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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. Patrick
A fifth-century Romano-British teenager enslaved by Irish raiders who escaped, returned as a bishop to evangelize Ireland, and left two Latin works, the Confessio and the Letter to Coroticus.
Feast March 17 · Ireland
St. Paul
The Pharisee who persecuted the first Christians until he was struck down on the road to Damascus, then spent his life as the Apostle to the Gentiles.
Feast June 29 · Tarsus and Rome
St. Peter
Simon the fisherman whom Jesus renamed Rock, who denied him three times and led the apostles anyway.
Feast June 29 · Galilee and Rome
St. Pier Giorgio Frassati
He hauled supplies to the poor of Turin himself, gave away his own money, and never treated his faith as a private thing.
Turin, Italy