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• St. Agnes of Rome

  A Roman girl martyred and buried near the Via Nomentana, so young that Ambrose put her age at twelve and Augustine at thirteen.

  Feast January 21 · Rome

• St. Anne

  The mother of the Virgin Mary in Christian tradition; she is named in no canonical Gospel, and her story comes from the second-century Protoevangelium of James.

  Feast July 26 · Judea

• 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 and Lithuania sent at thirteen to claim the Hungarian throne, who refused a dynastic marriage and died of tuberculosis at Grodno in 1484, aged twenty-five.

  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. Clare of Assisi

  The eldest daughter of a wealthy Assisi family who left it to follow Francis, cofounded the Poor Clares, and was first abbess of San Damiano.

  Feast August 11 · Assisi, Italy

• St. Elizabeth of Hungary

  A Hungarian king's daughter married at fourteen to the Landgrave of Thuringia, widowed at twenty, who spent her dower on a hospital at Marburg and died there at twenty-four.

  Feast November 17 · Hungary

• St. John the Apostle

  A Galilee fisherman called with his brother James, the disciple who leaned on Jesus at the Last Supper and stood at the cross.

  Feast December 27 · Galilee and Ephesus

• St. Joseph

  The carpenter of Nazareth who took Mary into his home, named the child Jesus, and is not recorded saying a single word in Scripture.

  Feast March 19 · Nazareth

• St. Josephine Bakhita

  She kept the door of the convent at Schio, laying her hands on the heads of the schoolchildren who passed, and travelled Italy telling people about the freedom she had been given.

  Feast February 8 · Darfur, Sudan, and Schio, Italy

• 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.

  Ossernenon, New York, and a mission near Montreal

• St. Lucy

  A young woman of Syracuse killed in the Diocletian persecution, who gave away her wealth to the poor after her mother was cured at Agatha's tomb.

  Feast December 13 · Syracuse, Sicily

• St. Margaret of Scotland

  An Anglo-Saxon princess raised in exile in Hungary who married Malcolm III, reformed the Scottish church, and died at Edinburgh in 1093, days after her husband fell in battle.

  Feast November 16 · Scotland

• 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. Mark

  The John Mark of Acts, cousin of Barnabas and companion of both Paul and Peter, remembered as the writer of the second Gospel.

  Feast April 25 · Jerusalem and Alexandria

• 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. Maximilian Kolbe

  He built a publishing operation that reached a million readers, sheltered refugees and Jews when the Nazis came, and at Auschwitz stepped out of the line to die in another man's place.

  Feast August 14 · Poland

• 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

• St. Rita of Cascia

  Married at twelve to a violent man and widowed by murder, she begged Heaven to stop her sons taking revenge, then entered the Augustinians at Cascia.

  Feast May 22 · Cascia, Italy

• St. Rose of Lima

  Born Isabel Flores de Oliva in colonial Lima, a Dominican tertiary who lived in severe penance in her parents' garden and became the first canonized saint of the Americas.

  Feast August 23 · Peru

• St. Sebastian

  A Roman martyr commemorated in a list compiled in 354 and buried on the Via Appia; the soldier, the archers and the arrows come from Acts the sources reject.

  Feast January 20 · Rome

• St. Thomas More

  The London lawyer who became Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, refused the oath acknowledging the king as head of the Church in England, and was beheaded in 1535.

  Feast June 22 · England

• St. Wenceslaus

  The duke of Bohemia raised Christian by his grandmother Ludmila, murdered by his brother Boleslav outside Prague, and venerated ever since as the Czech nation's patron.

  Feast September 28 · Bohemia