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Saints Who Studied (Or Taught) from Home 60 YEARS COURAGEOUSLY Living the Gospel August 23, 2020 WEEKEND MAGAZINE 21st Sunday in OT Saints who studied (or taught) from home Education has changed a lot through the centuries, but some saints are known for the lessons they gave or re- ceived at home. By Meg Hunter-Kilmer ith many parents choosing to home- school their children for the first time this year (and plenty more continuing W after years of educating their children at home), homeschooling families around the world would do well to look to the saints who’ve gone before. Though none of them had to deal with online learning or an abundance of curricula to choose from, all of these homeschooling and homeschooled saints are models of how to grow in holiness while learning (and teaching) at home. St. Emilia of Caesarea (d. 375) is known as the Mother of Saints. Among her 10 children are three bishops (one a Doctor of the Church) and a total of six saints. And while her sons eventually left home and went off to school, Emilia and her mother-in-law St. Macrina the Elder taught them all at home in their youth, with Emilia’s oldest daughter (St. Macrina the Younger) helping out with the little ones. This was the intellectual foundation of Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. As in many large homeschooling families, the siblings learned nearly as much from each other as they did from their parents, and both Basil and Gregory considered their older sister Macrina enormously influen- tial on their intellectual and spiritual formation. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) changed the face of American education forever when she found- ed the first free Catholic school in America. But before she was a pioneer in the field of education, she was a homeschooling mother of five. After her husband’s death, the young convert to Catholicism continued to educate her own children with such success that other children began to attend her classes. Though anti-Catholicism forced her from her home in New York City, Elizabeth Ann found a patron in the Archbishop of Baltimore, who supported her as she founded a brick-and-mortar school in Maryland, run by her new order, the Daughters of Charity. Continued page 2 August 23, 2020 Page 2 Continued from front page St. Francis Choe Kyong-hwan (1805-1839) realized as a young man that religious practice had declined among Korean Catholics who had been living for decades without a priest. To fight this, Francis and his wife (Blessed Maria Yi Seong-rye) founded a small Catholic village. In addition to working the fields, Francis educated his own children and all the villagers, gathering them in his home each night to instruct them in the faith. As the persecution of Christians worsened, Francis encour- aged his people to bury all their sacramentals and sacred images so that PASTOR they wouldn’t be defiled by soldiers; the books, however, they must not Rev. Wayne C. Genereux hide. “A soldier going to war needs his battle instructions,” he said. DEACONS “At a time like this we must study all the books more earnest- Deacon Bill Lovelace ly.” When soldiers came to arrest the Christians, Francis offered them Deacon Lionel Roberts, food and a good night’s rest. The next morning, dozens of Christians Deacon Emeritus peacefully followed the soldiers to prison; several were then martyred, including Francis and Maria. Their oldest son, Servant of God Thom- PASTOR EMERITUS as Choe Yang-up, later became the second native Korean priest. Msgr. Anton Dechering St. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783-1854) had been homeschooled Retired herself as a child. Though it was the custom of well-to-do Spanish fami- CLERGY ASSISTANCE lies to bring in governesses, Joaquina’s mother chose to educate her Fr. Jack McDowell, OFM children herself. After Joaquina married, she did the same, home- Fr. 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