In my particular series of historical blog posts (Heck of a Ride Around the Sun) I have tried to include and insert many many canonized Catholic Saints, Blesseds, Venerables and Servants of God into the timelines. I may have missed some and it’s hard to go back and drop them into history. So I’m putting them here in this particular series of articles on the Catholic Bard’s List of Saints.
I took the General Roman Calendar, some books on saints such as…
to make this timeline.
Some saints have more info then other saints. Some just have their name in this list because their name is in the General Roman Calendar. Perhaps with more time I could find out more about them and include it in this piece. Also if you didn’t see your favorite saint listed, it’s because I can’t list everyone. I would have to create a website just for that purpose. But of course that has already been done. You can find that website here.
CatholicSaints.Info
Plus they might pop up in another post.
Many Descriptions of saints are quoted directly taken from
Dr.Larry Jimmy Wikipedia.
And now we move onto the…
2nd Millennium
1500 – 1749
16th Century
Though the sixteenth century began with chaos, it also produced numerous great saints. In 1517, the Augustinian priest, Father Martin Luther, issued his Ninety-Five Theses that led to the Protestant Reformation, or Protestant Revolt. Father Luther raised many legitimate concerns in his theses, such as the abuses that persisted with the buying and selling of indulgences. Though many within the Catholic Church agreed there was need for reform, Father Luther’s approach, the rallying cry that accompanied him, and his condemnation by the Church, brought about rapid dissension and division within the Church and within nations. Soon, others followed with other questions and concerns, such as John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli. Luther’s influence was especially felt in Germany, Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland, and Ulrich Zwingli’s influence was predominantly in Zurich, Switzerland. Chronological Listing of Catholic Saints and Feasts — My Catholic Life!
Saint Francis of Paola
(27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507)
Feast: April 2
Patron: boatmen, mariners, and naval officers
General Roman Calendar
He was an friar from the town of Paola in Italy who founded the Order of Minims. Like his patron saint (Francis of Assisi), but unlike the majority of founders of men’s religious orders, Francis of Paola was never ordained a priest.
Saint Catherine of Genoa
(1447 – September 15, 1510)
Feast: September 15
Patron: Italian Hospitals
as an Italian Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501.
Her fame outside her native city is connected with the publication in 1551 of the book known in English as the Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa.
Catherine and her teaching were the subject of Baron Friedrich von Hügel‘s classic work The Mystical Element of Religion (1908).
When God sees the Soul pure as it was in its origins, He tugs at it with a glance, draws it, and binds it to Himself with a fiery love that by itself could annihilate the immortal soul. In so acting, God so transforms the soul in Him that it knows nothing other than God; and He continues to draw it up into His fiery love until He restores it to that pure state from which it first issued. These rays purify and then annihilate. The soul becomes like gold that becomes purer as it is fired, all dross being cast out. Having come to the point of twenty-four carats, gold cannot be purified any further; and this is what happens to the soul in the fire of God’s loveFrom, Catherine of Genoa: Purgation and Purgatory, The Spiritual Dialogue (Classics of Western Spirituality) p. 79-80
Blessed Baptista Mantuanus
19 17 April 1447 – 22 March 1516)
Feast: March 20
He was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet.
1512–1517: Catholic Ecumenical Council # 18 –Fifth Lateran Council.
1517: Martin Luther publishes the Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg, triggering the beginning of the Protestant Reformations.
Saints Cristobal, Antonio and Juan
(d. 1527-29),
Feast: September 23
21 Young Saints And Their Companions
The Martyrs of Tlaxcala were three Mexican Roman Catholic teenagers from the state of Tlaxcala: The three Teenagers were converts from the indigenous traditions of their families to the Roman Catholic faith and received their educations from the Order of Friars Minor who baptized them and evangelized in the area. Their activism and evangelical zeal led to their deaths at the hands of those who detested their newfound faith and perceived them as dangers to their values and rituals.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe—USA Feast (1531)
Feast: December 12
Saint John Fisher
(c. October 19, 1469 – June 22, 1535)
Feast:June 22
Patron: Diocese of Rochester,
General Roman Calendar
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
He was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian. Fisher was also an academic and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. Fisher was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept him as the supreme head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church‘s doctrine of papal supremacy. He was named a cardinal shortly before his death. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI. He shares his feast day with Thomas More.
Blessed Maria Llorença Llong (1463 –December 21, 1539)
Feast: October 21
Patron: Capuchin Poor Clares
All Blessed Saints Day
She was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Capuchin Poor Clares. Llong founded the hospital of “Santa Maria del Popolo” in Naples where she relocated to (and where she was widowed) and which received numerous papal privileges from Pope Leo X and Pope Adrian VI.
St. Angela Merici
(March 21, 1474 – January 27, 1540)
Feast: January 27
Patron: Sickness, handicapped people, l
oss of parents, courage, strength, and determination
General Roman Calendar
She was an Italian Catholic religious educator who founded the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the church through the education of girls.
From this organisation later sprang the Order of Saint Ursula, whose nuns established places of prayer and learning throughout Europe and, later, worldwide, most notably in North America.
After her death, Merici was venerated by Catholics around the world and a cause for sainthood was opened. She was canonized by Pope Pius VII in 1807.
Saint Thomas More
(February 7, 1478 – July 6, 1535)
Feast: June 22
Patron: Statesmen, Politicians
General Roman Calendar
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
He was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532.[5] He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state.
More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII’s separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason on what he claimed was false evidence, and executed. On his execution, he was reported to have said: “I die the King’s good servant, and God’s first”.
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr.
Saint Gerolamo Emiliani
(1486 – 8 February 1537)
Feast: February 8
Patron: orphans and abandoned children
General Roman Calendar
He was an Italian humanitarian, founder of the Somaschi Fathers.
Born in Venice, he spent some time in the military, and later served as a magistrate. Emiliani provided for the sick, the hungry, and orphans; and persuaded others to do likewise. Through his good offices a number of hospitals and orphanages were established in several northern Italian towns. He was canonized in 1767 and is the patron saint of orphans.
Saint Anthony Zaccaria CRSP
1502 – 5 July 1539)
Feast: July 5
Patron: Physicians
General Roman Calendar
He was an early leader of the Counter Reformation, the founder of religious orders (Barnabites) and a promoter of the devotion to the Passion of Christ, the Eucharist and the renewal of the religious life among the laity.
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Saint Cajetan
(6 October 1480 – 7 August 1547),
Feast: October 7
Patron: Bankers; unemployed people; workers; gamblers; document controllers
General Roman Calendar
He was an Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer, co-founder of the Theatines.
Saint Juan Diego
(1474–1548)
Feast: December 9
Patron: Indigenous peoples
General Roman Calendar
He was a Chichimec peasant and Marian visionary. He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then bishop of Mexico. The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of Tepeyac, houses the cloak (tilmahtli) that is traditionally said to be Juan Diego’s, and upon which the image of the Virgin is said to have been miraculously impressed as proof of the authenticity of the apparitions.
Saint John of God OH
March 8, 1495 – March 8, 1550)
Feast:March 8
Patron: Booksellers, hospitals, nurses, the mentally ill,
heart patients, and the dying
General Roman Calendar
He was a Portuguese soldier turned health-care worker in Spain, whose followers later formed the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, a Catholic religious institute dedicated to the care of the poor, sick and those with mental disorders.
Cidade was canonized by Pope Alexander VIII and is considered one of the leading religious figures in the history of the Iberian Peninsula.
Saint Francis Xavier
(7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552)
Class of 1622)
Feast: December 3
Patron: Catholic Missions
General Roman Calendar
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
He was a Basque Spaniard Catholic missionary and saint who co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
(c. 23 October 1491 – 31 July 1556)
(Class of 1622)
Feast: July 31
Patron: Society of Jesus; soldiers; spiritual retreats;
General Roman Calendar
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
He was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and became its first Superior General, in Paris in 1541.
Ignatius envisioned the purpose of the Society of Jesus to be missionary work and teaching. In addition to the vows of chastity, obedience and poverty of other religious orders in the church, Loyola instituted a fourth vow for Jesuits of obedience to the Pope, to engage in projects ordained by the pontiff. Jesuits were instrumental in leading the Counter-Reformation.
As a former soldier, Ignatius paid particular attention to the spiritual formation of his recruits and recorded his method in the Spiritual Exercises (1548). In time, the method has become known as Ignatian spirituality. He was beatified in 1609 and was canonized as a saint on 12 March 1622. His feast day is celebrated on 31 July. He is the patron saint of the Basque provinces of Gipuzkoa and Biscay as well as of the Society of Jesus. He was declared the patron saint of all spiritual retreats by Pope Pius XI in 1922.
1545–1563: Ecumenical Council # 19-
The Council of Trent defined the Church’s position in the Catholic Reformation.
Servant of God Bartolomé de las Casas
(November 1, 1484 – 18 July 1566)
Pray for Us: 75 Saints Part 11: Saints with Sinful Pasts
was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed “Protector of the Indians“. His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies. He described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.
In Defense of the Indians (1548)
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- as translated by Stafford Poole (Northern Illinois University Press: 1992)
- Christ wanted love to be called his single commandment. This we owe to all men. Nobody is excepted.
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- Christ seeks souls, not property. … He who wants a large part of mankind to be such that … he may act like a ferocious executioner toward them, press them into slavery, and through them grow rich, is a despotic master, not a Christian; a son of Satan, not of God; a plunderer, not a shepherd.
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Saint Francis Borgia
(October 28, 1510 – September 30, 1572)
Feast: September 30
Patron: Against earthquakes;
He was a Spanish Jesuit priest. The great-grandson of both Pope Alexander VI and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, he was Duke of Gandía and a grandee of Spain. After the death of his wife, Borgia renounced his titles and became a priest in the Society of Jesus, later serving as its third superior general. He was canonized on June 20, 1670 by Pope Clement X.
St. Charles Borromeo
(October 2, 1538 – November 3, 1584)
Feast: November 4
Patron: against ulcers, apple orchards, bishops, catechists, catechumens,
General Roman Calendar
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
He was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal. He was a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation combat against the Protestant Reformation together with Ignatius of Loyola and Philip Neri. In that role he was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests.
“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.”
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Saint Philip Neri
( 22 July 1515 – 26 May 1595)
Class of 1622
Feast: May 26
Patron: laughter; joy; comedians; artists; writers
General Roman Calendar
He was known as the “Second Apostle of Rome” after Saint Peter, was an Italian Catholic priest noted for founding the Congregation of the Oratory, a society of secular clergy. Philip possessed a playful sense of humor, combined with a shrewd wit. He considered a cheerful temper to be more Christian than a melancholy one, and carried this spirit into his whole life: “A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.” This was the secret of Neri’s popularity and his place in the folklore of the Roman poor. Many miracles were attributed to him.
Johnny Dorelli played Philip Neri in a 1983 Italian movie State buoni se potete.
Gigi Proietti played Philip Neri in a 2010 Italian movie made for television, Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven.
St. Philip Neri: How to Pursue Sainthood in 25 Pithy Lines
One of the most efficient ways of keeping ourselves sinless is to have compassion for those who fall due to frailty, and never to boast of our rightness, but with real humility acknowledge that if we are in a state of grace, it is by the mercy of God.
Saint Peter Faber
(April 13, 1506 – 1 August 1, 1546)
Feast: August 2
He was a Jesuit priest and theologian, who was also a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier.
St. Edmund Campion
(January 25, 1540 – December 1, 1581)
Feast: December 1
Patron: United Kingdom
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
He was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
St. Louis Bertrand
(1526–1581),
Feast: October 9
Patron: Buñol; New Granada; Colombia
He was a Spanish Dominican friar who preached in South America during the 16th century, and is known as the “Apostle to the Americas”.
St. Pope # 226 Pope Pius V
(January 1504 – 1 May 1572))
Reign (May 13, 1572 – April 10, 1585 – 12 years, 332 days)
Feast: April 30
Patron: Malta
General Roman Calendar
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
Born as a subject of the Duchy of Milan. Member of the Dominican Order. He is chiefly notable for his role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardization of the Roman Rite within the Latin Church, known as Tridentine mass which is 1570 Roman Missal. Pius V declared Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church. He also excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England (1570) and after the Battle of Lepanto (1571) he instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory.
Saint Fr. Robert Southwell S.J.
(c. 1561 – February 21, 1595)
Feast: February 21
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church
He was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also a poet, hymnodist, and clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England.
After being arrested and imprisoned in 1592, and intermittently tortured and questioned by Richard Topcliffe, Southwell was eventually tried and convicted of high treason for his links to the Holy See. On February 21, 1595, Southwell was hanged at Tyburn. In 1970, he was canonised by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live” on the outside of The DeNaples Center at the Jesuit University of Scranton. Longer version: “Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; / Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”
Saint Margaret Clitherow
(1556 – 25 March 1586)
Feast: October 25
Patron: Businesswomen, converts, martyrs,
Catholic Women’s League, Latin Mass Society
She was an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, known as “the Pearl of York“. She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. She was canonised in 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
Saint Philip of Jesus Felipe of Jesus)
(1571–1597)
Feast: February 5
Patron: Mexico City; Nagasaki;
Saints Of The Americas
He was a Novohispanic Franciscan Catholic missionary who became one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan, the first Mexican saint and patron saint of Mexico City.
Saint Paul Miki
(c. 1562 – 5 February 1597),
Feast: February 2
Patron: Japan
General Roman Calendar
He was a Japanese Catholic evangelist and Jesuit, known for his martyrdom during a 16th-century anti-Catholic uprising.
Canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1862, Miki is recognized as one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.
17th Century
Renewal, missionary activity, and personal sanctity flowed from the sixteenth century into the seventeenth with even more incredible saints. Chronological Listing of Catholic Saints and Feasts — My Catholic Life!
Saint Germaine Cousin (1579–1601)
Feast: June 15
Patron: abandoned people; disabled people
Of her, the Catholic Encyclopedia writes:
From her birth she seemed marked out for suffering; she came into the world with a deformed hand and the disease of scrofula, and, while yet an infant, lost her mother. Her father soon married again, but his second wife treated Germaine with much cruelty. Under pretence of saving the other children from the contagion of scrofula she persuaded the father to keep Germaine away from the homestead, and thus the child was employed almost from infancy as a shepherdess. When she returned at night, her bed was in the stable or on a litter of vine branches in a garret. In this hard school Germaine learned early to practice humility and patience. She was gifted with a marvelous sense of the presence of God and of spiritual things, so that her lonely life became to her a source of light and blessing… Her love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and for His Virgin Mary Virgin Mother presaged the saint. She assisted daily at the Holy Sacrifice; when the bell rang, she fixed her sheep-hook or distaff in the ground, and left her flocks to the care of Providence while she heard Mass. Although the pasture was on the border of a forest infested with wolves, no harm ever came to her flocks.
Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo
(16 November 1538 –March 23, 1606)
Feast: March 23
Patron: Peru
General Roman Calendar
He was a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima from 1579 until his death. He confirmed almost half a million people; these included Rose of Lima and Martin de Porres.
Henry Garnet
(July 1555 –May 3,1606),
On The Road To Blessed Sainthood
He was an English Jesuit priest executed for high treason, based solely on having had advanced knowledge of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and having refused to violate the Seal of the Confessional by notifying the authorities.
Saint César de Bus
(February 3, 1544, d. April 15, 1607)
Feast: April 15
Patron:Next to Be Blessed and Sainted
He was a French Catholic priest and founder of two religious congregations.
Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Virgin
(1566–1607)
Feast: May 25
General Roman Calendar
She was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. It was believed that de’ Pazzi could read the thoughts of others and predict future events. For instance, during one ecstatic event she predicted the future elevation to the papacy of Cardinal Alessandro de’ Medici (as Pope Leo XI). During her lifetime, she allegedly appeared to several persons in distant places and cured a number of sick people
Saint John Leonardi , OMD
(1541 – October 9, 1609)
Feast: October 9
Patron: Pharmacists
General Roman Calendar
He was an Italian Catholic priest and the founder of the Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca.
Ven Matteo Ricci
(October 6, 1552 –May 11, 1610)
He was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See declared its recognition of Ricci’s heroic virtues, thereby bestowing upon him the honorific of Venerable.
Saint Francis Solanus
(March 1549 – 14 July 1610)
Feast: July 14
Patron: against earthquakes
He was a Spanish friar and missionary in South America, belonging to the Order of Friars Minor (the Franciscans)
Saint Camillus de Lellis Priest
(May 25, 1550–July 14, 1614)
Feast: July 14
Patron: the sick, hospitals, nurses and physicians.
His assistance is also invoked against gambling.
He was a Roman Catholic priest from Italy who founded the Camillians, a religious order dedicated to the care of the sick. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XIV in the year 1742, and canonized by him four years later in 1746.
Saint Rose of Lima
(1586–1617)
Feast: August 23
Patron: embroiderers; florists; indigenous peoples of the Americas;
General Roman Calendar
Saints Of The Americas
She was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the city through her own private efforts. Rose of Lima was born to a noble family and was a lay member of the Dominican Order, she was the first person born in the Americas to be canonized as such.
As a saint, Rose of Lima has been designated as a co-patroness of the Philippines along with Saint Pudentiana; both saints were moved to second-class patronage in September 1942 by Pope Pius XII, but Rose remains the primary patroness of Peru and of the local people of Latin America. Her image is featured on the highest denomination banknote of Peru.
Blessed Mary of the Incarnation
(February 1, 1566–April 18, 1618)
Feast: April 26
Discalced Carmelites
She was the foundress of the Discalced Carmel in France and later became an extern sister of the order.
Saint John Berchmans
(13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621)
Feast: November 26
Patron:altar servers, Jesuit scholastics, and students.
In 1615, the Jesuits opened a college at Mechelen, Belgium and Berchmans was one of the first to enroll. His spiritual model was his fellow Jesuit Aloysius Gonzaga, and he was influenced by the example of the English Jesuit martyrs.
Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen OFMCap
(1577 – 1622)
Feast: April 24
General Roman Calendar
He was a German Capuchin friar who was involved in the Catholic Counter-Reformation. He was martyred by his opponents at Seewis im Prättigau, now part of Switzerland. Fidelis was canonized in 1746.
Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych OSBM
(c. 1580 –November 12, 1623)
Feast: November 12
Patron: [Ukraine]The St Leonards academy
General Roman Calendar
He was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Uniate Church who on November 12, 1623 was beaten to death with an axe during an anti-Catholic riot by Eastern Orthodox Belarusians in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
His death reflects the conflict between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches that intensified after four Ruthenian Orthodox Church (Kiev Metropolitanate) bishops transferred their allegiance from the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to the Holy See, under the terms laid down by the 1439 Council of Florence, by signing the 1596 Union of Brest. Archeparch Josaphat remains one of the best-known victims of anti-Catholic violence for his role in both personally accepting and very effectively spreading the Eastern Catholic Churches as a hieromonk and bishop, and was canonized in 1867 by Pope Pius IX.
Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew
October 1, 1550 –June 7, 1626)
Feast: June 7
Patron: Antwerp
Discalced Carmelites
She was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite. She was a companion to Saint Teresa of Ávila and led the establishment of new monasteries of in France and the Lowlands.[1][2] Anne sometimes struggled with her superiors as she set about setting new convents and holding her position as a prioress while later settling in the Spanish Netherlands where she opened a house and remained there until she later died. She was a close friend and aide to Saint Teresa of Ávila and the saint died in her arms in 1582.
St. Roque González y de Santa Cruz and Companions
(1576 – 1628)
Feast: November 16
Saints Of The Americas
He was a Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guarani people in Paraguay.
Saints Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs
(c. 1600–1637)
Feast: September 28
Patron: the Philippines and the Filipino people.
General Roman Calendar
A Chinese Filipino, he became his country’s protomartyr after his execution in Japan by the Tokugawa Shogunate during its persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century.
Blesseds Redemptus of the Cross & Denis of the Nativity
Death November 27, 1638)
Feast: November 28
Redemptus of the Cross, OCD (also Redemptorus of the Cross; (March 15, 1598 – November 27, 1638) was a Portuguese Carmelite lay brother. He was put to death, along with other members of a group sent to Aceh by Portuguese authorities.
Denis of the Nativity, OCD (December 2, 1600 -November 27, 1638) was a Discalced Carmelite friar in Goa. He had previously been a sailor and cartographer in the service of the king of Portugal. He was killed in Sumatra while taking part in a diplomatic mission there on behalf of the Portuguese Empire.
Saint Martin de Porres
(1579–1639)
Feast: November 3
Patron: mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers,
all those seeking racial harmony, and animals.
General Roman Calendar
Saints Of The Americas
He was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order. He is the son of a freed slave of African and Native descent. He was noted for his work on behalf of the poor, establishing an orphanage and a children’s hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle, which included fasting and abstaining from meat. Among the many miracles attributed to him were those of levitation, bilocation, miraculous knowledge, instantaneous cures, and an ability to communicate with animals.
Blessed Mary of Jesus, virgin – Memorial
(1560 – 1640)
Feast: September 13
Discalced Carmelites
Born wealthy, but she gave it all up. Her father died when Maria was four years old, and she was raised by her paternal grandparents. Well educated. Joined the Carmelites at Toledo, Spain at age 17 and lived 63 years as a Carmelite nun. Stigmatist. Prioress. In 1600 she was unjustly accused of an offense by one of her sisters; she removed as prioress and isolated for 20 years. Close friend of Saint Teresa of Avila; Teresa trusted her so much that Maria was a test reader for The Interior Castle. CatholicSaints.Info
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
(January 28, 1572 –December 13, 1641)
Feast: August 12
Patron: forgotten people; in-law problems;
loss of parents; parents separated from children; widows
General Roman Calendar
She was a French Catholic noble widow and nun who was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767. She founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. The religious order accepted women who were rejected by other orders because of poor health or age.
When people criticized her, Chantal famously said, “What do you want me to do? I like sick people myself; I’m on their side.” During its first eight years, the new order also was unusual in its public outreach, in contrast to most female religious who remained cloistered and adopted strict ascetic practices.
In 1604, her father invited her to come to Dijon to hear the bishop of Geneva, Francis de Sales, preach the Lenten sermons at the Sainte Chapelle. They became close friends and de Sales became her spiritual director. He “…bade her avoid scruples, hurry, and anxiety of mind, which above all things hinder a soul on the road to spiritual perfection.” At De Sales suggestion, she divided her time between Dijon and Monthelon so to attend to both her father and father-in-law.
Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen
(1624 –July 26, 1644)
Feast: July 26
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iHe s known as the “Protomartyr of Vietnam.” Baptized in 1641, he was a dedicated assistant to Jesuit missionaries and was thus arrested in the purge of Christians launched in 1644. After refusing to abjure the faith, he was put to death in Kẻ Chàm. Andrew was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 5, 2000.
Isaac Jogues priests, and Companions, martyrs – Memorial
(January 10, 1607 –October 18, 1646)
Feast: October 19
Patron: North America
General Roman Calendar
American Saints
He was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement (Lake of the Blessed Sacrament). In 1646, Jogues was martyred by the Mohawk at their village of Ossernenon, near the Mohawk River.
Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuit priests or laypeople associated with them, were canonized by the Catholic Church in 1930; they are known as the Canadian Martyrs, or the North American Martyrs. A shrine was built in their honor at Auriesville, New York, formerly believed to be that of the Mohawk village.
Saint Joseph Calasanz Sch.P.
(September 11, 1557 – August 25, 1648),
Feast: August 25
Patron: On August 13, 1948, Pope Pius XII declared him to be the
“Universal Patron of all Christian popular schools in the world.”
He was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, which provided free education to poor boys. For this purpose he founded the religious order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He was a close friend of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei. General Roman Calendar
Saint. Jean de Brébeuf
(March 25, 1593 –March 16, 1649)
Feast: October 19
Patron: Canada
He was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1633. He learned their language and culture, writing extensively about each to aid other missionaries. In 1649, Brébeuf and another missionary were captured when an Iroquois raid took over a Huron village (referred to in French as St. Louis). Together with Huron captives, the missionaries were ritually tortured and killed on March 16, 1649. Afterwards, his heart was eaten by Iroquois tribesmen. Brébeuf was beatified in 1925 and with eight Jesuit missionaries was canonized in the Catholic Church in 1930.
Saint Noël Chabanel
(February 2, 1613 – December 8, 1649)
Feast: October 19
He was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the Canadian Martyrs.
The Martyr Saints of China
or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions,
Feast: July 9
They are 120 saints of the Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries from the mid-17th century to 1930 were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize.
Many died in the Boxer Rebellion, in which anti-Western peasant rebels slaughtered 30,000 Chinese converts to Christianity along with missionaries and other foreigners. 1648–1930, Qing dynasty and Republic of China
Image: Stained glass window of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and companions | The Hong Kong Catholic Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception | photo by hugo poon
Virginia Centurione Bracelli
2 April 1587 – 15 December 1651)
Feast: December 15
Patron: Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Cavalry
She was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa. Her father was the Doge of Genoa, and she had a short marriage due to being widowed in 1607
Saint. Peter Claver (June 26, 1580–September 8, 1654),
Feast: September 9
Patron: Slaves, Colombia, race relations, ministry to African-Americans, seafarers
General Roman Calendar
Saints Of The Americas
He was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú (Spain) who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of enslaved people, the Republic of Colombia, and ministry to Africans.
During the 40 years of his ministry in the New Kingdom of Granada, it is estimated he personally baptized around 300,000 people and heard the confessions of over 5,000 people per year. He is also patron saint for seafarers. He is considered a heroic example of what should be the Christian praxis of love and of the exercise of human rights.
The Congress of the Republic of Colombia declared September 9 as the Human Rights national Day in his honor.
Saint Vincent de Paul CM
(April 24, 1581 –September 27, 1660)
Feast: September 27
Patron: Charities, horses, hospitals, leprosy, lost articles
General Roman Calendar
He was an Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor.
In 1622, Vincent was appointed as chaplain to the galleys. After working for some time in Paris among imprisoned galley slaves, he returned to be the superior of what is now known as the Congregation of the Mission, or the “Vincentians” (in France known as “Lazaristes”), which he co-founded.
These Vincentian priests, with vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and stability, were to devote themselves entirely to the people in smaller towns and villages. Vincent was zealous in conducting retreats for clergy at a time when the local clergy’s morals were flagging. He was a pioneer in seminary education and also founded the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. He is the namesake of the Vincentian Family of organizations, which includes both of the religious communities he founded.
He was renowned for his compassion, humility, and generosity. Vincent was canonized in 1737 and is venerated as a saint in both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.
Saint Joseph of Cupertino
June 17, 1603 –September 18, 1663)
Feast: September 18
Patron: aviation, astronauts, mental handicaps
He was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. According to traditional Franciscan accounts, he was “remarkably unclever”, but experienced miraculous levitation and ecstatic visions throughout his life which made him the object of scorn. He applied to the Conventual Franciscan friars, but was rejected due to his lack of education. He then pleaded with them to serve in their stables. After several years of working there, he had impressed the friars so much with the devotion and simplicity of his life that he was admitted to their Order, destined to become a Catholic priest, in 1625.
Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)
(1599–1672)
Feast: April 30
She was a French Ursuline nun. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France (Quebec) to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. She was a religious author and has been credited with founding the first girls’ school in the New World. Due to her work, the Catholic Church declared her a saint,[1] and the Anglican Church of Canada celebrates her with a feast day.
Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores
(November 12, 1627 – April 2, 1672)
Feast: October 6
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He was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who founded the first Catholic church on the island of Guam. He is responsible for establishing the Christian presence in the Mariana Islands.
Saint Pedro Calungsod
(July 21, 1654 – April 2, 1672: Aged 17)
Feast: April 2
Patron: Filipino youth, Catechumens, Altar servers, the Philippines,
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He was a Catholic Filipino–Visayan migrant, sacristan and missionary catechist who, along with the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores, suffered religious persecution and martyrdom in Guam for their missionary work in 1672.
While in Guam, Calungsod preached Christianity to the Chamorros through catechesis, while baptizing infants, children, and adults at the risk and expense of being persecuted and eventually murdered. Through Calungsod and San Vitores’s missionary efforts, many native Chamorros converted to Catholicism.
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha virgin – Memorial
(1656 – April 17, 1680)
Feast: April 17
Patron: environment; ecology
General Roman Calendar
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Saint John Eudes CIM
(November 14, 1601 – 19 August 1680)
Feast: August 19
Patron: Eudists, Order of Our Lady of Charity
General Roman Calendar
He was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and Mary, also known as The Eudists, in 1643.[2][3] He was also a professed member of the Oratory of Jesus until 1643 and the author of the proper for the Mass and Divine Office of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin.
Saint Oliver Plunkett
1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681)
Feast: July 1
Patron: Peace and reconciliation in Ireland
He was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years.
Blessed Nicolas Steno
11 January 1638 – 5 December 1686]
Feast: December 5
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He was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years and was a convert of Lutheranism.
Saint. Margaret Mary Alacoque
(July 22, 1647 –October 17, 1690)
Feast: October 16
General Roman Calendar
She was a French Catholic Visitation nun and mystic who promoted devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in its modern form.
18th Century
During the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment reached its peak as an intellectual movement, further emphasizing reason, individualism, and a negative view of traditional authority in religion, science, and politics, while emphasizing the use of reason as the primary source and measure of knowledge. This posed an ongoing challenge for the Catholic Church’s emphasis on tradition and authority as new ideas began to contradict her long-standing doctrines. This led to the emergence of secularism and the decline of Catholic monarchies, which reduced the influence of the Church in many European political activities. Chronological Listing of Catholic Saints and Feasts — My Catholic Life!
1700 – 1749
Marguerite Bourgeoys
(April 17, 1620 – January 12, 1700)
Feast: January 12
Patron: against poverty; loss of parents; people rejected by religious orders
She was a French religious sister and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada. she was canonized in 1982 as the first female saint of Canada.
Claude Chauchetière
(September 7, 1645 – April 17, 1709)
21 Young Saints And Their Companions
He was a French Jesuit missionary, priest, biographer, and painter. Claude Chauchetière is well known for his published work Annual Narrative of the Mission of the Sault from Its Foundation Until the Year 1686 which detailed his time in New France as a Jesuit missionary. For most of his mission work he was placed in the village of Kahnawake where he encountered Kateri Tekakwitha, an Algonquin-Mohawk Jesuit convert, an encounter that immensely impacted his spiritual life. Later on Chauchetière would also actively work to get Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as a saint.
Venerable Father Eusebio Kino
(August 10, 1645 –March 15, 1711)
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He was an Italian Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer, mathematician and astronomer born in the Bishopric of Trent, Holy Roman Empire.
For the last 24 years of his life he worked in the region then known as the Pimería Alta, modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States. He explored the region and worked with the indigenous Native American population, including primarily the Tohono O’Odham, Sobaipuri and other Upper Piman groups. He proved that the Baja California Territory was not an island but a peninsula by leading an overland expedition there. By the time of his death he had established 24 missions and visitas (country chapels or visiting stations).
St. Louis de Montfort
(January 1673 – 28 April 1716)
Feast: April 28
Patron: Montfort is the patron saint of a number of prestigious schools that educate youths from all walks of life,
including St. Gabriel’s Secondary School and Montfort Secondary School in Singapore, the Assumption College In Thailand,
and the Montfort Academy, a private secondary school in Mount Vernon, New York.
General Roman Calendar
He was a French Catholic priest known for his preaching and his influence on Mariology. He was made a missionary apostolic by Pope Clement XI. Montfort wrote a number of books which went on to become classic Catholic titles and influenced several popes. His most notable works regarding Marian devotions are contained in Secret of the Rosary and True Devotion to Mary.
Pope Pius XII canonised him on 20 July 1947.
Our Lady of the Rosary—Memorial (Placed on the Universal Roman Calendar in 1716)
Feast: October 7
Blessed Marianna Fontanella (Mary of the Angels)
(January 7, 1661 –December 16, 1717)
Feast: December 16
Discalced Carmelites
He was an Italian Catholic member of the Discalced Carmelites. Fontanella studied with the Cistercians as a child and entered the Discalced Carmelites despite the protests of her mother and siblings. She soon became a noted abbess and prioress and in 1703 inaugurated a new convent of which she herself oversaw the establishment.
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
(1651 – April 7, 1719)
Feast: May 15
Patron: Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
General Roman Calendar
He was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for teachers of youth. He is referred to both as La Salle and as De La Salle.
La Salle dedicated much of his life to the education of poor children in France; in doing so, he started many lasting educational practices.
Saint Rose Venerini
(February 9, 1656 – May 7, 1728)
Feast: May 7
She was an Italian womanwho founded the first public schools for girls and young women in Italy. According to the Vatican document published on the occasion of Venerini’s canonization in 2006, “Wherever a new school sprang up, in a short time a moral improvement could be noted in the youth”. Her confraternity of teachers, after her death, was raised to a religious congregation called the Religious Teachers Venerini (or Venerini sisters), which worked with Italian immigrants in the U.S. and Switzerland established the first day care centers in the Northeastern U.S., and worked throughout the world.
Venerable Anne-Madeleine Remuzat
(November 29, 1696 – February 15, 1730)
She was a French Roman Catholic nun who was instrumental in spreading Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart.
Venerable Ignacia del Espíritu Santo
(February 1, 1663 – September 10, 1748)
She was a Filipino religious sister of the Catholic Church. She was known for her acts of piety and religious poverty and founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, the first native Filipino female congregation with approved pontifical status in what is now the Republic of the Philippines.
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