|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St. Aldebrandus
May
1 |
100 |
Bishop;
Preaching |
|
St.
Brieuc
May
1 |
90 |
Bishop
& Confessor
|
|
St. Peregrinus Laziosi (Peregrine)
May
1 |
85 |
Monk;
Conversion, mystic, miraculously cured of cancer |
|
St.
Athanasius
May
2
|
77 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Defender of the Faith, orthodoxy, virtue |
|
St.
Philip
May
3
|
"old
age" |
Apostle |
|
St.
Godehard
May
4 |
76 |
Bishop
& Abbot; Reform of monasteries, built churches and schools,
assisted the sick & poor |
|
St. Monica
May
4 |
55 |
Widow;
Prayers, virtue, mother of St. Augustine |
|
St.
Mauront
May
5
|
72 |
Abbot;
Founder of abbey
|
|
St.
Pius V
May
5
|
68 |
Pope
& Confessor; Zeal, prayer, assiduous mortification,
austerities, large alms, credited the military victory at Lepanto
to Our Lady, perpetually 'canonized' the 'Tridentine' (old Latin)
Mass |
|
St.
Gybrian
May
8
|
"old
age" |
Priest;
Long penitential & contemplative life, credited with assembling a community
of fervent servants of God |
|
St.
Peter of Savoy
May
8
|
73 |
Archbishop;
Many miracles |
|
St.
Wiro
May
8
|
"old
age" |
Bishop;
Preaching, austerities, founded monastery |
|
St. Gregory Nazianzus the Younger
May
9 |
59 |
Doctor of the
Church, Father of the Church, Theologian; Defender of the faith,
sacred learning, eloquence |
|
St.
Pachomius
May
9
|
57 |
Abbot;
Service
to the sick, miracles, monastic discipline |
|
St.
Antoninus (Antoninus, "Little Antony")
May
10
|
70 |
Archbishop
& Confessor; Sanctity, penance, writings, charity to the poor |
|
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. Francis Jerome (Francis de
Geronimo)
May
11 |
74 |
Preaching |
|
St. Majolus
May
11 |
88 |
Abbot |
|
St.
Epiphanius of Salamis
May
12 |
88 |
Bishop
& Monk; Scholarship, austerities, written works |
|
St.
Rictrudes
May
12
|
74 |
Abbess;
Mother
of saints, founded an abbey of monks and a nunnery |
|
St.
John the Silent
May
13 |
104 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Austerity, love of silence, spiritual direction,
sublime contemplation |
|
St.
Peter Regalati
May
13
|
66 |
Confessor;
Extraordinary
fervor, penance, contemplation, virtues |
|
St.
Hilary of Galatea
May
15 |
82 |
Abbot;
Founded a Monastery |
|
St.
Isidore the Farmer
May
15 |
60 |
Patron
of Madrid; Sanctity, patience, assiduous labor |
|
St.
Andrew Bobola
May
16 |
66 |
Martyr;
Missionary activity |
|
St.
Brendan the Elder
May
16 |
94 |
Abbot;
Founded schools & monasteries |
|
St.
Germerius
May
16 |
80 |
Founded
churches and a monastery, assisted the poor |
|
St.
Simon Stock
May
16
|
100 |
Hermit;
Mortification, virtue, miracles, prophecy, founded religious houses,
given the Scapular by the Blessed Virgin Mary, instituted the Confraternity
of the Scapular |
|
St.
Paschal Baylon
May
17
|
52 |
Confessor;
Devotion to the Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin, piety,
poverty, penance, miracles |
|
St.
Felix of Cantalicio
May
18 |
72 |
Confessor;
Purity, great austerities |
|
St. Dunstan
May
19 |
78 |
Bishop
& Abbot |
|
St.
Peter Celestine (Celestine V)
May
19
|
86 |
Hermit,
Pope & Confessor; Austerities,
humility, founder of Celestines |
|
St.
Yvo (Ivo Helory, Ivo of Brittany)
May
19
|
50 |
Confessor;
Preaching, virtues, austerities, defended the poor, protected orphans and widows |
|
St.
Austregisilus
May
20 |
73 |
Abbot
& Bishop |
|
St.
Bernardino of Sienna
May
20 |
63 |
Confessor;
Preaching, humility, miraculous cures |
|
St.
Eugene de Mazenod
May
21 |
79 |
Bishop;
Founder of religious congregation, pastoral work |
|
St.
Godrick
May
21 |
101 |
Hermit;
Austerities, patience, humility, authored poetry |
|
St.
Atto
May
22 |
96 |
Bishop |
|
St.
Humility
May
22 |
84 |
Abbess
& Recluse; Austerity, founded convents |
|
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.
Guibert
May
23 |
70 |
Hermit;
Founded a monastery, missionary work |
|
St. Ivo of Chartres
May
23 |
75 |
Bishop,
teacher |
|
St. John Baptist de Rossi
May
23 |
66 |
Missionary,
helper to the needy, miracles |
|
St.
Peter Fioretti
May
23 |
82 |
Friendliness,
wisdom, miracles, prophecy |
|
St.
Aldhelm
May
25 |
70 |
Abbot
& Bishop; Spirituality, scholarship, founded monasteries,
writings |
|
St.
Gregory VII
May
25 |
64 |
Pope;
Reforms, excommunicated King Henry |
|
St.
Madeleine Sophie Barat
May
25 |
86 |
Superior;
Founded numerous houses and schools |
|
St.
Zenobius
May
25 |
80 |
Bishop;
Holiness, miracles. Aided Pope St. Damasus and was a friend of St.
Ambrose |
|
St. Lambert Peloquin
May
26 |
74 |
Bishop;
Miracles, learning |
|
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.
Bede the Venerable
May
27 |
63 |
Monk
& Doctor of the Church; Learning, writings, scholarship |
|
St.
Bernard
of
Montjoux
May
28 |
85 |
Established
alpine hospices, assisted distressed travelers accompanied by a
dog |
|
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. William of Gellone
May
28 |
57 |
Monk
& Knight; Chivalry |
|
St.
Conon
May
29
|
"old
age" |
Martyr;
Courage
|
|
St. Ferdinand III
May
30 |
53 |
King of Castile, Spain;
Fought against heresy, devotion to Mary |
|
St.
Isaac of Constantinople
May
30 |
92 |
Hermit;
Founded a monastery |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Justin Martyr
June
1 |
65 |
Martyr;
Missionary work, apologetics, opened school, writings |
|
St.
Pothinus
June
2
|
90 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Courage |
|
St.
Clotilda
June
3 |
71 |
Assisted
in the conversion of her husband, King Clovis, assistance to the
sick and poor |
|
St.
Keivin (Coemgen)
June
3 |
120 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Founded a monastery |
|
St.
Liphardus
June
3 |
73 |
Hermit
& Abbot; Founded monastery |
|
St.
Quirinus
June
4
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Martyr; Courage |
|
St.
Boniface
June
5 |
74 |
Bishop
& Missionary to Germany |
|
St. Agobard
June
6 |
71 |
Bishop
& Theologian; Holiness, charity |
|
St.
Babolen
June
6
|
"old
age" |
Monk;
Founded many churches & hospitals |
|
St.
Gudwal (Gurval)
June
6 |
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Sanctity
|
|
St.
Norbert
June
6
|
53 |
Archbishop
& Confessor; Conversion, mortification, piety, zeal, devotion
to the Holy Eucharist |
|
St.
Antony Gianelli
June
7 |
57 |
Bishop;
Preaching, founded a religious congregation |
|
St.
Clodulf (Cloud)
June
8 |
90 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Zeal for the glory of God, love for people,
compassion for the poor |
|
St.
Medard
June
8
|
90 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Missionary labors, austerities (continued even in
old age) |
|
St. Melania the Elder
June
8 |
68 |
Founded monastery |
|
St.
Columba
June
9 |
76 |
Preaching,
founded monasteries, evangelization |
|
St.
Ephrem of Edessa (Ephraem the Syrian)
June
9 |
67 |
Doctor
of the Church; Sanctity, writings |
|
St.
Gaspar Bertoni
June
12 |
76 |
Founded
religious congregation, assisted the sick |
|
St.
Odulph (Odulf)
June
12
|
"old
age" |
Canon & Confessor;
Piety, intelligence, meekness, labors, zeal, charity, prophecies,
founded a monastery |
|
St.
Onuphrius
June
12
|
"old age"
|
Hermit;
Prayers, solicitude, overcame grave temptations, spent sixty years
"unknown to the world" |
|
St.
Bardo
June
15 |
71 |
Archbishop
& Abbot; Austerities, assistance to the poor, opposed simony,
supported clerical celibacy |
|
St.
Landelinus
June
15 |
61 |
Hermit
& Abbot; Conversion, holiness, founded a monastery and abbey |
|
St.
Benno of Meissen
June
16 |
96 |
Bishop;
politics |
|
St.
Lutgardis
June
16 |
64 |
Mystic;
miracles, wisdom |
|
St.
Botulph
June
17 |
"old
age" |
Abbot;
Founded religious houses & schools of virtue |
|
St.
Gregory Barbarigo
June
17 |
72 |
Cardinal;
Charities, learning, worked to end schism of the Greeks |
|
St. Hypatius
June
17 |
84 |
Hermit;
Miracles, prophecies |
|
St.
Peter of Pisa
June
17
|
80 |
Founder
of the Hermits of St. Jerome, virtues, prayer, austerities,
miracles |
|
St.
Prior
June
17
|
100 |
Hermit
|
|
St.
Juliana Falconieri
June
19 |
70 |
Virgin;
Mortification, charity |
|
St.
Romuald
June
19
|
77 |
Abbot
and Confessor; Prayer,
austerities, miraculous cures, built and reformed monasteries |
|
St. Eberhard
June
22 |
80 |
Archbishop;
Peacemaker |
|
St.
Innocent V
June
22 |
51 |
Pope;
Preaching, theologian, assisted in the temporary ending of the
Greek schism, mediation |
|
St.
Nicetas of Remesiana
June
22 |
79 |
Bishop;
Missionary work, writings |
|
St. Paulinus of Nola
June
22 |
77 |
Bishop;
Care of the poor and sick, writings |
|
St.
Thomas More
June
22
|
57 |
"One
of the most powerful men in England"; Opposed King Henry VIII's
divorce, intellectual ability, writings, founded a
home to take care of the old, the poor, and the sick
|
|
St.
Maximus of Turin
June
25 |
87 |
Bishop;
Preaching, writings |
|
St. Maxentius
(Maixent)
June
26 |
70 |
Abbot;
Miracles |
|
St.
Vigilius
June
26 |
52 |
Bishop;
Evangelization, opposition to usury, assisted the poor |
|
St.
Irenaeus of Lyons
June
28 |
78 |
Bishop
& Theologian; Written works, opposed heresy |
|
St.
Thorlac
June
29
|
60
|
Bishop;
Opposed corruption
|
|
St.
Bertrand
June
30 |
70 |
Bishop;
Assisted the poor, founded a monastery |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St. Gall
July
1 |
68 |
Bishop
& Monk |
|
St.
Simeon
Salus
July
1
|
65 |
Hermit;
Extreme austerities, love of humility, miracles |
|
St.
Bernardino Realino
July
2 |
86 |
Rector;
Pastoral work, holiness |
|
St. Otto of Bamberg
July
2 |
77 |
Bishop;
Conversions |
|
St.
Heliodorus
July
3 |
58 |
Bishop;
Disciple of St. Jerome |
|
St.
Andrew of Crete
July
4 |
80 |
Archbishop;
Preaching, music |
|
St.
Elizabeth
July
4 |
65 |
Queen
of Portugal & Widow; Charity, love of peace |
|
St.
Odo (Odo of Canterbury, Odo the Good)
July
4
|
"old
age" |
Archbishop;
Holiness, pastoral work, miracles |
|
St.
Ulric of Augsberg
July
4
|
80 |
Bishop;
Pastoral labors, almsgiving, first saint officially canonized by
the pope
|
|
St.
Vincentia Gerosa
July
4 |
63 |
Assistance
to the poor and sick |
|
St. Athanasius the Athonite
July
5 |
80 |
Abbot |
|
St.
Sexburgh (Sexburga)
July
6
|
"old
age" |
Abbess
& Widow; Sanctity |
|
St.
Felix
July
7 |
70 |
Bishop;
Learning, virtue, eloquence |
|
St.
Willibald
July
7
|
87 |
Bishop;
Missionary work, founded monastery |
|
St. Jerome of Werden
July
9 |
50 |
Martyr, missionary |
|
St.
Veronica Giuliani
July
10 |
67 |
Abbess;
Mystical experiences, supernatural gifts |
|
St.
Drostan
July
11 |
"old
age" |
Abbot;
Of royal blood, became a recluse in his old age |
|
St. Ignatius Delgado
July
12 |
77 |
Bishop
& Martyr |
|
St.
John Gualbert
July
12 |
78 |
Abbot;
Forgiveness, founded a monastery, virtues, compassion, humility,
charity, prophecies, cures, austerities |
|
St.
Francis Solano
July
13 |
62 |
Confessor;
Extraordinary humility and austerities, prayer, zeal, charity,
sanctity, miracles |
|
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.
Barhadbesciabas
July
15
|
"old
age" |
Deacon
& Martyr; Faithfulness from youth to old age, courage
|
|
St.
Henry II
July
15 |
52 |
Emperor;
Prudence, clemency, humility, prayer, protection of Christendom |
|
St.
Eustathius
July
16 |
70 |
Bishop;
Writings, orthodoxy, opposed Arianism |
|
St.
Mary Magdalen Postel
July
16 |
90 |
Religious
Superior; Assisted persecuted priests, assisted in religious
education, holiness, miracles |
|
St.
Bruno
July
18 |
74 |
Bishop
& Scripture Scholar |
|
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)
|
|
St.
Pambo of Nitria
July
18
|
70 |
Abbot;
Wisdom, austerities |
|
St.
Arsenius
July
19
|
95 |
Anchoret;
Austerities, humility, fervor |
|
St.
Ansegius
July
20 |
63 |
Abbot;
Rehabilitated abbeys |
|
St. Lawrence of Brindisi
July
21 |
60 |
Doctor of the
Church; Holiness, military victory |
|
St.
Joseph of Palestine
(Count
Joseph)
July
22 |
70 |
Conversion,
zeal, built churches |
|
St.
Vandrille (or Wandregesilus)
July
22
|
68 |
Abbot;
Founded monastery |
|
St.
Anne (Susanna)
July
23 |
78 |
Hermitess |
|
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.
Joachim
July 26
|
"old
age" |
Father
of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to tradition, Mary was born
to her aged parents in answer to years of prayer. |
|
St.
Berthold
July
27 |
52 |
Abbot;
Founded hospital, preaching, holiness, austerities, care for the
poor |
|
St. Samson
July
28 |
80 |
Bishop
& Missionary; Founded monasteries |
|
St.
Lupus (Leu)
July
29
|
94 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Pastoral zeal, prayer |
|
St.
Germanus of Auxerre
July
31 |
70 |
Bishop;
Poverty, austerities, fought against Pelagianism, founded schools |
|
St.
Ignatius of Loyola
July
31 |
65 |
Confessor;
Conversion, mortification, labors, wisdom,
founder of the Jesuits, Spiritual Exercises |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Alphonsus Liguori
August
1 |
90 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Founder of the Redemptorists, heroic
virtue |
|
St.
Ethelwold
August
1 |
76 |
Bishop
& Monk; Restoration of monasticism |
|
St.
Eusebius
August
2 |
"old
age" |
Priest
& Martyr; Zeal in invoking and preaching Christ
|
|
St. Peter Julian Eymard
August
3 |
57 |
Founder of
religious congregation, preaching, devotion to the Eucharist |
|
St. John Baptist Vianney (Cure of
Ars)
August
4 |
73 |
Pastoral zeal |
|
St.
Cajetan
August
7 |
67 |
Reforms,
assistance to the poor |
|
St.
Victricius
August
7 |
77 |
Bishop;
Missionary work |
|
St.
Altman
August
8 |
71 |
Bishop
& Abbot; Assisted the poor ("eliminated poverty"),
austerities |
|
St.
Dominic
August
8 |
51 |
Confessor
& Founder of the Dominicans; Apostolic labors, propagation of
the Holy Rosary |
|
St. Edith Stein
(Teresa Benedicta)
August
9 |
51 |
Convert, writer |
|
St.
John of Salerno
August
9 |
52 |
Preaching,
founded a friary, supernatural gifts |
|
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.
John of Alvernia
August
13 |
63 |
Hermit;
Mystical experiences, preaching, supernatural gifts |
|
St.
Maximus the
Confessor
August
13
|
80 |
Abbot;
Defender
of faith, virtue |
|
St. Jane Delanoue
August
16 |
66 |
Service to the poor, founder of religious houses |
|
St. Roch
August
16 |
83 |
Care of the afflicted, miracles |
|
St.
Stephen of Hungary
August
16
|
60 |
King
of Hungary; Promoter of the Faith, heroic
acts, virtues, justice, devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, care
of the poor
|
|
St.
Hyacinth
August
17 |
72 |
Confessor;
Preaching, called "The apostle of the north" |
|
St.
Alipius
August
18
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Integrity, preaching, writing |
|
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.
Jane Frances de Chantal
August
18 |
69 |
Widow
& Abbess; Foundress of a religious order and many convents
|
|
St. John Eudes
August
19 |
79 |
Sacred Heart devotion, founding of seminaries |
|
St.
Mochta
August
19 |
90 |
Bishop;
Founded a monastery. Disciple of St. Patrick. |
|
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.
Philibert
August
20 |
77 |
Abbot
& Monk; Founded religious houses |
|
St.
Hippolytus
August
22 |
"old
age" |
Martyr;
First antipope (he publicly repented and he was reconciled to the
Church before his martyrdom)
|
|
St.
Philip Benizi
August
23 |
52 |
Priest
& Prior general; Preaching, miracles |
|
St.
George Limniotes
August
24 |
95 |
Hermit
& Martyr |
|
St.
Ouen
August
24 |
74 |
Archbishop;
Austerities, support of missionary work, charity |
|
St. Gregory of Utrecht
August
25 |
73 |
Abbot;
Forgiveness |
|
St.
Joan Antide Thouret
August
25 |
61 |
Founded
a school, helped the poor & sick, protected priests from
persecution, founded convents |
|
St.
Joseph Calasanctius
August
25 |
92 |
Confessor;
Founder of the Poor Regular Clergy of the Pious Schools of the
Mother of God, virtuous since youth, charity, prayer |
|
St.
Lewis (Louis IX)
August
25
|
56
|
King
of France; Zeal for the glory of God, service to the poor |
|
St.
Mary Michalea Desmaisieres
August
25 |
56 |
Religious
education, assistance to the sick and poor |
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St.
Elizabeth Des Anges
August
26 |
65 |
Teaching,
care of the sick |
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St.
Caesarius of Arles
August
27 |
73 |
Bishop;
Fought Arianism, reformed a monastery, preaching, holiness,
charity |
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St.
Alexander
August
28 |
96 |
Patriarch;
Wisdom, holiness, opposed Arianism |
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St.
Augustine of Hippo
August
28 |
76
|
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Conversion, writings |
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St.
Agilus (Aile)
August
30
|
66 |
Abbot;
Fervor, humility, penance |
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