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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. Anne
The mother of the Virgin Mary in Christian tradition; she is not named in any of the four Gospels, and her story comes from the second-century Protoevangelium of James.
Feast July 26 · Judea
St. Bonaventure
He wrote the life of Francis of Assisi that the Franciscans adopted as their official one, and governed more than thirty thousand friars for seventeen years while the order split over how strictly to keep the Rule.
Feast July 15 · Bagnoregio in Lazio, and Paris
St. Bridget of Sweden
She raised eight children, founded a small hospital with her husband and attended the sick in it herself, and then, widowed, moved to Rome and spent twenty-four years telling popes to their faces to leave Avignon.
Feast July 23 · Uppland, Sweden, and Rome
St. James the Greater
He was the first of the Twelve to die for it. Herod Agrippa killed him with the sword in Jerusalem, and Scripture records the fact in a single line with no story attached to it — which Benedict XVI reads as a sign of how ordinary such witness had already become.
Feast July 25 · Galilee
St. Kateri Tekakwitha
She spent her last three years at the mission caring for people who were sick and in need, and made a vow of virginity recorded as the first of its kind among the native peoples of North America.
Feast July 14 · Ossernenon, New York, and a mission near Montreal
St. Lazarus
The brother of Martha and Mary whom Jesus raised from the dead at Bethany, after which the chief priests wanted him killed too.
Feast July 29 · Bethany
St. Maria Goretti
She forgave the man who stabbed her before she died, and asked to meet him in heaven; he later admitted what he had done, asked her family's pardon, and expiated it.
Feast July 6 · Le Ferriere, Italy
St. Martha
The sister of Mary and Lazarus who fed Jesus at Bethany and told him plainly what she thought; since 2021 the three are remembered together.
Feast July 29 · Bethany
St. Mary Magdalene
She followed Jesus from Galilee and stayed to the end: she stood at the cross, saw where he was buried, went back to the tomb on the Sunday, and carried the news of the Resurrection to the apostles.
Feast July 22 · Galilee and Jerusalem
St. Mary of Bethany
The sister of Martha and Lazarus who sat listening at Jesus' feet and anointed him at Bethany; since 2021 the three share 29 July.
Feast July 29 · Bethany
St. Thomas the Apostle
He asked for proof and then went further than anyone who had not. Shown the wounds, he did not say that he believed — he said “My Lord and my God”, which Benedict XVI calls the most splendid profession of faith in the whole of the New Testament.
Feast July 3 · India, by tradition