Saints

General Info:

What is a Catholic Saint and how does one become one?
Feast Days of some Catholic Saints
**Catholic Saints Connection**
Penny's Little Treasures - Minibooks on the Saints
Jesuit Saints
Doctors of the Church
Marian Feast days
American Saints
The Miracles of St. Padre Pio



Canonizations by Pope Benedict XVI (updated through 11/15/2011):

Oct. 23, 2005: Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Felice da Nicosia, Gaetano Catanoso, Jósef Bilczewski, Zygmunt Gorazdowski
Oct. 15, 2006: Mother Theodore Guerin, Rafael Guizar Valencia, Rosa Venerini, Filippo Smaldone
May 11, 2007: Antonio of Saint Anne (Frei Galvão)
June 3, 2007: Fr. George Preca, Fr. Simon of Lipnica, Fr. Charles of St. Andrew, and Marie Eugenie of Jesus Milleret
October 12, 2008: Fr. Gaetano Errico, Maria Bernarda, Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, Narcisa de Jesus Martillo Moran
April 26, 2009: Fr. Arcangelo Tadini, Abbot Bernardo Tolomei, Nuno de Santa Maria Alvares Pereira, Gertrude Comensoli, Caterina Volpicelli
October 11, 2009: Archbishop Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, Fr. Francisco Coll y Guitart, Fr. Damien Joseph de Veuster, Rafael, Marie de la Croix
October 17, 2010: Fr. Stanislaw Soltys, Andre, Candida Maria de Jesus, Mary of the Cross, Giulia Salzano, Battista
October 22, 2011: Bishop Guido Maria Conforti (Xaverian), Fr. Luigi Guanella, and Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro

Beatifications during ponticate of Pope Benedict XVI:

May 14, 2005: Marianne Cope
May 15, 2005: Florentina Nicol Goni
June 19, 2005: Father Ladislaus Findysz
Oct. 9, 2005: Cardinal Clemens August von Galen
Oct. 29, 2005: Father Francisco Castells Brenuy, Father José Boher Foix, Father José Juan Perot Juanmarti, Fathe Jose Tàpies Sirvant, María De Los Ángeles Ginard Martí, Father Pascual Araguàs Guàrdia, Father Pedro Martret Molet, and Silvestre Arnau Pascuet
Nov. 6, 2005: Eurosia Fabris
Nov. 13, 2005: Charles de Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena, and Maria Crocifissa Curcio
April 30, 2006: Father Augustine Thevarparampil, Father Luigi Monza, Father Luigi Biraghi
May 13, 2006: Marie Therese of Saint Joseph
May 14, 2006: Maria Grazia Tarallo
May 28, 2006: Rita Amada de Jesus
June 15, 2006: Father Eustaquio van Lieshout
Sept 17, 2006: Sara Salkahazi, Father Mosè Tovini
Oct. 8, 2006: Maria Teresa of Jesus
Oct. 22, 2006: Margarita de Maturana, Father Paul Josef Nardini
Nov. 5, 2006: Father Mariano de la Mata Aparicio
Dec. 3, 2006: Euphrasia of the Sacred Heart
April 14, 2007: Father Luigi Boccardo
April 21, 2007: Father Francesco Spoto
October 28, 2007: 498 Spanish Civil War Martyrs

Those in the Process for Beatification:

Process for 36 North Korean Martyrs continues (May 2007)
Franz Jaegerstaetter
Venerable Margaret Sinclair
Pope Pius XII
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Pope John Paul I
Venerable Catherine McAuley

Questions:

Why pray to saints?
Are saints even alive?

Blesseds (Not a complete list):

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Blessed Father Augustine Thevarparampil
Blessed Cardinal Clemens August von Galen
Blessed Father Eustaquio van Lieshout
Blessed Junípero Serra
Blessed Martyrs of Nowogrodek
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Blessed Sara Salkahazi
Blessed Father Mosè Tovini
Blessed Karl of Austria

Saints (Not a complete list):
St. Agatha (? - 251)
St. Agnes (241? - 254?)
St. Albert the Great (1206 - 1280)
Pope St. Alexander I (? - 119)
St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696 - 1787)
Pope St. Anacletus (? - 92)
St. Andrew (? - 60)
Pope St. Anicetus (? - 167)
St. Ansgar (801 - 865)
St. Angela Merici (1474 - 1544)
St. Anne (? - ?)
St. Anthony of Egypt (251 - 356)
St. Anthony of Padua (1195 - 1231)
St. Anthony Zaccaria (1502 - 1539)
St. Apollonius the Apologetic (? - c. 186)
St. Athanasius (295 - 373)
St. Augustine of Canterbury (? - 605)
St. Bartholomew (? - ?)
St. Basil the Great (330 - 379)
St. Benedict (480 - 547)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)
St. Bernardine of Siena (1380 - 1444)
St. Blase (? - 361)
St. Boniface (c. 673 - 754)
St. Bridget of Sweden (1303 - 1373)
St. Brigid of Ireland (453 - 523)
St. Bruno (1030 - 1101)
St. Casimir of Poland (1458 - 1483)
St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
St. Catherine of Siena (1347-80)
St. Charles of St. Andrew (1821 - 1893)
St. Charles Borromeo (1538 - 1584)
St. Charles Lwanga (1865 - 1886)
Pope St. Clement I (? - 99)
St. Denis (? - 258)
St. Dominic de Guzman (1175 - 1221)
St. Dominic Savio (1842-1857)
St. Dominic of Silos (1000 - 1073)
Pope St. Evaristus (? - 102)
Pope St. Fabian (236 - 250)
St. Filippo Smaldone (1848 - 1923)
St. Frances Cabrini (1850 - 1917)
St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
St. Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838-1862)
St. Gemma Galgani (1878 – 1903)
St. George Preca (1880 - 1962)
St. Gertrude the Great (1256 - 1302)
St. Giles (? - c. 710)
St. Hilary of Poitiers (315 - 368)
St. Hyacintha of Mariscotti (1585 - 1640)
Pope St. Hyginus (? - 140)
St. Ignatius of Antioch (c. 50 - c 107)
St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491 - 1556)
St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130 - 202)
St. Isidore of Seville (c. 560 - 636)
St. James the Greater (? - c. 44)
St. James the Lesser (? - c. 62)
St. Joan Antidea Thouret (1765 - 1828)
St. Jerome (347 - 419)
St. Jerome Emiliani (1486 - 1537)
St. Joachim (? - ?)
St. John Bosco (1815 - 1888)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 347 - 407)
St. John Eudes (1601 - 1680)
St. John Nepomucene Neumann (1811-1860)
St. John Vianney (1786 - 1859)
St. John of God (1495 - 1550)
St. John of Kanty (1390 - 1473)
St. John the Apostle (? - c. 101)
St. Josemaría Escriva (1902 - 1975)
St. Joseph, husband of Mary
St. Joseph of Leonissa (1556 - 1612)
St. Juan Diego (1474 - 1548)
St. Jude Thaddeus (? - ?)
St. Justin (c. 100 - 165)
St. Lawrence (? - 258)
St. Leo the Great (400 - 461)
Pope St. Linus (? - 79)
St. Luke (? - c. 74)
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647 - 1690)
St. Marguerite Bourgeois (1620 - 1700)
St. Maria Goretti (1890 - 1902)
St. Marie Eugenie of Jesus (1817 - 1898)
St. Mark the Evangelist (? - 68)
St. Martha (? - c. 80)
St. Martin de Porres (1579 - 1639)
St. Mary Magdalene (? - ?)
St. Maximilian (274 - 295)
St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894 - 1941)
St. Nicholas of Myra (? - 346)
St. Norbert (1080 - 1134)
St. Patrick (c. 385-461)
St. Paul Miki (1562-1597)
St. Perpetua and Felicilty (? - 165)
St. Peter Damian (1007-1072)
St. Padre Pio (1887 - 1968)
Pope St. Pius I (? - 154)
Pope St. Pius X (1835 - 1914)
St. Philip the apostle (? - c. 80)
St. Rafael Guizar Valencia (1878 - 1938)
St. Raymond of Peñafort (c. 1180 - 1275)
St. Rita of Cascia (1386 - 1457)
St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568 - 1591)
St. Romuald (c. 951 - 1027)
St. Rosa Venerini (1656 - 1729)
St. Rose of Lima (1586 - 1617)
St. Sebastian (c. 257 - c. 288)
Seven Founders of the Orders of Servites
St. Simon of Lipnica (c. 1435 - c. 1482)
St. Simon the Apostle (? - ?)
Pope St. Sixtus I (? - 127
Pope St. Sixtus II (? - 258)
St. Stephen of Mar Saba (? - 794)
St. Stephen the First Martyr (? - c. 33)
Pope St. Telesphorus (? - 137)
St. Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873 - 1897)
St. Theodore Guerin (1798 - 1856)
St. Thomas the Apostle (? - c. 72)
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
St. Thomas Becket (1118 - 1170)
St. Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
St. Timothy (c. 3 - c. 97)
St. Titus (? - c. 96)
St. Valentine of Rome (? - 269)
St. Vincent of Saragossa (? - 304)

As a final recommendation, consider checking out the items at Penny's Little Treasures - Minibooks on the Saints. There are some great books and ebooks on the saints there.

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