|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Agricolus
September
2 |
70 |
Bishop;
Preaching, assistance to the poor and sick |
|
St.
Aldhelm
May
25 |
70 |
Abbot
& Bishop; Spirituality, scholarship, founded monasteries,
writings |
|
St.
Angela Merici
January
27 |
70 |
Founded
congregation for the religious education of girls, austerities,
visions |
|
St.
Antoninus (Antoninus, "Little Antony")
May
10
|
70 |
Archbishop
& Confessor; Sanctity, penance, writings, charity to the poor |
|
St.
Barbatus (Barbas)
February
19
|
70 |
Confessor;
Sanctity |
|
St.
Bertrand
June
30 |
70 |
Bishop;
Assisted the poor, founded a monastery |
|
St.
Catherine Laboure
November
28 |
70 |
Recipient
of the revelation of the Miraculous Medal |
|
St.
Cyril of Jerusalem
March
18 |
70 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Pastoral labors, writings |
|
St.
Eligius (Eloi)
December
1 |
70 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Generosity, virtue, wisdom, poverty, prayer |
|
St.
Eustathius
July
16 |
70 |
Bishop;
Writings, orthodoxy, opposed Arianism |
|
St.
Felix
July
7 |
70 |
Bishop;
Learning, virtue, eloquence |
|
St.
Germanus of Auxerre
July
31 |
70 |
Bishop;
Poverty, austerities, fought against Pelagianism, founded schools |
|
St. Gildas
January
29 |
70 |
Bishop
& Hermit; Writing, wisdom |
|
St.
Guibert
May
23 |
70 |
Hermit;
Founded a monastery, missionary work |
|
St.
John of Avila
May
10 |
70 |
Missionary
work, preaching, condemnation of evil, assistance to the poor. Was
spiritual adviser to St. Teresa of Avila and other saints. |
|
St.
Joseph of Palestine
(Count
Joseph)
July
22 |
70 |
Conversion,
zeal, built churches |
|
St.
Juliana Falconieri
June
19 |
70 |
Virgin;
Mortification, charity |
|
St.
Lambert of Maestricht
September
17 |
70 |
Bishop;
Pastoral work, evangelization of pagans |
|
St.
Marie Marguerite D'Youville
December
23 |
70 |
Care
of the poor, charitable works |
|
St. Maxentius
(Maixent)
June
26 |
70 |
Abbot;
Miracles |
|
St. Nicholas Studites
February
4 |
70 |
Monk;
Defense of holy images |
|
St.
Nicholas Von Flue
March
22 |
70 |
Holiness,
wisdom. Lived on the Holy Eucharist for years. |
|
St.
Pambo of Nitria
July
18
|
70 |
Abbot;
Wisdom, austerities |
|
St.
Poppo
January
25
|
70 |
Abbot;
Virtues, restorer of monastic discipline |
|
St. Agobard
June
6 |
71 |
Bishop
& Theologian; Holiness, charity |
|
St.
Altman
August
8 |
71 |
Bishop
& Abbot; Assisted the poor ("eliminated poverty"),
austerities |
|
St.
Andrew Corsini
February
4
|
71 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Austerities, care for the poor, miracles |
|
St.
Bardo
June
15 |
71 |
Archbishop
& Abbot; Austerities, assistance to the poor, opposed simony,
supported clerical celibacy |
|
St.
Benedict of Aniane
February
11 |
71 |
Directed
and reformed monasteries |
|
St.
Bridget of Sweden (Birgit, Bridget, Brigit)
October
8
|
71 |
Widow;
Heroic virtue, piety, austerities, writings |
|
St.
Clotilda
June
3 |
71 |
Assisted
in the conversion of her husband, King Clovis, assistance to the
sick and poor |
|
St.
Colman of Lindisfarne
February
18 |
71 |
Bishop
& Monk; Founded monasteries |
|
St.
John Capistrano
October
23
|
71 |
Confessor;
Defense of Christendom, sanctity, many miracles |
|
St.
Mark of Montegallo
March
20 |
71 |
Preacher,
missionary work, mortification |
|
St.
Nicephorus
March
13
|
71 |
Patriarch
of Constantinople & Confessor; Intellect, eloquence, defense
of holy images, founded monastery |
|
St.
Columban
November
23 |
72 |
Abbot
and Confessor; Poetry, founded monasteries |
|
St. Euphrasia Pelletier
April
24 |
72 |
Founded convent |
|
St.
Felix of Cantalicio
May
18 |
72 |
Confessor;
Purity, great austerities |
|
St.
Francis Xavier Bianchi
January
31 |
72 |
Miracles,
prophecy |
|
St.
Gregory Barbarigo
June
17 |
72 |
Cardinal;
Charities, learning, worked to end schism of the Greeks |
|
St.
Hyacinth
August
17 |
72 |
Confessor;
Preaching, called "The apostle of the north" |
|
St.
Mauront
May
5
|
72 |
Abbot;
Founder of abbey
|
|
St.
Patrick
March
17
|
72
[76] |
Bishop
& Confessor; "Converted Ireland" |
|
St.
Peter Paschal
December
6
|
72 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Preaching, intelligence, found
convents, sought to ransom captives |
|
St.
Adalard (Adelard)
January
2
|
73 |
Abbot
& Confessor; Humility, virtue |
|
St.
Austregisilus
May
20 |
73 |
Abbot
& Bishop |
|
St.
Caesarius of Arles
August
27 |
73 |
Bishop;
Fought Arianism, reformed a monastery, preaching, holiness,
charity |
|
St.
Dominic of Silos
December
20 |
73 |
Abbot;
Reformed monastery, rescued Christian slaves, miracles |
|
St.
Froilan
October
3 |
73 |
Bishop
& Hermit; Founded monasteries |
|
St. Gregory of Utrecht
August
25 |
73 |
Abbot;
Forgiveness |
|
St. John Baptist Vianney (Cure of
Ars)
August
4 |
73 |
Pastoral zeal |
|
St. John Bosco
January
31 |
73 |
Founder of the Salesians, care of boys |
|
St.
Liphardus
June
3 |
73 |
Hermit
& Abbot; Founded monastery |
|
St. Matilda
March
14 |
73 |
Queen;
Charity |
|
St.
Peter of Savoy
May
8
|
73 |
Archbishop;
Many miracles |
|
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.
Angilbert
February
18 |
74 |
Abbot;
Established library, began practice of continuous chanting in abbey |
|
St.
Austreberta
February
10 |
74 |
Abbess;
Holiness, humility, miracles |
|
St.
Boniface
June
5 |
74 |
Bishop
& Missionary to Germany |
|
St.
Bruno
July
18 |
74 |
Bishop
& Scripture Scholar |
|
St.
Ceolfrid
September
25 |
74 |
Monk
& Abbot; Strictness, biblical scholarship |
|
St. Francis Jerome (Francis de
Geronimo)
May
11 |
74 |
Preaching |
|
St. John Damascene
December
4 |
74 |
Doctor of the
Church, Father of the Church; Writings |
|
St. Joseph Pignatelli
November
11 |
74 |
Confessor;
Holiness, "restorer of the Jesuits" |
|
St.
Juan Diego
December
9 |
74 |
Humble
visionary of Our Lady of Guadalupe |
|
St. Lambert Peloquin
May
26 |
74 |
Bishop;
Miracles, learning |
|
St.
Laurence Justinian
September
5 |
74 |
Confessor
& Patriarch of Venice; Virtues, great poverty, courage |
|
St.
Ouen
August
24 |
74 |
Archbishop;
Austerities, support of missionary work, charity |
|
St. Peter Claver
September
9 |
74 |
"Apostle of the Negroes", assistance to slaves |
|
St.
Rictrudes
May
12
|
74 |
Abbess;
Mother
of saints, founded an abbey of monks and a nunnery |
|
St.
Aquilinus
October
19 |
75 |
Bishop;
Assistance to the poor, miracles |
|
St.
Brigid (Bridget)
February
1 |
75 |
Abbess;
Charity, compassion, miracles, founded a monastery. Was a friend
of St. Patrick. |
|
St.
Cumian
November
12 |
75 |
Abbot
& Monk; Learning, founded monastery |
|
St. Ivo of Chartres
May
23 |
75 |
Bishop,
teacher |
|
St.
Leonard of Port Maurice
November
27
|
75 |
Preaching,
writings,
successful missionary labors, mortifications, conversions,
promoted devotions, erected many Stations of the Cross |
|
St.
Omer
September
9
|
75 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Piety,
assiduous prayer, devotion, care for the sick and poor, miracles,
continued pastoral concern even in blindness (was blind some years
before death) |
|
St.
Simeon Stylites the Younger
September
3 |
75 |
Known
for holiness, preaching, wisdom, miracles. Lived on pillars |
|
St.
Anselm
April
21 |
76 |
Archbishop,
Theologian & Doctor of the Church; Defended the Filioque at
the Council of Bari, writings |
|
St.
Augustine of Hippo
August
28 |
76
|
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Conversion, writings |
|
St.
Columba
June
9 |
76 |
Preaching,
founded monasteries, evangelization |
|
St.
Conrad Birndorfer
April
21 |
76 |
Marian
devotion, charity, prophecy |
|
St.
Ethelwold
August
1 |
76 |
Bishop
& Monk; Restoration of monasticism |
|
St. Galdinus April
18 |
76 |
Cardinal;
Rebuilt Milan |
|
St.
Gaspar Bertoni
June
12 |
76 |
Founded
religious congregation, assisted the sick |
|
St.
Godehard
May
4 |
76 |
Bishop
& Abbot; Reform of monasteries, built churches and schools,
assisted the sick & poor |
|
St.
Isidore of Seville
April
4 |
76 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Learning, founded seminaries and
schools, conversion, writings |
|
St. Maria Francesca Gallo
October
6 |
76 |
Prophecy, mystic,
stigmata |
|
St. Peter Canisius
(Kanis)
December
21 |
76 |
Doctor of the
Church; Preaching, defense of the Faith, writings |
|
St.
Rita of Cascia
May
22 |
76 |
Became
a religious after her husband's death. Known for prayers,
austerities, penances, visions. Had a miraculous thorn wound on
her forehead |
|
St.
Agnes of Bohemia
March
6 |
77 |
Princess;
Built a hospital, set up clinics and a friary and convent, entered
religious life |
|
St.
Athanasius
May
2
|
77 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Defender of the Faith, orthodoxy, virtue |
|
St.
Fulbert
April
10 |
77 |
Bishop;
Rebuilt cathedral, fought simony, directed cathedral school |
|
St. Ignatius Delgado
July
12 |
77 |
Bishop
& Martyr |
|
St.
Ollegarius
March
6 |
77 |
Archbishop;
Preached a crusade, assisted the sick |
|
St. Otto of Bamberg
July
2 |
77 |
Bishop;
Conversions |
|
St. Paulinus of Nola
June
22 |
77 |
Bishop;
Care of the poor and sick, writings |
|
St.
Peter of Chavanon
September
11 |
77 |
Priest;
Built monastery, reformed cathedral chapters |
|
St.
Philibert
August
20 |
77 |
Abbot
& Monk; Founded religious houses |
|
St.
Romuald
June
19
|
77 |
Abbot
and Confessor; Prayer,
austerities, miraculous cures, built and reformed monasteries |
|
St.
Victricius
August
7 |
77 |
Bishop;
Missionary work |
|
St.
Alexander
February
26 |
78 |
Bishop;
Opposed Arianism, excommunicated Arius |
|
St.
Anne (Susanna)
July
23 |
78 |
Hermitess |
|
St. Dunstan
May
19 |
78 |
Bishop
& Abbot |
|
St.
Genevieve
January
3
|
78 |
Virgin:
Prayer, mortification |
|
St.
Irenaeus of Lyons
June
28 |
78 |
Bishop
& Theologian; Written works, opposed heresy |
|
St.
John Gualbert
July
12 |
78 |
Abbot;
Forgiveness, founded a monastery, virtues, compassion, humility,
charity, prophecies, cures, austerities |
|
St.
Paulinus
January
28 |
78 |
Priest;
Preaching, supported missionary work, opposed heresy |
|
St.
Stephen of Grandmont (Muret)
February
8
|
78 |
Abbot;
Austerities, contemplation, miracles, |
|
St.
Eugene de Mazenod
May
21 |
79 |
Bishop;
Founder of religious congregation, pastoral work |
|
St. Finian of Clonard December
12 |
79 |
Teacher;
Built schools, churches, monasteries |
|
St. Honoratus
January
16 |
79 |
Bishop;
Founded abbey |
|
St.
Hugh
April
1 |
79 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Love of heavenly things; penitential works,
preaching
|
|
St.
Jerome
September
30 |
79 |
Priest
& Doctor of the Church; Biblical scholar, learning,
translation of Holy Scripture, writings, defense of the Faith |
|
St. John de Ribera
January
6 |
79 |
Bishop;
Served for more than forty years |
|
St. John Eudes
August
19 |
79 |
Sacred Heart devotion, founding of seminaries |
|
St.
Nicetas of Remesiana
June
22 |
79 |
Bishop;
Missionary work, writings |
|
St.
Pius X
September
3
|
79 |
Pope; Champion against Modernism, "pastoral genius",
protection of the faith, commitment to orthodoxy, encouraged
frequent Communion, faithfulness to tradition, love of
poverty |
|
St. Robert Bellarmine
September
17 |
79 |
Doctor of the
Church; Theologian, defender of the Faith |
|
St.
Vincent Strambi
September
25 |
79 |
Bishop;
Assisted his flock, reforms, advised Pope Leo XII |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Acepsimas
March
14
|
80 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Great courage |
|
St.
Adamnan
September
23 |
80 |
Abbot;
Worked to promote Roman practices in monasteries, piety, written
works |
|
St.
Albert
April
7
|
80 |
Recluse;
Prayer, penance |
|
St.
Andrew of Crete
July
4 |
80 |
Archbishop;
Preaching, music |
|
St.
Angadrisma
October
14 |
80 |
Abbess;
Holiness, miracles |
|
St. Athanasius the Athonite
July
5 |
80 |
Abbot |
|
St.
Damasus
December
11 |
80 |
Pope
& Confessor; Humility, compassion for the poor, learning,
constancy in maintaining the purity of the faith, holy life |
|
St.
Dominic of Sora
January
22 |
80 |
Monk;
Built monasteries |
|
St. Eberhard
June
22 |
80 |
Archbishop;
Peacemaker |
|
St.
Ebrulf (Evroult)
December
29 |
80 |
Abbot
& Confessor; Constancy in labor, patience in adversity,
perfect resignation to the will of God, severe penance, built a
monastery |
|
St.
Faro
October
28 |
80 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Virtues, zealous labor for the salvation of souls |
|
St. Gaucherius
(Gaucher)
April
9 |
80 |
Hermit;
Founded monastery |
|
St.
Germanus of Paris
May
28 |
80 |
Bishop;
Great charity to the poor, labor for the conversion of sinners,
miracles, prophecy, zeal, penitential life that continued
even into his old age |
|
St.
Germerius
May
16 |
80 |
Founded
churches and a monastery, assisted the poor |
|
St.
Helen (Helena)
August
18 |
80
|
Empress;
Mother of Constantine, perfect conversion (in her old age), found
the Holy Cross (in her old age), charity to the poor, adornment of
churches, humility, devotion, piety
|
|
St.
Hilarion
October
21 |
80 |
Abbot;
Austerities (which were redoubled in his old age) |
|
St.
Ignatius of Constantinople
October
23 |
80 |
Patriarch
& Confessor; Pastoral zeal |
|
St.
John Climacus
March
30 |
80 |
Abbot;
Writings, virtues |
|
St.
John Joseph Calosirto of the Cross
March
5 |
80 |
Confessor;
Holiness austerities, miracles, supernatural gifts |
|
St.
Malrubius
April
21
|
80 |
Martyr;
Austerities |
|
St. Marguerite Bourgeoys
January
19 |
80 |
Founder of religious houses |
|
St.
Maximus the
Confessor
August
13
|
80 |
Abbot;
Defender
of faith, virtue |
|
St.
Narses
November
20
|
80 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Fidelity from youth
|
|
St.
Peter of Pisa
June
17
|
80 |
Founder
of the Hermits of St. Jerome, virtues, prayer, austerities,
miracles |
|
St.
Philip Neri
May
26
|
80 |
Confessor;
Conversion, charity, prayer, penance, zeal, learning, spiritual
advisor, "Apostle of Rome", enlarged heart after a
vision (verified after death), founder of the Orations |
|
St. Samson
July
28 |
80 |
Bishop
& Missionary; Founded monasteries |
|
St.
Teresa Couderc
September
26 |
80 |
Assistance
to the sick, retreats |
|
St.
Ulric of Augsberg
July
4
|
80 |
Bishop;
Pastoral labors, almsgiving, first saint officially canonized by
the pope
|
|
St.
Valerian
December
15 |
80 |
Bishop
& Martyr |
|
St.
Vincent de Paul
September
27
|
80
|
Founder
of the Lazarites and Sisters of Charity; Charitable works, zealous
preaching, service to others, humility, prayer |
|
St.
Vindician
March
11 |
80 |
Bishop;
Encouraged conversions, supported the founding of monasteries,
reproved the King |
|
St.
Zenobius
May
25 |
80 |
Bishop;
Holiness, miracles. Aided Pope St. Damasus and was a friend of St.
Ambrose |
|
St.
Martin of Tours
November
11
|
81
|
Bishop
& Confessor; "The
glory of Gaul and the light of the western church in the fourth
age", compassion, charity |
|
St.
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (Pius)
September
23
|
81
|
Priest;
Holiness, devotion to the Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin
Mary, stigmata (first stigmatized priest in the history of the
Church), spiritual direction, intense suffering, prayers, mystical
gifts
|
|
St. Paul of the Cross
October
19 |
81 |
Founder of the Passionists;
Austerities, miracles, spiritual
direction |
|
St.
Willibrord
November
7
|
81 |
Bishop;
Zeal, successful preaching |
|
St. Acca October
20 |
82 |
Bishop;
Scholar |
|
St.
Hilary of Galatea
May
15 |
82 |
Abbot;
Founded a Monastery |
|
St.
Hildegardis
September
17 |
82 |
Virgin
& Abbess; Devotion, mortification, patience, heavenly visions |
|
St.
Peter Fioretti
May
23 |
82 |
Friendliness,
wisdom, miracles, prophecy |
|
St.
Agricola
March
17 |
83 |
Bishop;
Austerities, beatified churches |
|
St.
Ethbin (Egbin)
October
19 |
83 |
Abbot;
Austerities, miracles |
|
St.
John Kanty (Cantius)
December
23 |
83 |
Confessor;
Charity towards the poor, poverty, austerities, professor of
Sacred Scripture |
|
St.
Robert of Molesmes
April
29
|
83 |
Abbot;
Spirituality, founded abbey |
|
St. Roch
August
16 |
83 |
Care of the afflicted, miracles |
|
St. Abraham of Kratia
December
6 |
84 |
Bishop
& Hermit |
|
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 |
|
St.
Canice (Kenneth)
October
11 |
84 |
Monk;
Preaching, missionary work |
|
St.
Daniel the Stylite
December
11 |
84 |
Confessor;
Great austerities, ardor, humility, devotion, prophecies,
spiritual direction, lived on a pillar |
|
St.
Druon
April
16 |
84 |
Recluse;
Piety, devotion, assiduous prayer and manual labor |
|
St.
Humility
May
22 |
84 |
Abbess
& Recluse; Austerity, founded convents |
|
St. Hypatius
June
17 |
84 |
Hermit;
Miracles, prophecies |
|
St. Jane de Lestonnac
February
2 |
84 |
Widow;
Founder of religious institute |
|
St.
Luke the Evangelist
October
18
|
84 |
Evangelist
(wrote third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles) |
|
St.
Syncletica
January
5
|
84 |
Virgin;
Virtues,
mortification, prayer, patient suffering |
|
St.
Bernard of
Montjoux
May
28 |
85 |
Established
alpine hospices, assisted distressed travelers accompanied by a
dog |
|
St.
Felix of Valois
November
20 |
85 |
Hermit
& Co-Founder of the Trinitarians; Founded convent in his
seventies
|
|
St. Honoratus of Vercelli
October
28 |
85 |
Bishop |
|
St. Hugh the Great
April
29 |
85 |
Abbot
& Papal Legate; Founded hospital |
|
St. Peregrinus Laziosi (Peregrine)
May
1 |
85 |
Monk;
Conversion, mystic, miraculously cured of cancer |
|
St.
Bernardino Realino
July
2 |
86 |
Rector;
Pastoral work, holiness |
|
St.
Bonitus (Bonet)
January
15 |
86 |
Bishop
& Confessor
|
|
St.
Madeleine Sophie Barat
May
25 |
86 |
Superior;
Founded numerous houses and schools |
|
St.
Peter Celestine (Celestine V)
May
19
|
86 |
Hermit,
Pope & Confessor; Austerities,
humility, founder of Celestines |
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St.
Polycarp of Smyrna
February
23
|
86 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Apostolic Father, immediate disciple of the apostles, courage, apostolic
spirit, charity, zeal, defender of orthodoxy |
|
St.
Andrew Avellino
November
10
|
87 |
Confessor;
Heroic virtues, prophecy, miracles, founded convents |
|
St.
Maximus of Turin
June
25 |
87 |
Bishop;
Preaching, writings |
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St.
Odilo of Cluny (Olon)
January
1
|
87 |
Abbot;
Austerities, care for the poor, contemplation, feast of All Soul's
Day, devotion to the Incarnation and the Blessed Virgin |
|
St.
Willibald
July
7
|
87 |
Bishop;
Missionary work, founded monastery |
|
St.
Wulfstan
January
19
|
87 |
Bishop;
Care for the poor,
sanctity, charity
|
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St.
Epiphanius of Salamis
May
12 |
88 |
Bishop
& Monk; Scholarship, austerities, written works |
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St. Majolus
May
11 |
88 |
Abbot |
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St.
Theodore of Tarsus
September
19
|
88 |
Archbishop;
Zealous labors, established
schools, Penitential (Code of Canons, prescribing
the term of public penance for penitents) |
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