In my particular series of historical blog posts (Heck of a Ride Around the Sun) I have tried to include and insert many many canonized Catholic Saints, Blesseds, Venerables and Servants of God into the timelines. I may have missed some and it’s hard to go back and drop them into history. So I’m putting them here in this particular series of articles on the Catholic Bard’s List of Saints.

I took the General Roman Calendar, some books on saints, some other articles I wrote to make this timeline.

Some saints have more info then other saints. Some just have their name in this list because their name is in the General Roman Calendar. Perhaps with more time I could find out more about them and include it in this piece. Also if you didn’t see your favorite saint listed, it’s because I can’t list everyone. I would have to create a website just for that purpose. But of course that has already been done. You can find that website here.

CatholicSaints.Info

Plus they might pop up in another post.

Many Descriptions of saints are quoted directly taken from

Dr.Larry Jimmy Wikipedia.

And now we move onto the Saints who were…

Born or Died in the 18^th Century

Saint Crispin of Viterbo
(November 13, 1668 – May 19, 1750)
Feast: May 19

He was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Fioretti was an ardent devotee of the Mother of God and was consecrated to her protection in 1674 and he even made a small altar dedicated to her when he served in the kitchens at the house in Orvieto. He served in various roles for the order in various cities around Rome where he became a well-known figure with various nobles and prelates – even Pope Clement XI visiting him and seeking him out for advice and support. Fioretti likewise was known as a sort of wonderworker who worked miracles during his lifetime. He was also known for his warm sense of humor and his simple method for living.

Devasahayam Pillai (April 23, 1712 – January 14, 1752)
Feast: January 14
Patronage: India, Persecuted Christians
Next to Be Blessed and Sainted

He is known by his baptismal name Lazarus. He is a beatified Indian layman of the Catholic Church. Born into a Hindu family in the 18th century, he converted to Catholicism and is considered a martyr of the Christian faith. Pillai was an official in the court of the King of Travancore, Maharaja Marthanda Varma, when he came under the influence of Dutch naval commander, Captain Eustachius De Lannoy, who instructed him in the Catholic faith. He is believed to have been killed by the Travancore state for upholding his Christian faith.

Saint Gerard Majella
(April 6, 1726 –October 16, 1755)
Feast: October 16
Patron: Children (and unborn children in particular);
childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular);
motherhood; falsely accused people;
good confessions; lay brothers.

He was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists,

During his life, he was very close to the peasants and other outsiders who lived in the Neapolitan countryside. In his work with the Redemptorist community, he was variously a gardener, sacristan, tailor, porter, cook, carpenter, and clerk of works on the new buildings at Caposele.

At 27, Majella was controversially identified by a young pregnant woman as the father of her child. To avoid exposing the father, Gerard accepted the blame silently. His superior Alphonse Liguori questioned him and, due to his silence, banned him from receiving Holy Communion. After several years, the woman revealed the truth on her deathbed, but also testified to Gerard’s holiness.

Some of Majella’s reported miracles include restoring life to a boy who had fallen from a high cliff, blessing the scant supply of wheat belonging to a poor family and making it last until the next harvest, and several times multiplying the bread that he was distributing to the poor.

One day, he walked across the water to lead a boatload of fishermen through stormy waves to the safety of the shore. He was reputed to have had bilocation and the ability to read souls.

His last will was a small note on the door of his cell: “Here the will of God is done, as God wills, and as long as God wills.” He died at the age of 29 of tuberculosis.

Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, O.C.D.
(July 15,1747 –March 7, 1770)
Giving Her Children Brown Scapulars

She was canonized March 19, 1934 by Pope Pius XI. She was known for her mystical gifts.

“Knowing that a bride cannot be pleasing to her spouse unless she endeavors to become what he wishes her to be … I will always think of my neighbors as beings made in your likeness, produced by your divine love, redeemed at the price of your precious Blood, looking upon them with true Christian charity, which you command. I will sympathize with their troubles, excuse their faults, always speak well of them, and never willingly fail in charity towards them in thought, word, or deed.”
God is Love (1964 edition)

Marie-Marguerite d’Youville
(October 15, 1701 – December 23, 1771)
Feast: October 16

She was a French Canadian widow who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the “Grey Nuns”. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1990, becoming the first native-born Canadian to be declared a saint.

St. Paul of the Cross
(January 3, 1694 – 18 October 1775)
Feast: October 19/20 USA

He was was an Italian Catholic mystic, and founder of the Passionists.

July 4: Independence Day—
USA Optional Memorial (July 4, 1776)

St. Benedict Joseph Labre
(March 25, 1748 – April 16, 1783)
Feast: April 16,
Patronage: The Homeless, and those suffering from mental illness.

He was a French Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint. Labre was from a well to do family near Arras, France. After attempting a monastic lifestyle, he opted instead for the life of a pilgrim. He traveled to most of the major shrines of Europe, subsisting by begging.

Saint Junípero Serra
(November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784)
Feast: August 28; July 1 in United States
Patronage: Vocations, Hispanic Americans, California

He was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He founded a mission in Baja California and established eight of the 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain.

Blessed Teresa of Saint Augustine and The Martyrs of Compiègne
(1715–1765, Various – July 17, 1794)
Feast: July 17

They were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries). They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on July 17, 1794.

Blessed Martyrs of Laval
Died 1794
Feast: January 21

Fifteen men and four women who were martyred in Laval, France by anti-Catholic French Revolutionaries.

Blessed Siméon Cardon and five other Cistercian monks
Feast day: May 13
All Blessed Saints Day

Casamari Abbey is a Cistercian abbey in the Province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) east-south-east of Veroli. At the start of the 19th century, Italy found itself invaded by the forces of the First French Empire. In the course of the Napoleonic wars, several French soldiers stopped at the abbey on May 13, 1799, when returning from the assault on Naples. They were well received by the prior, Simon Cardon, a fellow Frenchman. Nevertheless, the soldiers proceeded to sack the abbey in next days, including the church, where they broke open the tabernacle and scattered the consecrated hosts on the floor. When Cardon and five of his fellow monks went to recover the hosts, they were shot by the soldiers. Declared martyrs, they were buried within the church itself, as opposed to the abbey graveyard, however the official pronouncement was issued in Vatican only in May 2020. Soon, though, the abbey, along with most other religious communities, was suppressed by a decree of Napoleon in 1811

“In 1799, when French soldiers, in retreat from Naples, sacked churches and monasteries, these meek disciples of Christ resisted with heroic courage, unto death, to defend the Eucharist from desecration. May their example spur us to a greater commitment of fidelity to God, capable of transforming society and making it more just and fraternal.”-Pope Francis Beatified: April 17, 2021

María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa
(1730–1799)

She was an Argentine Catholic religious sister who established the Daughters of the Divine Savior. She later became known as Mama Antula.

She was – on the account of her model Christian life of heroic virtue – proclaimed to be venerable in 2010. She was beatified on August 27, 2016. On February 11, 2024, Pope Francis canonised her.

Born or died in 19^th Century

Saint Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
(December 8, 1750 – 14 September 14, 1815)
Feast: September 14

He was a member of Society of Foreign Missions of Paris and is a martyr saint of the Catholic Church. He is one of the 120 martyrs of China, canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 1 of the Holy Year 2000, on the feast of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, patron saint of the Missions. Pope Leo XIII declared him as venerable on 2 July 1899 and beatified him on 27 May 1900. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 2000.

John Carroll (archbishop) SJ USA
(January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815)

He was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Baltimore, the first diocese in the new United States. He later became the first Archbishop of Baltimore. Until 1808, Carroll administered the entire U.S. Catholic Church. He was a member of the Society of Jesus until its suppression in 1759.

Carroll’s older brother, Daniel Carroll II (1730–1796), was one of five men to sign both the Articles of Confederation (1778) and the US Constitution (1787).^[8]
Carroll’s cousin, Charles Carroll (1737–1832), was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776). He participated in the 1828 setting of the “first stone” in the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Saint Julia Billiart
(July 12, 1751 –April 8, 1816)
Feast: April 8
Patron: educators, teachers

She was a French Catholic nun, educator, and cofounder of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

She was born in Cuvilly, a village in Picardy, in northern France. She was paralyzed and bedridden for 22 years, but was well known for her prayer, her embroidery skills, and her education of both the poor and the nobility, especially her work with young girls. She had to flee Cuvilly after the start of the French Revolution and escaped to Compiègne, where the stress she experienced resulted in another illness that took away her ability to speak, and where she received a vision foretelling that she would found a new religious congregation that would eventually become the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. In 1794, she met the French noblewoman and nun, Françoise Blin de Bourdon, who became Billiart’s co-founder and close associate, in Amiens.

In 1804, Billiart and de Bourdon established the Sisters of Notre Dame in Amiens, where they and other nuns dedicated themselves to the care and education of young girls. Billiart, who was called “Mother Julie,” was healed of both her paralysis and her speech and went on to found schools and homes for poor girls in France and Belgium. As of 2020, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur worked in 16 countries on five continents.

Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer CSsR
(December 26, 1751 –March 15, 1820)
Feast: March 15
Patron: Vienna, Austria; Dartmouth College

He was a Moravian hermit and later a priest of the Redemptorist congregation. He established his congregation, founded in Italy, north of the Alps. For this he is considered a co-founder of the congregation. He was widely known for his lifelong dedication to care of the poor during a tumultuous period in Europe, that had left thousands destitute. He laboured in the care of the Polish people until expelled, when he moved to Austria.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
(September 8, 1774 –February 9, 1824)
Feast: February 9

She was an Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a purported mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
(August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821)
Feast: January 4
Patron: Catholic Schools; widows; Shreveport, Louisiana; and the State of Maryland; Catholic converts

She was a Catholic religious sister in the United States and an educator, known as a founder of the country’s parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her husband William Seton. Two years after his death, she converted to Catholicism in 1805.

Seton established the first Catholic girls’ school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland. There she also founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity.

After her death, Seton was the first person born in what would become the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church (September 14, 1975).

Charles Carroll of Carrollton
(Sept. 19, 1737 — Nov. 14, 1832)

He was an American politician, planter, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was the only Catholic signatory of the Declaration and the longest surviving, dying 56 years after its signing.

Andrew Fournet,
(December 6, 1752 – May 13, 1834)
Feast: May 13

He was a French Roman Catholic priest and together with Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages the founder of the Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew. Fournet had a disdain for religion in his childhood but became a priest due to the shining example and influence of an uncle of his. He later fled France in 1792 following a brief arrest during the French Revolution after refusing to take the oath, and returned sometime later where he met Bichier

Saint Claudine Thévenet
(March 30, 1774 –February 3, 1837)
Feast: February 3
Patron: Religious of Jesus and Mary
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord

She was a French Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary.

Thévenet witnessed the horrors of the French Revolution – she saw two of her brothers executed – and went on to cater to the needs of children while using her congregation to provide local girls with a religious education.

Saint Joan Elizabeth Bichier des Âges
(July 5, 1773 – August 26, 1838)
Feast: August 23

She was a French religious sister who together with Andrew Fournet, she founded the Sisters of the Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew, a religious congregation which was established for the care of the poor and the instruction of rural children in the Diocese of Poitiers in 1807. She also helped to inspire the founding of a community of priests dedicated to missionary service, the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Betharram.

Saint Anne-Marie Rivier
(1768–1838)
Feast: February 3
Patron: Sisters of the Presentation of Mary
May 15, 2022, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City

She was a French Catholic religious sister and the foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary. Rivier’s focus was on education and she opened a school just before the beginning of the French Revolution which saw her school confiscated. The end of the revolution allowed for her to resume her educational inclinations and she also founded her religious order to take care of the education of orphans and other children who needed education.

Andrew Dũng-Lạc
(c. 1795 –December 21, 1839)
Feast: November 24
Patron: Diocese of Orange

He was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest. He was executed by beheading during the reign of Minh Mạng.

Saint John Gabriel Perboyre C.M.
(January 6, 1802 – September 11, 1840)
Feast: September 11
Patron:
All Kinds of Saints Day

He was a French priest of the Congregation of the Mission, who served as a missionary in China, where he suffered martyrdom.

Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
(1770 – 1840)

He was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Catholic priest known as “The Apostle of the Alleghenies” and also in the United States as Prince Galitzin. He was a member of the House of Golitsyn.

Peter Chanel SM
(July 12, 1803 – April 28, 1841)
General Roman Calendar
Feast: April 28
Patron: Oceania

He was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr. Chanel was a member of the Society of Mary and was sent as a missionary to Oceania. He arrived on the island of Futuna in November 1837. Chanel was clubbed to death in April 1841 at the instigation of a chief upset because his son converted.

Andrew Kim Taegon
(August 21, 1821 –September 16, 1846)
Feast: September 20
Patron: Korean clergy
General Roman Calendar

He was the first Korean Catholic priest and is the patron saint of Korean clergy.

Marie Rose Durocher
(October 6, 1811 – October 6, 1849)
Feast: October 6

She was a Canadian Catholic religious sister who founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

Anne-Marie Javouhey
(November 10, 1779 – July 15, 1851)
Feast: July 15

She was a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. She is known as the Liberator of the Slaves in the New World, and as the mother of the town of Mana, French Guiana.

Rose-Philippine Duchesne
(August 29, 1769 – November 18, 1852)
Feast: November 18
Patron: perseverance amid adversity

She was A native of France, she immigrated as a missionary to America, and is recognized for her care and education of Indigenous American survivors of the United States Indian removal programs.

Along with the founder, Madeleine-Sophie Barat, Duchesne was an early member of the Society of the Sacred Heart and established the congregation‘s first communities in the United States. She spent the last half of her life teaching and serving the people of the Midwestern United States, which was at that time considered the western frontier of the nation.

Venerable Félix Varela Morales
(1788–1853)
Cuba-Florida

He was a Cuban Catholic priest and independence leader who is regarded as a notable figure in the Catholic Church in both his native Cuba and the United States, where he also served.

Venerable Pierre Toussaint
(1766 – 1853)
American Catholic History

was a formerly enslaved Haitian-American hairdresser and philanthropist, brought to New York City by his enslavers in 1787. Freed in 1807 after the death of his mistress, Pierre took the surname of “Toussaint” in honor of Toussaint Louverture, a leader of the Haitian Revolution.^{[citation needed]} Toussaint also became a successful barber and used his wealth for various philanthropic causes. He also helped finance the construction of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral.

Credited as the de facto founder of Catholic Charities New York, Toussaint is the first and only layman to be buried in the crypt below the main altar of the current St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, generally reserved for bishops of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Frédéric Ozanam
(April 23, 1813 – September 8, 1853)
Feast: September 9

He was a French Catholic literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in 1997. His feast day is 9 September.

Louisa Elizabeth Rolls Vaughan
(October 8, 1810 – January 24, 1853)

Eliza was a Welsh Catholic convert and mother of influential Catholic figures in England and Australia. She is under consideration for beatification in the Catholic Church.

December 8: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary—Solemnity
(Added to the Universal Roman Calendar in 1854)

Saint Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
(April 16, 1783 – August 28, 1854)
Feast: August 28
Patron:Discalced Carmelites

Sacred Heart of Jesus—Solemnity
(Added to the Universal Roman Calendar in 1856)

Rosalie Rendu
(September 9, 1786 – February 7, 1856)
Feast: February 7

She was a French Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity who organized care for the poor in the Paris slums during the Industrial Revolution.

Anne-Thérèse Guérin (Mother Théodore) Saint Theodora
(October 2, 1798 –May 14, 1856)
Feast: October 3
Patron: State of Indiana; Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana; Indianapolis

She was a French-American saint and the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, a congregation of Catholic sisters at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.

Saint Dominic Savio
(April 2, 1842 –March 9, 1857: Aged 14)
Feast: May 6
Patron: Choirboys, falsely accused people, juvenile delinquents
21 Young Saints and Their Companions

He was an Italian student of John Bosco who became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. He was noted for his piety and devotion to the Catholic faith, and was canonized a saint by Pope Pius XII in 1954.

Bosco regarded Savio very highly, and wrote a biography of his young student, The Life of Dominic Savio. This volume, along with other accounts of him, were critical factors in his cause for sainthood. Despite the fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age (14) to be considered for sainthood, he was considered eligible for such a singular honour on the basis of displaying “heroic virtue” in his everyday life. Savio was canonised a saint on 12 June 1954 by Pope Pius XII, making him the youngest non-martyr to be canonised in the Catholic Church, until the canonisations of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, the pious visionaries of Fatima, in 2017.

February 11: Our Lady of Lourdes—Optional Memorial (1858)

Saint John Vianney Curé d’Ars
(May 8, 1786 –August 4, 1859)
Feast: August 4
Patron: Parish priests
General Roman Calendar

He was a French Catholic priest often referred to as the Curé d’Ars (“the parish priest of Ars”). He is known for his priestly and pastoral work in his parish in Ars, France, resulting in the radical spiritual transformation of the community and its surroundings.

Catholics note his saintly life, mortification, persevering ministry in the sacrament of confession, and ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

John Nepomuk Neumann (John Nepomucene)
(1811–1860)
Feast: January 5
Patron: Catholic education

He was a Bohemian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. An immigrant from Bohemia, he came to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained, joined the Redemptorist order, and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. In Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the US. Canonized in 1977, he is the only male US citizen to be named a saint.

Joseph Cafasso –
(January 15, 1811 – June 23, 1860)
Feast: June 23
Patron: Italian prisons, Prison chaplains, Prisoners
Those condemned to death

He was an Italian Catholic priest who was a significant social reformer in Turin. He was one of the so-called “Social Saints” who emerged during that particular era. He is known as the “Priest of the Gallows” due to his extensive work with those prisoners who were condemned to death. But he was also known for his excessive mortifications despite his frail constitution: he neglected certain foods and conditions to remain as frugal and basic as possible unless a doctor ordered otherwise.

Manuel Ruiz Lopez
(May 5, 1804 – July 10, 1860)
Feast: July 10

He was a priest of the Order of Friars minor. He was captured by Muslim rioters during the 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus and forced to embrace Islam, which he refused and was killed by being cut into pieces in Damascus, Syria, on 10 July 1860. As one of the Damascus Martyrs he has been beatified in 1926.

Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
(March 1, 1838 – February 27, 1862: Aged 23)
Feast: February 27
Patron: Students, Youth, Clerics, Seminarians, Abruzzi
21 Young Saints and Their Companions

He was an Italian Passionist clerical student. Born to a professional family, he gave up ambitions of a secular career to enter the Passionist congregation. His life in the monastery was not extraordinary, yet he followed the rule of the congregation perfectly and was known for his great devotion to the sorrows of the Virgin Mary. He died from tuberculosis at the age of 23 in Isola del Gran Sasso, in the province of Teramo.

Venerable Henriette DeLille
(March 11, 1813 – November 16, 1862)

She was a Louisiana Creole of color and Catholic religious sister from New Orleans. She founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior. The sisters are the second-oldest surviving congregation of African-American religious.

In 1988, the congregation formally opened the beatification process for DeLille with the Holy See. She was of mixed race: her father was a white man from France, her mother was a quadroon, and her maternal grandfather was a white man from Spain.

Pauline Jaricot
(July 22, 1799 – January 9, 1862)
Feast:January 9
Patron: Association of the Living Rosary
Society of the Propagation of the Faith
Next to Be Blessed and Sainted

She was a French member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. She also was the founder of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Association of the Living Rosary. Pope John XXIII ratified the first step of her beatification process, declaring her venerable.

USA: Thanksgiving Day—Optional Memorial
(Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday in 1863)

Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
(January 11, 1819 – October 4, 1867)
Feast: October 5

He was a German Redemptorist who worked as a missionary in the United States frontier. Towards the end of his life, he went to New Orleans to minister to victims of yellow fever. He then died after contracting the disease.

Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions,Martyrs—
Memorial (Died 1839–1867)
Feast: September 20:

Andrew was the first Korean Catholic priest and is the patron saint of Korean clergy.

Blessed Jean-Bernard Rousseau FSC
(March 22,1797 – April 13, 1867)
Feast: April 13
Patron: Catechists, Teachers

He was a French Catholic member of the De La Salle Brothers. He assumed the religious name Scubilion upon his profession and was dubbed the “Catechist of Slaves” due to his extensive decades-spanning work on Réunion Island.

Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
(July 31, 1796– April 24, 1868)
Feast: April 13
Patron: Catechists, Teachers
All Kinds of Saints Day

She was a French religious sister. She founded the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd whose superior general she was.

During her time as superior in Tours founded also a community, the “Magdalens”, for women who wanted to lead a contemplative life in the enclosure and would support, by their ministry of prayer, the different works of the apostolic congregation. They are now known as the Contemplatives of the Good Shepherd.

Venerable Rafael Cordero Molina
(October 24, 1790 – July 5, 1868)
Afro–Puerto Rican

He was a self-educated Afro–Puerto Rican who provided free schooling to the children of his city regardless of race or social standing. He is also known as the “Father of Public Education in Puerto Rico”.

La Escuela del Maestro Rafael Cordero (1890–92) by Francisco Oller

Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Priest—Optional Memorial
(February 4, 1811 – August 1, 1868)
Feast:August 2
General Roman Calendar

He was a French Catholic priest and the founder of two religious institutes: the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament for men and the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament for women.

Blessed Alcide-Vital Lataste OP
(September 5, 1832 – 10 March 10, 1869)
Feast: September 5

He was a French Catholic priest of the Dominican Order. He established the Dominican Sisters of Bethany in 1867 in order to work with the women who were abused or were from prisons. They aimed to spread the merciful love of Jesus Christ to these women.

Anthony Mary Claret , CMF
December 23, 1807 – October 24, 1870)
Feast: October 24
Patron: Textile merchants, weavers, savings (taught the poor the importance of savings), Catholic press,
General Roman Calendar

He was a Spanish Catholic prelate and missionary who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and was the confessor of Isabella II of Spain. He founded the congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, commonly called the Claretians.

In addition to the Claretians, which in the early 21st century had over 450 houses and 3100 members, with missions in five continents, Claret founded or drew up the rules of several communities of religious sisters. His zealous life and the wonders he wrought, both before and after his death, testified to his sanctity.

Clelia Barbieri
(February 13, 1847 –July 13, 1870)
Feast: July 13
Patron: Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows
Catechists
People ridiculed for their piety
21 Young Saints and Their Companions

She was an Italian Roman Catholic and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows. She is regarded as the youngest founder of a religious congregation in the history of the Catholic church, as she was just twenty-three when she died. Barbieri declined the married life in her adolescence – even when pressured – in favor of leading a life dedicated to the needs of others; she served as an educator for a while and joined a religious movement which made her a notable figure in her village.

Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara priest – Optional Memorial
(February 10, 1805 – January 3, 1871)
Feast: February 18
Discalced Carmelites

He was an Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest, religious, philosopher and social reformer. He is the first canonised Catholic male saint of Indian origin and was a member of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic church.

He was the co-founder and first prior general of the first congregation for men in the Syro-Malabar Church, the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), and of a similar one for women, the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC).

Blessed Francisco Palau priest – Optional Memorial
(December 29, 1811 –March 20, 1872)
Feast: November 7
Discalced Carmelites

He was a Catalan Discalced Carmelite priest.

Growing up in the chaos of the Peninsular War in Spain, he followed both the life of a hermit and of a missionary preacher in the rural regions of Catalonia. He founded the School of Virtue, which was a model of catechetical teaching for adults, in Barcelona. In 1860 he founded a Carmelite Third Order congregation for both men and women, in the Balearic Islands. The legacy of this foundation is carried on by two religious congregations for women who serve throughout the world.

Working from his tradition of Carmelite spirituality, Palau tried to promote the need of basing the spiritual life on recognizing and returning God’s love, as opposed to the rationalist doctrines of the theology of his day. He was beatified in 1988. One of his spiritual followers was his great-niece, Teresa of Jesus Jornet, who founded a religious congregation of Carmelite sisters dedicated to caring for the poor aged. She is honored as a saint.

Venarable Giovanni Merlini
(August 28, 1795 – January 12, 1873)

He as an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member in the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.

Maria Franziska Schervier
(January 3, 1819 – December 14, 1876)
Feast: December 15
Saints of the Americas

She was a German Catholic nun who founded two congregations of religious sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, both committed to serving the neediest of the poor. One, the Poor Sisters of St. Francis, is based in her native Germany, and the other, the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, was later formed from its province in the United States.

Saint Catherine Labouré D.C.
(May 2, 1806 – December 31, 1876)
Feast: November 28
All Kinds of Saints Day

She was a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary. She is believed to have relayed the request from the Blessed Virgin Mary to create the Miraculous Medal, now worn by millions of people around the world. Labouré spent forty years caring for the aged and infirm. For this, she is called the patroness of seniors.

Marie-Azélie “Zélie” Guérin Martin
(December 23, 1831 –August 28, 1877)
Feast: July 12
All Kinds of Saints Day

She was the mother of Thérèse of Lisieux and her saintly sisters.

Servant of God Caroline Chisholm
(May 30, 1808 – 25 March 25, 1877)

She was an English humanitarian known mostly for her support of immigrant female and family welfare in Australia.

=Portrait of Caroline Chisholm, 1852, by Angelo Collen Hayter,

Mariam Baouardy Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified,
(January 1846 – August 26, 1878)
Feast: August 26
Discalced Carmelites
Giving Her Children Brown Scapulars

She was a Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Born to Palestinian parents from the town of Hurfiesh in the upper Galilee,^[1] later moved to I’billin, she was known for her service to the poor. In addition, she became a Christian mystic who suffered the stigmata.

St. Bernadette Soubirous
(January 7, 1844 –April 16, 1879) 46 years.
Feast: April 16

She is best known for experiencing apparitions of a “young lady” who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between February 11 and July 16 1858, and the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as the “Immaculate Conception“.

After a canonical investigation, Soubirous’s reports were eventually declared “worthy of belief” on February 18, 1862, and the Marian apparition became known as Our Lady of Lourdes.

Saint Jeanne Jugan
(October 25, 1792 – August 29, 1879)
Feast: August 30
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord

She is also known as Mary of the Cross, was a French religious sister who became known for the dedication of her life to the neediest of the elderly poor. Her service resulted in the establishment of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who care for the elderly who have no other resources throughout the world. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.

Margaret Haughery USA
(1814; d. – February 9, 1882)

She was a philanthropist known as “the mother of the orphans”. Margaret Gaffney Haughery (pronounced as HAW -a- ree) was a beloved historical figure in New Orleans, Louisiana the 1880s. Widely known as “Our Margaret,” “The Bread Woman of New Orleans” and “Mother of Orphans,” Margaret devoted her life’s work to the care and feeding of the poor and hungry, and to fund and build orphanages throughout the city.

Venerable Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange OSP
(1789 – 1882)
American Catholic History

She was an American religious sister in Baltimore, Maryland who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1829, the first African-American religious congregation in the United States. She was also, via the Oblates, the first African-American superior general.

Blessed Mamerto Esquiú
(May 11, 1826 – January 10, 1883)
Feast: May 11
All Blessed Saints Day

He was an Argentine Roman Catholic professed member from the Order of Friars Minor and the Bishop of Córdoba from 1880 until his death.

Saint Thérèse Couderc
(1805–1885)
Feast: September 26
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord

She was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle. Couderc underwent humiliations during her time as a nun for she was forced to resign from positions and was ridiculed and mocked due to false accusations made against her though this softened towards the end of her life. She was a spiritual writer having written on sacrifice and service to God. After her death, she left a series of spiritual writings.

The Uganda Martyrs including Charles Lwanga
(January 1, 1860 – June 3, 1886)
Feast: June 3
Patron: African Catholic Youth Action, converts, torture victims
General Roman Calendar

Charles was a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church who was martyred with a group of his peers and is revered as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

Saint Kizito
(1872 – June 3, 1886)
Feast: June 3
Patron: children; primary schools
All Kinds of Saints Day

He was one of the Martyrs of Uganda and the youngest martyr slain by the King Mwanga II of Buganda.

Maria Velotti
(November 16, 1826 -September 3, 1886)
Feast: September 2
All Blessed Saints Day

He was an Italian religious sister. She was a member in the Third Order of Saint Francis and the founder of the Suore Francescane Adoratrici della Santa Croce.

Luigi Maria Palazzolo
(December 10, 1827 – June 15, 1886)
Feast: June 15
Patron: Sisters of the Poor, Orphans, Diocese of Bergamo
Next to Be Blessed and Sainted

He was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. He established the Sisters of the Poor which was also known as the Palazzolo Institute. Other contributions include the construction of an orphanage for children in Traona and also the Little House of Divine Providence. He also worked for the poor and the outcast until his death.

Father Mariano Jose de Ibarguengoitia y Zuloaga,
(September 8, 1815- January 31, 1888
Next to Be Blessed and Sainted

He was a Spanish priest from Bilbao, Spain, who help found the Institute of the Servants of Jesus.

Saint John Bosco SDB
(August 16, 1815 –January 31, 1888)
Feast: January 31
Patron: Christian apprentices, editors, publishers,
students, young children, magicians, juvenile delinquents

General Roman Calendar
21 Young Saints and Their Companions

Popularly known as Don Bosco was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System.

A follower of the spirituality and philosophy of Francis de Sales, Bosco was an ardent devotee of the Virgin Mary under the title Mary Help of Christians. He later dedicated his works to de Sales when he founded the Salesians of Don Bosco, based in Turin.

Bosco had been popularly known as the patron saint of illusionists. On January 30, 2002, Silvio Mantelli petitioned Pope John Paul II to declare Bosco formally to the patron of stage magicians.Catholic stage magicians who practice gospel magic venerate Bosco by offering free magic shows to underprivileged children on his feast day.