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Mystici quos Ecclesia memorat propter orationem, unionem cum Christo, et — ubi fontes testantur — gratias extraordinarias.
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Martyrologium Romanum (2004)
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Sancte Elia Speleota (ob. 960)
Saint Elia the Speleota (c. 863–11 September 960) was a Calabrian hermit and Basilian monk, born of noble parents at Reggio Calabria, who fled an arranged marriage at eighteen to give himself wholly to God. After pilgrimage to Rome, monastic profession among the Basilian monks,…
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Sancte Jean-Gabriel Perboyre (ob. 1840)
Saint Jean-Gabriel Perboyre (1802–1840) was a French priest of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) who left his homeland to take the place of his dead brother in the China mission, and there gave his life for Christ. Betrayed during the persecution of 1839, he endured…
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Beate José María Segura Penadés (ob. 1936)
Blessed José María Segura Penadés (13 October 1896 – 11 September 1936) was a Spanish diocesan priest of Valencia, martyred in the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War. Ordained in 1921, he spent himself on the young, on working men, and on the poor, founding the…
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Sancte Almire de Gréez (ob. 560)
Saint Almire of Gréez (also Almer, Almirus; died about 560) was a hermit and abbot in the forests of Maine, one of the most illustrious disciples of Saint Avitus of Micy. Born in the country of the Arverni, he followed his masters from monastery to wilderness, built an oratory…
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Sancte Deiniol (ob. 584)
Saint Deiniol (died 584, by some reckonings 572) was a Welsh monk, abbot and bishop, traditionally honored as the first Bishop of Bangor in the Kingdom of Gwynedd. Son of the abbot Dunod Fawr and formed under Saint Cadoc at Llancarfan, he founded the great monastery of Bangor…
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Sancte Exuperantius (ob. incertum)
Saint Exuperantius, popularly called Häxebränz in the Zurich dialect, is venerated as a martyr of the Diocletianic persecution and, with Saints Felix and Regula, as one of the three patron saints of Zurich. Tradition names him a soldier of the legendary Theban Legion and the…
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Sancte Leudinus of Toul (ob. 673)
Saint Leudinus Bodo (born about 625 in the Bassigny, died about 673) was a Frankish nobleman of Austrasia who, with his wife Odila, renounced the world for the cloister and was afterwards chosen as the seventeenth bishop of Toul. Brother of Saint Salaberga of Laon, he is…
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Sancte Paphnutius of Thebes (ob. 400)
Paphnutius of Thebes, called Paphnutius the Confessor, was an Egyptian monk, disciple of Saint Anthony the Great, and bishop of a city in the Upper Thebaid in the early fourth century. Mutilated for Christ in the persecution of Maximinus Daia — his right eye put out, the sinews…
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Sancte Patiens of Lyon (ob. 490)
Saint Patiens (c. 450–c. 490) was the twentieth bishop of Lyon, succeeding Saint Eucherius and governing the Church of Gaul's ancient see for some forty years in the turbulent second half of the fifth century. Friend and correspondent of Sidonius Apollinaris, he combined an…
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Sancte Sacerdos of Lyon (ob. 552)
Saint Sacerdos of Lyon (487–552), also called Sardot or Serdot, was the twenty-seventh bishop of Lyon, counsellor to King Childebert I, and president of the Fifth Council of Orléans in 549. Born of a patrician family and the son of St. Rusticus of Lyon, he was a married man and…
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Sancte Sant'Emiliano I di Vercelli (ob. 506)
Saint Emilian I of Vercelli (Sant'Emiliano I di Vercelli) was a bishop of the ancient Piedmontese church of Vercelli at the opening of the sixth century, his name preserved in the episcopal succession around the years 500 to 506. He is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church,…
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Sancte Sperandia (ob. 1276)
Saint Sperandia (also Sperandea, "Spera in Deo" — "Hope in God"), born at Gubbio in 1216 and dying at Cingoli on 11 September 1276, was a hermit, pilgrim, penitent preacher, and finally Benedictine abbess of the monastery of San Michele at Cingoli. Renowned for unbroken prayer,…
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Sancte Vinciane de Wintershoven (ob. incertum)
Saint Vinciana (Vinciane) of Wintershoven was a seventh-century virgin of the missionary band sent from Rome by Pope Martin I to assist Saint Amandus in the evangelization of the Low Countries. Sister of Saint Landoald, she settled with seven companions at Wintershoven in…
Beati
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Beate Francesco Bonifacio (ob. 1946)
Blessed Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio (7 September 1912 – 11 September 1946), called "El Santin" — the little saint — by his fellow seminarians, was an Istrian priest of the Diocese of Trieste who spent himself for the poor peasant hamlets of Villa Gardossi (Krasica) as…
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Beate Giulia Crostarosa (ob. 1755)
Blessed Maria Celeste Crostarosa (Giulia Marcella Crostarosa, 31 October 1696 – 14 September 1755) was a Neapolitan mystic and foundress of the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer, the contemplative Redemptoristine nuns, whose rule she received in a vision on 25 April 1725 as a…
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Beate Joseph Müller (ob. 1944)
Blessed Joseph Müller (19 August 1894 – 11 September 1944) was a German diocesan priest of the Diocese of Hildesheim, a tireless pastor of youth and working men in the spirit of Adolph Kolping, and an outspoken opponent of National Socialism. Denounced for telling a political…
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Beate Miquel Baptista Gran (ob. 1684)
Blessed Bonaventura Gran (Miquel Baptista Gran Peris, 1620–1684), the Catalan lay Franciscan known as Fra Bonaventura of Barcelona, rose from a peasant's field in Riudoms to become the founder of the "Riformella," the reform of houses of prayer and retreat within the Reformed…
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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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