All saints, A to Z
Every saint on this site, filed by name, with who they were and their feast day. If you are looking for someone to ask about a particular situation rather than by name, start here instead.
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- St. AdalbertBishop of Prague twice, martyr of the Baltic once, and Poland bought his body back with its weight in gold.Feast day April 23
- St. AgathaA martyr of Sicily, asked for by women facing breast cancer.Feast day February 5
- St. AgnesMartyred at about thirteen. Her name means lamb, and Rome has kept it for seventeen centuries.Feast day January 21
- St. Albert the GreatThe medieval mind that studied everything, Aquinas’s teacher and the scientists’ patron.Feast day November 15
- St. Alberto HurtadoContento, Señor, contento: he picked the homeless up in a green truck, and Chile never forgot.Feast day August 18
- St. Aloysius GonzagaRenounced a princely inheritance at seventeen and died at twenty-three nursing plague victims.Feast day June 21
- St. Alphonsus LiguoriA lawyer, a moral theologian, and a lifelong sufferer of scrupulosity and crippling arthritis.Feast day August 1
- St. Alphonsus RodríguezHe lost everything, then spent forty six years opening a door, and sent Claver to the Americas.Feast day October 30
- St. AmandMissionary to the rough taverns of Flanders, and the patron of brewers, winemakers, and everyone behind the bar.Feast day February 6
- St. AmbroseDrafted into a bishopric by a crowd: he baptized Augustine and made an emperor do penance.Feast day December 7
- St. AnastasiaThe martyr the Church remembers at Christmas dawn: deliverer from poisons, friend of prisoners.Feast day December 25
- St. André BessetteA doorkeeper in Montreal for forty years, associated with thousands of healings he refused credit for.Feast day January 6
- St. AndrewThe first called. He heard, and went to get his brother.Feast day November 30
- St. Andrew Dũng-Lạc and Companions117 canonized: priests, mothers, soldiers, fishermen, from a century that made a hundred thousand.Feast day November 24
- St. Andrew Kim Taegon and CompanionsA Church founded by laypeople reading books, then defended with ten thousand lives.Feast day September 20
- St. Angela MericiFounded the first teaching order of women: school for girls, centuries early.Feast day January 27
- St. AnneThe mother of Mary, asked for by mothers and grandmothers.Feast day July 26
- St. AnselmFaith seeking understanding: the gentlest mind of the medieval Church.Feast day April 21
- St. AnsgarApostle of the North: everything he built collapsed twice, and the harvest came 150 years after he died.Feast day February 3
- St. Anthony Mary ClaretA weaver’s son who built printing presses for the Gospel, and survived being slashed for it.Feast day October 24
- St. Anthony of PaduaAsked for lost things, and by extension for anything gone missing.Feast day June 13
- St. Anthony the AbbotSold everything at twenty, walked into the desert, and fathered monasticism.Feast day January 17
- St. ApolloniaThe elderly deaconess whose broken teeth made her the dentists’ saint.Feast day February 9
- St. AthanasiusExiled five times for one truth: Athanasius against the world, and the world came around.Feast day May 2
- St. Augustine of HippoMonica’s answer: the restless genius who arrived late and wrote the book on it.Feast day August 28
- St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions120 canonized across three centuries, led by a soldier converted by his prisoner.Feast day July 9
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- St. BarbaraThe tower, the lightning bolt, and the promise of not dying unprepared.Feast day December 4
- St. BarnabasSon of encouragement: he vouched for Paul when everyone was afraid, and for Mark when Paul would not.Feast day June 11
- St. BartholomewCan anything good come out of Nazareth? The honest sceptic who got the compliment of the Gospels.Feast day August 24
- St. Basil the GreatOne soul in two bodies: half of the Church’s great friendship, and the first hospital builder.Feast day January 2
- St. Bede the VenerableFifty years in one monastery, and he wrote England into history, finishing his last sentence as he died.Feast day May 25
- St. Benedict Joseph LabreRejected by every monastery, he made the road his cell: the homeless pilgrim of Rome.Feast day April 16
- St. Benedict of NursiaWrote the rule that shaped western monasticism, and is asked to pray for protection against evil.Feast day July 11
- St. Benedict the MoorBorn to enslaved parents, mocked in the street, and chosen to lead the friars who ranked him last.Feast day April 4
- St. Bernadette SoubirousThe girl who saw Our Lady at Lourdes, asked for by the sick and the poor.Feast day April 16
- St. Bernard of ClairvauxThe honey tongued doctor who taught the world to look to Mary.Feast day August 20
- St. Bernardine of SienaHe preached the Holy Name to packed piazzas, and told a ruined card maker to print it instead.Feast day May 20
- St. BlaiseA physician-bishop, asked for by anyone with a throat ailment.Feast day February 3
- St. BlandinaThe frailest of the martyrs of Lyons: she outlasted everything, encouraging the others like a mother.Feast day June 2
- St. BonifaceHe felled the thunder god’s oak and built a chapel from the wood, and died shielding himself with a book.Feast day June 5
- St. Bridget of SwedenMother of eight, widow, mystic: she spent her last decades telling popes to come home.Feast day July 23
- St. Brigid of IrelandIreland’s other patron: abbess of Kildare, endless generosity, the cross of rushes.Feast day February 1
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- St. CajetanFounded a bank to protect the poor from loan sharks, asked for by job seekers and the unemployed.Feast day August 7
- St. Camillus de LellisA gambler who lost everything, then invented modern nursing, asked for by the sick and by gamblers.Feast day July 14
- St. Carlo AcutisA gamer and programmer who died at fifteen, the first saint of the internet generation.Feast day October 12
- St. CasimirThe prince who walked away from an unjust war at thirteen: Lithuania’s beloved young saint.Feast day March 4
- St. Catherine LabouréSaw the design of the Miraculous Medal, then kept the secret for forty six years while tending old men.Feast day November 28
- St. Catherine of AlexandriaThe girl who out argued the emperor’s philosophers, by tradition, and patron of students ever since.Feast day November 25
- St. Catherine of GenoaA miserable marriage, a plague hospital, and the warmest book on purgatory ever written.Feast day September 15
- St. Catherine of SienaA dyer's daughter who told the pope to his face to come home to Rome, and he did.Feast day April 29
- St. CeciliaThe martyr who sang to God in her heart, and the patron of every musician since.Feast day November 22
- St. Charbel MakhloufA Lebanese hermit-monk whose tomb became one of the world's most reported healing sites.Feast day July 24
- St. Charles BorromeoThe reforming cardinal who stayed in plague-struck Milan when the officials fled.Feast day November 4
- St. Charles de FoucauldFrom dissolute officer to hermit of the Sahara: apostle of the hidden life.Feast day December 1
- St. Charles Lwanga and CompanionsPages of the royal court who protected the younger boys, and paid for it at Namugongo.Feast day June 3
- St. ChristopherThe traveller's saint, whose story is legend and whose devotion is real.Feast day July 25
- St. Clare of AssisiFrancis’s first follower, who fought the papacy for the right to own nothing and won on her deathbed.Feast day August 11
- St. Claude de la ColombièreHe believed her when no one else did: the patron of steady listeners.Feast day February 15
- St. ColumbaHe copied a book without leave, and the ruling, to every cow its calf, sent him into the exile that converted Scotland.Feast day June 9
- St. ColumbanusThe Irishman who walked Europe founding monasteries and correcting kings, adopted, fittingly, by motorcyclists.Feast day November 23
- St. CorneliusThe pope who opened the door to those who had broken under persecution.Feast day September 16
- St. CuthbertShepherd, prior, hermit, bishop, and the first man on record to protect wild birds.Feast day March 20
- St. CyprianHe argued that the Church could take back those who broke, and was beheaded saying thanks be to God.Feast day September 16
- St. Cyril of AlexandriaThe theologian of Ephesus: because of him, the Church says Mother of God.Feast day June 27
- St. Cyril of JerusalemHe walked catechumens through Lent to the font, sixteen centuries before anyone said RCIA.Feast day March 18
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- St. Damien of MolokaiVolunteered for the leper colony no one could leave, and died one of them.Feast day May 10
- St. David of WalesBe joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things: Wales’s patron, in his own last words.Feast day March 1
- St. DenisFirst bishop of Paris, martyred on the hill still named for martyrs, and the old patron of headaches.Feast day October 9
- St. DismasThe good thief: the only person in Scripture promised paradise to his face.Feast day March 25
- St. DominicFounder of the Order of Preachers, and the name tradition attaches to the rosary itself.Feast day August 8
- St. Dominic SavioBosco’s best pupil, dead at fourteen, and the proof that holiness fits a schoolboy.Feast day May 6
- St. DorothySend me apples and roses from your bridegroom’s garden, the lawyer mocked. In winter, a basket came.Feast day February 6
- St. Dulce Lopes PontesThe Good Angel of Bahia: her hospital for the poor began in a chicken yard.Feast day August 13
- St. DymphnaAsked for by people carrying anxiety, depression, and mental illness.Feast day May 15
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- St. Edmund CampionOxford’s golden orator came back to England with a price on his head: the expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun.Feast day December 1
- St. Edward the ConfessorThe last Anglo-Saxon king, remembered not for conquest but for peace, alms, and an abbey.Feast day October 13
- St. EligiusThe master metalsmith who kept honest gold: patron of everyone who works on machines.Feast day December 1
- St. Elizabeth Ann SetonWidowed in quarantine, converted at full cost, and the first American born saint.Feast day January 4
- St. Elizabeth of HungaryA princess widowed at twenty who traded the castle for a hospital, and died at twenty four having given it all.Feast day November 17
- St. Elizabeth of PortugalShe rode a mule between two arrayed armies, her husband’s and her son’s, and stopped the battle.Feast day July 4
- St. Elizabeth of the TrinityHeaven is in the soul: the young Carmelite who taught busy people where God actually lives.Feast day November 8
- St. EphremThe Harp of the Spirit: he taught theology by writing hymns, and founded women’s choirs to sing them.Feast day June 9
- St. Erasmus (Elmo)The sailors’ saint of the glowing masthead, whose windlass became, by pure misreading, a mercy for stomach ailments.Feast day June 2
- St. ExpeditusAsked to pray for urgent needs, and against putting things off.Feast day April 19
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- St. Faustina KowalskaA Polish nun with a fourth-grade education whose diary became the Divine Mercy devotion.Feast day October 5
- St. FiacreThe Irish hermit whose garden fed a region, patron of gardeners and, by a Paris accident, of cab drivers.Feast day August 30
- St. FlorianThe Roman officer drowned for protecting Christians, and the firefighters' saint.Feast day May 4
- St. Frances of RomeForty years a wife in plague era Rome: proof that the vocation you did not choose still counts.Feast day March 9
- St. Frances Xavier CabriniSent west instead of east, she crossed the ocean thirty times for immigrants.Feast day November 13
- St. Francis de SalesBe who you are and be that well: the gentlest Doctor, patron of writers and of the deaf.Feast day January 24
- St. Francis of AssisiGave away everything, and is asked for by people who love animals and creation.Feast day October 4
- St. Francis XavierIgnatius's roommate, who carried the faith from India to Japan and died within sight of China.Feast day December 3
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- St. Gabriel the ArchangelThe angel of the Annunciation, God's messenger for the news that changes everything.Feast day September 29
- St. Gaspar del BufaloHe refused Napoleon’s oath, then took the mission nobody wanted: preaching in bandit country.Feast day October 21
- St. Gemma GalganiA young mystic of Lucca who lived with spinal tuberculosis, asked for by people with back pain.Feast day April 11
- St. GenesiusThe actor who began a parody of baptism and stopped mid-scene, converted on his own stage.Feast day August 25
- St. GenevieveThe woman who told Paris not to flee Attila, and was right.Feast day January 3
- St. GeorgeThe soldier-martyr behind the dragon legend, where the courage is the historical part.Feast day April 23
- St. Gerard MajellaThe saint expectant mothers ask for, especially when a pregnancy is difficult.Feast day October 16
- St. Gertrude the GreatThe mystic of Helfta whose name is on the most prayed prayer for the holy souls.Feast day November 16
- St. Gianna Beretta MollaA pediatrician and mother who refused a treatment that would end her pregnancy, and paid for it.Feast day April 28
- St. GilesHe took the arrow meant for the deer: the old patron of everyone afraid to confess.Feast day September 1
- St. Giuseppe CottolengoA dying woman was turned away by every hospital, so he built the Little House that turns nobody away.Feast day April 30
- St. Gregory NazianzenThe shy poet who was called the Theologian, and gave up a council rather than divide it.Feast day January 2
- St. Gregory of NarekArmenia’s prayer poet: his book is kept under pillows, and Rome made him a Doctor across a divide.Feast day February 27
- St. Gregory the GreatSold his estates, fed Rome through plague, and named the papacy’s true job.Feast day September 3
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- St. Hedwig of SilesiaThe duchess who carried her shoes, and consoled a grieving people while burying her own son.Feast day October 16
- St. HelenaSet aside by an emperor for politics, mother of the next one, and the Church’s great seeker of the Cross.Feast day August 18
- St. Hilary of PoitiersA pagan philosopher who read his way to God, then defended the Trinity from exile, courteously.Feast day January 13
- St. Hildegard of BingenAbbess, composer, physician, visionary: the twelfth century’s widest mind belonged to a nun.Feast day September 17
- St. HomobonusA merchant canonized for honest business: dead at Mass, saint within two years.Feast day November 13
- St. Honoratus of Amiens (Honoré)The reluctant bishop whose name is on Paris’s most famous street, and on its most famous cake.Feast day May 16
- St. HubertConverted mid hunt by a stag he could not shoot, the hunters’ saint.Feast day November 3
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- St. Ignatius of AntiochWrote seven letters on the road to the lions, and coined the phrase the Catholic Church.Feast day October 17
- St. Ignatius of LoyolaA vain soldier rebuilt by a cannonball, who wrote the manual for finding what God wants from you.Feast day July 31
- St. IrenaeusHe heard Polycarp, who heard John. The chain from the apostles runs through him, and he wrote it down.Feast day June 28
- St. Isidore of SevilleTried to write down everything known, and thirteen centuries later people invoke him over the internet.Feast day April 4
- St. Isidore the FarmerA day labourer who prayed before dawn and plowed after, the working farmer’s saint.Feast day May 15
- St. Ivo of KermartinA lawyer and not a thief, a marvel to the people: the advocate of the poor.Feast day May 19
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- St. James the GreaterFirst apostle martyred, and a thousand years of pilgrims still walk to his shrine.Feast day July 25
- St. James the LessThe quietest of the Twelve: called, stayed, and died for it.Feast day May 3
- St. JanuariusBishop-martyr of Naples, whose relic the city watches three times a year with held breath.Feast day September 19
- St. JeromeGave the West its Bible from a cave in Bethlehem: brilliant, cranky, and honest about it.Feast day September 30
- St. JoachimMary’s father: the grandfather of Jesus, patron of grandfathers and long awaited answers.Feast day July 26
- St. Joan of ArcThe teenager who led armies, was burned by a rigged court, and was proven right forever.Feast day May 30
- St. John Baptist de La SalleHe invented the modern classroom, and gave away his fortune so poor boys could sit in it.Feast day April 7
- St. John BerchmansMy penance is community life: the saint of the perfectly kept ordinary.Feast day November 26
- St. John BoscoA street-magician priest who built a family for Turin's abandoned boys, asked for by parents and teachers.Feast day January 31
- St. John ChrysostomThe golden mouth: he preached to the powerful as if they were poor, and paid the price.Feast day September 13
- St. John DamasceneFrom the caliph’s Damascus, he wrote the defence of holy images the Church still uses.Feast day December 4
- St. John EudesHe preached the Hearts of Jesus and Mary before anyone else, and built refuge for women the world had used.Feast day August 19
- St. John FisherThe one bishop who refused: made a cardinal in the Tower, and the hat never reached him.Feast day June 22
- St. John Gabriel PerboyreBetrayed for silver, he refused to trample the crucifix.Feast day September 11
- St. John Henry NewmanHeart speaks to heart: the Oxford convert who paid full price for following the argument.Feast day October 9
- St. John NepomuceneThrown from the Charles Bridge rather than break a confession’s seal.Feast day May 16
- St. John NeumannArrived in New York with one suit and no diocese, and built the American parochial school.Feast day January 5
- St. John of ÁvilaAndalusia’s apostle: Teresa’s advisor, John of God’s converter, and a Doctor the Inquisition once jailed.Feast day May 10
- St. John of GodA soldier turned hospital founder, asked for by heart patients and the mentally ill.Feast day March 8
- St. John of the CrossImprisoned by his own brothers, he wrote the poetry of the dark night in the cell.Feast day December 14
- St. John Paul IIThe pope who gave the rosary its first new mysteries in centuries, and forgave the man who shot him.Feast day October 22
- St. John the ApostleThe beloved disciple, at the cross when the others ran, and given the Lord’s mother.Feast day December 27
- St. John the BaptistThe forerunner: he must increase, I must decrease.Feast day June 24
- St. John VianneyThe failing seminary student who became the confessor all of France travelled to see.Feast day August 4
- St. John XXIIIThe caretaker pope who opened the windows, and told parents to give their children a caress from him.Feast day October 11
- St. José Sánchez del RíoFourteen years old, given every chance to renounce, and he would not.Feast day February 10
- St. JosephHusband of Mary, a working man, and the patron of a peaceful death.Feast day March 19
- St. Joseph CafassoThe priest of the gallows: he walked sixty condemned men to their deaths and called them his hanged saints.Feast day June 23
- St. Joseph CalasanzHe opened Europe’s first free school for poor children, and was deposed from his own order at ninety.Feast day August 25
- St. Joseph MoscatiThe Naples professor who treated the body and remembered the soul: the modern lay physician saint.Feast day November 16
- St. Joseph of CupertinoThe slowest student his teachers had ever met, asked for by test takers, and, from the levitations, by pilots.Feast day September 18
- St. Josephine BakhitaEnslaved as a child in Sudan, she ended a free woman, a sister, and a saint.Feast day February 8
- St. Juan DiegoThe man Our Lady of Guadalupe chose, whose tilma has hung in Mexico City ever since.Feast day December 9
- St. Jude ThaddeusThe apostle people turn to when a situation looks finished.Feast day October 28
- St. Julie BilliartParalyzed twenty two years, she taught from her bed; healed, she founded schools for twelve more.Feast day April 8
- St. Junípero SerraFounder of the California missions: he fought the soldiers for Indigenous people, and built a system that did lasting harm.Feast day July 1
- St. Justin MartyrHe shopped every philosophy in the empire, found the true one, and kept the philosopher’s cloak.Feast day June 1
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- St. LawrenceShown the fire, he kept the Church’s books and its jokes: the treasures are the poor.Feast day August 10
- St. Lawrence of BrindisiThe Capuchin who preached in eight languages, and rode before an army armed with a crucifix.Feast day July 21
- St. LazarusJesus wept at the tomb of this man, his friend. Four days dead, and called out by name.Feast day July 29
- St. Leo the GreatRode out to meet Attila, and the Hun turned around.Feast day November 10
- St. Leonard of NoblacThe hermit whose shrine filled with the chains of freed captives.Feast day November 6
- St. Leopold MandićFour foot five, a stammer, and forty years in one confessional.Feast day May 12
- St. Lorenzo RuizA Manila clerk who boarded the wrong ship, and became the Philippines’ first saint.Feast day September 28
- St. Louis de MontfortWrote The Secret of the Rosary: the apostle of total devotion to Mary.Feast day April 28
- St. Louis IXThe king who judged the poor under an oak tree, and wrote his son the letter every father means to write.Feast day August 25
- St. Louise de MarillacAn anxious widow who became the co-architect of organized charity, and the patron of social workers.Feast day March 15
- St. LucyA young martyr of Syracuse whose name means light, asked for by people with eye trouble.Feast day December 13
- St. Luigi OrioneOnly charity will save the world: he ran toward two earthquakes and dug with his hands.Feast day March 12
- St. LukeThe physician who wrote the Gospel of mercy, patron of doctors and artists.Feast day October 18
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- St. Madeleine Sophie BaratFoundress at twenty-one, superior for sixty-three years: for a single child I would have founded the Society.Feast day May 25
- St. MalachyHe reformed the Irish church and died in Bernard’s arms, and the famous prophecy under his name is a forgery.Feast day November 3
- St. Manuel González GarcíaHe walked into an abandoned church, saw the neglected tabernacle, and gave his life to keeping company.Feast day January 4
- St. Margaret ClitherowThe butcher’s wife of the Shambles who hid priests, and refused to plead, to spare her children.Feast day March 26
- St. Margaret Mary AlacoqueThe nun of the Sacred Heart: disbelieved at home, vindicated across the world.Feast day October 16
- St. Margaret of AntiochThe legend even her medieval editors doubted, and the patron women in labour have trusted for a thousand years.Feast day July 20
- St. Margaret of CastelloBorn blind and disabled, hidden by her parents, abandoned, and beloved by the whole town that found her.Feast day April 13
- St. Margaret of CortonaNine years a nobleman’s mistress, a son, a murder, and then the Franciscans’ Third Light.Feast day February 22
- St. Margaret of ScotlandThe exiled princess who civilized a court, mothered kings, and taught her husband to love the books he could not read.Feast day November 16
- St. Marguerite BourgeoysMontreal’s first teacher: she opened her school in a stable and fought Rome for sisters without walls.Feast day January 12
- St. Marguerite d'YouvilleWidow of a bootlegger, mocked as the tipsy sisters: she took the insult as a name.Feast day October 16
- St. Maria GorettiMurdered at eleven, and the second half of her story belongs to the man she forgave.Feast day July 6
- St. Mariam BaouardyThe little Arab: a Galilee orphan who survived the unthinkable and built the Carmel of Bethlehem.Feast day August 26
- St. Marianne CopeFifty congregations refused Hawaii’s plea. She answered, finished Damien’s work, and stayed thirty years.Feast day January 23
- St. Marie-Alphonsine GhattasA Jerusalem daughter who saw Our Lady of the Rosary, and founded the Rosary Sisters of Palestine.Feast day March 25
- St. MarkHe deserted Paul once, and the last word on him is that he is useful to me.Feast day April 25
- St. MarthaLord, don’t you care? The patron of everyone doing the work while others sit.Feast day July 29
- St. Martin de PorresBarred from full membership for his race, he outshone the order that barred him.Feast day November 3
- St. Martin of ToursThe soldier who cut his cloak in half for a freezing beggar, and the patron of everyone leaving the military.Feast day November 11
- St. Mary MacKillopExcommunicated, wrongly and briefly, and vindicated. Australia’s first saint kept teaching the whole time.Feast day August 8
- St. Mary MagdaleneThe first witness of the resurrection, and the patron of second chances.Feast day July 22
- St. Mary of BethanyShe chose the better part: the patron of sitting still with God.Feast day July 29
- St. Mary of EgyptSeventeen years she later named sin, forty seven alone in the desert: the patron of total turnarounds.Feast day April 1
- Venerable Matt TalbotA Dublin labourer who drank for sixteen years and stayed sober for forty-one.Venerable; his cause for canonization is open.
- St. MatthewThe tax collector who left the booth mid shift, patron of everyone whose work touches money.Feast day September 21
- St. MatthiasChosen by lot to fill the empty seat: the patron of stepping into a hard vacancy.Feast day May 14
- St. MauriceCommander of the Theban Legion: Egyptian soldiers who refused the unjust order, at the cost of the whole legion.Feast day September 22
- St. Maximilian KolbeTook another man's place in a starvation cell at Auschwitz.Feast day August 14
- St. Michael the ArchangelAsked to pray for protection, especially by people whose work puts them in danger.Feast day September 29
- Bl. Miguel ProExecuted without trial, arms outstretched, saying Viva Cristo Rey.Blessed; his cause for canonization is open.Feast day November 23
- St. MonicaPrayed seventeen years for a son who had left the faith.Feast day August 27
- St. Moses the BlackGang leader, then desert father: my sins run out behind me, and I come to judge another.Feast day August 28
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- St. Nicholas of MyraThe bishop behind Santa Claus: fiercer, poorer, and better than the legend.Feast day December 6
- St. Nicholas of TolentinoThe friar the Church names first among intercessors for the souls in purgatory.Feast day September 10
- St. Nimatullah KassabThe scholar-monk of Kfifan, who taught a young student named Charbel.Feast day December 14
- St. Nuno Álvares PereiraPortugal’s greatest general, who ended his days a Carmelite lay brother answering to Nuno of St. Mary.Feast day November 6
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- St. OlafViking raider, hard king, Norway’s eternal patron: sainthood found him faster than gentleness did.Feast day July 29
- St. Oliver PlunkettThe last Catholic martyr of Tyburn, condemned by a plot everyone knew was false, and forgiving everyone anyway.Feast day July 1
- St. Oscar RomeroChosen as the safe candidate, he became the voice of the voiceless, and was shot at the altar.Feast day March 24
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- St. PancrasMartyred at fourteen, and for a thousand years oaths were sworn over his tomb.Feast day May 12
- St. PantaleonThe emperor’s physician who treated the poor free: he lapsed once, came back, and paid the full price.Feast day July 27
- St. Paschal BaylonA shepherd who became the kitchen brother, and the formal patron of every Eucharistic congress on earth.Feast day May 17
- St. PatrickTaken as a slave, went back freely, and is asked to pray for people facing fear.Feast day March 17
- St. PaulThe persecutor knocked off his feet. Half the New Testament is his letters.Feast day June 29
- St. Paul Miki and CompanionsTwenty six crucified above Nagasaki, then the Church went underground for 250 years and survived.Feast day February 6
- St. Paul of the CrossFounder of the Passionists, and a man who prayed fifty years for a thing he never saw answered.Feast day October 20
- St. Paul VIHe inherited an open Council and a divided Church, and carried both to the finish.Feast day May 29
- St. Peregrine LaziosiA cancer patient himself, asked for by people facing the same diagnosis.Feast day May 1
- St. PeterThe fisherman who denied him three times and was given the keys anyway.Feast day June 29
- St. Peter CanisiusThe second apostle of Germany: he answered a hostile age with catechisms and courtesy.Feast day December 21
- St. Peter ChrysologusGolden words: the Doctor who kept his homilies short on purpose.Feast day July 30
- St. Peter ClaverSlave of the slaves forever. He signed it, and met every ship for forty years.Feast day September 9
- St. Peter DamianOrphan, swineherd, hermit, cardinal, and a man who spent thirty years begging to be sent back to his cell.Feast day February 21
- St. Peter Julian EymardThe apostle of adoration: he built a life around simply staying in the Presence.Feast day August 2
- St. PhilipShow us the Father: the apostle who asked the question everyone eventually asks.Feast day May 3
- St. Philip NeriThe Apostle of Rome, who made cheerfulness a discipline and jokes a cure for pride.Feast day May 26
- St. PhilomenaA name on three tiles and a devotion the saints themselves carried.Venerated through devotion rather than historical record. Very little about her life can be established.Feast day August 11
- St. Pier Giorgio FrassatiVerso l’alto: the mountain climbing student whose secret poor filled his funeral.Feast day July 4
- St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.Feast day September 23
- St. PolycarpEighty six years I have served him: a disciple of John, faithful to the end of the living link.Feast day February 23
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- St. Rafael Arnáiz BarónThe young Trappist diabetes kept expelling. He kept coming back, and died at twenty six.Feast day April 26
- St. RafqaShe asked to share Christ’s suffering, and bore thirty years of it with documented joy.Feast day March 23
- St. Raphael the ArchangelThe archangel of healing, safe travel, and finding the right person.Feast day September 29
- St. Raymond NonnatusDelivered by cesarean after his mother died, he spent his life buying other people back.Feast day August 31
- St. Raymond of PenyafortHe organized the Church’s law, wrote the confessors’ manual of mercy, and then lived to be about a hundred.Feast day January 7
- St. Rita of CasciaMarried into violence, outlived it, and is asked for in impossible situations.Feast day May 22
- St. Robert BellarmineThe Church’s chief controversialist, who pawned his own furniture for the poor and wrote on dying well.Feast day September 17
- St. RochA pilgrim who nursed plague victims, caught it, and was fed by a dog, asked for in epidemics.Feast day August 16
- St. Rose of LimaThe first canonized saint of the Americas: needlework by day, the poor in her family’s spare room.Feast day August 23
- St. Rose Philippine DuchesneShe begged thirty years for the mission, arrived at forty nine, failed at the language, and knelt.Feast day November 18
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- St. ScholasticaBenedict's twin sister, who prayed up a thunderstorm to keep her brother one more night.Feast day February 10
- St. SebastianThe officer executed twice: he survived the arrows, went back, and finished the martyrdom.Feast day January 20
- St. Simon StockThe Carmelite of the brown scapular: the little habit millions wear.Feast day May 16
- St. Simon the ZealotThe political radical seated at the same table as the tax collector.Feast day October 28
- Bl. Solanus CaseyDetroit’s own: the doorkeeper of St. Bonaventure who told a city to thank God ahead of time.Blessed; his cause for canonization is open.Feast day July 30
- St. Stanislaus KostkaHe walked four hundred and fifty miles to answer his call, and died a novice at seventeen.Feast day November 13
- St. Stanislaus of KrakówPoland’s bishop martyr: he excommunicated his king and was cut down at the altar.Feast day April 11
- St. StephenThe first martyr. He died forgiving, with Saul holding the coats.Feast day December 26
- St. Stephen of HungaryHungary’s first king: he wrote his son a manual of everything he knew, and then had to bury him.Feast day August 16
- Sts. Cosmas and DamianTwin physicians who charged nothing: the silverless ones, patrons of medicine.Feast day September 26
- Sts. Crispin and CrispinianBrother shoemakers who charged the poor nothing, and whose feast day became a byword for courage.Feast day October 25
- Sts. Cyril and MethodiusThey gave the Slavs an alphabet so the Gospel could speak their language.Feast day February 14
- Sts. Elizabeth and ZechariahJohn the Baptist’s parents: her greeting became half the Hail Mary, and his silence ended in a canticle.Feast day November 5
- Sts. Francisco and Jacinta MartoThe shepherd children of Fatima, asked by Our Lady of the Rosary for exactly this prayer.Feast day February 20
- Sts. Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and CompanionsEight missionaries who died among the peoples they had chosen to belong to.Feast day October 19
- Sts. Louis and Zélie MartinThe first married couple canonized together, who buried four children and kept believing.Feast day July 12
- Sts. Perpetua and FelicityA young mother and her enslaved friend, martyred hand in hand. Her prison diary still survives.Feast day March 7
- Sts. Priscilla and AquilaTentmakers, hosts, teachers: the New Testament’s model marriage worked as a team.Feast day July 8
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- St. TarcisiusThe boy who would not surrender what he was carrying: the altar servers’ martyr.Feast day August 15
- St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)Jewish philosopher and Catholic Carmelite, killed at Auschwitz, a daughter of Israel to the end.Feast day August 9
- St. Teresa of ÁvilaA Carmelite reformer who prayed dry for twenty years, asked for by headache sufferers and anyone whose prayer feels like nothing.Feast day October 15
- St. Teresa of CalcuttaFifty years serving the dying, and fifty years of interior darkness, serving anyway.Feast day September 5
- St. Théophane VénardHe wrote letters from a cage that read like spring, and Thérèse kept his picture until she died.Feast day November 24
- St. Thérèse of LisieuxWrote that small ordinary things done with love are the whole of it.Feast day October 1
- St. Thomas AquinasThe Church's greatest mind, locked in a tower by his own family, asked for by students.Feast day January 28
- St. Thomas MoreThe King's good servant, but God's first: patron of lawyers and of costly integrity.Feast day June 22
- St. Thomas the ApostleUnless I see: the doubter whose demand produced the highest confession in the Gospels.Feast day July 3
- St. TimothyPaul’s anxious protege, told to let no one despise his youth.Feast day January 26
- St. TitusPaul’s fixer, sent into the messes nobody else could sort out.Feast day January 26
- St. Titus BrandsmaThe journalist the Nazis killed at Dachau. His last act was giving his rosary to his executioner.Feast day July 27
- St. Turibius of MogrovejoA law professor drafted to Lima, who walked his diocese for twenty five years and confirmed two future saints.Feast day March 23
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- St. ValentineA martyred priest of Rome. The love came later, and it fits.Feast day February 14
- St. VeronicaShe pushed through the soldiers to wipe his face: the patron of small mercies in large suffering.
- St. Vincent de PaulThe peasant priest who organised charity itself. Every parish food pantry descends from him.Feast day September 27
- St. Vincent PallottiA century early, he insisted that every layperson is an apostle.Feast day January 22
- St. VitusA boy of the persecutions whose name medicine borrowed: patron of epilepsy, dancers, and performers.Feast day June 15