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  • Saint Bernat Calbó (d. 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,…

  • Saint Marcian (d. 457)

    Marcian was born about the year 392 in Thrace or Illyria. Tall of stature and marked by a foot impediment, he entered military service young at Philippopolis. His father had been a soldier; Marcian rose in the ranks and, by the time of the Roman war with Persia in 421–422, was…

Blesseds

  • Blessed María de la Purísima de la Cruz (d. 1998)

    María de la Purísima de la Cruz, born María Isabel Salvat Romero in Madrid in 1926, was a Spanish religious sister of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross who served as Superior General from 1977 until her death. She entered the institute in Seville in 1944, made perpetual…

  • Blessed Recaredo Centelles Abad (d. 1936)

    Blessed Recaredo Centelles Abad (1904–1936) was a Spanish priest of the Brotherhood of Diocesan Worker Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a doctor of theology, and rector of the Minor Seminary of Saint Joseph in Tortosa, devoted to forming future priests in the spirit of…

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  • Saint 'Abd Al-Malāk (d. 1808)

    'Abd Al-Malāk is attested in sparse catalog and Wikidata notices as a monk and saint, with the years 1728 and 1808 given for birth and death. No Causes of Saints biography, Butler notice, or other reliable Catholic hagiography in the research establishes his family, place,…

  • Saint Aimo of Toul (d. uncertain)

    Saint Aimo (Amon) of Toul, second bishop of that see after Saint Mansuy, flourished from about 375 and is venerated by the Catholic Church. He lived a penitential life of prayer and retreat, and tradition links him with wonders of divine protection and with the baptism of…

  • Saint Alban Roe (d. 1642)

    Saint Alban Roe (born Bartholomew Roe, 20 July 1583 – 21 January 1642) was an English Benedictine priest martyred at Tyburn for ministering to Catholics under penal laws. Converted after failing to win a Catholic prisoner to Protestantism, he served with cheerfulness and…

  • Saint Angilram of Metz (d. 791)

    Saint Angilram (also Enguerrand) of Metz was a Frankish bishop, royal archchaplain to Charlemagne, and a gentle servant of God who died in October 791 while accompanying the king on campaign. Of noble Austrasian stock and once a monk of Saint-Avold, he governed the see of Metz…

  • Saint Canna (d. 501)

    Saint Canna was a sixth-century Welsh mother of saints who later became a nun in south Wales. Tradition links her to royal Breton and Cornish lineage, marriage to Sadwrn, kinship with Saint Illtud, and the founding of churches with Saint Cadfan. Two Welsh churches bear her…

  • Saint Dorcas (d. 100)

    Saint Dorcas, also called Tabitha, was an early disciple of Jesus in the port city of Joppa, renowned for good works and acts of mercy, especially sewing clothes for the poor and widows. When she died, the grieving widows showed the Apostle Peter the garments she had made; he…

  • Saint Doulchard (d. uncertain)

    Saint Doulchard (also Dulcard, Dulcardus, Ouchard) was a medieval hermit monk whose memory shaped the parish and commune of Saint-Doulchard near Bourges in Berry. Around his relics a Christian community grew in the spirit of Saint Ursin, evangelizer of the region; the parish…

  • Saint Engratia of Segovia (d. 715)

    Saint Engratia of Segovia (c. 642–715) was a Hispano-Visigothic hermit and virgin martyr who, with her brothers Saints Frutos and Valentín, renounced wealth for a life of solitude, penance, and prayer in the Duratón gorges. Tradition holds that she was beheaded by Saracen…

  • Saint Fronto of Périgueux (d. 100)

    Saint Fronto of Périgueux (Saint Front), legendary first bishop of Périgueux, is venerated as the evangelizer of the Périgord. Tradition links him to the apostolic age and to Saint Peter, who sent him as a missionary priest and bishop into Gaul. He is remembered for founding…

  • Saint Gaudentius of Brescia (d. 410)

    Saint Gaudentius of Brescia (c. 327–410), disciple of Saint Philastrius and friend of Saint Ambrose, was chosen bishop of Brescia against his will while on pilgrimage. A learned preacher fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, he brought sacred relics from the East, founded the…

  • Saint Gavinus (d. 303)

    Saint Gavinus (San Gavino), a Roman soldier of the early fourth century, is one of the celebrated Martyrs of Torres in Sardinia, put to death for Christ with Bishop Protus and Deacon Januarius under the Diocletianic persecution. Tradition holds that he was beheaded at Porto…

  • Saint Goeznovius (d. 675)

    Saint Goeznovius (also Goueznou, Gouesnou, Guennou), a Cornish-born bishop of Léon in Brittany, fled the Anglo-Saxon invasions with his family and helped establish Brittonic Christian settlement in Armorica. Tradition holds that he marked out monastic land by a miraculous…

  • Saint Ilario di Javols (d. 600)

    Saint Ilère (Ilario di Javols, also called Hilaire de Mende or Saint Chély) was a sixth-century bishop of the Gévaudan who lived as a hermit near Mende, founded monastic life in the Tarn gorges, and labored to uproot pagan customs. He took part in the Council of Clermont in…

  • Saint Loup de Bayeux (d. 461)

    Saint Loup de Bayeux (Lupus Baiocensis), also known as Saint Leu, was an early bishop of Bayeux in Normandy who shepherded the Church from about 440 to 470. Born a pagan in Bayeux, he was converted and raised to the diaconate by Bishop Rufinien, then elected and consecrated…

  • Saint Minias of Florence (d. 250)

    Saint Minias of Florence (also Miniatus or San Miniato), died about 250, is venerated as the first Christian martyr of Florence and the protomartyr of the city. Tradition presents him as an Eastern noble or soldier who became a hermit near Florence, refused to sacrifice to the…

  • Saint Fructus (d. 715)

    Saint Fructus (San Frutos), a Castilian hermit of Visigothic Segovia, sold his inheritance for the poor and withdrew with his siblings Valentine and Engratia to caves above the Duratón gorges. Tradition honors his miracles of protection, charity, and Eucharistic faith, and his…

  • Saint Tegulus (d. 300)

    Saint Tegulus (San Tegulo, Tegolo) is venerated at Ivrea as a martyr of the legendary Theban Legion under Saint Maurice in the third century. Local tradition holds that he survived the legion's decimation yet was later beheaded for Christ on the road to Montaldo Dora. His…

  • Saint Valentine of Segovia (d. uncertain)

    Saint Valentine of Segovia (San Valentín, Valentín de Segovia, also called Saint Velentine) was a Hispano-Visigothic hermit and martyr of the early eighth century, remembered as the brother of Saint Frutos of Segovia. Born about the year 700, tradition holds that he withdrew…

Blesseds

  • Blessed Catherine of Bosnia (d. 1478)

    Blessed Catherine of Bosnia (Katarina Kosača-Kotromanić, c. 1424/1425–25 October 1478) was Queen of Bosnia, a zealous convert to Roman Catholicism, and a Franciscan tertiary who spent her widowhood in exile striving for the faith and the return of her captive children. Born…

  • Blessed Maria Teresa Ferragut Roig (d. 1936)

    Blessed María Teresa Ferragut Roig (1853–1936) was a Spanish Catholic laywoman, wife, and mother whose faith formed a household of religious vocations. During the anti-clerical violence of the Spanish Civil War she sheltered her consecrated daughters, refused to abandon them,…

  • Blessed Maria Vicenta Masia Ferragut (d. 1936)

    Blessed Maria Vicenta Masia Ferragut (1882–1936) was a Spanish Poor Clare who, with her mother and three religious sisters, gave her life for the Catholic faith during the persecution of the Spanish Civil War. Born into a large Christian family, she embraced the cloistered…

  • Blessed María Felicidad Masiá Ferragut (d. 1936)

    Blessed María Felicidad Masiá Ferragut (1890–1936) was a Spanish religious sister from Algemesí in the Valencia region who consecrated her life to God in the cloister and shared that vocation with her sisters. Arrested with her mother, María Teresa Ferragut Roig, and her…

  • Blessed Maurus of Pécs (d. 1070)

    Blessed Maurus of Pécs (Mór), born around the year 1000 in the Kingdom of Hungary, was the first known native-born prelate of that realm. A Benedictine monk and abbot of Pannonhalma, he became bishop of Pécs in 1036 and served until his death about 1070. Renowned for chastity,…

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