Saints

All saints, A to Z

Every saint this site covers or is working toward, filed by name, with who they were and their feast day at a glance. Cards without a page yet are marked, and their pages are being added in batches. If you are looking for someone to ask about a particular situation rather than by name, start here instead.

61 pages published, 279 saints indexed

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  • St. Edmund CampionScholar-martyr of England.Feast day December 1Page coming
  • St. Edward the ConfessorEngland's saint-king; patron of difficult reigns.Feast day October 13Page coming
  • St. EligiusMaster metalsmith and bishop; patron of metalworkers, jewelers, and mechanics.Feast day December 1Page coming
  • St. Elizabeth (mother of the Baptist)Believed an impossible pregnancy; asked for by older mothers.Page coming
  • St. Elizabeth Ann SetonWidowed mother of five, foundress; first U.S.-born saint; patron of Catholic schools.Feast day January 4Page coming
  • St. Elizabeth of HungaryWidowed at twenty, gave everything away; patron of widows, bakers, and charitable works.Feast day November 17Page coming
  • St. Elizabeth of PortugalQueen who twice rode between armies to stop wars; patron of peacemakers in families.Feast day July 4Page coming
  • St. EphremThe deacon who taught theology in hymns; patron of church musicians and poets.Feast day June 9Page coming
  • St. Erasmus (Elmo)Bishop-martyr; patron of sailors and invoked for abdominal ailments.Feast day June 2Page coming
  • St. ExpeditusInvoked for urgent causes and against putting things off.Feast day April 19

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  • St. HedwigDuchess turned widow-religious; patron of widows and of Silesia.Feast day October 16Page coming
  • St. HelenaConstantine's mother, seeker of the true Cross; popularly invoked in difficult marriages and by the divorced.Feast day August 18Page coming
  • St. Hilary of PoitiersDefender of the faith in the West.Feast day January 13Page coming
  • St. Hildegard of BingenAbbess, composer, physician, visionary; patron of musicians and of polymaths.Feast day September 17Page coming
  • St. HomobonusA merchant canonized for honest business; patron of business owners.Feast day November 13Page coming
  • St. Honoratus of Amiens (Honoré)Patron of bakers and pastry chefs.Feast day May 16Page coming
  • St. HubertConverted mid-hunt, by tradition; patron of hunters.Feast day November 3Page coming

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  • St. Ignatius of AntiochWrote seven letters on the way to the lions.Feast day October 17Page coming
  • 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. Irenaeus"The glory of God is a human being fully alive.".Feast day June 28Page coming
  • St. Isidore of SevilleCompiled all knowledge of his age; popularly invoked for the internet.Feast day April 4Page coming
  • St. Isidore the FarmerA Madrid field laborer; patron of farmers and rural workers.Feast day May 15Page coming
  • St. Ivo of Kermartin"A lawyer and not a thief, a marvel to the people"; patron of lawyers and of the poor in court.Feast day May 19Page coming

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  • St. James the GreaterFirst apostle martyred; patron of pilgrims and arthritis sufferers.Feast day July 25Page coming
  • St. James the LessApostle and first bishop of Jerusalem.Feast day May 3Page coming
  • St. JanuariusBishop-martyr of Naples; his relic and its famous phenomenon still draw the city.Feast day September 19Page coming
  • St. JeromeTranslated the Bible and suffered no fools; patron of translators, librarians, and the short-tempered trying.Feast day September 30Page coming
  • St. JoachimFather of Mary; patron of grandfathers.Feast day July 26Page coming
  • 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 SalleInvented the modern classroom; patron of teachers.Feast day April 7Page coming
  • St. John BerchmansDied a student at twenty-two; patron of altar servers and seminarians.Page coming
  • 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 Chrysostom"Golden-mouthed" preacher exiled for naming the sins of the powerful; patron of preachers.Feast day September 13Page coming
  • St. John DamasceneDefended the holy images; patron of iconographers and artists.Feast day December 4Page coming
  • St. John EudesApostle of the Sacred Heart devotion's foundations.Feast day August 19Page coming
  • St. John FisherThe one bishop who refused; patron of standing alone.Feast day June 22Page coming
  • St. John Gabriel PerboyreMissionary-martyr in China.Page coming
  • St. John Henry NewmanThe convert who wrote "heart speaks to heart"; patron of seekers who take the long way.Feast day October 9Page coming
  • St. John NepomuceneDied rather than break the seal of confession; patron of confessors and against slander.Page coming
  • St. John NeumannImmigrant bishop of Philadelphia; built the parochial school system.Feast day January 5Page coming
  • St. John of ÁvilaThe preacher whose sermon converted John of God; patron of Spanish clergy.Feast day May 10Page coming
  • 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, and wrote the Dark Night there; patron of poets and of people in spiritual darkness.Feast day December 14Page coming
  • St. John Paul IIThe pope of the Luminous Mysteries; patron of families and of World Youth Day.Feast day October 22Page coming
  • St. John the ApostleThe disciple Jesus loved; patron of writers and of friendship.Feast day December 27Page coming
  • St. John the BaptistThe forerunner; patron of baptism and of beginnings.Feast day June 24Page coming
  • St. John VianneyThe failing seminary student who became the confessor all of France travelled to see.Feast day August 4
  • St. John XXIIIThe pope who opened the windows; patron of stepping into the unknown late in life.Feast day October 11Page coming
  • St. José Sánchez del RíoFourteen-year-old martyr of the Cristero War; patron of persecuted youth.Feast day February 10Page coming
  • St. JosephHusband of Mary, a working man, and the patron of a peaceful death.Feast day March 19
  • St. Joseph CafassoChaplain to the condemned of Turin; patron of prisoners on death row and prison chaplains.Feast day June 23Page coming
  • St. Joseph CalasanzOpened Europe's first free public school; patron of schools for the poor.Feast day August 25Page coming
  • St. Joseph MoscatiPhysician-professor of Naples who treated the poor free; patron of doctors and medical students.Page coming
  • 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 BakhitaKidnapped and enslaved as a child in Sudan, chose her chains' opposite; patron of trafficking survivors.Feast day February 8Page coming
  • St. Juan DiegoThe seer of Guadalupe; patron of indigenous peoples.Feast day December 9Page coming
  • St. Jude ThaddeusThe apostle people turn to when a situation looks finished.Feast day October 28
  • St. Julie BilliartParalyzed and healed, founded schools; patron of people with disabilities and of teachers.Feast day April 8Page coming
  • St. Junípero SerraFounder of the California missions.Feast day July 1Page coming
  • St. Justin MartyrThe philosopher who found the faith reasonable; patron of philosophers and apologists.Feast day June 1Page coming

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  • St. Kateri TekakwithaMohawk convert; patron of ecology and of Native peoples.Feast day July 14Page coming
  • St. Katharine DrexelGave a banking fortune to Black and Native education; patron of racial justice and philanthropists.Feast day March 3Page coming

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  • St. LawrenceRoasted alive and joked about it; patron of cooks and deacons.Feast day August 10Page coming
  • St. Lawrence of BrindisiPreached in six languages.Feast day July 21Page coming
  • St. LazarusThe man Jesus wept for and raised; asked for at gravesides.Feast day July 29Page coming
  • St. Leo the GreatThe pope who talked Attila out of Rome.Feast day November 10Page coming
  • St. Leonard of NoblacPatron of prisoners and captives.Page coming
  • St. Leopold MandićTiny, stammering confessor, hours daily in the box; patron of confessors and of people with speech difficulties.Page coming
  • St. Lorenzo RuizFilipino layman, family man, martyred abroad; patron of Filipinos and of migrants.Feast day September 28Page coming
  • St. Louis de MontfortApostle of the rosary and of total consecration to Mary.Feast day April 28Page coming
  • St. Louis IXThe king who judged under an oak tree; patron of rulers, barbers, and the French.Feast day August 25Page coming
  • St. Louise de MarillacCo-founded the Daughters of Charity; patron of social workers.Feast day May 9Page coming
  • St. LucyA young martyr of Syracuse whose name means light, asked for by people with eye trouble.Feast day December 13
  • St. Luigi OrioneFounder for the disabled and abandoned.Page coming
  • St. LukePhysician and evangelist; patron of doctors and artists.Feast day October 18Page coming

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  • St. Madeleine Sophie BaratEducator of girls across a century.Feast day May 25Page coming
  • St. MalachyReforming Irish archbishop.Feast day November 3Page coming
  • St. Manuel González GarcíaBishop of the abandoned tabernacle; patron of Eucharistic adoration.Page coming
  • St. Margaret ClitherowPressed to death for hiding priests; patron of businesswomen and converts.Feast day March 26Page coming
  • St. Margaret Mary AlacoqueThe nun of the Sacred Heart devotion.Feast day October 16Page coming
  • St. Margaret of AntiochMartyr; invoked for centuries by women in labor.Feast day July 20Page coming
  • St. Margaret of CortonaAn unmarried mother turned Franciscan penitent; patron of single mothers.Feast day February 22Page coming
  • St. Margaret of ScotlandReforming queen and mother of eight; patron of large families.Feast day November 16Page coming
  • St. Marguerite d'YouvilleWidow of a bootlegger, mocked as "the tipsy sisters," built Montreal's care for the poor; patron of difficult marriages and widows.Page coming
  • St. Maria GorettiMurdered at eleven resisting assault, forgave her attacker by name; patron of survivors of assault.Feast day July 6Page coming
  • St. Mariam Baouardy"The little Arab," Palestinian Carmelite mystic.Page coming
  • St. Marianne CopeWent where Damien died and stayed thirty years; patron of outcasts and of nurses in impossible postings.Feast day January 23Page coming
  • St. Marie-Alphonsine GhattasFounded the first Palestinian congregation; devoted to the rosary.Page coming
  • St. MarkEvangelist; patron of notaries and of Venice.Feast day April 25Page coming
  • St. MarthaThe one in the kitchen; patron of homemakers, cooks, and hosts.Feast day July 29Page coming
  • St. Martin de PorresBarred from full membership for his race, outshone the order that barred him; patron of racial harmony, barbers, and the poor.Feast day November 3Page coming
  • 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 (briefly, wrongly) and vindicated; patron of Australia and of the unfairly disciplined.Feast day August 8Page coming
  • St. Mary MagdaleneThe first witness of the resurrection, and the patron of second chances.Feast day July 22
  • St. Mary of BethanyThe one who sat and listened.Feast day July 29Page coming
  • St. Mary of EgyptDecades of desert penance after a public past; patron of penitents and of radical second halves.Page coming
  • Venerable Matt TalbotA Dublin labourer who drank for sixteen years and stayed sober for forty-one.Venerable; his cause for canonization is open.
  • St. MatthewTax collector turned evangelist; patron of accountants and bankers.Feast day September 21Page coming
  • St. MatthiasChosen to replace Judas; patron of second chances at a role.Feast day May 14Page coming
  • St. MauriceCommander of the Theban Legion, executed with his men for refusing an unjust order; patron of soldiers of conscience.Feast day September 22Page coming
  • St. Maximilian KolbeTook another man's place in a starvation cell at Auschwitz.Feast day August 14
  • St. Michael the ArchangelInvoked for protection, and by people whose work puts them in danger.Feast day September 29
  • Bl. Miguel ProJesuit executed in Mexico, arms out, "Viva Cristo Rey"; patron of persecuted Christians.Blessed; his cause for canonization is open.Feast day November 23Page coming
  • St. MonicaPrayed seventeen years for a son who had left the faith.Feast day August 27
  • St. Moses the BlackGang leader turned desert father; patron of people leaving violence behind.Feast day August 28Page coming

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  • St. OlafNorway's rough king-saint; patron of Norway.Feast day July 29Page coming
  • St. Oliver PlunkettThe last Catholic martyr at Tyburn; patron of peace in Ireland.Feast day July 1Page coming
  • St. Oscar RomeroShot at the altar for naming the killings; patron of the persecuted and of El Salvador.Feast day March 24Page coming

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  • St. PancrasMartyred at fourteen; patron of children and of oaths kept.Feast day May 12Page coming
  • St. PantaleonPhysician-martyr; co-patron of doctors.Feast day July 27Page coming
  • St. Paschal BaylonLay brother and cook; patron of Eucharistic devotion and of kitchens.Feast day May 17Page coming
  • St. PatrickTaken as a slave, went back freely, and is invoked against fear.Feast day March 17
  • St. PaulPersecutor turned apostle; patron of writers, converts, and hard reversals.Feast day June 29Page coming
  • St. Paul Miki and CompanionsCrucified at Nagasaki; patrons of Japan and of forgiveness of executioners.Feast day February 6Page coming
  • St. Paul of the CrossFounder of the Passionists.Page coming
  • St. Paul VICarried the Council to its finish.Feast day May 29Page coming
  • St. Peregrine LaziosiA cancer patient himself, asked for by people facing the same diagnosis.Feast day May 1
  • St. PeterThe fisherman who denied three times and led anyway; patron of the Church.Feast day June 29Page coming
  • St. Peter CanisiusRebuilt the faith in German lands with catechisms and patience.Feast day December 21Page coming
  • St. Peter ChrysologusThe preacher of short homilies; a patron for saying it briefly.Feast day July 30Page coming
  • St. Peter ClaverMet every slave ship at Cartagena for forty years; patron of enslaved peoples and of racial justice.Feast day September 9Page coming
  • St. Peter Julian EymardApostle of the Eucharist; patron of adoration chapels.Feast day August 2Page coming
  • St. PhilipThe apostle who said "show us the Father.".Feast day May 3Page coming
  • St. Philip NeriThe laughing saint of Rome; patron of joy and of not taking yourself seriously.Feast day May 26Page coming
  • St. PhilomenaA young martyr known almost only through devotion.Venerated through devotion rather than historical record. Very little about her life can be established.Feast day August 11Page coming
  • St. Pier Giorgio FrassatiMountain-climbing engineering student who served the poor in secret; patron of young adults and outdoorsmen.Feast day July 4Page coming
  • St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.Feast day September 23
  • St. Polycarp"Eighty-six years I have served him"; patron of fidelity in old age.Feast day February 23Page coming

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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 StockCarmelite tied by tradition to the brown scapular.Page coming
  • St. Simon the ZealotApostle; shares his feast with St. Jude.Feast day October 28Page coming
  • Bl. Solanus CaseyDetroit's own: the Capuchin doorkeeper of St. Bonaventure on Mt. Elliott, ordained "simplex," associated with thousands of favors; patron of the sick and the ordinary.Blessed; his cause for canonization is open.Feast day July 30Page coming
  • St. Stanislaus KostkaWalked 350 miles to join the Jesuits at seventeen; patron of determined youth.Page coming
  • St. Stanislaus of KrakówBishop-martyr of Poland, killed by a king.Feast day April 11Page coming
  • St. StephenThe first martyr; patron of deacons.Feast day December 26Page coming
  • St. Stephen of HungaryFounding king; patron of Hungary.Feast day August 16Page coming
  • Sts. Cosmas and DamianTwin physicians who charged nothing; patrons of doctors, surgeons, and pharmacists.Feast day September 26Page coming
  • Sts. Crispin and CrispinianShoemaker-martyrs; patrons of cobblers and leatherworkers.Feast day October 25Page coming
  • Sts. Cyril and MethodiusGave the Slavs an alphabet; co-patrons of Europe.Feast day February 14Page coming
  • Sts. Francisco and Jacinta MartoThe Fatima children.Feast day February 20Page coming
  • Sts. Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and CompanionsThe North American martyrs.Feast day October 19Page coming
  • Sts. Louis and Zélie MartinThérèse's parents, canonized as a couple; patrons of marriage, small business, and grieving parents, they buried four children.Feast day July 12Page coming
  • Sts. Perpetua and FelicityA noblewoman and her servant, martyred together; patrons of mothers separated from children.Feast day March 7Page coming
  • Sts. Priscilla and AquilaA married couple who taught the faith together; patrons of working marriages.Feast day July 8Page coming

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  • St. UbaldusInvoked against obsessive fear and harassment.Page coming

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  • St. WenceslausThe good king of the carol, murdered by his brother; patron of the Czech people.Feast day September 28Page coming

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  • St. ZechariahStruck silent for doubting, and given his voice back.Page coming
  • St. ZitaA lifelong domestic servant; patron of housekeepers, and of finding lost keys.Feast day April 27Page coming