|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Anna
September
1 |
"old
age" |
Widow
& Prophetess; Told of Jesus' Birth (in her old age) |
|
St.
Agricolus
September
2 |
70 |
Bishop;
Preaching, assistance to the poor and sick |
|
St.
Gregory I the Great
September
3 |
64 |
Pope;
Founded monasteries, restored discipline, charitable work,
ransomed captives, protected papal primacy, preaching, 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.
Remaclus
September
3
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Sanctity, missionary zeal, austerities (redoubled
in old age), founded monastery |
|
St.
Simeon Stylites the Younger
September
3 |
75 |
Known
for holiness, preaching, wisdom, miracles. Lived on pillars |
|
St.
Andrew Dotti
September
4 |
65 |
Hermit;
Missionary work, prayer, penance, visions |
|
St.
Boniface I
September
4 |
"old
age" |
Pope; Mildness, character, lover of peace |
|
St.
Bertin
September
5 |
112 |
Abbot;
"Model of monastic perfection" |
|
St.
Laurence Justinian
September
5 |
74 |
Confessor
& Patriarch of Venice; Virtues, great poverty, courage |
|
St.
Corbinian
September
8 |
55 |
Missionary
work |
|
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. Peter Claver
September
9 |
74 |
"Apostle of the Negroes", assistance to slaves |
|
St. Nicholas of Tolentino
September
10 |
60 |
Preacher;
Miracles, care of the poor and sick |
|
St.
Pulcheria
September
10
|
68
|
Virgin
& Empress; Extreme generosity, built hospitals and many
churches
|
|
St.
Ambrose Barlow
September
11 |
56 |
Convert,
Priest & Martyr |
|
St.
Peter of Chavanon
September
11 |
77 |
Priest;
Built monastery, reformed cathedral chapters |
|
St.
Albeus
September
12
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Charity, conversions, miracles, founded a monastery |
|
St. John Chrysostom
September
13 |
60 |
Doctor of the
Church, theologian, preaching |
|
St.
Aper (Eyre)
September
15
|
100 |
Bishop;
Austerity, devotion, miracles |
|
St.
Catherine of Genoa
September
15 |
62 |
Widow;
Service to the sick, austerities |
|
St.
Cyprian
September
16 |
58 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Conversion, piety, charity, writings |
|
St.
Ludmilla (Ludmilla, Lidmilla)
September
16
|
61 |
Duchess
& Martyr; Convert, widowed |
|
St.
Victor III
September
16 |
60 |
Was
a hermit, papal legate, abbot, and papal vicar before being
elected Pope. He ruled monks strictly, engaged in diplomatic
missions, and upheld papal rights |
|
St.
Hildegardis
September
17 |
82 |
Virgin
& Abbess; Devotion, mortification, patience, heavenly visions |
|
St.
Lambert of Maestricht
September
17 |
70 |
Bishop;
Pastoral work, evangelization of pagans |
|
St. Robert Bellarmine
September
17 |
79 |
Doctor of the
Church; Theologian, defender of the Faith |
|
St. John de Massias
September
18 |
60 |
Monk;
Austerities, miracles, care for the poor |
|
St.
Joseph of Cupertino
September
18 |
60 |
Confessor;
Humility, austerities, many miracles |
|
St.
Theodore of Tarsus
September
19
|
88 |
Archbishop;
Zealous labors, established
schools, Penitential (Code of Canons, prescribing
the term of public penance for penitents) |
|
St.
Francis Mary Croese
September
20 |
62 |
Lay
brother; Miracles |
|
St. Vincent Madelgarus
September
20 |
62 |
Abbot;
Founded monasteries, sainted children |
|
St. Thomas of Villanova
September
22 |
67 |
Bishop;
Holiness, austerities, assistance to the poor |
|
St.
Adamnan
September
23 |
80 |
Abbot;
Worked to promote Roman practices in monasteries, piety, written
works |
|
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.
Pacifico Divini
September
24 |
68 |
Teaching,
missionary work, prayer, mortification, holiness, prophecy |
|
St.
Albert of Jerusalem
September
25 |
65 |
Bishop;
Mediated disputes, drafted first rule of the Carmelites |
|
St.
Ceolfrid
September
25 |
74 |
Monk
& Abbot; Strictness, biblical scholarship |
|
St.
Vincent Strambi
September
25 |
79 |
Bishop;
Assisted his flock, reforms, advised Pope Leo XII |
|
St.
Colman of Lann Elo
September
26 |
56 |
Bishop
& Abbot; Built a monastery |
|
St.
Nilus the Younger
September
26
|
96 |
Abbot;
Austerity, holiness, prophecy |
|
St.
Teresa Couderc
September
26 |
80 |
Assistance
to the sick, retreats |
|
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. Faustus
September
28 |
90 |
Bishop;
Defender of the Faith, writer |
|
St.
Lioba
September
28
|
"old
age" |
Abbess;
"Model of Christian perfection" |
|
St.
Jerome
September
30 |
79 |
Priest
& Doctor of the Church; Biblical scholar, learning,
translation of Holy Scripture, writings, defense of the Faith |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Remigius
October
1 |
96 |
Bishop;
Preaching. Called the "Apostle of the Franks" |
|
St.
Froilan
October
3 |
73 |
Bishop
& Hermit; Founded monasteries |
|
St.
Gerard
October
3 |
"old
age" |
Abbot;
Fervor, restored discipline in religious houses |
|
St.
Thomas of Hereford
October
3
|
63 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Virtue,
wisdom, prudence, courage, justice |
|
St.
Ammon (Amun)
October
4
|
62 |
Hermit;
Great austerity, many miracles |
|
St.
Baithen
October
6 |
63 |
Abbot;
Writings |
|
St. Maria Francesca Gallo
October
6 |
76 |
Prophecy, mystic,
stigmata |
|
St.
Apollinaris
October
8 |
67 |
Bishop |
|
St.
Bridget of Sweden (Birgit, Bridget, Brigit)
October
8
|
71 |
Widow;
Heroic virtue, piety, austerities, writings |
|
St.
Demetrius
October
9 |
105 |
Bishop |
|
St. John Leonardi
October
9 |
59 |
Care of sick and prisoners |
|
St.
Lewis Bertrand
October
9
|
55 |
Confessor;
Humility,
prayer, fruitful preaching |
|
St. Aldericus
October
10 |
61 |
Bishop;
Scholar |
|
St. Francis Borgia
October
10 |
62 |
Duke;
Founded monasteries and charitable institutions,
"second founder of the Jesuits" |
|
St. Paulinus of York
October
10 |
60 |
Bishop;
Conversions |
|
St.
Alexander Sauli
October
11 |
58 |
Bishop;
Preaching, reforms, miracles. Was spiritual advisor to St. Charles
Borromeo and the future Pope Gregory XIV |
|
St.
Canice (Kenneth)
October
11 |
84 |
Monk;
Preaching, missionary work |
|
St.
Tarachus
October
11
|
65 |
Martyr;
Courage,
fidelity |
|
St.
Seraphino
October
12 |
64 |
Lay
Brother; Holiness, devotion to the Holy Eucharist, assistance to
the poor, wisdom |
|
St.
Dominic (Loricatus)
October
13 |
65 |
Confessor;
Rigorous penance (even in old age) |
|
St.
Edward the Confessor
October
13 |
63 |
King;
Piety |
|
St.
Gerald
October
13 |
54 |
Count;
Piety, assistance to the poor |
|
St.
Angadrisma
October
14 |
80 |
Abbess;
Holiness, miracles |
|
St.
Teresa of Avila
October
15
|
67
|
Doctor
of the Church; Prayer, visions, writings, mystic, founded convents |
|
St.
Anastasius
October
16 |
65 |
Monk
& Hermit |
|
St. Gall
October
16 |
95 |
Missionary, scholar |
|
St. Hedwig
October
16 |
69 |
Duchess
& Widow |
|
St.
Luke the Evangelist
October
18
|
84 |
Evangelist
(wrote third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles) |
|
St.
Aquilinus
October
19 |
75 |
Bishop;
Assistance to the poor, miracles |
|
St.
Ethbin (Egbin)
October
19 |
83 |
Abbot;
Austerities, miracles |
|
St.
John de Brebeuf
October
19 |
56 |
Martyr;
Missionary activity to the Indians, holiness, courage |
|
St. Paul of the Cross
October
19 |
81 |
Founder of the Passionists;
Austerities, miracles, spiritual
direction |
|
St.
Peter of Alcantara
October
19
|
63 |
Confessor;
Extraordinary mortifications, prayer, spiritual direction |
|
St. Acca October
20 |
82 |
Bishop;
Scholar |
|
St.
Hilarion
October
21 |
80 |
Abbot;
Austerities (which were redoubled in his old age) |
|
St.
Philip of Heraclea
October
22
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Martyr; Courage
|
|
St.
Ignatius of Constantinople
October
23 |
80 |
Patriarch
& Confessor; Pastoral zeal |
|
St.
John Capistrano
October
23
|
71 |
Confessor;
Defense of Christendom, sanctity, many miracles |
|
St.
Anthony Mary Claret
October
24 |
63 |
Archbishop;
Founder of Claretians, preaching, missionary work |
|
St.
Felix of Thibiuca
October
24 |
56 |
Bishop
and Martyr; Courage |
|
St.
Maglorius (Maelor)
October
24
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Apostolic labors, founded a monastery, miracles |
|
St.
Alban Bartholomew Roe
October
25 |
59 |
Monk
& Martyr; Convert, imprisoned for many years |
|
St.
Faro
October
28 |
80 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Virtues, zealous labor for the salvation of souls |
|
St. Honoratus of Vercelli
October
28 |
85 |
Bishop |
|
St.
Narcissus
October
29
|
126 |
Became
bishop at about 80 years old, strict discipline |
|
St.
Asterius
October
30
|
"old
age" |
Bishop;
Pastoral service, humility, charity, piety |
|
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.
Wolfgang
October
31 |
64 |
Bishop;
Missionary work, preaching, reforms, care for the poor |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Amicus
November
3 |
120 |
Hermit
& Monk |
|
St.
Malachy
November
3 |
53 |
Bishop;
Founded monastery, restored discipline and morality, miracles.
Famous papal prophecies are attributed to him. |
|
St.
Martin de Porres
November
3
|
60 |
Confessor;
Holiness, assistance
to the poor and sick, penances, miracles, care for animals |
|
St.
Joannicius
November
4 |
92
(81-116) |
Abbot
|
|
St.
Bertille
November
5 |
"old
age" |
Abbess;
Fervor, humility, penitential life (even into old age) |
|
St.
Elizabeth
November
5 |
"old
age" |
Righteous
Woman & Elderly Mother of St. John the Baptist. Cousin of the
Blessed Virgin Mary |
|
St.
Zachariah
November
5 |
"old
age" |
Righteous
Man & Elderly Father of St. John the Baptist |
|
St.
Winoc (Winnoc)
November
6
|
"old
age" |
Abbot;
Sanctity,
miracles, service to others, founded monastery, manual labor |
|
St.
Willibrord
November
7
|
81 |
Bishop;
Zeal, successful preaching |
|
St.
Willehad
November
8
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Devotion,
austerities (not mitigated even in his old age) |
|
St.
Andrew Avellino
November
10
|
87 |
Confessor;
Heroic virtues, prophecy, miracles, founded convents |
|
St. Joseph Pignatelli
November
11 |
74 |
Confessor;
Holiness, "restorer of the Jesuits" |
|
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.
Theodorus the Studite
November
11
|
68 |
Abbot;
Holiness, austerities, courage, preaching, defense of holy images, many
miracles |
|
St.
Cumian
November
12 |
75 |
Abbot
& Monk; Learning, founded monastery |
|
St.
Nilus
November
12
|
"old
age" |
Anchoret
&
Confessor; Virtue,
written works |
|
St.
Abbo of Fleury
November
13 |
59 |
Abbot;
Settled disputes, known for scholarly work |
|
St.
Didacus
November
13 |
63 |
Missionary
work, miracles |
|
St.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
November
13 |
67 |
Virgin;
Founded orphanages, hospitals, schools, charitable organizations.
First American citizen to be canonized. |
|
St. Lawrence O'Tool
November
14 |
52 |
Bishop,
monk, papal legate |
|
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.
Leopold
November
15 |
63 |
Founded
monasteries, piety, charity |
|
St. Agnes of Assisi
November
16 |
56 |
Abbess;
Sister of St. Clare of Assisi, miracles |
|
St.
Edmund of Abingdon
November
16 |
60 |
Archbishop;
Teaching, preaching |
|
St.
Anian (Agnan, Anianus)
November
17
|
95 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Courage |
|
St.
Dionysius of Alexandria
November
17 |
"old
age" |
Archbishop
& Confessor; Virtues, writings, teaching, surnamed "the
Great" by St. Basil |
|
St. Gregory of Tours
November
17 |
55 |
Bishop;
Historian, writings |
|
St.
Hilda (Hild)
November
17 |
63 |
Abbess;
Charity, prudence, meekness, virtues, peace |
|
St.
Hugh of Lincoln
November
17 |
60 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Goodness, learning
|
|
St.
Odo of Cluny
November
18 |
63 |
Abbot;
Reformed abbeys, peacemaker, writings |
|
St.
Felix of Valois
November
20 |
85 |
Hermit
& Co-Founder of the Trinitarians; Founded convent in his
seventies
|
|
St.
Narses
November
20
|
80 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Fidelity from youth
|
|
St.
Amphilochius
November
23
|
"old
age"
|
Bishop
& Confessor; Defender of the faith
|
|
St.
Columban
November
23 |
72 |
Abbot
and Confessor; Poetry, founded monasteries |
|
St.
Basolus (Basle)
November
26 |
65 |
Monk;
Miracles |
|
St.
Sylvester Gozzolini
November
26
|
90 |
Abbot;
Founded more than two dozen monasteries |
|
St.
Leonard of Port Maurice
November
27
|
75 |
Preaching,
writings,
successful missionary labors, mortifications, conversions,
promoted devotions, erected many Stations of the Cross |
|
St.
Catherine Laboure
November
28 |
70 |
Recipient
of the revelation of the Miraculous Medal |
|
St.
James of La Marca of Ancona
November
28
|
90 |
Confessor;
Austerities, zeal for the salvation of souls, long service (he
spent 70 years of his life in a religious state) |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
St.
Eligius (Eloi)
December
1 |
70 |
Bishop
& Confessor; Generosity, virtue, wisdom, poverty, prayer |
|
St.
Anno
December
4 |
65 |
Archbishop;
Established and reformed monasteries, assisted the poor |
|
St. John Damascene
December
4 |
74 |
Doctor of the
Church, Father of the Church; Writings |
|
St.
Maruthas
December
4
|
"old
age"
|
Bishop
& Confessor
|
|
St.
Sabas (Sabbas)
December
5
|
94 |
Abbot;
Sanctity, humility, mortification, prayer |
|
St. Abraham of Kratia
December
6 |
84 |
Bishop
& Hermit |
|
St.
Peter Paschal
December
6
|
72 |
Bishop
& Martyr; Preaching, intelligence, found
convents, sought to ransom captives |
|
St.
Ambrose
December
7
|
57 |
Bishop
& Doctor of the Church; Defender of the Faith; miracles,
writings
|
|
St.
Juan Diego
December
9 |
74 |
Humble
visionary of Our Lady of Guadalupe |
|
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. Finian of Clonard December
12 |
79 |
Teacher;
Built schools, churches, monasteries |
|
St.
Mary Frances Schervier
December
15 |
57 |
Assisted
the sick and poor, founded a hospital, nursing centers, and homes |
|
St.
Valerian
December
15 |
80 |
Bishop
& Martyr |
|
St.
Adelaide
December
16 |
68 |
Founded
& restored monasteries, worked for the conversion of Slavs |
|
St.
Gatian
December
18
|
"old
age" |
Bishop
& Confessor; Preaching, credited with nearly fifty years of zealous
labor even amidst frequent sufferings and dangers |
|
St.
Dominic of Silos
December
20 |
73 |
Abbot;
Reformed monastery, rescued Christian slaves, miracles |
|
St. Peter Canisius
(Kanis)
December
21 |
76 |
Doctor of the
Church; Preaching, defense of the Faith, writings |
|
St.
John Kanty (Cantius)
December
23 |
83 |
Confessor;
Charity towards the poor, poverty, austerities, professor of
Sacred Scripture |
|
St.
Marie Marguerite D'Youville
December
23 |
70 |
Care
of the poor, charitable works |
|
St. Nicholas Factor
December
23 |
62 |
Preacher;
Mortification |
|
St.
John
December
27 |
"old
age" |
Apostle
& Evangelist; The beloved disciple of Christ. Was given the
care of Jesus' mother Mary. Only Apostle to survive martyrdom. |
|
St.
Theodore
December
27 |
66 |
Bishop
& Monk; Opposed iconoclasm (for which he was tortured) |
|
St.
Antony of Lerins
December
28 |
52 |
Monk;
Holiness, miracles |
|
St.
Theodore the Sanctified (Theodore of Tabenna)
December
28
|
53 |
Abbot;
Austerities,
virtues, maintaining order, miracles |
|
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.
Marcellus Akimetes
December
29
|
"old
age" |
Abbot;
Good works
|
|
St.
Melania the Younger
December
31
|
57 |
Abbess;
Patroness of monasteries, churches, abbeys, freed many slaves
|
|
St.
Sylvester
December
31
|
"old
age" |
Pope
& Confessor; Credited with building the first St. Peter's Basilica as well as
other great churches
|
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
|
|
|
Name*
Feast
Day** |
May
have lived
to age... (approx.) |
Attributes
may include... |
|
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]
|
|
St. Joseph
(Various) |
"old
age" |
Foster
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
|
St.
Paul
(Various) |
62
[52] |
Tireless
Apostle to the Gentiles & Martyr. Persecuted the Church before
being called directly by Christ. Martyred in Rome on the same day
as St. Peter. |
|
St. Peter
(Various) |
60
[63] |
Apostle
& First Pope. Jesus personally invested St. Peter with the
keys to the kingdom of heaven (see Mt. 16:17-19). Was martyred in
Rome. |
|
Top
| Senior Saints
|
