Patron Saints (U to Z)

St. Ursula    
Feast Day:  October 21
Patron of Catholic Education; Orphans, archers, students
           
St. Valentine of Rome    
Feast Day:  February 14
Patron of Love
           
St. Veronica    
Feast Day:  July 12
Patron of Photographers
         

St. Victor of Marseilles    
Feast Day:  July 21
Patron of Lightning and Millers;        
  Patron of Torture Victims   

St. Victor the Moor or Victor of Milan
Feast Day: May 8
Patron of Varese, Italy

St. Vincent de Paul    
Feast Day:  September 27
Patron of Charities and Caregivers: Patron of Charitable Societies
             
St. Vincent Ferrer    
Feast Day:  April 5
Patron of Construction Workers

St. Vincent of Saragossa
Feast Day: January 22
Patron of Vintners       

St. Vitus    
Feast Day:  June 15
Patron of Actors and Comedians
            
St. Walburga
Feast Day: February 25   
Patron of Coughs, Dog bites; Sailors and Storms
           
St. Walter of Pontnoise (Saint Walter Gautier}   
Feast Day:  April 8
Patron of Prisoners of war (POW's); prisoners
             
St. Wenceslaus    
Feast Day:  September 28
Patron of Brewers
             
St. William of Rochester    
Feast Day:  May 23
Patron of Adopted Children

St. Winifred
Feast Day: November 3
 Patron of Virgins

             
St. Wolfgang    
Feast Day:  October 31
Patron of Paralysis and Strokes

Saint Yves (Saint Ivo of Kermartin)
Feast Day: May 19
Patron of Lawyers and Abandoned Children   
           
St. Zita    
Feast Day:  April 27
Patron of Servers, Homemakers and Single Laywomen

Patron Saints (P to T)

St. Patrick
Feast Day:  March 17
Patron of Ireland, Snakes & Engineers
      
St. Paul the Apostle
Feast Day: January 25
Patron of Publishers and Reporters; Missions
      
St. Paula
Feast Day:  January 26
Patron of Widows    
  
St. Peregrine Laziosi
Feast Day:  May 1
Patron of Cancer and Running Sores
      
St. Perpetua
Feast Day:  March 7
Patron of Martyrs and Cattle
      
St. Peter the Apostle
Feast Day:  June 29
Patron of Butchers and Fishermen
      
    
St. Petronille Pétronille, Aurelia Petronilla; Pernelle; Peroline;  Pérette; Perrenotte; Perrette; Perrine; Peyronne;  Perronelle; Petronella;Peyronnelle; Pierrette;Périne
Feast Day: May 31
Patron of Fevers; Travelers and Mountaineers
      
St. Philip the Apostle
Feast Day: May 3
Patron of Hatters and Pastry Chefs

St. Philip Neri
Feast Day:  May 26
Patron of the United States Army and Rome
      
St. Philomena
Feast Day: August 11
Patron of Children, sterility, loss causes
      
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Feast Day:  July 4
Patron of World Youth Day
      
St. Pio of Pietrelcina
Feast Day: September 23
Patron of adolescents, civil defense volunteers

St. Polycarp of Smyrna
Feast Day:  February 23
Patron of Dysentery and Against Earache
      

St. Rafka
Feast Day:  March 23
Patron of Bodily Ills and Loss of Parent
      
St. Raphael the Archangel
Feast Day:  September 29
Patron of the Blind, Love and Safe Journey
      
St. Raymond Nonnatus
Feast Day:  August 31
Patron of Infants and Childbirth
      
St. Rebecca
Feast Day:  September 4
Patron of Sickness
      
St. Regina
Feast Day:  September 7
Patron Against Poverty
    
St. Regis
Feast Day:  June 16
Patron of Social Workers and Lace Makers
        
    
St. Rene Goupil
Feast Day:  October 19
Patron of Anesthesiologists
      
St. Richard
Feast Day: April 3
Patron of Large Families
      
St. Rita of Cascia
Feast Day:  May 22
Patron of Loneliness and Impossible Dreams
      
St. Robert Bellarmine
Feast Day:  September 17
Patron of Catechists
  
St. Rocco(Roch)
Feast Day: August 16
Patron against Epidemics; Bachelors, surgeons
      
      
St. Rosalia
Feast Day:  September 4
Patron of Palermo, Sicily
      
St. Rose of Lima
Feast Day:  August 23
Patron of Vanity and South America

St. Sarah
Feast Day:  August 19
Patron of Infertility

St. Scholastica
Feast Day:  February 10
Patron of Nuns and Storms
    
St. Sebastian
Feast Day:  January 20
Patron of Athletes and Soldiers

  
St. Simon the Apostle
Feast Day: October 28
Patron of Couriers and tanners
    
  
St. Stanislaus
Feast Day:  November 13
Patron of Broken Bones

St. Stephen the Martyr
Feast Day:  December 26
Patron of Deacons and Stonemasons
  
St. Susanna
Feast Day: August 11
Patron of those named Susanna

St. Tarcisius
Feast Day:  August 15
Patron of Altar Servers

St. Teresa of Avila
Feast Day: October 15
Patron of Foreign Missions: loss of parents, people in religious order
    
St. Therese of Lisieux
Feast Day:  October 1
Patron of Aviators and Florists
    
St. Thomas the Apostle
Feast Day:  July 3
Patron of Architects and Blind People
    
St. Thomas Aquinas
Feast Day:  January 28
Patron of Catholic Schools and Students
    
St. Thomas A Becket
Feast Day: December 29
Patron of Clergy
    
St. Thomas More
Feast Day:  June 22
Patron of Lawyers and Statesmen
    
St. Thomas of Villanova
Feast Day:  September 18
Patron of the Poor and Orphans
    
St. Timothy
Feast Day:  January 26
Patron of Stomach Disorders
    
St. Teresa of Avila
Feast Day:  October 15
Patron of Headaches and Loss of Parents

List of Saints

A
Saint Aaron
Saint Abba Dorotheus
Saint Adrian
Saint Aedan of Ferns
Saint Aelred
Saint Afra
Saint Agapetus
Saint Agatha
Saint Agnes
saint Agostina Peitrantoni
Saint Alban
Saint Albert the Great
Saint Albinus
Saint Alexander
Saint Alexandra
Saint Alexis
Saint Alexius
Saint Alice
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Saint Ambrose
Saint Amelia
Saint Anastasia
Saint Andrew the Apostle
Saint Andrew Avellino
Saint Andrew Kim Taegon
Saint Angela Merici
Saint Angela of Foligno
Saint Anicetus
Saint Anne
Saint Anselm
Saint Antoninus
Saint Anthony Mary Claret
Saint Anthony of Egypt
Saint Anthony of Padua
Saint Anthony Zaccaria
Saint Anthony the Great
Saint Apollinaris
Saint Apollonia
Saint Apollonius

Saint Arnold Janssen

Saint Athanasius
Saint Augustine of Canterbury
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Saint Avitus
B
Saint Bademus
Saint Bakhita
Saint Barbara
Saint Barbatus
Saint Barnabas
Saint Barsanuphius
Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
Saint Basil the Great
Saint Bathildes
Saint Bede the Venerable
Saint Benedict
Saint Benedict of Anian
Saint Benedict Joseph Labré
Saint Benezet
Saint Benjamin
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Saint Bernard of Montjoux
Saint Bernadette
Saint Bernardine of Siena/ Saint Bernadino of Siena
Saint Bertha
Saint Bertille
Saint Bibiana
Saint Blaise
Saint Bonaventure
Saint Boniface
Saint Brendan the Navigator
Saint Bridget of Sweden/Saint Birgitta of Sweden
Saint Bridgid
Saint Bruno
C
Saint Cajetan
Saint Callistus
Saint Camillus Of Lellis
Saint Canutus
Saint Casimir
Saint Catherine Labouré
Saint Catharine of Sweden
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Saint Catherine of Bologna
Saint Catherine of Genoa
Saint Catherine of Ricci
Saint Catherine of Siena
Saint Cecilia
Saint Celestine
Saint Charles Borromeo
Saint Charles of Sezze
Saint Christian Demosthenes
Saint Christina
Saint Christopher
Saint Chromatius of Aquileia
Saint Clare of Assisi
Saint Claude of Montefalco
Saint Clement of Rome/ Pope Clement
Saint Clotilda
Saint Cloud
Saint Colette
Saint Columbanus
Saint Cornelius
Saints Cosmas and Damian
Saint Crescentia Hoess
Saint Cunegundes
Saint Cyprian
Saint Cyriacus
Saint Cyril
Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
D
Saint Damasus
Saint David
Saint Delphinus
Saint Denis
Saint Didacus
Saint Dionysius
Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic Savio
Saint Dorothy
Saint Dunstan
Saint Dymphna
E
Saint Edburga of Winchester
Saint Edith Stein /Saint Theresa Benedicta
Saint Edmund of Canterbury
Saint Edward the Confessor
Saint Edwin
Saint Eleutherius
Saint Eligius
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
Saint Elizabeth of the Visitation
Saint Elphege
Saint Encratis
Saint Ephraem
Saint Epiphanius
Saint Etheldreda
Saint Eucherius
Saint Eugenius
Saint Eulalia
Saint Elmo
Saint Emily de Vialar
Saint Eugene I/Pope Eugene I
Saint Eugene de Mazeno
Saint Eulogius
Saint Euphemia
Saint Euphrasia
Saint Eusebius
Saint Eusebius
Saint Eustace
Saint Evaristus
F
Saint Felicitas
Saint Felix of Cantalice
Saint Felix of Valois

Saint Fiaker/ Fiacre
Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Saint Fina
Saint Finbarr
Saint Finnian of Clonard
Saint Firmin
Saint Flavian
Saint Florian
Saint Frances Cabrini
Saint Frances of Rome
Saint Francis Borgia
Saint Francis Caracciolo
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis de Paula
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis Xavier
Saint Frumentius
Saint Fulgentius
G
Saint Gabriel Possenti
Saint Gal
Saint Gall
Saint Gatian
Saint Gemma Galgani
Saint Genesius of Rome
Saint Genevieve
Saint George
Saint Gerard Majella
Saint Germaine de Pibrac
Saint Germanus
Saint Gertrude the Great
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint Giles
Saint Grace
Saint Goar
Saint Gontran
Saint Gorgonia
Saint Gregory
Saint Gregory Nazianzen
Saint Gregory of Sinai
Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus
Saint Gregory the Great
Saint Gregory VII
Saint Guy of Anderlecht
H
Saint Hannibal di'Francia
Saint Hedwig of Silesia
Saint Hegesippus
Saint Helena
Saint Heliodorus
Saint Henry II
Saint Herman of Reichenau
Saint Hermenegild
Saint Hilarion
Saint Hilary of Poitiers
Saint Hildegarde von Bingen
Saint Hippolytus
Saint Honoratus
Saint Honorius of Amiens
Saint Hospitius
Saint Hubert of Liege
Saint Hugh
Saint Hugh of Cluny
Saint Hyacinth
I
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint Irenaeus
Saint Isaac Jogues
Saint Isaak of Syria
Saint Isabella of Portugal
Saint Ischyrion
Saint Isidore of Seville
J
Saint James the Greater
Saint James the Lesser
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal/Jeanne de Chantal
Saint Jane of Valois
Saint Januarius
Saint Jason
Saint Jerome
Saint Jerome Emiliani
Saint Joan of Arc
Saint Joaquina
Saint John the Apostle
Saint John Berchmans
Saint John Bosco
Saint John Cantius
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint John Climacus
Saint John Francis Regis
Saint John Fisher
Saint John Gualbert
Saint John Licci
Saint John Macias
Saint John Nepomucen
Saint John Neumann
Saint John Ogilvie
Saint John of Capistrano
Saint John of Egypt
Saint John of God
Saint John of Matha
Saint John of Saint Fagondez
Saint John of the Cross
Saint John the Almoner
Saint John the Baptist
Saint John Baptist de La Salle
Saint John the Silent
Saint John Vianney
Saint Jose Marie Escriva
Saint Joseph the Worker
Saint Joseph Cafasso
Saint Joseph Calasanctius
Saint Joseph Calasanza
Saint Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe
Saint Joseph of Cupertino
Saint Joseph Freinademetz
Saint Josephine Bakhita
Saint Joshua
Saint Juan Diego
Saint Jude Thaddeus
Saint Julia Billiart
Saint Julian Hospitaller
Saint Juliana of Cumae
Saint Juliana Falconieri
Saint Julius
Saint Justin de Jacobis
Saint Justina
K
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Saint Katharine Drexel
St. Kenneth
St. Kevin
St. Kiernan
St. Kilian
L
Saint Ladislas
Saint Lambert
Saint Laurence
Saint Laurence Justinian
Saint Laurence O'Toole of Dublin
Saint Lazarus
Saint Leander
Saint Leo the Great
Saint Leocadia
Saint Leonard
Saint Leonides
Saint Liberatus
Saint Longinus
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
Saint Louis
Saint Louis IX
Saint Louis Bertrand
Saint Louise de Marillac
Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
Saint Lucian
Saint Lucia of Syracuse/Saint Lucy
Saint Ludger
Saint Lugartha Lee Yu-Hye
Saint Luigi Orione
Saint Luke the Apostle
M
Saint Macarius of Alexandria
Saint Madeleine Sophi Barat
Saint Madonna del Ghisallo
Saint Magloire
Saint Malachi O'More
Saint Mammertus
Saint Marcella
Saint Marcellin Champagnat
Saint Marcellinus
Saint Marcellus
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
Saint Margaret of Antioch
Saint Margaet of Cortona
Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Youville
Saint Maria Faustina
Saint Maria Goretti
Saint Marie Magdalen Postel
Saint Mark the Evangelist
Saint Martha
Saint Martin de Porres
Saint Martin of Tours
Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Saint Mary Magdalen
Saint Mary Magdalen of Pazzi
Saint Mary Mazzarello
Saint Mary of Edessa
Saint Mary of Egypt
Saint Matilda
Saint Matthew
Saint Matthias the Apostle
Saint Maud
Saint Maurice
Saint Maurus
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Saint Maximus the Confessor
Saint Mechtild of Magdeburg
Saint Medard
Saint Mello
Saint Mesmin
Saint Michael the Archangel
Saint Monica
Saint Moses the Ethiopian
N
Saint Narcissus
Saint Nemesion
Saint Nicasius
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas of Flue
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
Saint Nilus of Sinai
Saint Nimatullah
Saint Nino de Atocha
Saint Nonna
Saint Norbert
O
Saint Odilia
Saint Odo of Cluny
Saint Olivia
Saint Oliver Plunkett
Saint Olympias
Saint Omer
Saint Onesimus
Saint Oswald
P
Saint Pachomius
Saint Palladius of the Scots
Saint Pamphilus
Saint Pancrasius
Saint Pantaenus
Saint Pantaleon
Saint Paphnutius
Saint Paschal Baylon
Saint Paternus
Saint Patrick of Ireland
Saint Paul the Apostle
Saint Paul of the Cross
Saint Paula
Saint Paulinus of Nola
Saint Perpetua
Saint Peter the Apostle
Saint Peter Baptist
Saint Peter Canisius
Saint Peter Celestine
Saint Peter Claver
Saint Peter Chrysologus
Saint Peter Damian
Saint Peter Julian Eymard
Saint Peter Nolasco
Saint Peter of Alcantara
Saint Peter of Alexandria
Saint Peter of Luxemburg
Saint Petronilla
Saint Philip the Apostle
Saint Philip Benizi
Saint Philip Neri
Saint Philogonius
Saint Philomena
Saint Phocas
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
Saint Pius X
Saint Placid
Saint Polycarp of Smyrna
Saint Porphyry
Saint Prosper of Aquitaine
Q
Saint Quintin
R
Saint Rachel
Saint Radegundes
Saint Rafka
Saint Raphaela Mary Porras
Saint Raymund Nonnatus
Saint Raymund of Pennafort
Saint Rebecca
Saint Regis
Saint Remigius of Reims
Saint Rene Goupil
Saint Richard of Chichester
Saint Rita of Cascia
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Saint Robert of Newminster
Saint Roch
Saint Romanus of Rouen
Saint Romuald
Saint Rosalia
Saint Rose of Lima
Saint Rose of Viterbo
Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
S
Saint Sabas
Saint Sabinus
Saint Saturninus
Saint Scholastica
Saint Sebastian
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Saint Serenus
Saint Servulus
Saint Severianus
Saint Severinus of Agaunum
Saint Sharbel
Saint Silverius
Saint Simeon
Saint Simeon Stylites
Saint Simon the Apostle
Saint Simon Stock
Saint Simplicius
Saint Soledad
Saint Soter
Saint Stanislaus
Saint Stanislas Kostka
Saint Stephen
Saint Swithin
Saint Sylvester
Saint Symphorian
T
Saint Tarachus
Saint Tarasius
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint Thecla
Saint Theodore Tyro
Saint Theodoret
Saint Theodosius
Saint Theophane Venard
Saint Therese of the Child Jesus/Thérèse of Lisieux
Saint Theresia Benedicta /Edith Stein
Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas á Becket
Saint Thomas More
Saint Thomas of Canterbury
Saint Thomas of Villanova
Saint Timothy
Saint Titus
U
Saint Ursula
V
Saint Valentine of Rome
Saint Valery
Saint Venantius
Saint Veronica of Milan
Saint Victor
Saint Victor of Marseilles
Saint Vincent
Saint Vincent Ferrer
Saint Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent Palloti
Saint Vicenta Maria Lopez Vicuña
Saint Vitalis
W
Saint Walter of Pontnoise
Saint Wenceslaus
Saint Wilfrid
Saint William of Monte-Vergine
Saint William of Rochester
Saint Willibrord
Saint Wolfgang
Saint Wulfran
Y
Saint Yvo
Saint Yves
Z
Saint Zachary
Saint Zephyrinus
Saint Zita
Saint Zoe of Rome

What is a Saint?

From: Our Catholic Faith (A Manual of Religion) p 394

The model of Christian perfection is our Lord. The saints, who imitated Him steadfastly, are also patterns of perfection. This aiming, "to be holy as our heavenly Father is holy," this seeking to be like Christ - "another Christ," is to strive for Christian perfection.


"the Church,,, is held, as a matter of faith, to be unfailingly holy. This is because Christ, the son of God, who with the Father and the Spirit is hailed as 'alone holy', loved the Church as his Bride, giving himself up for her so as to sanctify her; he joined her to himself as his body and endowed her with the gift of the Holy spirit for the glory of God.' The Church, then, is "the holy People of God," and her members are called "saints".


From: Catechism of the Catholic Church p.2013

"All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity." All are called to holiness: "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

In order to reach this perfection the faithful should use the strength dealt out to them by Christ's gift, so that...doing the will of the Father in everything, they may wholeheartedly devote themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their neighbor. Thus the holiness of the People of God will grow in fruitful abundance, as is clearly shown in the history of the Church through the lives of so many saints.

From: Lives of Saints p. 9-10

“Saints are human and lovable.”

“It is true indeed that some Saints performed miracles while they were still alive; it is true that many of them could have moments in which they seemed to have no feelings at all. But this is looking at the Saints only from one angle.  The truth is also that many Saints did not perform any miracle while they were still alive, for miracles are given through them not for their own sake, but in view of their service to their fellowmen.  It is also a fact that Saints have intense feelings.  It is enough to look at the martyrs and their unflinching courage.”

“Even this image of the Saints, however, would still just be another angle.  The greater part of the lives of the saint is passing 24 hours a day as we do, experiencing the same sun and the same season as we do…For the greater part of their lives, they are very much like us.”

“What makes them different from us?  Fundamentally, one thing is clear – they have lived their lives fully.  They have found a purpose and have set their whole lives on that purpose.  They have found other people, and they were ready to respond to the real needs of people.  They have experienced God and spent their days in His presence.  In short, the Saints have discovered love and know that to live they have to be transformed into love.  Yes, for Saints, to live fully means to love.  That’s why they are the most lovable humans.”
“….Their love is one, that is the love of God and neighbor, but their lives are many according to their diverse temperaments, cultures, circumstance and historical conditions.  This should be an encouragement for us.  It means that however diverse are the conditions in which we find ourselves, we can still imitate the Saints.  When the Church canonizes a Saint, She is proclaiming before the world an exemplary life which the faithful can imitate.  After all, we, too, are human, and seek to live a life fully alive, fully in love.”