along with the white color. We glued a print out of St. Linus to a round wooden medalion that has a hole drilled through the top and I'll string these so we can put them on our Christmas tree this year. Also pictured is the Cross of St. Brendan that we made (cardboard and glitter) for our history studies. We were reading about the Voyage of St. Brendan for our American History. They also have string attached so we may add them to our Christmas tree. It was a fun little celebration!

There isn't much on Saint Faith, Saint Foy or Saint Fides/Fedes but a few general reaccountings of her martrydom. Below seems to be one of the more trustwrothy stories and that which we based our feast day celebration on. Faith also is said to have two sisters Hope and Charity who died a similar martrydom. The three sisters' Feast Day seems to be on August 1st. For our feast we are gonig with that of the actual saint instead of the three sisters.

October
  6: Saint Foy (Faith, Fides, Fedes) 
 
Saint Foy was born around around the third century. The maiden named Faith (in Latin, Fides) was one of the virgin martyrs who suffered under the ancient Roman persecutions, was a very popular saint in medieval Europe, with miracles 
reported at her shrine in Conques, France. She is believed to have suffered martyrdom at Agen, Gaul (France) in the third century, but the specifics of her death are available only from much later texts of dubious historical validity.
  Upon being summoned before a Roman procurator, Faith is said to have fortified herself by making the sign of the cross. She told the judge, “I have served Christ from my infancy, and to him I have consecrated myself.” When threatened with death for refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods, she answered, “I am prepared to suffer everything for Christ. I long to die for him.” As she was being burned to death on a red-hot grill, heavy snow is said to have so filled the air round about her that it modestly veiled her body from the onlookers until she had died.

Some feast day celebration ideas:
~Craft a Monstrance
~Craft a Palm leaf
~Learn about the Sign of the Cross, what it means, the graces attached to it and the history
~ Discuss martrydom and loving Christ more than ourselves
~ Make Prayer Cards
~ Study about the Catecombs and the Appian Way
~ Discuss modesty and the symbol of the snow falling as a veil of modesty
~ Word Find (coming soon)
~Crossword Puzzle (coming soon)
~Coloring page (coming soon)