- Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc in French, (1412 - May 30, 1431) is a 15th century national heroine of France. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized as a saint in 1920. Joan asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege at Orléans as part of a relief mission.
- 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.
- Ignatius Of Loyola
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de Loyola, was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission. Members of the order are called Jesuits. The compiler of the "Spiritual Exercises" and a gifted spiritual director, Ignatius has been described by Pope Benedict XVI as being "above all a man of God, …
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native-born United States citizen to be canonized.
- Edith Stein
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 - August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (her Carmelite monastic name) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is still often referred to, …
- John Bosco
Saint Don Bosco, born Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, and known in English as John Bosco (August 16 1815 - January 31 1888), was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and recognized pedagogue, who put into practice the dogma of his religion, employing teaching methods based on love rather than punishment. He placed his works under the protection of Francis de Sales; thus his followers styled themselves the Salesian Society.
- Mother Cabrini
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini known during her life as Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. She was born Maria Francesca Cabrini in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, in Lombardy, the youngest of thirteen children of Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. Two months premature, she remained in delicate health throughout her 67 years.
- Martin de Porres
Saint Martín de Porres was a Dominican friar who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized on May 6 1962 by Pope John XXIII. Martin was born in Lima, Peru, as the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a young freed slave woman, possibly Afro-Peruvian, born in Panama. He had a sister Juana born in 1581. He grew up in poverty, and at the age of 11 was taken in by the Dominicans as a servant boy. As his duties grew he was promoted to almoner, …
- Bernadette Soubirous
Saint Bernadette, born Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (January 7 1844 - April 16 1879), was a shepherd girl from the town of Lourdes in southern France. Her real Occitan name is Maria Bernada Soubirous, aka Bernadeta (little Bernada). From February to July 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of "a Lady." Despite initial skepticism from the Roman Catholic Church, …
- Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (October 4, 1922 - April 28, 1962) was an Italian pediatrician, wife and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child, despite warnings that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death. She was canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church in 2004.
- John Neumann
Saint John Nepomucene Neumann (March 28 1811 - January 5 1860) was a Bishop of Philadelphia (1852-60) and the first American bishop to be canonized. His surname is properly pronounced "Noi-mahn" as opposed to "New-man".
- Pio Of Pietrelcina
Francesco Forgione (May 25 1887 - September 23 1968), canonized Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian priest. He was given the name Pio when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and was popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood. He became famous not only for his piety, but for alleged supernatural events which became attached to him.
- Josemaría Escrivá
Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (also known as Jose María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born José María Mariano Escriba Albás) was a Spanish Catholic priest and founder of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, popularly, "Opus Dei". He was canonized in a controversial process by Pope John Paul II, …
- Isaac Jogues
Saint Isaac Jogues was a Jesuit missionary who travelled and worked among the Native Americans in North America. He gave the original European name to Lake George, calling it "Lac du Saint Sacrement", "Lake of the Holy Sacrament". He is regarded as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1930 Jogues, St. Jean de Brébeuf and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuits or laymen associated with them, were canonized as "The North American Martyrs," or "St.
- Louis de Montfort
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, French priest and Catholic saint, born in 31 January 1673 at Montfort, ordained to the priesthood in Paris in June 1700, and died at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre on 28 April 1716. St. Louis was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1888 and canonized by Pius XII in 1947. His feast day is celebrated by the Church on 28 April. The saint served as a missionary among the people of Brittany and the Vendee.
- Benedict Of Nursia
Saint Benedict of Nursia was an Italian saint, the founder of the Benedictine order. Benedict founded twelve monasteries, the best known of which was his first monastery at Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. The monastery at Monte Cassino was the first Benedictine monastery. Benedict wrote a set of rules governing his monks, the Rule of Saint Benedict, which was heavily influenced by the writings of Saint John Cassian (ca.
- Gerard Majella
Saint Gerard Majella is a Catholic saint. He is a saint whose intercession is requested for children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers; and Muro Lucano, Italy. Gerard was born as Gerardo Maiella on April 23, 1725 in Muro Lucano, Italy. He was the son of a tailor who died when Gerard was 12, leaving the family in poverty.
- Lawrence Of Brindisi
Saint Lawrence of Brindisi (July 22, 1559, Brindisi, Puglia - July 22, 1619), born "Giulio Cesare Russo", was a Roman Catholic friar, a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was beatified in 1783 by Pope Pius VI, canonized in 1881 by Pope Leo XIII, and declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope John XXIII in 1959. His feast day is July 21. Julio was born in Brindisi, Kingdom of Naples, to a family of Venetian merchants.
- Gemma Galgani
Saint Gemma Galgani (born March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Italy, died April 11, 1903) is a Catholic saint who was canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 2, 1940. She was the daughter of a poor pharmacist and suffered throughout her life with ill health. She was unable to finish her schooling and therefore was not accepted to become a Passionist nun.
- Thérèse de Lisieux
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, or more properly Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face"), born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a Roman Catholic nun who was canonized as a saint, and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church. She is also known by many as "The Little Flower of Jesus."
- George Preca
Saint George Preca (in Maltese: San Ġorġ Preca was a Maltese priest who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, a society of lay catechists. In Malta, he is affectionately known as "Dun Ġorġ" and is popularly referred to as the "Second Apostle of Malta," after Saint Paul of Tarsus. He was canonized on 3 June 2007.
- Angela Merici
Saint Angela Merici (1474? - 1540) was an Italian religious leader and saint born in Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Lombardy. She founded the Order of Ursulines in 1535 in Brescia. Merici was beatified in 1768 by Clement XIII and canonized in 1807 by Pius VII. She is buried in the Church of St. Afra at Brescia and her Catholic feast day is January 27. Before the revision of the calendar of saints following the Second Vatican Council, her feast day was May 31, …
- Jerome
Jerome (ca. 342 – September 30, 419; ,) is best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. He also was a Christian apologist. Jerome's edition, the "Vulgate", is still an important biblical text of the Roman Catholic Church. He is recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as a canonized Saint and Doctor of the Church. He is also recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church, where he is known as St.
- Jane Frances de Chantal
Jane Frances de Chantal was born in Dijon, France. The mother of six children (three died shortly after thay were born), she was widowed at the age of 28. She met Saint Francis de Sales when he preached at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon and was inspired to start a Catholic religious order for women, the Congregation of the Visitation. She died at the Visitation Convent, one of the convents she founded, in Moulins and was buried in Annecy.
- Gaetano Catanoso
Saint Gaetano Catanoso (February 14, 1879 - April 4, 1963) was an Italian parish priest canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. Born to a prosperous and generous family in Chorio, a small village outside of Reggio Calabria in the Aspromonte. Gaetano was one of eight children. He was ordained on September 20, 1902 and served as a parish priest his entire career. His first parish was in the remote hill village of Pentedattilo, where he served from 1904 until 1921.
- John Cantius
Saint John Cantius was a renowned Polish Scholastic and theologian. In English he is also known as John of Kanty or John of Kenti. He was born in Kęty, a small town near Oświęcim, in the diocese of Kraków, Poland, to Stanisław and Anna Kanty. His parents enrolled him in the Kraków Academy, where he eventually graduated as a bachelor, master, and doctor. He was also ordained a priest.
- Margaret Of Cortona
St. Margaret of Cortona was a penitent of the Third Order of St. Francis, born in Laviano, Tuscany in 1247. She died in Cortona on February 22, 1297. She was canonized in 1728. She is patron saint of the falsely accused; hoboes; homeless; insane; orphaned; mentally ill; midwives; penitents; reformed prostitutes; third children; tramps. At the age of seven, Margaret's mother died and her father remarried. Little love was shared between step-mother and step-daughter.
- Ulrich Of Augsburg
Saint Ulrich, sometimes spelled Uodalric or Odalrici, was Bishop of Augsburg and a leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. He was the first saint to be canonized.
- Seraphim Rose
Seraphim Rose, born Eugene Dennis Rose (August 13, 1934-September 2, 1982), was a hieromonk or priest-monk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the United States, whose writings have helped spread Orthodox Christianity throughout modern America and the West. Although not formally canonized, he is venerated by some Orthodox Christians as a saint in iconography, liturgy, and prayer.
- Catherine Of Bologna
Saint Catherine of Bologna (8 September 1413 - 9 March 1463) was an Italian saint. The patron saint of artists and temptations, she was an aristocratic Bolognese woman raised in the court of Bologna. She was the author of "Treatise on the Seven Spiritual Weapons". She was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712. Her feast day is March 9. She joined the Benedictine convent in Ferrara in the late 1420s.
- Canadian Martyrs
The Canadian Martyrs, also known as the North American Martyrs, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were martyred in the 17th century in Canada and Upstate New York. The Martyrs are St. Jean de Brébeuf (1649), St. Noël Chabanel (1649), St. Antoine Daniel (1648), St. Charles Garnier (1649), St. René Goupil (1642), St. Isaac Jogues (1646), St. Jean de Lalande (1646), and St. Gabriel Lallemant (1649).
- Saint Malachy
St. Malachy was the appointed Archbishop of Armagh, to whom were attributed several miracles and a vision of the identity of the last 112 Popes (see Prophecy of the Popes). He was canonized by Pope Clement III, on July 6, 1199. St. Malachy, whose family name was O'Morgair, was born in Armagh in 1094. St. Bernard describes him as having noble birth. He was baptized Maelmhaedhoc (a name which has been Latinized as Malachy) and was trained under Imhar O'Hagan, …
- Peter The Venerable
Peter the Venerable (about 1092 - December 25, 1156 in Cluny, France), also known as Peter of Montboissier, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, born to Blessed Raingarde in Auvergne, France. He has been honored as a saint but has never been formally canonized.
- Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev (c.1360 or 1370 - 1427 or January 29, 1430) is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of icons and frescoes. There is little information about his life. It is not known where he was born. Andrei Rublev probably lived in the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra under Nikon of Radonezh, who became hegumen after the death of Sergii Radonezhsky (1392).
- Arnold Janssen
Saint Arnold Janssen was a Roman Catholic priest best known for founding the mission Society of the Divine Word, the members of which are known as "Divine Word Missionaries", and two congregations for women. Janssen was born in Goch, Germany, near the Dutch border. He was ordained a priest in 1861. Janssen purchased land in Steyl (Netherlands) to begin his seminary, dedicated in 1875 as "St. Michael the Archangel Mission House".
- Richard Of Chichester
Saint Richard of Chichester (also known as Richard de Wych or variations thereof) (Droitwich, 1197 - 1253 in Dover) is a saint (canonized 1262) who was Bishop of Chichester. His shrine in Chichester Cathedral was a richly-decorated centre of pilgrimage which was destroyed in 1538. He was born in the town of Wyche (modern Droitwich) and was an orphan. He took up farming his elder brother's estates, and, according to legend, …
- Andrew Kim Taegon
St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon was Korea's first Roman Catholic priest. In the early 17th century, Roman Catholicism in Korea was primarily introduced by laypeople. It wasn't until the mid-1800s that Korea saw its first missionaries arrive only to find out that the people there were already practicing Christianity.
- Pope Victor I
Pope Saint Victor I was an African Bishop of Rome (from 189 to 199 (the Vatican cites 186 or 189 to 197 or 201). Victor I was the first African bishop of Rome, having been born in the province of Africa, and later went to Rome. He was later canonized. Controversy surrounds Victor's title and authority as Pope and is objected because Marcellinus (d. 304) is the first Bishop of Rome which sources show actually assumed the "title" of Pope.
- Papias
Papias (working in the 1st half of the 2nd century) was one of the early leaders of the Christian church, canonized as a saint. Eusebius calls him "Bishop of Hierapolis" (modern Pamukkale, Turkey) which is 22km from Laodicea and near Colossae (see "Col". 4:13), in the Lycus river valley in Phrygia, Asia Minor, not to be confused with the Hierapolis of Syria.
- René Goupil
Saint René Goupil was a French missionary and the first North American martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. He was baptized in St-Martin-du-Bois near Angers, France in 1608 on the 15th of May. He volunteered to work with the Jesuits in the hospitals of Quebec. In 1642, he travelled to the Huron missions in New York with Father Isaac Jogues. He was captured by the Iroquois and tortured. After teaching the native children the sign of the cross, …