Catholic Saints

  • St. Gregory Nazianzen

    Feast Day: January 2
    Patron Saint: State and dynasty in the late 15th century

  • St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

    St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

    Feast Day: January 4
    Patron Saint: Catholic Schools

  • St. John Neumann

    Feast Day: January 5

    Patron Saint: Immigrants, Sick Children

  • St. Sebastian

    Feast Day: January 20
    Patron Saint: Athletes

  • St. Agnes

    Feast Day: January 21

    Patron Saint: Engaged couples, Victims of sexual abuse, Gardeners

  • St. Thomas Aquinas

    Feast Day: January 28

    Patron Saint: Catholic Colleges and Universities, Educators/Teachers, Philosophers/Theologians, Students

  • St. Blaise

    Feast Day: February 3

    Patron Saint: Wool combers, wild animals, candle makers and ailments of the throat

  • St. Josephine Bakhita

    Feast Day: February 8

    Patron Saint: victims of modern slavery and human trafficking

  • St. Conrad of piacenza

    Feast Day: February 19
    Patron Saint: Hernia sufferers

  • St. Polycarp

    St. Polycarp

    Feast Day: February 23
    Patron Saint: Earaches or dysentery

  • St. Katharine Drexel

    St. Katharine Drexel

    Feast Day: March 3
    Patron Saint: Racial justice and philanthropists

  • St. Catherine of Bologna

    Feast Day: March 9
    Patron Saint: Artists and against temptations

  • St. Patrick

    Feast Day: March 17
    Patron Saint: Ireland

  • St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero

    Feast Day: March 24
    Patron Saint: Persecuted Christians

  • St. Rupert of Salzburg

    Feast Day: March 28

    Patron Saint: Austria, and salt miners

  • St. Benedict The African

    Feast Day: April 4
    Patron Saint: African missions

  • St. Gemma Galgani

    Feast Day: April 11

    Patron Saint: Students, Pharmacists, against temptations, against the death of parents, against Tuberculosis.

  • St. Bernadette

    Feast Day: April 16

    Patron Saint: Bodily illness, Lourdes, against poverty, Shepherds, and people ridiculed for their faith

  • St. Anselm

    Feast Day: April 21
    Patron Saint: Theologians and philosophers

  • St. Pedro De San Jose Betancur

    St. Pedro De San Jose Betancur

    Feast Day: April 25
    Patron Saint: Canary Islands, Guatemala, Central America, catechists of Guatemala, Honorary Mayor of municipalities in the south of Tenerife and Honorary Mayor of Antigua Guatemala, of the homeless and of those who serve the sick.

  • St. Paul of The Cross

    Feast Day: April 28

    Patron Saint: The Missions, Writers and Publishers

  • St. Louis de Montfort

    Feast Day: April 28

    Patron Saint: Heralds of The Gospel

  • St. Pius V

    Feast Day: April 30

    Patron Saint: Bosco Marengo, Italy

  • St. Rose Venerini

    Feast Day: May 7
    Patron Saint: Embroiderers, gardeners, florists, people who are harassed for their piety, and those suffering family problems.

  • St. Damien De Veuster of Moloka'l

    Feast Day: May 10
    Patron Saint: Leprosy and outcasts

  • St. Margaret of Cortona

    Feast Day: May 16
    Patron Saint: Falsely accused, hoboes, homeless, insane, orphaned, mentally ill, midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, stepchildren, and tramps.

  • St. Rita of Cascia

    Feast Day: May 22
    Patron Saint: Heartbroken women, specifically for sterility, abuse victims, loneliness, marriage difficulties, parenthood, widows, and bodily ills.

  • St. Mary Ann of Jesus of Paredes

    Feast Day: May 26
    Patron Saint: Ecuador

  • St. Peter

    Feast Day: June 29

    Patron Saint: Popes and of Rome

  • St. Maria Goretti

    Feast Day: July 6

    Patron Saint: Purity, Young Women, Victims of Assault

  • St. Benedict

    Feast Day: July 11

    Patron Saint: Europe, Kidney Disease, Monastics, Poisoning, School Children

  • St. Pius I

    Feast Day: July 11

    Patron Saint: First Communicants and pilgrims

  • St. Anthony of Padua

    Feast Day: July 13

    Patron Saint: Lost Things

  • St. Ignatius Loyola

    Feast Day: July 31

    Patron Saint: Spiritual Retreats, Soldiers

  • St. Alphonsus Ligouri

    Feast Day: August 1

    Patron Saint: Moral Theologians

  • St. Philomena

    Feast Day: August 11

    Patron Saint: Infants, Babies, Youth

  • St. John Vianney

    Feast Day: August 4

    Patron Saint: Parish Priests

  • St. Rose of Lima

    Feast Day: August 23

    Patron Saint: Americas, Florists, Latin America, Peru, Phillipines, South America

  • St. Therese of Lisieux

    Feast Day: October 1

    Patron Saint: Florists, Foreign Missions, Loss of Parents, Priests, The Sick

  • St. Francis of Assisi

    Feast Day: October 4

    Patron Saint: Animals, Archaeologists, Ecology, Italy, Merchants, Messengers, Metal Workers

  • St. Teresa Avila

    Feast Day: October 15

    Patron Saint: Headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers

  • St. Margaret Mary

    Feast Day: October 16

    Patron Saint: Devotees of the Sacred Heart, Polio patients, and against the death of parents

  • St. Jude Thaddeus

    Feast Day: October 28

    Patron Saint: Desperate Causes, Desperate Situations, Lost Causes

  • St. Martin de Porres

    Feast Day: November 3

    Patron Saint: African Americans, Barbers, Hairdressers, Race Relations, Radio, Social Justice

  • St Frances Xavier Cabrini

    Feast Day: November 13

    Patron Saint: Immigrants, Hospital Administrators, Lincoln

  • St. John Berchmans

    Feast Day: November 26

    Patron Saint: Altar Servers

  • St. Francis Xavier

    Feast Day: December 3

    Patron Saint: Catholic Missions; African Missions; Goa, India; China; Missionaries

  • St. John of The Cross

    Feast Day: December 14

    Patron Saint: Mystics, Contemplatives, Spanish Poets

Catholic Saint stories

Greg Kaiser Greg Kaiser

St. Thomas Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas | January 28

The patron saint of teachers, theologians and students, St. Thomas Aquinas died in 1274. His life and the impact he had on the whole Church, however, remains alive today.

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