- Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. She is considered by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches to be a saint, with a feast day of July 22. She is also commemorated by the Lutheran Church with a festival on the same day. The Orthodox Church also commemorates her on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers, which is the second Sunday after Pascha (Easter).
- Thomas More
Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his father. Although the future held much promise for him, More was unsure of the direction he wanted his life to take. He considered becoming a priest but decided not to enter the Church because of his burning desire to have a family.
- Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (October 8 (JC), 1585 Köstritz - November 6, 1672 Dresden) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, "Dafne", performed at Torgau in 1627; however, the music has since been lost.
- George Herbert
George Herbert (April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education which led on to him holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, George Herbert excelled in languages and music. He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest, …
- John Fisher
Saint John Fisher also John Cardinal Fisher (c. 1469-1535), was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on June 22 on the Catholic calendar of saints and July 6 on the Anglican calendar of saints.
- Hilary Of Poitiers
Hilarius or Hilary was bishop of Poitiers ('Pictavium') and considered an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "malleus Arianorum" ("hammer against Arianism") and the “Athanasius of the West”. His name comes from the Greek word for happy or cheerful, the same root as English "hilarious". He died on January 13, his saint's day since 1970. As this was traditionally the Octave Day of the Epiphany, …
- Mary Brant
Koñwatsiãtsiaiéñni or Mary (Molly) Brant was a Mohawk leader and the older sister of Joseph Brant, both of whom wielded considerable influence during the American Revolution as Loyalist allies of the British Crown. Mary Brant was the common-law wife of Sir William Johnson, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Mohawk Valley in the colony of New York.
- Paul Gerhardt
Paul Gerhardt, was a German hymn writer. He is commemorated as a hymnwriter in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on October 26 with Philipp Nicolai and Johann Heermann. Gerhardt was born into a middle-class family at Gräfenhainichen, a small town between Halle and Wittenberg. His education was held back by the troubles of the period; the Thirty Years' War began when he was about eleven.
- Ini Kopuria
Ini Kopuria (died 1945), a police officer from Maravovo, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands formed the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, the Right Reverend John Manwaring Steward, realised Ini's dream by forming a band of brothers (known in the Mota language as 'Ira Reta Tasiu') to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the non-Christian areas of Melanesia.
- Absalom Jones
Absalom Jones (1746 - February 13, 1818), was an African American abolitionist and clergyman. He was the first African American priest in the Episcopal Church and is listed on the Episcopal calendar of saints and blessed under the date of his decease, February 13, in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as "Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818". Jones was born into slavery in Delaware in 1746. When he was sixteen, he was sold to a storeowner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Saint Ursula
Ursula ("small female bear" in Latin) is a British Christian saint. Her feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is October 21, though her feast was removed from the general calendar of saints in 1969. Her legend, probably unhistorical, is that she was a Romano-British princess who, at the request of her father King Donaut of Dumnonia in south-west England, set sail to join her future husband, the pagan Governor Conan Meriadoc of Armorica (Brittany), …
- Bartolomé de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (August 24 1484 - July 17 1566), was a 16th century Spanish Dominican priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World, he was galvanized by witnessing the torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. He is commemorated as a missionary in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on July 17.
- Goeric Of Metz
Goeric of Metz (?-September 19, 643) (also known as Abbo I of Metz, Goericus of Metz, and Gury of Metz) was a bishop of Metz. He was a married man with two daughters. He recovered his eyesight at St. Stephen's in Metz. Shortly thereafter, he joined the clergy and was ordained a priest by Arnulf of Metz. In 627, he succeeded Arnulf as bishop of Metz.
- Martin Chemnitz
Martin Chemnitz (November 9 1522 - April 8 1586) was an eminent second-generation Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Lutheran tradition he is known as "Alter Martinus," the "Second Martin": "Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset" ("If Martin [Chemnitz] had not come along, Martin [Luther] would hardly have survived") goes a common saying concerning him.
- John Manwaring Steward
John Manwaring Steward (1874-1937) was the fifth Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1919 to 1928. From 1924 he was assisted by Frederick M. Molyneux as assistant bishop. He was the son of Charles Edward Steward, also an Anglican priest. J.M. Steward was elected Bishop of Melanesia after 17 years of missionary work as a priest in the Melanesian Mission, which he joined in 1902.
- Anianus Of Alexandria
Anianus served as Patriarch of Alexandria from 68 to 82, a position which preceded the Popes of the Coptic Church and Orthodox Church of Alexandria. He was the successor of Saint Mark the Apostolic, and is, in fact, mentioned in the apocryphal Acts of Mark. Saint Mark mentions that Anianus was a cobbler who repaired his sandals. Some modern sources suggest he was a noble, although this would not agree with the story of his conversion as told to us by Saint Mark.
- Cecil Wilson
Cecil Wilson (1860-1941) was the third missionary Bishop of Melanesia from 1894 to 1911, and subsequently as Bishop of Bunbury from 1918 to 1937. An 1882 graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, Wilson served parishes in England before his consecration. He launched the fifth Southern Cross (ship) in 1903 and advocated for the movement of the center of Anglican life in Melanesia to the Solomon Islands from Norfolk Island.
- Pope Simplicius Simplicius
Pope Saint Simplicius was pope from 468 to March 10, 483. He was born at Tivoli, Italy, the son of a citizen named Castinus. Most of what is known of him is derived from the "Liber Pontificalis." Simplicius defended the action of the Council of Chalcedon against the Monophysite heresy (and its confirmation of the equality to the Bishop of Rome of the eastern patriarchs), labored to help the people of Italy against the marauding raids of barbarian invaders, …
- Johannes Bugenhagen
Johannes Bugenhagen (24 June 1485 in Wollin, Pomerania-20 April 1558 in Wittenberg, Saxony), also called "Doktor Pomeranus" by Martin Luther, introduced the Reformation in Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod as a pastor on April 20.
- Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Imperial Count of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf, (May 26, 1700 - May 9, 1760), German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church, was born at Dresden. Zinzendorf had a naturally alert and active mind, and an enthusiastic temperament that made his life one of ceaseless planning and executing. Like Martin Luther, he was often carried away by strong and vehement feelings, …
- Angilbert
Saint Angilbert was a Frank who served Charlemagne as a diplomat, abbot, poet and semi-son-in-law. He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school under Alcuin. He is venerated as a saint, on the day of his death—18 February.
- Himelin
Saint Himelin (Hymelin, Himelinus was a Scottish priest who, returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, fell ill when passing through Vissenaken (in present-day part of the municipality Tienen in Belgium). He is said to have been the brother of Rumbold, patron saint of Mechelen. The legend of Saint Himelin states that in Vissenaken he asked a girl for some water. She refused, as there was bubonic plague in the area.
- Alexis Falconieri
Saint Alexis Falconieri is one of the seven founders of the Order of the Servites and, as such, commemorated on their common feast day, 17 February — the day of Alexis' death.
- Cucuphas
Saint Cucuphas (Cucufas, Qaqophas Cucufate, Cocoba(s); in Catalan Cugat, Culgat, or Cougat; Cucuphat; Cucufa, Cucuphat, Quiquenfat; Galician Covade, Cobad; Gascon Cophan; Asturian Cucao) (d. 304 AD) is a martyr of Spain.
- Mochuda
Saint Mochuda (also known as Carthage of Lismore or Carthage the Younger) was an Irish bishop and abbot of the sixth and seventh centuries. His feast day is May 14. Carthage, was born in what is now County Kerry, Ireland, about the year 555. He spent his youth as a swineherd near Castlemaine, and became a monk in a neighbouring monastery under the guidance of St. Carthage the Elder, subsequently being ordained a priest.
- Philemon The Actor
Saint Philemon (d.305) was an actor at Antinopolis who was converted by saint Appolonius. They were martyred together under the persecutions of Diocletian. Their feast day is 8 March.
- Walter Hubert Baddeley
Walter Hubert Baddeley (1894-1960) was the seventh Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1932 to 1947. He was born in Portslade, Sussex, and educated at Keble College and Cuddesdon College before ordination. Baddeley was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1921, after which he served as both curate and vicar in the Diocese of York. Bishop Baddeley remained in his diocese during World War Two, …
- William Porcher Dubose
William Porcher DuBose (April 11, 1836-1918) was a priest and theologian in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He spent most of his career as a professor at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is remembered on August 18 on the Episcopal Calendar of "Lesser Feasts and Fasts".
- C. F. W. Walther
Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian. He is commemorated by that church on its Calendar of Saints on May 7.
- Amarinus Of Clermont
Saint Amarinus (d.25 January 676) was bishop of Clermont. He was killed together with Saint Praejectus. His feast day is 25 January.
- Mutien-Marie Wiaux
Saint Mutien-Marie Wiaux (Mucian Mary Wiaux; Mucian of Malonne was a Belgian member of the Brothers of Christian Schools. Born Louis Wiaux, the third of six children, in French-speaking Belgium to a devout, Catholic family. After joining the Christian Brothers, he took the religious name Mutien-Marie, "Mutien" being a reference to the early Roman martyr Mucian. He began the novitiate at Namur.
- Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm (1808 - March 25, 1877) was a progressive 19th-century English humanitarian known mostly for her involvement with female immigrant welfare in Australia. She is commemorated in the Calendar of saints of the Church of England. Caroline Chisholm also helped to get rid of religious prejudice and racism.
- F. C. D. Wyneken
Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken (May 13 1810 - May 4 1876) was a missionary, pastor and the second president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. One hundred years after fellow Hannoverian Henry Muhlenberg brought together the pastors and congregations of colonial America, Wyneken gathered scattered German Protestants into confessional Lutheran congregations and forged them into a closely knit family of churches.
- Li Tim-Oi
Florence Li Tim-Oi (Cantonese "Lei Tim'oi", Mandarin "Li Tian'ai"; 5 May 1907 in Hong Kong - 26 February 1992 in Toronto) was the first female priest to be ordained in the Anglican Communion. Already appointed as a deacon to serve in the colony of Macao, she was ordained priest on 25 January 1944 by the bishop of Hong Kong, in response to the crisis among Anglican Christians in China caused by the Japanese invasion.
- John Richardson Selwyn
John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898) was the second Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1877 to 1892. He was the son of Sarah Richardson and George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand. He made significant financial contributions along with others to the construction of the Southern Cross (ship). Selwyn is listed in the Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia).
- Clement Marau
Clement Marau (c. 1857-1926, alt. Maraw, Marow) was a Melanesian Anglican clergyman. He was made a deacon by Bishop John Richardson Selwyn in 1890, and ordained to the priesthood in 1903 by Bishop Cecil Wilson. Born in the Banks Islands, he was taken to Norfolk Island for Christian education and ministerial training. He worked as a teacher and pastor in the Solomon Islands. Marau was removed from his clerical office following a 1907 charge of adultery, …
- Ulphia
Ulphia (Ulphe, Olfe, Wulfe, Wolfia, Wulfia) of Amiens (d. 8th century) is a saint of the Catholic Church, venerated particularly at Amiens. She was said to be a young girl living on the banks of the Noye who became a hermit at Saint-Acheul, near Amiens, under the spiritual direction of Saint Domitius (Domice). At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens. Her feast day is January 31.
- Constantius Of Perugia
Saint Costantius (also known as Constantius, Constance or Costanzo; second century) is one of the patron saints of Perugia, Italy. His feast day is January 29. Costantius became the first bishop of Perugia at the age of 30. He was active in evangelism and caring for the poor. He was tortured and beheaded with many of his followers in 170 CE during a series of persecutions ordered by Marcus Aurelius. On his feast day "torcolo", a ring-shaped cake made of pine-nut, raisins, …
- Boniface Of Brussels
Saint Boniface was bishop of Lausanne from "c."1230 until 1239 when he resigned after being assaulted by agents of Frederick II. His feast day is 19 February.
- Leontius Of Fréjus
Saint Leontius (Saint Léonce de Fréjus was a bishop of Fréjus, in Provence. He was born probably at Nimes, towards the end of the fourth century; he died in his episcopal town in 488, according to some authorities, though others say 443 or even 448. His feast day is December 1. The date of his episcopal ordination is uncertain, …