Every saint here has their own storybook - their own story, their own pictures, their own voice reading aloud. Choose a story below, gather the children, and press play. Each book opens with the first page and reads to the end, page by page.
Short answer: Saint Storybooks are illustrated, read-aloud stories about the saints for children ages 6 to 12, to enjoy with a trusted adult. Choose from nineteen storybooks, including Saint Charbel, Saint Therese, Saint Francis, Padre Pio and Mother Teresa. Each has narration, so families can read together or listen together.
Read-aloud storybooks for ages 6-12, with gentle narration on every page.
19 storybooks
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Saints who lived, prayed and served in Lebanon, and the hermit who gave the Maronites their name.
Our flagship saint in the new storybook art style: ten sourced pages from the mountains of Bekaa Kafra to the hermitage of Annaya, with gentle read-aloud narration and points of reflection.
Open the New Saint Charbel Storybook
Our first storybook, kept just as it was made: the boy from the Lebanese mountains who became the hermit of Annaya - a 27-page classic about prayer, silence, and a life hidden with God.
Open the Classic Storybook
A girl from Himlaya becomes a sister who teaches, protects a child, and learns to receive care in illness.
Open Saint Rafqa's Storybook
Youssef of Hardin became a monk, taught the young Charbel, and learned to care for the people beside him.
Open Saint Nimatullah's Storybook
A girl follows her father to a mountain monastery, is blamed unfairly, and keeps her faith. Read and listen together.
Open Saint Marina's Storybook
A hermit lives under the open sky, and a whole family of faith grows from his prayer. Read and listen together.
Open Saint Maroun's Storybook
Three brothers serve their neighbors. Their story remembers a sad night honestly and helps children choose safety, kindness, and peace.
Open the Massabki Brothers' StorybookFour people from the Gospels who knew Jesus and followed him.
Joseph cares for Mary and Jesus through journeys, hard decisions and everyday family life.
Open Saint Joseph's Storybook
A fisherman follows Jesus, learns forgiveness after a painful mistake, and grows in courage.
Open Saint Peter's Storybook
A disciple stays close to Jesus and carries the news of his resurrection. Read and listen together.
Open Mary Magdalene's Storybook
An honest question, an answer about love, and room for your own questions. Ten narrated reader pages.
Open Saint Jude's StorybookFriends, preachers and peacemakers from the early Church to the Middle Ages.
A clever boy searches for years, and his mother never stops praying. Read and listen together.
Open Saint Augustine's Storybook
Two friends in the emperor's guard make one hard choice together. Read and listen together.
Open Saints Sergius and Bacchus's Storybook
From Assisi to a life of simple living, neighborly care, creation praise and peace.
Open Saint Francis's Storybook
From Lisbon to Padua, Anthony learns from Scripture and helps others through teaching, prayer and care.
Open Saint Anthony's StorybookSaints from the last two centuries, close enough that people alive today remember them.
From Alencon to Lisieux, a young Carmelite learns the little way of trust and everyday love.
Open Saint Therese's Storybook
The boy from Pietrelcina who became a friar and spent his life helping people come back to God - a story of prayer, kindness, and courage.
Open Padre Pio's Storybook
Lolek from Wadowice, who lost so much and kept on loving - the boy who became a pope and told the whole world: do not be afraid.
Open John Paul II's Storybook
From a childhood in Skopje to classrooms and care in Calcutta - a story of practical love, prayer, and many helping hands.
Open Mother Teresa's StorybookEach storybook is written for children and checked against documented sources - the Vatican and the saints' own shrines and biographies. The pictures are original imaginative illustrations, not historical footage, and every page says where its story comes from. More saint storybooks are on the way; each new one joins this shelf.
Grown-ups can read the fuller lives on the Saints & Blesseds page, or the full history of Saint Charbel.
Read-aloud storybooks for children ages 6 to 12, covering saints including Saint Charbel, Padre Pio, John Paul II, Saint Rafqa, and Mother Teresa. Each book opens at the first page and reads to the end, page by page.
Ages 6 to 12 - young enough to listen with family, old enough to read alone. The words are simple, and every page can be listened to as well as read.
Yes. Every page has gentle narration: press Read Aloud, or start at the first page and let the book read itself to the end.
Each book retells the documented events of its saint's life. Where a story includes a reported inner experience or a traditional account, the book's own notes say so plainly.