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Martyrologium Romanum (2004)
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Sancte Cedd (ob. 664)
Saint Cedd (c. 620–26 October 664) was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop of Northumbria, formed at Lindisfarne under Aidan, who evangelized the Middle Angles and the East Saxons and founded monasteries including Lastingham and Bradwell-on-Sea. A trusted interpreter at the Synod of…
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Sancte Adalgott (ob. 1160)
Saint Adalgott (c. 1100–1160), also known as Adalgott of Disentis and of Einsiedeln, was a monk formed in Cistercian and Benedictine life who became abbot of Disentis Abbey in the Swiss Alps and later Bishop of Chur. Renowned for charity toward the sick and poor, monastic…
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Sancte Alfred the Great (ob. 899)
Alfred, called the Great, was born about the year 849 at the royal estate of Wantage in Berkshire, the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and his wife Osburh, a woman Asser praises as most religious and noble in character and birth. His parents died while he was still…
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Sancte Alor de Quimper (ob. 462)
Saint Alor of Quimper (also Alorus, Alour, Alar), third bishop of Quimper after Saints Corentinus and Conogan, shepherded the Church of Cornouaille in Brittany and died in 462. Tradition remembers him as a peacemaker who mediated between the Bretons and the Roman commander…
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Sancte Amand de Strasbourg (ob. 355)
Saint Amand of Strasbourg (c. 290–355), also called Amandus Argentina, was the first bishop of Strasbourg and a steadfast shepherd of the Church on the Rhine frontier in the age after Constantine. He upheld the Catholic faith amid Arian controversy and residual paganism, taking…
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Sancte Aptonio de Angulema (ob. incertum)
Saint Aptonio (also Aptonio of Angoulême) was bishop of Angoulême in the middle of the sixth century and is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He succeeded Lupicinus, took part in the Council of Orléans in 549, and is remembered in the Roman Martyrology on 26 October.…
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Sancte Bernat Calbó (ob. 1243)
Saint Bernat Calbó (also Bernard of Calvo or Bernat Calvó), c. 1180–26 October 1243, was a Catalan jurist, Cistercian monk and abbot, Bishop of Vic, and companion of the Reconquista under James I of Aragon. Born of a knightly family near Reus, he served the Church of Tarragona,…
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Sancte Cuthbert of Canterbury (ob. 760)
Saint Cuthbert of Canterbury (d. 26 October 760) was a noble-born Anglo-Saxon abbot, likely Bishop of Hereford, and Archbishop of Canterbury who labored for the reform of clergy and people. He presided over the great Council of Clovesho, corresponded with Saint Boniface, and…
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Sancte Eadfrith of Leominster (ob. 675)
Saint Eadfrith of Leominster (also called Eadfrith or Eadridus) was a seventh-century missionary from Northumbria who labored for the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon peoples of the western Midlands. Tradition holds that about 660 he converted King Merewalh of the Magonsæte and…
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Sancte Eata of Hexham (ob. 686)
Saint Eata of Hexham (also known as Eata of Lindisfarne), who died on 26 October 686, was an early Northumbrian abbot and bishop formed under Saint Aidan. The first native of Northumbria to hold the see of Lindisfarne, he guided Melrose and Lindisfarne, accepted the Roman…
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Sancte Fulk of Pavia (ob. 1229)
Saint Fulk of Pavia (Folco Scotti), born in Piacenza in 1164 to a family of Irish-Scottish origin, was a Canon Regular who became Bishop of Piacenza and later of Pavia. He sought to keep free of political entanglement so as to devote himself wholly to the care of his dioceses,…
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Sancte Gwynno (ob. incertum)
Saint Gwynno (also Gwynnog ab Gildas) was a sixth-century Welsh confessor whose feast the Vatican archives place on 26 October. Linked with the circle of Saint Illtud and the community of Llancarfan, he is remembered as a founder of churches in Glamorgan and Montgomeryshire and…
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Sancte José Gregorio Hernández (ob. 1919)
Saint José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros (1864–1919) was a Venezuelan physician, scientist, and Franciscan tertiary whose charity toward the poor and steadfast Catholic faith made him beloved in life and after death. He treated the sick without charge, bought medicines from his…
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Sancte Lucianus and Marcianus (ob. 255)
Saints Lucianus and Marcianus (also Lucian and Marcian) were Christian martyrs of Nicomedia who suffered under the proconsul Sabinus in the Decian persecution and died about 255. Once practitioners of magic, they were converted by a virgin and sealed their faith by fire on 26…
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Sancte Rusticus of Narbonne (ob. 461)
Saint Rusticus of Narbonne (also Rustique, Rustico di Narbona) was a monk of Lérins and bishop of Narbonne who died on 26 October, probably in 461. Formed by study, the counsel of Saint Jerome, and monastic life, he shepherded his flock through Visigothic siege, Arian pressure,…
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Sancte Mauro di Piacenza (ob. 449)
Saint Mauro of Piacenza was the third bishop of Piacenza from 420 until his death in 449. He devoted himself to the veneration of the saints, promoting the memory and recognition of his predecessor Saint Savinus and other local martyrs and confessors. He gave honorable passage…
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Sancte Witta of Büraburg (ob. 760)
Saint Witta of Büraburg (also Albuin or Vito Albinus), an Anglo-Saxon missionary from Wessex born about 700, labored with Saints Boniface and Lullus to plant the Church in Hesse and Thuringia. Consecrated first bishop of the new see of Büraburg near Fritzlar in 741, he shared…
Beati
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Beate beato Bonaventura (ob. 1711)
Blessed Bonaventura da Potenza (Carlo Antonio Gerardo Lavanga), born in 1651 to a poor family in Potenza, became a Conventual Franciscan priest renowned for humility, missionary zeal, and charity amid epidemics. He served as novice master and preacher across southern Italian…
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Beate Celine Borzecka (ob. 1913)
Blessed Celine Chludzińska Borzęcka (1833–1913), feast 26 October, was wife, mother, widow, religious, and foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection. Formed by the Paschal Mystery under Fr. Piotr Semenenko, she lived "through the cross and death to the…
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Beate Alexandrina of Balazar
Anima victima
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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Sancte Angela of Foligno
Contemplativus
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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Beate 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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Beate 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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Sancte Bernadette Soubirous
Visiones
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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Sancte Sanctæ Brigittæ
Visiones
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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Sancte Catherine Labouré
Visiones
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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Sancte Catherine of Genoa
Contemplativus
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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Sancte Sanctæ Catharinæ Senensis
Contemplativus
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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Beate 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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Beate Dina Bélanger
Contemplativus
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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Beate 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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Sancte Elizabeth of the Trinity
Contemplativus
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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Sancte Sanctæ Faustinæ Kowalska
Visiones
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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Sancte Sancti Francisci Assisiensis
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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Sancte Gemma Galgani
Stigmata · Anima victima
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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Sancte Sanctæ Gertrudis
Contemplativus
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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Sancte Sanctæ Hildegardis Bingensis
Contemplativus · Visiones
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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Sancte Sancti Ioannis Mariæ 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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Sancte Sancti Ioannis a Cruce
Contemplativus
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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Beate Julian of Norwich
Contemplativus · Visiones
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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Sancte Lidwina
Anima victima
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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Sancte Sancti Ludovici Mariæ 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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Serve Dei Ludovica Lateau
Stigmata · Anima victima
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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Sancte Sanctæ Margaritæ Mariæ Alacoque
Visiones
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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Beate 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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Beate Maria Pierina De Micheli
Visiones
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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Sancte 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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Sancte Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ
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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Sancte Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ 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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Sancte Sancti Pauli a Cruce
Contemplativus
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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Sancte S. Pii de 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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Sancte Sanctæ Ritæ de 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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Sancte Sancti Sarbelii Makhluf
Contemplativus
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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Sancte Sanctæ Teresiæ Benedictæ a Cruce
Contemplativus
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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Sancte Sanctæ Teresiæ de Avila
Contemplativus
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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Sancte Sanctæ Teresiæ a Iesu Infante
Contemplativus
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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Sancte 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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