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Everyone in the list, in alphabetical order, with where each entry’s facts come from. Some entries run to several hundred words and some to a single sentence — that is what the sources support, not a judgment about the saint.
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St. Carlo Acutis
He treated the Eucharist as the center of an ordinary teenage life, and used what he was good at — building web pages — to serve his parish and school.
Milan, Italy
St. Casimir
A prince of Poland who claimed the Hungarian throne at thirteen, came home a fugitive, refused the marriage arranged for him, and died at Grodno in 1484.
Feast March 4 · Poland and Lithuania
St. Catherine of Siena
She nursed people with diseases nobody else would touch, then talked a pope into leaving Avignon and coming back to Rome — a woman who could barely read, telling the head of the Church what to do.
Feast April 29 · Siena, Italy
St. Cecilia
Her grave lies in the catacomb of Callistus, immediately beside the crypt of the popes — the most honored ground in Christian Rome — and the Church has kept her name there since the fourth century.
Feast November 22 · Rome
Bl. Chiara Badano
She gave away whatever she had — her snack, her savings, her time — and when bone cancer took her legs she refused morphine so she could stay awake and keep loving people.
Feast October 29 · Sassello, Italy
St. Christopher
He died as a martyr, killed for holding to Christ. Almost nothing else about him is certain — but Christians in both East and West were honouring him within a few hundred years, and have never stopped.
Asia Minor, traditionally Lycia
St. Clare of Assisi
Although she was the abbess she nursed the sick sisters herself and took the worst jobs, and from her sickbed she spun thread for more than a hundred altar cloths and sent them to the churches around Assisi.
Feast August 11 · Assisi, Italy
St. Cyril
Asked to bring the Gospel to people whose language had never been written down, he built them an alphabet and translated the Scriptures and the liturgy into it, then defended in Rome their right to pray in their own tongue against churchmen who insisted on Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
Feast February 14 · Thessalonica, and Great Moravia