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Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
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St.
Abbo of Fleury
November
13 |
59 |
Abbot;
Settled disputes, known for scholarly work |
|
St.
Abraham
March
16
|
50 |
Hermit;
Prayers, penance, conversions |
|
St. Abraham of Kratia
December
6 |
84 |
Bishop
& Hermit |
|
St. Acca October
20 |
82 |
Bishop;
Scholar |
|
St.
Acepsimas
March
14
|
80 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Great courage |
|
St.
Adalard (Adelard)
January
2
|
73 |
Abbot
& Confessor; Humility, virtue |
|
St.
Adamnan
September
23 |
80 |
Abbot;
Worked to promote Roman practices in monasteries, piety, written
works |
|
St.
Adelaide
December
16 |
68 |
Founded
& restored monasteries, worked for the conversion of Slavs |
|
St.
Aelred
February
3
|
57 |
Abbot;
Prayer, humility, fidelity |
|
St.
Agilus (Aile)
August
30
|
66 |
Abbot;
Fervor, humility, penance |
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St. Agnes of Assisi
November
16 |
56 |
Abbess;
Sister of St. Clare of Assisi, miracles |
|
St.
Agnes of Bohemia
March
6 |
77 |
Princess;
Built a hospital, set up clinics and a friary and convent, entered
religious life |
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St. Agobard
June
6 |
71 |
Bishop
& Theologian; Holiness, charity |
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St.
Agricola
March
17 |
83 |
Bishop;
Austerities, beatified churches |
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St.
Agricolus
September
2 |
70 |
Bishop;
Preaching, assistance to the poor and sick |
|
St.
Alban Bartholomew Roe
October
25 |
59 |
Monk
& Martyr; Convert, imprisoned for many years |
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St.
Albert
April
7
|
80 |
Recluse;
Prayer, penance |
|
St.
Albert of Jerusalem
September
25 |
65 |
Bishop;
Mediated disputes, drafted first rule of the Carmelites |
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St.
Albert the Great
November
15 |
74 |
Bishop,
Teacher & Doctor of the Church; Learning, taught and
befriended St. Thomas Aquinas, personal theologian to the Pope |
|
St.
Albeus
September
12
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Charity, conversions, miracles, founded a monastery |
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St. Aldebrandus
May
1 |
100 |
Bishop;
Preaching |
|
St.
Aldegundis
January
30 |
54 |
Hermitess;
Founded a convent |
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St. Aldericus
October
10 |
61 |
Bishop;
Scholar |
|
St.
Aldhelm
May
25 |
70 |
Abbot
& Bishop; Spirituality, scholarship, founded monasteries,
writings |
|
St.
Aldric
January
7 |
56 |
Bishop;
Built monasteries and churches, assisted the poor |
|
St.
Alexander
February
26 |
78 |
Bishop;
Opposed Arianism, excommunicated Arius |
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St.
Alexander
August
28 |
96 |
Patriarch;
Wisdom, holiness, opposed Arianism |
|
St.
Alexander Sauli
October
11 |
58 |
Bishop;
Preaching, reforms, miracles. Was spiritual advisor to St. Charles
Borromeo and the future Pope Gregory XIV |
|
St.
Alexis Falconieri
February
17 |
110 |
Hermit;
Marian visions, helped found the Servites |
|
St.
Alferius
April
12 |
120 |
Monk
& Hermit; Attempted reform of monasteries |
|
St.
Alipius
August
18
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Integrity, preaching, writing |
|
St.
Alphege
April
19 |
58 |
Monk
& Hermit; Attempted reform of monasteries |
|
St.
Alphonsus Liguori
August
1 |
90 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Founder of the Redemptorists, heroic
virtue |
|
St.
Alphonsus Rodriguez
October
31 |
84 |
Became
a lay brother after the death of his wife and son. Known for
holiness. Was devoted to the Immaculate Conception |
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St.
Altman
August
8 |
71 |
Bishop
& Abbot; Assisted the poor ("eliminated poverty"),
austerities |
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St.
Amand
February
6
|
95 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Bravery, preaching, raising a dead man to life,
built churches, found monasteries |
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St.
Ambrose
December
7
|
57 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Defender of the Faith; miracles,
writings
|
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St.
Ambrose Barlow
September
11 |
56 |
Convert,
Priest & Martyr |
|
St.
Amicus
November
3 |
120 |
Hermit
& Monk |
|
St.
Ammon (Amun)
October
4
|
62 |
Hermit;
Great austerity, many miracles |
|
St.
Amphilochius
November
23
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Defender of the faith
|
|
St.
Anastasius
October
16 |
65 |
Monk
& Hermit |
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St.
Andrew Avellino
November
10
|
87 |
Confessor;
Heroic virtues, prophecy, miracles, founded convents |
|
St.
Andrew Bobola
May
16 |
66 |
Martyr;
Missionary activity |
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St.
Andrew Corsini
February
4
|
71 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Austerities, care for the poor, miracles |
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St.
Andrew Dotti
September
4 |
65 |
Hermit;
Missionary work, prayer, penance, visions |
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St.
Andrew of Crete
July
4 |
80 |
Archbishop;
Preaching, music |
|
St.
Angadrisma
October
14 |
80 |
Abbess;
Holiness, miracles |
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St.
Angela Merici
January
27 |
70 |
Founded
congregation for the religious education of girls, austerities,
visions |
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St.
Angilbert
February
18 |
74 |
Abbot;
Established library, began practice of continuous chanting in abbey |
|
St.
Anian (Agnan, Anianus)
November
17
|
95 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Courage |
|
St.
Anna
September
1 |
"old
age" |
Widow
& Prophetess; Told of Jesus' Birth (in her old age) |
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St. Anne
July
26
|
"old
age" |
Mother
of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to tradition, Mary was born
to her aged parents in answer to years of prayer. |
|
St.
Anne (Susanna)
July
23 |
78 |
Hermitess |
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St.
Anno
December
4 |
65 |
Archbishop;
Established and reformed monasteries, assisted the poor |
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St.
Ansegius
July
20 |
63 |
Abbot;
Rehabilitated abbeys |
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St.
Anselm
March
18 |
50 |
Bishop
& Monk; Holiness, learning, fought against lay investiture |
|
St.
Anselm
April
21 |
76 |
Archbishop,
Theologian & Doctor of the Church; Defended the Filioque at
the Council of Bari, writings |
|
St.
Ansgar (Anskar)
February
3 |
64 |
Archbishop
& Monk; Missionary work, preaching, austerity, miracles |
|
St.
Antoninus (Antoninus, "Little Antony")
May
10
|
70 |
Archbishop
& Confessor; Sanctity, penance, writings, charity to the poor |
|
St.
Antony
January
17
|
105 |
Abbot;
Humility, charity, prayer, virtues, visibly assaulted by Satan,
miracles, many conversions, faithfulness from youth to extreme old
age
|
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St.
Antony Cauleas
February
12
|
67 |
Confessor
& Patriarch of Constantinople; Prayer, mortification |
|
St.
Antony Gianelli
June
7 |
57 |
Bishop;
Preaching, founded a religious congregation |
|
St.
Anthony Mary Claret
October
24 |
63 |
Archbishop;
Founder of Claretians, preaching, missionary work |
|
St.
Antony of Lerins
December
28 |
52 |
Monk;
Holiness, miracles |
|
St.
Aper (Eyre)
September
15
|
100 |
Bishop;
Austerity, devotion, miracles |
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St.
Aphraates ("the Persian Sage")
April
7
|
"old
age" |
Anchoret;
Sanctity, miracles
|
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St.
Apollinaris
October
8 |
67 |
Bishop |
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St. Apollo
January
25 |
90 |
Hermit;
Miracles, founded a community of monks at age 80 |
|
St.
Apollonia
February
9
|
"old
age" |
Virgin
& Martyr; Courage
|
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St.
Aquilinus
October
19 |
75 |
Bishop;
Assistance to the poor, miracles |
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St.
Arsenius
July
19
|
95 |
Anchoret;
Austerities, humility, fervor |
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St.
Asterius
October
30
|
"old
age" |
Bishop;
Pastoral service, humility, charity, piety |
|
St.
Athanasius
May
2
|
77 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Defender of the Faith, orthodoxy, virtue |
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St. Athanasius the Athonite
July
5 |
80 |
Abbot |
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St.
Atto
May
22 |
96 |
Bishop |
|
St.
Augustine of Hippo
August
28 |
76
|
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Conversion, writings |
|
St.
Austreberta
February
10 |
74 |
Abbess;
Holiness, humility, miracles |
|
St.
Austregisilus
May
20 |
73 |
Abbot
& Bishop |
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St.
Babolen
June
6
|
"old
age" |
Monk;
Founded many churches & hospitals |
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St.
Baithen
October
6 |
63 |
Abbot;
Writings |
|
St.
Barbatus (Barbas)
February
19
|
70 |
Confessor;
Sanctity |
|
St.
Bardo
June
15 |
71 |
Archbishop
& Abbot; Austerities, assistance to the poor, opposed simony,
supported clerical celibacy |
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St.
Barhadbesciabas
July
15
|
"old
age" |
Deacon
& Martyr; Faithfulness from youth to old age, courage
|
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St.
Basil
January
2 |
50 |
Archbishop
& Doctor of the Church; Fought Arianism, preaching, helped the
sick & poor, fought simony, holiness, writings |
|
St.
Basil the Younger
March
26 |
100 |
Hermit;
Survived attempted martyrdom, miracles, holiness |
|
St.
Basolus (Basle)
November
26 |
65 |
Monk;
Miracles |
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St.
Bede the Venerable
May
27 |
63 |
Monk
& Doctor of the Church; Learning, writings, scholarship |
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St. Benedict Biscop January
12 |
62 |
Abbot;
Founded abbey, mentor of St. Bede the Venerable |
|
St.
Benedict of Aniane
February
11 |
71 |
Directed
and reformed monasteries |
|
St.
Benedict of Nursia
March
21 |
67 |
Abbot;
Holiness, austerities, miracles, founded monasteries |
|
St.
Benedict the Moor
April
4 |
63 |
Holiness,
miracles |
|
St.
Benno of Meissen
June
16 |
96 |
Bishop;
politics |
|
St.
Bernard
January
23 |
64 |
Archbishop
& Abbot; Founded monastery, holiness, discipline |
|
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
August
20 |
63 |
Abbot
& Doctor the Church; Defense of the Faith, devotion to the
Blessed Virgin, learning, purity, mortification, assiduous meditation and prayer,
writings, miracles |
|
St.
Bernard
of
Montjoux
May
28 |
85 |
Established
alpine hospices, assisted distressed travelers accompanied by a
dog |
|
St.
Bernardino of Sienna
May
20 |
63 |
Confessor;
Preaching, humility, miraculous cures |
|
St.
Bernardino Realino
July
2 |
86 |
Rector;
Pastoral work, holiness |
|
St.
Berthold
July
27 |
52 |
Abbot;
Founded hospital, preaching, holiness, austerities, care for the
poor |
|
St.
Bertille
November
5 |
"old
age" |
Abbess;
Fervor, humility, penitential life (even into old age) |
|
St.
Bertin
September
5 |
112 |
Abbot;
"Model of monastic perfection" |
|
St.
Bertrand
June
30 |
70 |
Bishop;
Assisted the poor, founded a monastery |
|
The
Blessed Virgin Mary
(Various) |
Believed
to have lived on earth (before the Assumption) to a "very
advanced age" |
The
Mother of God; Immaculately conceived, sinless, humble, obedient,
perfect model of all virtues [Also see Mary,
Our Mother section]
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St.
Bonaventure
July
14 |
53 |
Doctor
of the Church; Virtue, great intellect, devotion, charity,
virtues, "the greatest light and ornament of the holy order
of St. Francis", called the "Seraphic Doctor" |
|
St.
Boniface I
September
4 |
"old
age" |
Pope; Mildness, character, lover of peace |
|
St.
Boniface
February
19 |
55 |
Bishop |
|
St.
Boniface
June
5 |
74 |
Bishop
& Missionary to Germany |
|
St.
Bonitus (Bonet)
January
15 |
86 |
Bishop
& Confessor
|
|
St.
Botulph
June
17 |
"old
age" |
Abbot;
Founded religious houses & schools of virtue |
|
St.
Brendan the Elder
May
16 |
94 |
Abbot;
Founded schools & monasteries |
|
St.
Bridget of Sweden (Birgit, Bridget, Brigit)
October
8
|
71 |
Widow;
Heroic virtue, piety, austerities, writings |
|
St.
Brieuc
May
1 |
90 |
Bishop
& Confessor
|
|
St.
Brigid (Bridget)
February
1 |
75 |
Abbess;
Charity, compassion, miracles, founded a monastery. Was a friend
of St. Patrick. |
|
St.
Bruno
July
18 |
74 |
Bishop
& Scripture Scholar |
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Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
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St.
Caesarius of Arles
August
27 |
73 |
Bishop;
Fought Arianism, reformed a monastery, preaching, holiness,
charity |
|
St.
Cajetan
August
7 |
67 |
Reforms,
assistance to the poor |
|
St.
Camillus de Lellis
July
18 |
65 |
Confessor;
Conversion, compunction, penance, purity, care for the sick
(credited with being the first to use a red cross as a symbol for caring for the
sick)
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|
St.
Canice (Kenneth)
October
11 |
84 |
Monk;
Preaching, missionary work |
|
St.
Caspar del Bufalo
January
2 |
51 |
Missionary
and charitable works, founded a missionary congregation |
|
St.
Catherine Dei Ricci
February
13 |
68 |
Prioress;
Mystic, prayer, assistance to the poor |
|
St.
Catherine Laboure
November
28 |
70 |
Recipient
of the revelation of the Miraculous Medal |
|
St.
Catherine of Bologna
March
9 |
50 |
Virgin
& Abbess; Zeal for souls, heroic patience, written works |
|
St.
Catherine of Genoa
September
15 |
62 |
Widow;
Service to the sick, austerities |
|
St.
Catherine of Sweden
March
24 |
50 |
Assistance
to religious congregation. Daughter of St. Bridget of Sweden |
|
St.
Ceada (Chad)
March
2 |
"old
age" |
Bishop
and Confessor
|
|
St.
Ceolfrid
September
25 |
74 |
Monk
& Abbot; Strictness, biblical scholarship |
|
St.
Chrodegang of Metz
March
6 |
54 |
Bishop;
Defense of the Papacy, reforms, restored churches &
monasteries, founder of famous choir school |
|
St.
Clare
August
12 |
60 |
Virgin
& Abbess; Escaped from home to enter religious life;
austerities, patient suffering, love of poverty, humility, prayer,
foundress of the Poor Clares |
|
St.
Clodulf (Cloud)
June
8 |
90 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Zeal for the glory of God, love for people,
compassion for the poor |
|
St.
Clotilda
June
3 |
71 |
Assisted
in the conversion of her husband, King Clovis, assistance to the
sick and poor |
|
St.
Colette
March
6 |
67 |
Virgin
& Abbess;
Humility, piety, sweetness, modesty, love of poverty |
|
St.
Colman of Lann Elo
September
26 |
56 |
Bishop
& Abbot; Built a monastery |
|
St.
Colman of Lindisfarne
February
18 |
71 |
Bishop
& Monk; Founded monasteries |
|
St.
Columba
June
9 |
76 |
Preaching,
founded monasteries, evangelization |
|
St.
Columban
November
23 |
72 |
Abbot
and Confessor; Poetry, founded monasteries |
|
St.
Conon
May
29
|
"old
age" |
Martyr;
Courage
|
|
St.
Conrad Birndorfer
April
21 |
76 |
Marian
devotion, charity, prophecy |
|
St.
Corbinian
September
8 |
55 |
Missionary
work |
|
St.
Cumian
November
12 |
75 |
Abbot
& Monk; Learning, founded monastery |
|
St.
Cyprian
September
16 |
58 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Conversion, piety, charity, writings |
|
St. Cyril of Alexandria
February
9 |
68 |
Doctor of the
Church; Defender of the Faith |
|
St.
Cyril of Jerusalem
March
18 |
70 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Pastoral labors, writings |
|
St.
Damasus
December
11 |
80 |
Pope
& Confessor; Humility, compassion for the poor, learning,
constancy in maintaining the purity of the faith, holy life |
|
St.
Daniel the Stylite
December
11 |
84 |
Confessor;
Great austerities, ardor, humility, devotion, prophecies,
spiritual direction, lived on a pillar |
|
St.
David (Dewi)
March
1 |
"old
age" |
Archbishop;
Founded numerous monasteries, spiritual father of many
saints |
|
St.
Deicolus
January
18 |
95 |
Hermit;
Founded a monastery |
|
St.
Demetrius
October
9 |
105 |
Bishop |
|
St.
Deogratias
March
22 |
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Redeemed and cared for captives, regularly visited the sick (even in weak old-age) |
|
St.
Didacus
November
13 |
63 |
Missionary
work, miracles |
|
St.
Dionysius of Alexandria
November
17 |
"old
age" |
Archbishop
& Confessor; Virtues, writings, teaching, surnamed "the
Great" by St. Basil |
|
St.
Dominic
August
8 |
51 |
Confessor
& Founder of the Dominicans; Apostolic labors, propagation of
the Holy Rosary |
|
St.
Dominic (Loricatus)
October
13 |
65 |
Confessor;
Rigorous penance (even in old age) |
|
St.
Dominic of Silos
December
20 |
73 |
Abbot;
Reformed monastery, rescued Christian slaves, miracles |
|
St.
Dominic of Sora
January
22 |
80 |
Monk;
Built monasteries |
|
St.
Dotto
April
9
|
100 |
Abbot;
Founded monastery |
|
St.
Drostan
July
11 |
"old
age" |
Abbot;
Of royal blood, became a recluse in his old age |
|
St.
Druon
April
16 |
84 |
Recluse;
Piety, devotion, assiduous prayer and manual labor |
|
St. Dunstan
May
19 |
78 |
Bishop
& Abbot |
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