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Martyrologium Romanum (2004)

Sancti

  • Sancte Nicholas of Tolentino (ob. 1305)

    Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (1245–10 September 1305), an Augustinian friar and priest, was the fruit of his parents' pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Nicholas of Myra and became one of the great wonderworkers of medieval Italy. For nearly thirty years he preached, heard…

  • Sancte Pulcheria (ob. 453)

    Aelia Pulcheria (19 January 399 – 453), granddaughter of Theodosius the Great and daughter of the emperor Arcadius, was proclaimed Augusta at fifteen and governed the Eastern Roman Empire beside her young brother Theodosius II, turning the imperial palace into something like a…

Beati

  • Beate Apollonia (ob. 249)

    Saint Apollonia was a consecrated virgin of Alexandria, held in high esteem by her church, who was seized by a pagan mob in the year 249, during the violent uprising against the Christians that preceded the persecution of Decius. Her tormentors shattered her jaw and struck out…

  • Beate Thecla (ob. 100)

    Thecla of Iconium, honored from the earliest Christian centuries as "protomartyr among women" and "equal to the apostles," was a noble young virgin of Iconium in Asia Minor who, hearing Paul the Apostle preach chastity and the Gospel of Christ, abandoned her betrothal and her…

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Sancti

  • Sancte Agapius of Novara (ob. 440)

    Saint Agapius of Novara, known in Italy as Sant'Agabio, was the disciple of Saint Gaudentius and the second bishop of Novara, governing that Church from about the year 417 until his death on 10 September 440. Chosen by Gaudentius himself as his successor, he buried his master…

  • Sancte Ambrose Barlow (ob. 1641)

    Saint Ambrose Edward Barlow, O.S.B. (1585–10 September 1641), was an English Benedictine priest who for twenty-four years served the hidden Catholics of south Lancashire, celebrating Mass, preaching and feeding the poor at the risk of his life. Renowned for a gentleness and wit…

  • Sancte Aubert of Avranches (ob. 725)

    Saint Aubert (c. 660–725), bishop of Avranches in Normandy, is venerated as the founder of the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. Born of the noble family of the lords of Genêts, he gave away his inheritance to the poor, was elected bishop by acclamation in 704 for his wisdom and…

  • Sancte Finnian of Moville (ob. 589)

    Saint Finnian of Moville (c. 495–589), also called Uinniau, Winnin, or Finbarr "the white head," was an Irish monk, missionary, abbot, and reputed bishop who founded the great monastery of Movilla in County Down. Trained at Nendrum, at Candida Casa in Whithorn, and in Rome, he…

  • Sancte Leo I (ob. 461)

    Saint Leo the Great (c. 390–10 November 461), a Roman of Tuscan family, served as Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 until his death, and is the first pope to whom the Church gave the title "the Great." A tireless shepherd amid famine, heresy and barbarian invasion, he…

  • Sancte Mary le confesseur (ob. incertum)

    Saint Mary of Mauriac, called in Latin Marius and honoured as "Mary the Confessor," is the hermit-evangelist of the Haute-Auvergne, remembered for a life hidden in a cave near Mont Journal from which the light of his holiness drew a still half-pagan countryside to Christ.…

  • Sancte Nemesius of Alexandria (ob. incertum)

    Saint Nemesius of Alexandria was an Egyptian martyr who died about the middle of the third century, during the persecution unleashed under the emperor Decius (249–251). Falsely accused first as a thief and then denounced as a Christian, he was tortured twice and burned alive…

  • Sancte Otger (ob. 1686)

    Saint Otger (Otgerus, Odgerus) was an eighth-century deacon from Northumbria in England who left his homeland to preach Christ in the lands of the Rhine, Waal and Maas, laboring as the faithful companion of the holy bishops Wiro and Plechelm. Around 706, on land given by Pepin…

  • Sancte Pavle Morchil (ob. 1301)

    Pavle Morchil is venerated as a saint whose memory has been carried forward chiefly in his name and the long span of his years, given in the records as 1201 to 1301. The sources presently available preserve no narrative of his birth, labors, or death, so his Life is written in…

  • Sancte Pedro de Mezonzo (ob. 1003)

    Saint Pedro de Mezonzo (c. 930–1003), also called Pedro Martínez Exióniz, was a Galician monk, abbot of Sobrado and of San Pelayo de Antealtares, and bishop of Iria Flavia–Santiago de Compostela. Shepherd of his people through the terror of Viking raids and the devastation of…

  • Sancte Richard of Saint Ann (ob. 1622)

    Blessed Richard of Saint Ann (Lambert Trouvez, 1585–1622) was a Walloon Franciscan Recollect priest and missionary, born at Beignée in Ham-sur-Heure in the Principality of Liège. A tailor's apprentice who traded needle and thread for the habit of Saint Francis, he crossed…

  • Sancte Salvius (ob. 584)

    Saint Salvius (died 10 September 584), also called Salvi, Sauve or Saint-Salvy, was bishop of Albi in Gaul from about 574 until his death. A trained lawyer and magistrate of a great Gallo-Roman family, he abandoned the world for the monastery, was chosen abbot, lived as a…

  • Sancte Sofia of Sicily (ob. 221)

    Saint Sofia of Sicily (Byzantium, 192/193 – Pantalica, 18 September 221) was a virgin and martyr who fled her pagan father's house for the sake of Christ, lived as a hermit in the rocky caves of Pantalica near Syracuse, and was beheaded at the age of twenty-nine after…

  • Sancte Sosthenes of Chalcedon (ob. 400)

    Saint Sosthenes of Chalcedon was a soldier of the imperial army in Bithynia who, ordered to take part in the execution of the virgin martyr Saint Euphemia, refused to raise his hand against her and confessed the Christ whose power he had seen in her constancy. Arrested and…

  • Sancte Sébastien Kimura (ob. 1622)

    Blessed Sebastian Kimura (1565–10 September 1622) was born at Hirado, grandson of Anthony Kimura, the first Japanese baptized by Saint Francis Xavier, and became the first Japanese to be ordained a Catholic priest, at Nagasaki on 21 September 1601. A Jesuit of tireless zeal, he…

  • Sancte Theodard of Maastricht (ob. 670)

    Saint Theodard of Maastricht (c. 613/618 – 10 September, c. 670) was a disciple of Saint Remaclus, abbot of the double monastery of Stavelot-Malmedy, and then bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht, remembered by his biographers as a cheerful, tireless shepherd who built and restored…

  • Sancte Victor of Chalcedon (ob. 400)

    Saint Victor of Chalcedon was a soldier who, together with Saint Sosthenes, was assigned to carry out the martyrdom of the young virgin Saint Euphemia at Chalcedon in the fourth century, and who instead was converted by the sight of her fearless faith and gave his own life for…

  • Sancte Émilien of Valence (ob. incertum)

    Saint Émilien (Aemilianus) is the first attested bishop of Valence in Gaul, shepherding that young church in the second half of the fourth century. Named at the head of the diocesan lists in the Gallia Christiana, he took part around 360 in the ordination of Saint Marcellinus…

Beati

  • Beate 205 Martyrs of Japan (ob. 1617)

    The 205 Martyrs of Japan — known in the Church's roll as Blessed Alfonso Navarrete and 204 companions — were priests, religious and lay believers, Japanese, Korean and European, put to death for Christ during the Tokugawa persecutions, chiefly between 1617 and 1632. Among them…

  • Beate Alfons de Mena (ob. 1622)

    Blessed Alfonso (Alfons) de Mena, born at Logroño in Spain in 1568, was a Dominican priest who spent his life carrying the Gospel to the Far East, founding a Confraternity of the Rosary in Japan and strengthening a hunted Church through years of fierce persecution. Arrested in…

  • Venerabilis Bernardo Łubieński (ob. 1933)

    Venerable Bernard Łubieński (1846–1933) was a Polish nobleman's son who became a Redemptorist priest in England and then spent half a century preaching missions, retreats, and hearing confessions across the partitioned lands of Poland, where he was a principal restorer of his…

  • Beate Dominik Castellet Vinale (ob. 1628)

    Blessed Dominic Castellet Vinale (1592–1628), born Francisco Castellet Vinale at Esparreguera in Catalonia, was a Dominican friar who left Spain as a young priest for the missions of the Far East, labouring in the Philippines before slipping into Japan during the fiercest years…

  • Beate Francisco Gárate (ob. 1929)

    Blessed Francisco Gárate Aranguren (3 February 1857 – 9 September 1929) was a Basque Jesuit brother, born a stone's throw from the house of Saint Ignatius at Loyola, who spent forty-one years as porter and sacristan at the University of Deusto in Bilbao. Nicknamed "Brother…

  • Beate Inès Takeya (ob. 1622)

    Blessed Inès Takeya (also called Agnes Takeya, イネス竹屋, c. 1580/1587–1622) was a Korean-born laywoman of Nagasaki, carried off to Japan as a slave during the invasions of Korea, who there received the faith of Christ and became a member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. With…

  • Beate Jacques Gagnot (ob. 1794)

    Blessed Jacques Gagnot, known in religion as Father Hubert of Saint Claude, was born at Frolois in Lorraine on 9 February 1753 and became a priest of the Discalced Carmelites in the house at Nancy. Refusing the oath demanded by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, he was…

  • Beate Jan Martínez Cid (ob. 1619)

    Blessed Jan (Juan) Martínez Cid, known in religion as John of Saint Dominic, was a Spanish Dominican priest and missionary, born about 1577 at Manzanal de los Infantes and dead in a Japanese prison on 19 March 1619. Having studied at Salamanca and professed among the Friars…

  • Beate Józef Negro Maroto (ob. 1622)

    Blessed Joseph of Saint Hyacinth Negro Maroto (born 11 March 1580 at Villarejo de Salvanés in Spain; died 10 September 1622 on the hill of Nishizaka at Nagasaki) was a Spanish Dominican priest who volunteered for the missions of the Far East and spent his life preaching the…

  • Beate Ludwik Exarch (ob. 1627)

    Blessed Louis Bertrand Exarch (1596–1627) was a Catalan Dominican priest who left Barcelona for the missions of the Far East, laboring first in the Philippines and then in the hidden Church of persecuted Japan. Arrested at Nagasaki in 1626, he spent a full year in prison and…

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