Saints
Saints and blesseds from the calendar and the wider proclaimed catalog.
Solemnity, Feast, Memorial
General Roman Calendar
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The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary FEAST
The Church keeps Mary’s birthday as a feast: the dawn before the Sun, the child of Joachim and Anne from whom the Savior would take flesh.
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Saint Peter Claver, Priest (d. 1654) optional memorial
Saint Peter Claver (1581–1654) was a Catalan Jesuit priest who, at his solemn profession, bound himself by vow as "the slave of the Africans forever" and spent forty-four years in the slave port of Cartagena de Indias meeting the ships of the Middle Passage with food, medicine,…
Also Celebrated
Roman Martyrology (2004)
Saints
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Saint Adrian of Nicomedia (d. 306)
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia (born about 278, died 4 March 306) was a young pagan officer of the imperial guard at Nicomedia in Bithynia who, set to watch over twenty‑three Christians under torture, was so struck by their joy and constancy that he asked the clerk to write his own…
Blesseds
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Blessed Adam Bargielski (d. 1942)
Blessed Adam Bargielski (7 January 1903 – 8 September 1942) was a Polish priest of the Diocese of Łomża, curate of Myszyniec, who on 9 April 1940 walked into a Gestapo office and offered himself in place of his eighty-three-year-old pastor, Klemens Sawicki. The exchange was…
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Blessed Frédéric Ozanam (d. 1853)
Blessed Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (23 April 1813 – 8 September 1853) was a French layman, husband and father, lawyer and Sorbonne professor of foreign literature, who at twenty founded with fellow students the "Conference of Charity" that became the Society of Saint Vincent de…
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Blessed Ismael Escrihuela Esteve (d. 1936)
Blessed Ismael Escrihuela Esteve (20 May 1902 – 8 September 1936) was a Spanish farmer, husband and father of the archdiocese of Valencia who was martyred at Paterna during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War. Known from his youth as the "little soldier of…
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Blessed Josefa de San Juan de Dios (d. 1936)
Blessed Josefa de San Juan de Dios (Josefa María Ruano García, 1854–1936) was a Spanish Little Sister of the Abandoned Elderly who spent nearly sixty years bathing, feeding and comforting the poor of old age in Valencia, Cascante, Requena and Alcira. Superior of the asylum at…
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Blessed Marino Blanes Giner (d. 1936)
Blessed Marino Blanes Giner (born at Alicante, Spain, in September 1888; died in the night of 7–8 September 1936) was a martyr of the religious persecution that swept Spain in the summer of 1936. Arrested in his own home on 21 July 1936 by armed militiamen, he was held for some…
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Blessed Władysław Błądziński (d. 1944)
Blessed Władysław Błądziński (1908–1944) was a Polish priest of the Congregation of St Michael the Archangel, an educator of poor and orphaned youth at Pawlikowice, and a martyr of the German concentration camp of Gross-Rosen. Arrested in 1944 for running a clandestine school,…
Additional memorials
Feast or dies natalis in our catalog
Saints
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Saint Æthelburh of Kent (d. 647)
Æthelburh of Kent (c. 601–647), also called Tate or Tata and known in the north as Ethelberga of Northumbria, was the daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent and Queen Bertha, and became the second wife of King Edwin of Northumbria in 625. Because she refused to surrender her…
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Saint Corbinian (d. 730)
Saint Corbinian (c. 670 – 8 September c. 730), born Waldegiso at Châtres near Melun in Frankish Gaul and renamed by his mother Corbiniana, spent fourteen years as a hermit beside a chapel of Saint Germain before Pope Gregory II sent him from his beloved solitude to evangelize…
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Saint Celestina (d. 250)
Saint Celestina was a Roman matron of the third century who opened her house to Christians hunted down in the imperial persecutions and saw to the burial of those who had been martyred, until she herself was seized and beheaded for the faith in the persecution of the emperor…
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Saint Sainte Béline (d. uncertain)
Saint Béline (Belina of Landreville, in the diocese of Troyes) was a young French shepherdess who died a martyr of purity, slain on 8 September for refusing the sinful advances of the lord of her village, Jean de Pradines. Barely sixteen, she was already known in Landreville…
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Saint Sergius I (d. 701)
Pope Saint Sergius I (c. 650 – 8 September 701) was a Roman pontiff of Antiochene Syrian descent, born to a family settled at Panormus (Palermo) in Sicily, who governed the Church of Rome from 15 December 687 until his death. Elected to end a violent double claim to the papacy,…
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Saint Stephen Pongracz (d. 1619)
Saint Stephen Pongrácz (1582–1619), born of Hungarian nobility in the castle of Alvincz in Transylvania, was a Jesuit priest, preacher and military chaplain who gave his life at Košice rather than deny the Catholic faith. Seized with his companions Marko Krizin and Melchior…
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Saint Virgin of Carmen de Cuyo (d. uncertain)
Our Lady of Mount Carmel of Cuyo (Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Cuyo) is the Marian title venerated in the church of San Francisco in Mendoza, Argentina, whose image General José de San Martín named Patroness and Generala of the Army of the Andes, laying his baton of command in…
Blesseds
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Blessed Adela of France (d. 1079)
Blessed Adela of France, also honored as Adela the Holy and Saint Adela of Messines, was born in 1009 a daughter of King Robert II the Pious of France and Constance of Arles, and became Duchess of Normandy and then Countess of Flanders at the side of Baldwin V. Learned in…
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Blessed Apolonia of the Blessed Sacrament (d. 1936)
Blessed Apolonia Lizárraga y Ochoa de Zabalegui, known in religion as Apolonia of the Blessed Sacrament (Lezáun, Navarre, 18 April 1867 – Barcelona, 8 September 1936), was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity of Vedruna, teacher, superior, and from 1925 superior general of her…
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Blessed José Cecilio Rodríguez González (d. 1936)
Blessed José Cecilio Rodríguez González — born Bonifacio Rodríguez González at Molina de Ubierna in the province of Burgos on 14 May 1885 — was a Brother of the Christian Schools who taught the young at the La Salle college of Almería and was killed in hatred of the faith on 13…
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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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