All Saints of the Society of Jesus

Modena - The painting of Madonna with the child among the Jesuit Saints in church Chiesa di San Bartolomeo from the 19th Century

November features, in addition to the universal All Saints Day kept on November 1st, various days dedicated to all saints of certain religious orders or countries. See the Feastdays Page under November for a listing of many of these.

November 5th is the Feast of All Saints and Blesseds of the Society of Jesus. This "All Saints Day" for the Jesuit Saints is kept to honor the many remarkable saints which grace their order. While the modern-day Jesuits have lamentably fallen far from their founder and often advance heresy and sin, we should still invoke the holy Jesuits that preceded them. May these holy and saintly Jesuits pray for restoration and cleansing of their Order.

Since the founder of the Jesuits, St Ignatius of Loyola, was canonized in 1622, there have been 52 other Jesuits canonized. Some of these holy Jesuits include:

• St. José de Anchieta
• St. Robert Bellarmine
• St. Francis Borgia
• St. John de Brébeuf
• St. Edmund Campion
• St. Peter Canisius
• St. Peter Claver
• St. Claude de la Colombiere
• St. Peter Faber
• St. Aloysius Gonzaga
• St. Roque González
• St. Alberto Hurtado
• St. Isaac Jogues
• St. Stanislaus Kostka
• St. Ignatius Loyola
• St. Paul Miki
• St. Joseph Pignatelli
• Blessed Miguel Pro
• St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
• St. Francis Xavier

Click here for a complete listing of all Jesuit saints.

Collect:

Grant us, we ask, o Lord, by the intercession of the blessed Father Ignatius and of all the Saints who have served under the banner of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, with him as their leader, so to serve Thee with a perfect heart; that after the course of this life, we may merit to share in their glorious end. Amen.