Saint Feast Days And Liturgical Living In May

I love coming up with fun and creative ways to celebrate the church year with kids, and May is full of fun Saint feast days to celebrate! Some of these feast days include St. Joseph the Worker, Our Lady of Fatima, Blessed Imelda, St. Joan of Arc, St. Rita, and St. Simon Stock! The month of May is also dedicated to Our Lady, Mary. You can find all of my month-to-month posts on living liturgically here. Now, let’s look at these highlights of fun May Saint feast days to celebrate, along with links to crafts, food, and activities to help you celebrate!

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When you’re starting to teach your kids about the lives of the Saints, I suggest starting with a Saint picture book treasury that includes a lot of short stories you can read together. This will give you a good starting place, and then you can add to your library of Saint books over the years. I think this Picture Book of Saints is a good beginning Saint book for Catholic families. You can find all of my favorite Saint books for kids here.

I also recommend having a good children’s Bible available to read from, as it will also include many stories of the Saints. You can see my post with my favorite Catholic children’s bibles here, but my family absolutely loves The Jesus Storybook Bible.

May Saint Feast Days To Celebrate

This list does not include Saints for every single day of May, but highlights some saints that are good for kids.

May 1- St. Joseph The Worker’s Feast Day

Foster father of Jesus
Carpenter of Nazareth
Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Patron Saint of families
You can find his story on page 25 of Picture Book of Saints

More St. Joseph Resources For Families:

Celebrating The Feast Of St. Joseph At Home
St. Joseph Novena With Free Printable
St. Joseph Altar For Beginners
Printable Saint Joseph’s Altar for Kids
St. Joseph Free Coloring Page
St. Joseph Printables and Worksheets Packet
Catholic Saints Crafts and Activities Packet for Kids (Vol. 1) – Saint Joseph is one of the five featured saints

May 3- Sts. Philip & James

Apostles of Jesus
Martyrs
St. James is known as St. James the Less, St. James the Lesser, St. James the Younger. St. James the Minor, and St. James the Little (This is to differentiate between him and the other apostle also named James)
St. Philip is the patron saint of hatters, pastry chefs, and cooks
St. James the Lesser is the patron saint of hatmakers

Saints Philip and James are both on this Last Supper Printable Craft for Kids. It’s free for subscribers to the Catholic Icing Weekly Email, which is a free weekly email.

May 6- St. Dominic Savio

Taught by Fr. John Bosco, who is also a canonized saint
Devoted to prayer and the faith, even at a young age
Cheerful and kind to others
Asked to receive First Communion earlier than was the custom in Italy at that time
Died at age 14, after falling ill
People learned about Dominic Savio because Fr. John Bosco wrote a biography about him called “The Life of Dominic Savio” after Dominic’s early death

Saint Dominic Savio is included in this 312-page A – Z set of Catholic Coloring Pages.

May 10- St. Damien of Molokai

Belgian priest and missionary
He and his brother were religious brothers in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
Sent to Hawaii in 1864 as a missionary
In 1873, he went to a leper colony in Hawaii to minister to the community
Died from leprosy in 1889, after ministering to the colony for 16 years

May 13- Bl. Imelda Lambertini

Italian Catholic mystic
Devotee of the Dominican Order
Patroness of First Communicants
Died at age 11

If you want to create a cute and easy saint project, consider checking out these printable Saint Blocks, which can be decoupaged onto wooden blocks or printed as paper cubes. This set includes Blessed Imelda Lambertini.

May 13- Our Lady Of Fatima

Marian apparition in Fátima, Portugal
Appeared six times to three shepherd children, Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto
Events were declared worthy of belief on October 13, 1930 by a Portuguese bishop

What makes the story of Our Lady of Fatima so remarkable is that it was witnessed by numerous people and even reported in secular newspapers. This is such a great witness for kids to see a modern miracle with tangible proof. Such a powerful story! Additionally, the imagery of the spinning sun lends itself to a variety of fun crafts and food ideas, such as this Miracle of the Sun Spinner Craft.

More Our Lady of Fatima Resources for Families:

May 14- St. Matthias

Apostle
Replaced Judas Iscariot as one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus
Written about in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible
Martyr

May 15- St. Isidore the Farmer

Farm laborer from Spain
Married to Saint Maria de la Cabeza (feast day: September 9)
Visited churches daily and prayed throughout the day
Known for his love of the poor and for supplying food for them
Concerned about the proper treatment of animals
Patron saint of farmers

Celebrate the feast day of Saint Isidore with farm-themed snacks and this cute Saint Isidore the Farmer Stand-up Snack Label Craft from the Easy Symbolic Party Food Printable Set.

May 16- St. Simon Stock

British priest
Member of the Carmelite Order
Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him as Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady presented him with the Brown Scapular

A wonderful way to celebrate St. Simon Stock’s feast day is to make crafts and do activities related to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. One delicious way to celebrate is with this Our Lady of Mount Carmel Sundae with an edible scapular.

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More Saint Simon Stock and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Resources:

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Coloring Sheets
How to Draw a Scapular (follow along with this step-by-step video)
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Dessert Ideas
Scapular Crafts for Kids
Printable St. Simon Stock Craft Block (includes a version to decoupage onto a wooden block as well as a foldable paper cube version)

May 22- St. Rita

Italian widow who had a difficult and abusive marriage
Augustinian nun
Had a forehead wound that never healed, that was like it was from a thorn from the crown of thorns Jesus had at his crucifixion
Patron saint of lost and impossible causes, difficult marriages, abuse, wounds, parenthood

May 26- St. Philip Neri

Italian priest
Founder of the Congregation of the Oratory
Sometimes referred to as the Second Apostle of Rome after Saint Peter
Patron saint of Rome, US Special Forces, humor, and joy

May 30- St. Joan of Arc

French peasant from a religious family
Heard the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret from a young age
Saint voices told her to drive the English from French territory
Led the French army to victory
Caught by the British, convicted, and burned at the stake

Coloring pages are always such a fun printable for kids and adults! Celebrate the feast day of Saint Joan of Arc with these free St. Joan of Arc coloring pages.

May 31- Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Event takes place in Luke 1:39-57
Blessed Virgin Mary’s visit to her cousin Elizabeth, who was also expecting a baby (John the Baptist), shortly after the Annunciation
Saint Elizabeth says many of the words and phrases that we are familiar with from the Hail Mary prayer

If you’re planning a Saint feast day celebration with kids and didn’t find it here, you’ll want to check out my post on how to celebrate any Saint feast day. It guides you through my process of examining their lives to choose an activity for kids, and it links to generic resources that will help you celebrate any Saint. So, no more being sad if you can’t find specific resources for your child’s namesake Saint! 🙂

Printable Liturgical Planning Book

I have an all-new liturgical living ebook that will help you plan out this entire process and customize the liturgical year for your own family. This is the perfect resource for families that are living the liturgical year at home. You can use this book year after year to organize your liturgical resources, building your library as you go! This is an absolute wealth of printables for Catholic families to organize everything from feast day celebrations, to Sacrament anniversaries, to your home altar. Read more about my Weaving The Faith ebook here.

May Monthly Catholic Dedication- Mary!

Each month has a special Catholic dedication, and the month of May is dedicated to Mary, Our Lady! There are so many fun crafts, activities, and snack ideas for kids that go along with this monthly devotion. It is also very traditional to crown Mary with flowers during May, especially on May 1.

May Crowning Resources:

More Mary Resources For Kids:

More May Activities For Catholic Kids

You can check out the May Activities for Catholic Families printable on Real Life at Home from Angie (who is also the business manager on Catholic Icing, as well as the co-founder of the Catholic Icing Monthly Membership and Catholic ABCs Curriculum for Preschool and Kindergarten)

Free Printable Saints Coloring Book for May – Real Life at Home

I hope you found these Mary resources for kids useful for your feast day celebrations in May. God bless!

You can find all my resources for living the liturgical year, organized by month here

Saint Feast Days In May (And Other Days To Celebrate With Kids!)