Saints
Saints and blesseds from the calendar and the wider proclaimed catalog.
Solemnity, Feast, Memorial
General Roman Calendar
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Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop (d. 1870) optional memorial
Saint Anthony Mary Claret (1807–1870), Spanish missionary bishop and founder of the Claretians, poured out his life for the glory of God and the salvation of souls through tireless preaching, penance, and love of the poor. Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and confessor to Queen…
Also Celebrated
Roman Martyrology (2004)
Saints
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Saint Arethas (d. 523)
Saint Arethas (al-Ḥārith ibn Kaʿb), leader of the Christian community of Najran in southern Arabia, was martyred in 523 under the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas for refusing to renounce Christ. With hundreds of companions—priests, religious, lay men, women, and children—he sealed his…
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Saint Luigi Guanella (d. 1915)
Saint Luigi Guanella (1842–1915), priest of the Diocese of Como and founder of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence and the Servants of Charity, spent his life serving the poor, the abandoned, the elderly, and the dying. Formed by a devout Alpine family and strengthened by…
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Saint Martin of Vertou (d. 601)
Saint Martin of Vertou (c. 527–601), hermit, archdeacon, and abbot, evangelized the still-pagan countryside southeast of Nantes and founded Vertou Abbey. Known as the Apostle of the Herbauges, he combined learning, missionary zeal, and monastic foundation, drawing disciples by…
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Saint Senoch (d. 576)
Saint Senoch (Sénoch, Senoco), a sixth-century Taifal hermit and abbot of Touraine, was born at Tiffauges in Poitou about 536 and died in 576. Converted to Christ, he founded a monastery among Roman ruins at the place later called Saint-Senoch, lived as a recluse of extreme…
Blesseds
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Blessed Benigna Cardoso da Silva (d. 1941)
Blessed Benigna Cardoso da Silva (1928–1941) was a Brazilian orphan and devout Catholic child who died a martyr at thirteen while defending her chastity against violent assault. Raised in faith by adoptive aunts near Santana do Cariri, she loved Mass, parish life, and pure…
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Blessed Giuseppe Baldo (d. 1915)
Blessed Giuseppe Baldo (1843–1915), diocesan priest of Verona and parish priest of Ronco all'Adige, spent his life drawing near to God through Jesus Christ in tireless pastoral zeal, radiant faith, and human and Christian charity. Founder of the Little Daughters of Saint Joseph…
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Blessed Maria Tuci (d. 1950)
Blessed Maria Tuci (1928–1950) was an Albanian laywoman, Stigmatine postulant, elementary teacher, and catechist who gave her life under the communist persecution of Enver Hoxha. Arrested for her faith, she endured prolonged torture yet refused apostasy and impurity, dying free…
Additional memorials
Feast or dies natalis in our catalog
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Saint Cadfarch (d. uncertain)
Saint Cadfarch is a sixth-century Welsh saint whose name is preserved in the dedication of the church at Penegoes in Powys, Wales. Little beyond this early cult and local memory is recorded of his life, yet the faithful have long honored him as one of the saints who helped root…
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Saint Eberigisil (d. 594)
Saint Eberigisil (also Evergislus, Ebregiselus), fifth well-attested Bishop of Cologne and the first with a Frankish name, died before 594. In an age of migration and unrest he labored to restore religious life and ecclesiastical peace, built a church in honor of the martyr…
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Saint Felix of Thibiuca (d. 303)
Saint Felix of Thibiuca (c. 247–303) was bishop of Thibiuca in Roman Africa who, during the Great Persecution of Diocletian, refused the magistrate Magnillian's demand to surrender the sacred Scriptures. Martyred by beheading with companions Audactus, Fortunatus, Januarius, and…
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Saint Fromond de Coutances (d. 690)
Saint Fromond (Fromundus, Frodomundus) of Coutances was a seventh-century bishop of Coutances in Normandy, venerated by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Tradition holds that he founded monasteries, including at Saint-Fromond and Le Ham, and shepherded his flock with pastoral…
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Saint Magloire (d. 575)
Saint Magloire of Dol (also Maglorius, Maelor), a sixth-century Welsh monk and cousin of Saint Samson, became bishop of Dol in Brittany and later abbot of a monastery on the island of Sark. Renowned for apostolic zeal, severe fasting, and wonders of healing and deliverance, he…
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Saint Proclus of Constantinople (d. 446)
Proclus was born around the year 390. From youth he served as a reader in Constantinople, studying rhetoric and the classical authors under private tutors and drawing deeply on Sacred Scripture. He came under the influence of Alexandrian thinkers who had settled in the capital.…
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Saint Regnobert de Bayeux (d. 666)
Saint Regnobert of Bayeux (also Renobert, Rénobert, Rennobert, or Raimbert; Latin Regnobertus or Ragnobertus) was the twelfth bishop of Bayeux in the seventh century and is honored as the second Apostle of the Bessin. Born at Noron-la-Poterie near Bayeux, he completed the…
Blesseds
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Blessed Jan Balicki (d. 1948)
Blessed Jan Wojciech Balicki (1869–1948) was a Polish priest of the Diocese of Przemyśl, theologian, seminary rector, confessor, and spiritual director who united deep contemplative prayer with tireless care for souls. Noted for humility, love of truth, and mercy toward the…
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Blessed Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh (d. 1492)
Blessed Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh (Thaddeus McCarthy), c. 1455–25 October 1492, was an Irish bishop who never took peaceful possession of the sees of Ross or of Cork and Cloyne, yet remained faithful under calumny, exile, and poverty. Called the "White Martyr of Munster," he died as…
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General Roman Calendar · Liturgical Calendar API
The Church judges heroic virtue, not every vision or locution. Private revelation is left to the Church and to your own discernment. Lives here are our own, from the catalog and public sources.
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Blessed Alexandrina of Balazar
Victim soul
Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904–1955), known as Alexandrina of Balazar, was a Portuguese mystic, Salesian Cooperator, and victim soul who offered decades of paralysis and suffering for the conversion of sinne…
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Saint Angela of Foligno
Contemplative
Saint Angela of Foligno (1248–1309), Franciscan tertiary and mystic called the Mistress of Theologians, turned from a worldly life to radical penance, poverty, and charity after visions of Saint Francis and the Crucif…
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Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (née Giannetti; 29 May 1769 – 9 June 1837) was a Roman wife, mother of seven, and Secular Trinitarian whose ordinary household became a school of heroic patience, charity, and mystical union w…
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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
Stigmata
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824) was a German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, and stigmatist whose life of hidden suffering, prayer, and love of Christ drew the poor and the learned alike. B…
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Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Visions
Saint Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879), the humble miller's daughter of Lourdes, received eighteen apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the grotto of Massabielle and became the messenger of the Immaculate Concept…
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Saint Bridget
Visions
Saint Bridget of Sweden, OSsS (c. 1304 – 23 July 1373), also known as Birgitta Birgersdotter and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Swedish Catholic mystic and the founder of the Bridgettines. Outside Sweden she was known as…
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Saint Catherine Labouré
Visions
Saint Catherine Labouré (1806–1876), a Daughter of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, received the apparitions of the Immaculate Virgin that gave the Church the Miraculous Medal. In lifelong humility and silence she se…
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Saint Catherine of Genoa
Contemplative
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno), born 5 April 1447, was a noble Genoese mystic, wife, hospital director, and author whose conversion filled her with God's love and the resolve "No more world, no mor…
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Saint Catherine of Siena
Contemplative
Saint Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa), Dominican tertiary, virgin, and Doctor of the Church, was born in Siena on 25 March 1347 and died in Rome on 29 April 1380. From childhood visions and a vow of virginity…
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Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida
Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida (Conchita), Mexican wife, mother of nine, widow, mystic, and writer (1862–1937), lived the call to save souls through union with Christ crucified and the Trinity. She inspired the…
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Blessed Dina Bélanger
Contemplative
Blessed Dina Bélanger (1897–1929), in religion Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome, was a Canadian Religious of Jesus and Mary, gifted pianist, teacher, and mystic whose life was marked by generous charity, Eucharistic lov…
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Blessed Elena Aiello
Stigmata
Blessed Elena Aiello (1895–1961) was an Italian religious foundress, mystic, and stigmatist who united deep love of Christ's Passion with tireless care for abandoned children and the poor. Forged by illness, Eucharist…
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Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
Contemplative
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (Élisabeth Catez, 1880–1906) was a French Discalced Carmelite mystic and spiritual writer whose short life centered on the indwelling of the Most Holy Trinity and on becoming a living "p…
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Saint Faustina Kowalska
Visions
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (Helena Kowalska, 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), a Polish Sister of Our Lady of Mercy, is venerated as the Apostle and secretary of Divine Mercy. Through visions of Jesus she received…
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Saint Francis of Assisi
Stigmata
Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–3 October 1226), the Poverello of Umbria, founded the Order of Friars Minor, the Poor Clares, and the Third Order of Penance, living the Gospel in absolute poverty, fraternal love, and…
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Saint Gemma Galgani
Stigmata · Victim soul
Saint Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), the "daughter of the Passion" of Lucca, was an Italian mystic who bore the stigmata and united her sufferings to Christ crucified. Orphaned young, refused religious life yet wholly con…
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Saint Gertrude the Great
Contemplative
Saint Gertrude the Great (1256–1301/1302), Benedictine virgin and mystic of Helfta, was raised from childhood in the monastery and became one of the great contemplatives of the thirteenth century. After a decisive vis…
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Saint Hildegard of Bingen
Contemplative · Visions
Saint Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098–17 September 1179), Benedictine abbess and Doctor of the Church, was the Sibyl of the Rhine: mystic, visionary, composer, and teacher who wrote what she saw in the living Light of Go…
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Saint John Mary Vianney
Saint John Mary Vianney (Jean-Marie Vianney), born 8 May 1786 at Dardilly near Lyon and known as the Curé d'Ars, was a French parish priest whose more than forty years of preaching, penance, catechesis, and tireless m…
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Saint John of the Cross
Contemplative
Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), priest, Carmelite reformer, and Doctor of the Church, was born 24 June 1542 at Fontiveros near Ávila and died 14 December 1591. With Saint Teresa of Jesus he founded…
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Blessed Julian of Norwich
Contemplative · Visions
Blessed Julian of Norwich (c. 1342/1343 – after 1416), also called Juliana, Dame Julian, or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love are the earliest surviving English-…
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Saint Lidwina
Victim soul
Saint Lidwina of Schiedam (1380–1433) was a Dutch mystic and virgin who, after a fall while ice skating at fifteen, offered nearly four decades of extreme bodily suffering in union with Christ's Passion. Renowned for…
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Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort
Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673–1716) was a French priest, apostolic missionary, and master of Marian spirituality whose total consecration to Jesus through Mary shaped the Church and inspired the motto T…
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Servant of God Louise Lateau
Stigmata · Victim soul
Anne-Louise Lateau (1850–1883) of Bois-d'Haine, Belgium, a poor worker and Franciscan tertiary, received the stigmata in 1868; the wounds returned every Friday until her death. She was known for Friday ecstasies and c…
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Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
Visions
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), Visitation nun of Paray-le-Monial, was the humble mystic chosen by Christ to spread modern devotion to His Sacred Heart. Amid ridicule, penance, and long obedience, she receiv…
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Blessed Maria Bolognesi
Stigmata
Blessed Maria Bolognesi (1924–1980) was an Italian lay mystic of Bosaro near Rovigo, marked from childhood by extreme poverty, family hardship, and a total consecration to the Lord and Our Lady. She united long years…
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Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli
Visions
Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli (1890–1945), born Giuseppina in Milan, was a Daughter of the Immaculate Conception who served as superior in Italy and Argentina and became the principal promoter of modern devotion to…
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Saint Mariam Baouardy
Stigmata
Saint Mariam Baouardy (Mary of Jesus Crucified), Melkite Discalced Carmelite of the Holy Land (1846–1878), was a humble Arab mystic marked by the Cross from childhood. Orphaned young, nearly slain for refusing marriag…
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Saint Mary Magdalene
Saint Mary Magdalene, also called Mary of Magdala, was a devoted disciple of Jesus whom he freed from seven demons. She accompanied him, ministered to him from her means, stood faithful at the Cross, witnessed his bur…
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Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
Stigmata
Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (born Caterina Lucrezia, 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607) was a Florentine Carmelite nun and mystic whose brief life burned with prayer, ecstatic union with God, and heroic suffering for the…
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Saint Paul of the Cross
Contemplative
Saint Paul of the Cross (Paolo Francesco Danei), born at Ovada on 3 January 1694 and dying in Rome on 18 October 1775, was a mystic priest who founded the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, the Passionists.…
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Saint Pius of Pietrelcina
Stigmata
Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, born Francesco Forgione on 25 May 1887 in Pietrelcina to Grazio Forgione and Maria Giuseppa De Nunzio, was an Italian Capuchin priest and mystic who entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchi…
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Saint Rita of Cascia
Saint Rita of Cascia (Margherita Lotti), born at Roccaporena in Umbria and died at the Augustinian monastery of Cascia, is the humble widow and religious known as the Saint of the Impossible and advocate of desperate…
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Saint Sharbel Makhluf
Contemplative
Saint Sharbel Makhluf, born Youssef Antoun Makhlouf in 1828 in Beqaa Kafra, Lebanon, was a Maronite monk and priest of the Lebanese Maronite Order who embraced an austere eremitical life at the hermitage of Saints Pet…
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Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Contemplative
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), virgin and martyr, was a brilliant Jewish-born philosopher who sought truth, found Christ in the Cross, and offered her life as a Discalced Carmelite. Baptized in 192…
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Saint Teresa of Jesus
Contemplative
Saint Teresa of Jesus (Teresa of Ávila), Virgin and Doctor of the Church, was born in Ávila on 28 March 1515 and died at Alba de Tormes on 4 October 1582. A Carmelite reformer, mystic, and foundress of the Discalced C…
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Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus
Contemplative
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873–1897), Carmelite of Lisieux and Doctor of the Church, lived a hidden life of spiritual childhood and total trust in God's merciful love. Through her "little way…
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Saint Veronica Giuliani
Stigmata
Saint Veronica Giuliani was an extraordinary Capuchin Poor Clare mystic and stigmatist whose life was a perfect configuration to the Passion of Jesus Christ. Renowned for her profound humility, heroic obedience, and d…
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