Patron Saints

Feast: June 29

Fisherman from Galilee chosen by Christ as the rock upon which the Church was built. First Pope, martyred in Rome.

Feast: June 29

Former persecutor of Christians who became the greatest missionary in Church history after his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus.

Feast: December 27

The youngest Apostle, beloved disciple of Jesus, author of the Fourth Gospel, three epistles, and the Book of Revelation.

Feast: July 25

One of the inner three Apostles, first Apostle to be martyred. Patron of Spain and pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.

Feast: November 30

Brother of Peter and the first disciple called by Jesus. Patron of Scotland, Russia, and fishermen.

Feast: September 21

Former tax collector called by Jesus with the words 'Follow me.' Author of the first Gospel.

Feast: March 19

Righteous carpenter of Nazareth, devoted husband of Mary and foster father of Jesus Christ. Model of quiet faithfulness, fatherly love, and obedience to God.

Feast: January 28

Dominican friar and the greatest systematic theologian in Church history. His Summa Theologiae remains the foundation of Catholic philosophical and theological education.

Feast: August 28

One of the greatest theologians and writers in the history of Christianity. His conversion from a dissolute youth, chronicled in his Confessions, has inspired millions for sixteen centuries.

Feast: October 15

Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystic whose writings on prayer — especially The Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection — remain essential guides to the spiritual life.

Feast: October 1

French Carmelite nun who entered religious life at fifteen and died at twenty-four, teaching the world her 'Little Way' of spiritual childhood and trust in God's merciful love.

Feast: September 30

Brilliant scholar and irascible personality who translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate), which remained the standard text for over a millennium.

Feast: April 29

Dominican laywoman and mystic who boldly counseled popes and princes, helped return the papacy from Avignon to Rome, and wrote profound theological works.

Feast: June 13

Franciscan friar and Doctor of the Church. Renowned as one of the most powerful preachers in Church history, and invoked worldwide for the recovery of lost things.

Feast: October 28

One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, known throughout the world as the patron saint of desperate and seemingly impossible causes.

Feast: May 15

Irish princess who fled her father's madness and was martyred at fifteen. Patron of those suffering from anxiety, depression, and all mental and emotional disorders.

Feast: September 29

Leader of the heavenly armies who cast Satan and the rebel angels out of heaven. The Church's chief protector against evil and spiritual danger.

Feast: September 29

The archangel whose name means 'God heals.' He guided young Tobias, healed Tobit's blindness, and freed Sarah from a demon.

Feast: August 27

Devoted mother whose seventeen years of persistent prayer, tears, and patient sacrifice led to the conversion of her brilliant but wayward son, St. Augustine.

Feast: October 4

The beloved 'Poor Man of Assisi' who renounced his wealthy family, embraced radical poverty, preached to birds and wolves, and received the stigmata of Christ.

Feast: July 31

Spanish soldier whose battle wound led to a conversion that changed the world. He founded the Jesuits and wrote the Spiritual Exercises, one of the most influential guides to prayer ever composed.

Feast: August 8

Spanish priest who founded the Order of Preachers to combat heresy through preaching, teaching, and scholarship. Tradition credits him with receiving the Rosary from Our Lady.

Feast: July 11

Founded the Benedictine Order and wrote the Rule of St. Benedict, which shaped Western monasticism and preserved civilization through the Dark Ages.

Feast: May 30

French peasant girl who at seventeen, guided by the voices of saints, led the French army to victory and was burned at the stake at nineteen.

Feast: August 14

Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at Auschwitz concentration camp, sustaining the condemned men with prayer for two weeks.

Feast: November 22

Roman martyr of the early Church who sang to God in her heart. Patron of musicians, singers, and church music throughout the world.

Feast: December 12

The Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared to the indigenous convert St. Juan Diego near Mexico City in December 1531, leaving her miraculous image on his tilma.

Feast: September 23

Italian Capuchin friar who bore the visible stigmata of Christ for fifty years. Renowned for spending up to sixteen hours daily hearing confessions and for extraordinary mystical gifts.

Feast: October 5

Polish nun who received visions of Jesus and was chosen to spread the message and devotion of Divine Mercy to the entire world.

Feast: October 22

Polish pope who served for 26 years, helped bring down communism, established World Youth Day, and became one of the most beloved and consequential figures of the 20th century.

Feast: May 22

After enduring an abusive marriage with extraordinary patience and then losing her husband and sons, she miraculously entered an Augustinian convent and received a wound from Christ's crown of thorns.

Feast: March 17

Born in Roman Britain, enslaved by Irish raiders at sixteen, he escaped after six years and later returned as a missionary bishop who converted the entire nation of Ireland to Christianity.

Feast: April 16

Humble, sickly peasant girl from Lourdes, France, to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared eighteen times at the grotto of Massabielle in 1858.

Feast: October 16

Redemptorist lay brother who died at twenty-nine but whose miraculous intercession for mothers in childbirth has made him one of the most popular saints in the Catholic world.

Feast: April 28

Italian pediatrician, wife, and mother who chose to sacrifice her own life rather than endanger her unborn child during a complicated pregnancy. Canonized with her family present.

Feast: January 4

Widowed mother of five who converted from Episcopalianism to Catholicism, founded the first American religious sisterhood, and established the Catholic parochial school system in the United States.

Feast: July 14

First Native American saint. An Algonquin-Mohawk woman who embraced Christianity with her whole heart despite severe persecution from her own people.

Feast: August 4

French parish priest who nearly failed seminary but transformed a tiny village through his holiness and became the most renowned confessor in the history of the Church.

Feast: August 11

Young virgin martyr of the early Church. The Curé of Ars attributed many of his miraculous healings to her intercession, calling her his 'dear little saint.'

Feast: September 18

Franciscan friar considered slow-witted in his youth who experienced extraordinary mystical levitations during prayer. Beloved patron of students facing exams and academic challenges.

Feast: August 11

Noble Italian woman who left everything to follow St. Francis of Assisi in radical poverty. Founded the Order of Poor Ladies, the first religious order for women written by a woman.

Feast: November 3

Mixed-race Dominican lay brother in 17th-century Peru known for his humility, charity to the poor, and extraordinary mystical gifts. First Black saint of the Americas.

Feast: September 5

Albanian-born nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and spent her life serving 'the poorest of the poor' in the slums of Calcutta and around the world.

Feast: June 22

English lawyer and Lord Chancellor who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church.

Feast: July 6

Italian girl who at age eleven chose death rather than submit to sexual assault, and on her deathbed forgave her attacker.

Feast: August 23

Peruvian Dominican tertiary of extraordinary beauty who practiced severe penance and mystical prayer. First person born in the Americas to be canonized.

Feast: April 23

Roman soldier and Christian martyr who refused to renounce his faith. The legendary story of his slaying a dragon symbolizes the triumph of faith over evil.

Feast: July 25

Legendary giant who carried the Christ Child across a river. One of the most popular saints for travelers, drivers, and those on journeys.

Feast: December 6

Generous 4th-century bishop famous for his secret gift-giving to the poor. The historical figure behind Santa Claus and patron of children.

Feast: January 21

Roman girl martyred at age twelve or thirteen for refusing marriage and consecrating her virginity to Christ. One of the earliest and most venerated virgin martyrs.

Feast: December 13

Sicilian virgin martyr whose name means 'light.' She consecrated her virginity to God and distributed her wealth to the poor before being martyred.

Feast: November 17

Hungarian princess who devoted her short life to serving the poor and sick, founding hospitals and giving away her wealth despite the opposition of her family.

Feast: January 24

Bishop of Geneva who won back thousands from Calvinism through gentleness rather than force. His Introduction to the Devout Life remains a classic of spiritual literature.

Feast: August 1

Brilliant lawyer turned priest who founded the Redemptorist Order and wrote extensively on moral theology, becoming the patron of confessors and moral theologians.

Feast: December 14

Spanish Carmelite friar and mystic who endured imprisonment by his own order and wrote some of the greatest mystical poetry in any language.

Feast: September 27

French priest who revolutionized charitable work in the Church by founding organizations to serve the poor, the sick, and abandoned children.

Feast: April 28

French priest whose True Devotion to Mary has become the most influential work on Marian consecration in the Church.

Feast: June 26

Spanish priest who founded Opus Dei and taught that ordinary work and daily life are paths to holiness for all Christians.

Feast: August 21

Pope who lowered the age for First Communion, reformed Church music, and fought modernist heresies with the motto 'To restore all things in Christ.'

Feast: November 4

Cardinal Archbishop of Milan who implemented the reforms of the Council of Trent with tireless energy, personally caring for plague victims.

Feast: September 29

The archangel who announced the Incarnation to the Virgin Mary. God's chief messenger and herald of divine revelation.

Feast: February 10

Twin sister of St. Benedict who founded a convent near Monte Cassino. Known for a story in which her prayer caused a thunderstorm to keep Benedict from leaving.

Feast: December 7

Roman governor who was acclaimed bishop by popular demand before he was even baptized. His preaching converted St. Augustine.

Feast: May 15

Spanish farm laborer who sanctified his daily work through prayer. Angels were said to plow his fields while he prayed.

Feast: January 31

Italian priest who dedicated his life to the education and welfare of disadvantaged youth, founding the Salesians and pioneering a preventive system of education based on love.

Feast: July 26

Mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ. Despite having no biblical text about her, she has been venerated from the earliest centuries as a model of maternal love.

Feast: July 26

Husband of St. Anne and father of the Virgin Mary. A model of patient fatherhood who trusted God's plan through years of childlessness.

Feast: July 22

Faithful disciple who stood at the Cross when others fled and was the first witness of the Resurrection. Called 'the Apostle to the Apostles.'

Feast: August 24

One of the Twelve Apostles, traditionally identified with Nathanael. He preached in India and Armenia, where he was martyred by being flayed alive.

Feast: July 3

The Apostle who doubted the Resurrection until he saw and touched the risen Christ, then proclaimed 'My Lord and my God!' Patron of India.

Feast: October 28

One of the Twelve Apostles, called 'the Zealot' possibly for his zeal for the Jewish law or his former membership in the Zealot party.

Feast: May 3

One of the first disciples called by Jesus, who brought Nathanael to Christ and asked Jesus to 'show us the Father.'

Feast: February 23

Disciple of St. John the Apostle and Bishop of Smyrna who was burned at the stake at age 86, providing one of the earliest accounts of Christian martyrdom.

Feast: March 7

A noblewoman and her slave companion who were martyred together in the amphitheater at Carthage in 203 AD, leaving behind one of the most powerful first-person accounts of martyrdom.

Feast: January 20

Roman soldier who secretly served as a Christian, was sentenced to death by arrows, survived, confronted the emperor, and was finally beaten to death.

Feast: August 10

Deacon of Rome who distributed the Church's treasures to the poor when ordered to hand them over. Martyred on a gridiron, famously saying 'Turn me over — I'm done on this side.'

Feast: May 27

Benedictine monk sent by Pope Gregory the Great to evangelize England. Became the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

Feast: February 1

One of the patron saints of Ireland alongside St. Patrick. Founded a famous monastery at Kildare and was known for her extraordinary generosity to the poor.

Feast: August 9

Brilliant Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a Carmelite nun, and was martyred at Auschwitz.

Feast: March 24

Archbishop of San Salvador who became a fearless defender of the poor and was assassinated while celebrating Mass.

Feast: October 12

Italian teenager who used his computer skills to catalog Eucharistic miracles around the world. Died of leukemia at age fifteen. Beatified in 2020.

Feast: October 16

French Visitation nun who received visions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and promoted devotion to it throughout the Church.

Feast: November 28

French Daughter of Charity who received visions of Our Lady requesting the creation of the Miraculous Medal, one of the most popular sacramentals in the world.

Feast: October 9

Brilliant Anglican clergyman who became the most famous convert to Catholicism in the 19th century. His writings on the development of doctrine changed theological history.