Saints
Saints and blesseds from the calendar and the wider proclaimed catalog.
Solemnity, Feast, Memorial
General Roman Calendar
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Saint John of Capestrano, Priest (d. 1456) optional memorial
Saint John of Capestrano (1386–1456), Franciscan priest and reformer from Abruzzo, preached repentance across Europe, defended the Observance and the Holy Name of Jesus, and at nearly seventy led crusaders with John Hunyadi to break the Ottoman siege of Belgrade. Called the…
Also Celebrated
Roman Martyrology (2004)
Saints
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Saint Allucio di Campugliano in Valdinievole (d. 1134)
Saint Allucio of Campugliano (Allucio di Omodeo, c. 1070–1134) was a Tuscan confessor and hospitaler who turned from shepherding to lifelong charity for pilgrims and the poor. He founded hospices and churches, built a bridge over the Arno to free travelers from extortion,…
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Saint Theodoret of Antioch (d. 362)
Saint Theodoret of Antioch was a Greek-speaking Syrian priest and keeper of the sacred vessels who refused to abandon his flock under Julian the Apostate's persecution. Arrested by Count Julian, governor of the East, he endured torture rather than betray Christ, boldly rebuked…
Blesseds
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Blessed Caridad Álvarez Martín (d. 1994)
Blessed Caridad Álvarez Martín (1933–1994) was a Spanish Augustinian Missionary Sister who gave more than thirty years of humble service to the elderly and the poor in Algiers. Open to God's will and deeply attached to the people who had welcomed her, she remained in Algeria…
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Blessed Esther Paniagua Alonso (d. 1994)
Blessed Esther Paniagua Alonso (1949–1994) was a Spanish Augustinian Missionary Sister and nurse who gave her life among the poor and disabled in Algiers. Drawn to Arab culture and respectful of her Muslim neighbors, she refused to flee Algeria's civil war, trusting that her…
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Blessed Giovannangelo Porro (d. 1505)
Blessed Giovannangelo Porro (1451–1505) was a noble-born Servite priest and hermit of the Milanese region who gave himself to silence, meditation, fasting, and self-mortification at Monte Senario and other houses. Noted for love of nature and for teaching catechism to children…
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Blessed Leonardo Olivera Buera (d. 1936)
Blessed Leonardo Olivera Buera (1889–1936) was a diocesan priest of Zaragoza whose life of humble availability, late-night confessions, and spiritual care for youth and religious prepared him for martyrdom. During the Spanish Civil War persecution he was wounded, sheltered…
Additional memorials
Feast or dies natalis in our catalog
Saints
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Saint Constantin Sârbu (d. 1975)
Constantin Sârbu (1905–1975) is listed in the SanctumNomen catalog among the saints. The supplied research yields only his name and dates; it furnishes no verified Causes of Saints biography, family background, vocation, trials, death narrative, cult history, or attested…
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Saint Ethelfleda of Romsey (d. 924)
Saint Æthelflæd (Ethelfleda) of Romsey was a late tenth-century Benedictine abbess of Romsey Abbey in Hampshire, England, remembered for severe nocturnal asceticism, psalmody, and charity. Tradition holds that she was raised under the holy abbess Merewenna, succeeded as abbess…
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Saint Gratien d'Amiens (d. 303)
Saint Gratien of Amiens (Gratien d'Amiens), also known as Graziano di Amiens, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the early fourth century who died by beheading in 303 near Amiens. Tradition presents him as a convert from a Roman senatorial family who left Rome to evangelize…
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Saint John I of Syracuse (d. uncertain)
Saint John I of Syracuse was a late sixth- and early seventh-century bishop of Syracuse in Sicily, consecrated under Pope Saint Gregory the Great and remembered as a confessor of pastoral discipline, charity, and discernment. He aided the Roman See by sending ransom for…
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Saint Oda (d. 726)
Saint Oda (c. 680–c. 726), a Scottish princess born blind, was miraculously healed at the tomb of Saint Lambert in Liège and vowed her life to God. Refusing a marriage arranged by her father, she fled across the North Sea, made pilgrimage to Rome, and lived as a hermitess in…
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Saint Seven Sleepers (d. 387)
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus are seven Christian youths who, under the persecution of the emperor Decius around AD 250, refused to sacrifice to idols, gave their goods to the poor, and withdrew into a mountain cave near Ephesus, where God caused them to sleep for many…
Blesseds
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Blessed Arnoldo Rèche (d. 1890)
Blessed Arnoldo Rèche (Jules-Nicolas Rèche), a Brother of the Christian Schools, was born poor in Landroff, France, in 1838 and died in Reims in 1890. After a youth of hard labor, a brief crisis, and conversion, he became a patient teacher of the youngest, a skilled educator,…
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Blessed Boethius (d. 524)
Blessed Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480–524), Roman senator, consul, and Christian philosopher, served Theodoric the Great yet defended justice and the Senate at the cost of his life. Imprisoned at Pavia, he wrote the Consolation of Philosophy and died a martyr by…
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Blessed Josephine Leroux (d. 1794)
Blessed Joséphine Leroux (born Anne-Josepha Leroux, 23 January 1747 – 23 October 1794) was a French Poor Clare who later shared Ursuline life in Valenciennes and died a martyr of the French Revolution. With her sister and companion nuns she was guillotined for returning to…
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Blessed Ursuline martyrs of Valenciennes (d. 1794)
The Blessed Ursuline Martyrs of Valenciennes were eleven religious of the Order of Saint Ursula who gave their lives for the faith at Valenciennes in October 1794 during the French Revolution. Faithful to their vows, to refractory priests, and to the education of young girls,…
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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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