| St.Aaron | A native of Britain, he went to Brittany, where he became a hermit on Cesabre island, he had numerous disciples, including St.Malo of Wales. | Feast day is June 22 |
| St.Agnes | Born.291 and Died.304, Patroness of the Children of Mary. | Feast day is January 21 |
| St.Aidan | He was born in Connaught, Ireland and Died. 626. A Monastic founder, bishop, and miracle worker known for his kindness to animals. Also known in some records as Edan, Modoc, and Maedoc. He studied at the monastery of St.David in Wales where he remained for several years. Aidan is reported to have made a stag invisible to save it from hounds. | Feast day is January 31 |
| St.Alban | St.Alban was the first martyr of England, his own country. He was beheaded for being a Christian, on the way to the place of execution, the soldier who was to kill the Alban was converted, and also became a martyr. | Feast day is June 22 |
| St. Aldhelm | Born about 639, Died.709, Aldhelm also called Adelemus, Athelmas, Adelnie, Eadelhelm, Aedelhem. A relative of King Ine of Wessex, he was educated at Malmesbury,Wiltshire where he became abbot, he founded St.Lawrence monastery, in the area of Bradford-on-Avon. He was the first Englishman to promote classical learning in the isles. A silver shrine was erected at Malmesbury in 857 by King Ethelwulf. | Feast day is May 25 |
| St.Ambrose | Died.c.752, Bishop of Cahors, in France. He resigned his office and made a pilgrimage to Rome. Living as a hermit, Ambrose died in Saint-Ambroisesur-Arnon, once called Ernotrum, in Berry. | Feast day is October 16 |
| St.Andrew | Died.1st century. A Martyr in Palestine, with St. Aponius. The two were caught in a persecution started by King Herod Antipas against the Nazarene community of Jersalem. St. James the Greater, or Elder, was also beheaded in this persecution. | Feast day isFebruary 10 |
| St.Anne | By tradition Joachim and Anne are considered to be the names of the parents of Mary, the Mother of God. A legend told in a document called the Gospel of James, says that after years of childlessness, an angel appeared to tell Anne and Joachim that they would have a child. | Feast day is July 26 |
| St.Arilda | Arilda of Gloucestershire. St.Arilda, a virgin whodied defending her chastity. The church at Oldbury-on-the-Hill is dedicated to her (Benedictines). | |
| St.Barnabas | Died.61. A Jew, born in Cyprus and named Joseph, he sold his property, gave the proceeds to the Apostles, who gave him the name Barnabas. Tradition has Barnabas stoned to death at Salamis about the year 61. | Feast day is June 11 |
| St.Bartholomew | St.Bartholomew, one of the 12. He is mentioned in the synoptic gospels and Acts as one of the twelve apostles. His name, a patronymic, means "son of Tolomai". | Feast day is August 24 |
| St.Benedict | Born. 480?, Died. 547 Patron against poisoning. In the fifth century, the young Benedict was sent to Rome to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. He founded the monastery of Monte Cassino and his sister, Saint Scholastica, settled nearby to a religious life. | Feast day is July 11 |
| St.Blaise | Blaise is the Patron Saint of Wild Animals and Patron of Throat Illnesses. The Saint's protection of those with throat troubles comes from a legend, a boy with a fishbone stuck in his throat was about to die when Saint Blaise healed him. | Feast day is February 3 |
| St.Botulph | Botulph and Adulph, noble English brothers. Adulph became the bishopric of Maestricht, and Botulph was given the wilderness of Ikanho to built a monastery by King Ethelmund. His monastery having been destroyed by the Danes, his relics were carried to the monastery of Ely and Thorney. Four parishes in London, and innumerable others throughout the country, bear his name. Botulph's town, now Boston in Lincolnshire and Botulph's bridge, now Bottle-bride in Huntingdonshire. Part of the relics of St. Botulph were kept at Medesham, now called Peterburgh. | |
| St.Breaca | Died.5th or 6th century, Disciple of St.Brigid, also called Breque, Branca, and Branka. She went from Ireland to Cornwall, England, about 460. There Breaca and her companions settled on the bank of the Hoyle River. | Feast day is June 4 |
| St.Breward | Branwallader (also known as Branwalader, Branwalator, Brelade, Breward) 6th century. Branwallader is a son of the Cornish king, Kenen. Saint Branwallader, a Celtic monk, worked with Saint Samson in Cornwall and the Channel Islands.His feast was kept at Winchester, Exeter, and Cornwall. | Feast day is June 6 |
| St.Bridget | St.Bridget's father was an Irish lord named Duptace. Bridget became the first Religious in Ireland and founded a convent so that other young girls might become Nuns. she was called her the "Mary of the Irish." | |
| St.Brioc | St.Brioc, Abbot (also known as Brieuc, Briocus) Born in Cardiganshire (Ceredigion), Wales; died in Brittany, c. 510 . Brioc was the founder of a monastery near Tréguier, Brittany called Saint-Brieuc. Brioc appears to have worked in southwestern Britain before migrating to Brittany; there is a place called Saint Breock or Breoke in Cornwall. Brioc is said to have returned to Britain and with the help of his relative, Prince Rigald of Domnonia, built the church of Saint Stephen. He is venerated in Treguier, Brittany, and Cornwall (Roeder). Brioc is considered the patron of purse-makers. | Feast of his translation is October 18 |
| St.Budoc | Died. 7th century, Bishop and hermit, also called Budeux and Beuzec. The son of a king of Brittany and of Azenor, the daughter of the ruler of Brest, France. Azenor was exiled in a cask, and Budoc was born at sea, attended by St. Brigid. Tradition claims that Budoc was an Irish hermit who settled in Budock, near Falmouth, England. | Feast day is December 9 |
| St.Cadoc | Died.c.580 A Welsh bishop and martyr, a companion of St. Gildas. Cadoc is also called Docus, Cathmael, and Cadvael. He founded Llancarfan Monastery near Cardiff, Wales, Cadoc was involved in the Saxon occupation of the British lands. He was martyred by the Saxons near Weedon, England. | Feast day is January 24 |
| St.Calixtus | St.Calixtus (Callistus) Pope and Martyr was a Roman by birth and governed the church five years and two months.St.Callistus opposed fasting and tears, and promoted true religion and virtue.Several martyrs suffered during the reign of Alexander. | Feast day is October 14 |
| St.Catherine | St.Catherine of Bologna, Born.1413, Died.1463. Patroness of Artists, Catherine de Vigri became a Franciscan Tertiary at the age of fourteen She experience visions of Christ and Satan. She was appointed Superioress of a new convent in Bologna. Catherine died and was burieduried without a coffin, exhumed eighteen days later because of the sweet scent coming from her grave. Her body was found to be incorrupt and remains so today. | Feast day is March 9 |
| St.Chad | Died.673, Irish archbishop trained by St.Aidan in Lindisfarne and in England. He made the archbishop of York by King Oswy. Theodore, the archbishop of Canterbury, appointed him the bishop of Mercia. In liturgical art he is depicted as a bishop, holding a church. | Feast day is March 2 |
| St.Clarus | A priest, probably born at Rochester, England, Clarus went to Normandy, became a Benedictine monk, lived as a hermit, and settled at Naqueville, near Rouen. When he repulsed the advances of a noble woman, she had him killed and beheaded near Saint-Calir-sur-Eph. | Feast day is November 4 |
| St.Colan | Colan (Collen, Gollen) of Denbighshire, 7th century. In legend Saint Gollen's name is connected with Wales, Glastonbury, and Rome. An account has Gollen fight a duel with a pagan Saracen in the presence of the pope, go to Cornwall and Glastonbury, and deliver the people in the valley of Llangollen by killing a fierce giantess. Gollen gave his name to Llangollen (Clwyd) in Denbighshire, the church of Colan in Cornwall, and, perhaps, founded that of Langolen in Finistère in Brittany. | |
| St.Columba | The patroness of two parishes in Cornwall, England. The heather king there put her to death. | Feast day is November 13 |
| St.Constantine | Constantine was king of Cornwall. Tradition has him marry the daughter of the king of Brittany. He studied for the priesthood and was ordained. He went as a missionary to Scotland under St.Columba and then St.Kentigern, and became Abbot of a monastery at Govan. On his way to Kintyre, he was attacked by pirates who cut off his right arm, and he bled to death. He is regarded as Scotland's first martyr. | Feast day is March 11 |
| St.Cornelius | A Roman priest, Cornelius was elected Pope to succeed Fabian in an election delayed fourteen months by Decius' persecution of the Christians. Persecutions of Christians began again in 253 under Emperor Gallus, Cornelius was exiled to Centum Cellae, where he died a martyr. | Feast day is September 16 |
| St.Cuby | Cybi of Caenarvon, Abbot (also known as Cuby) 6th century. Cuby is one of the few saints of Cornwall who seems to have been born there. He may have been the son of Saint Selevan (Levan) and cousin of Saint David of Wales.Following his consecrated as a bishop, he settled with ten disciples near Tregony. | |
| St.Cuthbert | Died.758 Benedictine archbishop of Canterbury. He was a monk at Lyminge, in Kent, England, he was appointed the bishop of Hereford. and later became the archbishop of Canterbury. He is remembered as a correspondent of St. Boniface. | Feast day is October 26 |
| St.Cuthburga | Died c.725, Cuthburga the first abbess of Wimborne, St. Cuthburga was the daughter, wife, and mother of kings. She become a nun under St. Hildelitha at Barking. Later Cuthburga and her sister, St.Quenburga, founded a double-monastery at Wimborne, sending missionary nuns to Germany, where they worked with St.Boniface. | |
| St.Cyr | Cyricus and Julitta (Giulietta) (Cyricus also known as Cyr, Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus) Died 304. Julitta and Cyricus aged three journeyed on to Tarsus in Antioch, here Alexander, was savagely persecuting Christians they were recognised and put on trial.The court sentenced Julitta was to be stretched on the rack and then beaten. Cyricus was crying and Alexander, in a vain attempt to pacify him, took the child on his knee.Cyricus kicked the governor and scratched his face. Alexander stood up in a rage throwing the toddler down the steps of the tribune, fracturing the childs skull and killing him. His mother Julitta did not weep, she thanked God and went cheerfully to torture and death. | |
| St.Cyriac | Cyriac, Orentius, Heros, Pharnacius, Firminus, Firmus & Longinus. Died c. 304. Described in Roman Martyrology as a group of martyrs, seven brothers, who because of their faith, were discharged from military service by Maximian, taken to various locations, and killed. | |
| St.Cyrus | Cyrus and John, Died c.303. Cyrus was an Alexandrian doctor who became a monk and John, his friend, was a Arab soldier. Hearing thata Christian woman, Athanasia, and her three daughters were suffering for their faith at Canopus, they went there to help them. Cyrus and John were captured, beaten, scorched, and tortures in the sight of Athanasia and her children. The torture of the four females followed. Cyrus and John were beheaded a few days after the execution of the mother and daughters. | |
| St.David | St.David was the son of King Sant of South Wales and St.Non. He became a priest and studied under St.Paulinus. Around the year 550, David attended a synod at Brevi in Cardiganshire and later he was elected primate of the Cambrian Church. He is revered as the patron of Wales. | Feast day is March 1 |
| St.Denis | The first mention we have of these three martyrs who died around 258 A.D. comes in the sixth century in the writings of Saint Gregory of Tours. Denis (or Dionysius) is the most famous of the three. Denis made his base of missionary activity an island in the Seine near the city of Lutetia Parisorium (now Paris). There he was captured by the Parisians along with Rusticus and Eleutherius. They were imprisonment and later the three martyrs were beheaded with a sword and their bodies were thrown into the river. Denis is the patron saint of France. | Feast day is October 9 |
| St.Dominica | Indractus and Dominica of Glastonbury Died c.708-710. An old legend makes Indract an Irish chieftain, who became the 21st abbot of Iona. About 854, Indractus and his sister Dominica (Drusa) set out from Cornwall on a pilgrimage to Rome. they were killed by heathen Saxons near Glastonbury. | |
| St.Ebba | St.Ebba who was sister to St. Oswald and Oswi, kings of Northumberland. St. Ebba governed the great monastery of Coldingham, situated in Merch, or the Marshes, a province in the shire of Berwick. | |
| St.Edith | St. Edith of Polesworth, was the sister of King Athelstan of England. She married viking king Sihtric at York in 925. | Feast day is July 15 |
| St.Edmund | St.Edmund the Martyr, Died.c.869 King of the East Angles. Edmund was captured and beheaded by the Danes. His shrine brought about the town of Bury St. Edmund's. He is depicted as crowned and robed as a monarch, holding a scepter, orb, arrows, or a quiver. | Feast day is November 20 |
| St.Edward | St.Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, England. His piety gained him the surname "the Confessor". He died in London on January 5, and he was canonized in 1161 by Pope Alexander III. | Feast day is October 13 |
| St.Erth | St.Erth Died. 6th century, an Irish missionary to Cornwall, England, where he evangelized the local area. He is venerated in the village of St. Erth. | Feast day is October 31 |
| St.Etheidreda | St.Etheidreda, Died. 679, A Benedictine abbess, a popular Anglo-Saxon women saint. A daughter of a king of East Anglia, and sister to St.Erconwald, St.Sexburga, St.Ethelburga, and St.Withburga. She entered religious life under St. Ebba at Coldingham, England. She is depicted in liturgical art as an abbess, with a crozier, book, rod, or lily. | Feast day is June 23 |
| St.Eustachius | St.Eustachius Martyr before his conversion named Placidus, was a nobleman who suffered martyrdom at Rome. An ancient church in Rome was built in his honor, with the title of a Diacony; the same now gives title to a cardinal. | |
| St.Faith | St.Faith, legend says that during Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. She was then tortured to death for her Christianity on a red-hot brazier, when some of the spectators objected, Dacian had them beheaded. | Feast day is October 6 |
| St.Finbar | St.Finbar He was the son of an artisan and a lady of the Irish royal court. Born in Connaught, he was educated at Kilmacahil, Kilkenny, where the monks named him Fionnbharr (white head) because of his light hair; he is also known as Bairre and Barr. Many extravagant miracles are attributed to him. | Feast day is September 25 |
| St.Francis | St.Francis of Assisi, Born.1182 Patron of Ecologists and Merchants. He died on October 4, 1226 at the age of 45. Francis is considered the founder of all Franciscan orders. | Feast day is October 4 |
| St.Gabriel | St.Gabriel, the Archangel Patroness of communications workers The name Gabriel means "man of God," or "God has shown himself mighty." He was the angel who appeared to Zachariah to announce the birth of St. John the Baptizer. Finally, he announced to Mary that she would bear a Son Who would be conceived of the Holy Spirit, Son of the Most High, and Saviour of the world. | Feast day is September 29 |
| St.Gluvias | St.Gluvias Died.6th century, Monastic founder and brother of St. Cadoc of Llancarfan, Wales. Gluvias labored in Cornwall, England, where he may have started an abbey. He is also called Glywys. | Feast day is May 3 |
| St.Helen | St.Helen Died.c.418, Martyred virgin mentioned in the acts of St. Amator of Auxerre, France, as sharing his suffering. | Feast day is May 22 |
| St.Hermes | St.Hermes Died.c.300, Martyr with Gaius and Aggaeus. There is doubt about the exact site of their suffering. They were once revered as martyrs of Bologna, Italy, but there is little evidence of such a fate there. | Feast day is January 4 |
| St.Hubert | St.Hubert, Died.c.714, Benedictine monk, also known as Hugbert. Hubert became a monk at the age of twelve at the abbey of Bretigny, near Noyon, France. | Feast day is May 30 |
| St.Ia | St.Ia, Died.360, A Persian martyr, Greek slave slain for the faith. Ia, successful in converting Persian woman, she was arrested and tortured by the forces of King Shapur II’s. She was flogged to death and then beheaded. | Feast day is August 4 |
| St.IIItyd | St.IIItyd, Died.c.535, Revered saint of Wales, a cousin of the fabled King Arthur of the Britons. A Briton, he and his wife Tyrnihild lived as members of a Glamorgan chief’s army. Later they became hermits near the river Nadafan. Illtyd studied with St. Dudricius and founded the abbey of Llanilltud Fawr in Glamorgan. A disciple of St.Cadoc. According to a Welsh legend, Illtyd was one of the three Knights of the Holy Grail. He died in Brittany. | Feast day is November 6 |
| St.Joseph | St.Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church Everything we know about the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus comes from Scripture. He was a carpenter, a working man. Despite his humble work and means, Joseph came from a royal lineage, he descended from David, the greatest king of Israel. | Feast day is March 19 |
| St.Jude | Patron of Desperate Cases St.Jude, known as Thaddaeus, was a brother of St.James the Less.This Apostle is said to have suffered martyrdom in Armenia. Saint Jude is not the same person as Judas Iscariot . | Feast day is October 28 |
| St.Just | St.Just, Titular saint of a parish in Cornwall, England. He might be the martyred saint, Justus of Beauvais, or another Justus. | Feast day is August 12 |
| St.Kea | St.Kea, Died.6th century British saint honored in Devon, France, as St.Quary. He is sometimes listed as Kay or Kenan. Kea was a bishop. | Feast day is November 5 |
| St.Kenelm | St.Kenelm Died. 821 Martyred king of Mercia, England. Traditions states that he was the son of King Kenulf. He was murdered by henchmen of his sister, Cynefrith. Another tradition states that his sister Quendreda bribed his tutor to slay him. He is buried at Winchcombe Abbey, in Gloucestershire. Miracles took place there. Kenelm is now belived to have died before his father. He is mentioned in the Canterbury Tales. | Feast day is July 17 |
| St.Keyne | St.Keyne (Keyna or Cain) was one of the twenty-four children of King Brychan of Brecknock, Wales. After living in Somerset for several years, during which she traveled widely, she was persuaded by her nephew, St. Cadoc, to return to Wales. During her travels, she founded numerous churches in South Wales, Cornwall. | Feast day is October 8 |
| St.Lawrence | St.Lawrence, Born.1125? Died.1180 When only ten years old, his father delivered him up as a hostage to Dermod Mac Murehad, King of Leinster. He was put him in the hands of the Bishop of Glendalough, in the County of Wicklow. On the death of the bishop, who was also abbot of the monastery, St.Lawrence was chosen abbot in 1150. | Feast day is November 14 |
| St.Leodegarius | St.Leodegarius, Died.678 Benedictine bishop and martyr. He became abbot of St. Maxentius. When King Clovis II died, Leodegarius assisted the regent, Queen Bathildes, and became bishop of Autun in 659. Erchinoald, the mayor of the royal palace, had Leodegarius imprisoned, blinded, and murdered. | Feast day is October 2 |
| St.Leonard | St.Leonard, who was converted by St. Remigius, refused the offer of a See from his godfather, King Clovis I, and became a monk at Micy. He founded Noblac monastery and it grew into the town of Saint-Leonard. He is invoked by women in labour. | Feast day is November 6 |
| St.Luke | St.Luke, Patron of Physicians and Surgeons. It is believed that Luke was born a Greek and a Gentile. The earliest tradition says that he died at 84 Boeotia after settling in Greece to write his Gospel. He is often shown with an ox or a calf because these are the symbols of sacrifice. Luke is the patron of physicians and surgeons. | Feast day is October 18 |
| St.Margaret | St.Margaret of Antioch, she was the daughter of a pagan priest at Antioch in Pisidia. She was converted to Christianity, whereupon she was driven from home by her father. That she existed and was martyred are probably true. She is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, and hers was one of the voices heard by Joan of Arc. | Feast day is July 20 |
| St.Mark | St.Mark Patron of notaries. The second Gospel was written by St. Mark, who, in the New Testament, is sometimes called John Mark. St. Mark wrote the second Gospel, probably in Rome sometime before the year 60 A.D. | Feast day is April 25 |
| St.Mary | St.Mary the Blessed Virgin, Died. 1st century The Mother, of God, Mother of Jesus, wife of St. Joseph. Declared the daughter of St.Joachim and St.Anne. Born in Jerusalem, Mary was presented in the Temple and took a vow of virginity. | |
| St.Mary | St.Mary, Died.1st century Mother of John, surnamed Mark, who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. Her home in Jerusalem was a gathering place of the Apostles. Peter went to Mary’s home when he was released from prison by King Herod. | Feast day is June 29 |
| St.Matthew | Patron of Bankers, St.Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, is the author of the first Gospel. He was the son of Alpheus and was called to be an Apostle while sitting in the tax collectors place at Capernaum. | Feast day is September 21 |
| St.Matthias | Matthias was chosen to replace Judas. He was the twelfth apostle and the group was whole again as they waited for the coming of the Holy Spirit. That's the first we hear of Matthias in Scripture, and the last. | Feast day is May 14 |
| St.Maurice | Maurice was an officer of the Theban Legion of Emperor Maximian Herculius' army, which was composed of Christians from Upper Egypt. Their story was told by St. Eucherius, who became Bishop of Lyons about 434, but scholars doubt that an entire Legion was massacred; but there is no doubt that Maurice and some of his comrades did suffer martyrdom at Agaunum. | Feast day is September 22 |
| St.Mawes | St.Mawes, Died.6th century Welsh hermit and abbot, also called Maudetus and Maudez. He lived as a solitary near Falmouth, in Cornwall, England. He is believed to have founded monasteries and churches in Cornwall and Brittany. | Feast day is November 18 |
| St.Melanius | St.Melanius, Died.c.535 Also called Mullion, bishop of Rennes, France, when the Franks were invading Gaul. He was a Breton by birth, much respected by the Frankish ruler Clovis. | Feast day is January 6 |
| St.Melorius | St.Melorius, Prince of Cornwall, England, who was murdered as a child. Also listed as Mylor, Melar, and Melorus, he was the victim of an uncle’s ambitions. He was venerated in Amesbury, England, in Brittany, and in Cornwall. | Feast day is October 1 |
| St.Meriadoc | St.Meriadoc, Died.c.886 Bishop of Vannes, France. Sometimes listed as Meriadoc or Meriasec, and probably born in Wales. He went to Cornwall and then to Brittany where he became a hermit, and later bishop of Vannes, in Brittany. | Feast day is June 7 |
| St.Michael | St.Michael the Archangel, Patron of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police, and sickness. The name Michael signifies "Who is like to God?" and was the warcry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against satan and his followers. | Feast day is September 29 |
| St.Nathanael | St.Nathanael, is St. Bartholomew. He was one of the apostles. His name means 'son of Tolomai'. Schlors believe that he is the man from Cana that Jesus said was incabable of deciet. He preached in India and Greater Armenia, wher he was flayed and beheaded by King Astyages. | Feast day is August 24 |
| St.Neot | St.Neot, Died.880, A hermit, and relative of King Alfred the Great. A monk of Glastonbury, England, he was ordained before he departed to become a hermit in Cornwall. Tradition states that King Alfred visited him for his counsel. | Feast day is July 31 |
| St.Nicholas | St.Nicholas, Patron of Bakers and Pawnbrokers. St.Nicholas, called "of Bari", Bishop of Myra (Fourth Century). Born at Patara in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor. He died at Myra, and was buried in his cathedral. He is a patron saint of Greece, Apulia, Sicily and Loraine, and many cities. | Feast day is December 6 |
| St.Odulf | St.Odulf, Died.c.855 Also Odulphus, an Augustinian canon. Born in Oorsch. He was a canon of Utrecht. Odulf founded a monastery at Stavoren. He died at Utrecht. His relics were stolen in 1034, but were eventually placed at Evesham. | Feast day is June 12 |
| St.Olaf | Olaf was the son of Harold Grenske, a lord in Norway. Olaf Haraldsson, often called "the Fat", spent his youth as a pirate. He was baptized in Rouen, and in 1013, aided King Ethelred against the Danes. Returned to Norway in 1015, captured Norway back from the Danes and Swedes, defeated Earl Sweyn in 1016, and became king. | Feast day is July 29 |
| St.Osmund | St.Osmund, Died.1009, Bishop of Salisbury who helped compile the Domesday Book. A member of the Norman nobility, he was the son of Count Henry of Seez and Isabella, half-sister of King William the Conqueror of England. | Feast day is December 4 |
| St.Pancras | (Pancratius) Pancras was beheaded in 304 during Diocletian's persecution when only 14 years old. Pancras is especially venerated in England because Augustine of Canterbury dedicated his first church to Pancras and his relics were presented as a gift to the king of Northumberland. A district in London is named St.Pancras after him. | Feast day is May 12 |
| St.Paternus | St.Paternus, Died.c.481-564 Also called Pair, the bishop of Avranches. A native of Poitiers, France, he entered the monastery of Ansion at Poitou and then became a hermit. | Feast day is April 16 |
| St.Patrick | St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. Along with St. Nicholas and St. Valentine. Patrick was born around 385 in Scotland, probably Kilpatrick. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies. | Feast day is March 17 |
| St.Paul | St.Paul, Apostle of the Gentiles, converted from Judaism on the road to Damascus. He was a native of Tarsus. St.Paul traveled to Rome, and was imprisoned for a second time, in the year 67, was beheaded. | Feast day is June 29 |
| St.Paulinus | St.Paulinus of Antioch, Martyr. According to tradition, he was the first bishop of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, and the city’s patron saint. He was supposedly sent to Lucca by St. Peter and was martyred about 67. He died with a soldier, a priest, and a deacon. | Feast day is July 12 |
| St.Peter | St.Peter, Died.c.64. Peter was a native of Bethsaida, near Lake Tiberias, the son of John, and worked, like his brother St.Andrew, as a fisherman on Lake Genesareth. In liturgical art, he is depicted as an elderly man holding a key and a book. | Feast day is June 29 |
| St.Petroc | Petroc was born in Wales, son of a Welsh king. He became a monk and went to Ireland to study, later he went to Cornwall in England and settled at Lanwethinoc (Padstow). He built a chapel at Little Petherick near Padstow, established a community of his followers, and then became a hermit on Bodmir Moor. He died between Nanceventon and Lanwethinoc while visiting some of his disciples there. | Feast day is June 4 |
| St.Philip | Philip, born in Bethsaida, Galilee. Possibly a disciple of John the Baptist he is mentioned as one of the Apostles in the lists of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and in Acts. According to tradition he preached in Greece and was crucified upside down at Hierapolis under Emperor Domitian. | Feast day is May 3 |
| St.Piran | Piran was a hermit near Padstow in Cornwall and sometimes called Perran. He is the patron saint of tin mines. | Feast day is March 5 |
| St.Probus | St.Probus and St.Grace, husband and wife, from Comwall. There is a village called Probus in Cornwall who's church is dedicated to them also a church in Wales, Tressilian. | Feast day is July 5 |
| St.Protus | St.Protus and St.Hyacinth, Died.c.257 Martyred brothers. Thought to be Romans, they were servants in the house of St. Philip who were arrested and executed for being Christians. | Feast day is September 11 |
| St.Quiriacus | St.Quiriacus and Julitta, Died.304, Martyrs of Tarsus. Quiricus was the three year old son of Julitta, a noble widow of that city. Arrested for being a Christian, Julitta enraged the Roman magistrate by scratching his face. Her punishment before execution was to watch while Quiricus was beaten to death. Quiricus is called Cyr in France. | Feast day is June 16 |
| St.Raphael | St.Raphael is one of seven Archangels who stand before the throne of the Lord. Raphael's name means "God heals." Raphael is also identified as the angel who moved the waters of the healing sheep pool. | Feast day is September 29 |
| St.Silas | One of the leaders of the Church of Jerusalem, Silas was sent with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch to communicate the decisions of the Council of Jerusalem to the Gentile community in Syria. Tradition says he was the first bishop of Corinth and that he died in Macedonia. | Feast day is July 13 |
| St.Simon | In St.Matthew's Gospel, St.Simon or Simeon is described as one of our Lord's brethren or kinsmen. His father was Cleophas, St. Joseph's brother, and his mother, according to some writers, was Mary's sister. | Feast day is February 18 |
| St.Stephen | Patron of Stonemasons, Stephen's name means "crown," and he was the first disciple of Jesus to receive the martyr's crown. Stephen was a deacon in the early Christian Church. | Feast day is December 26 |
| St.Swithun | Swithun, also spelled Swithin, was born in Wessex, England and was educated at the old monastery, Winchester, where he was ordained. He became chaplain to King Egbert of the West Saxons, who appointed him tutor of his son, Ethelwulf, and was one of the King's counselors. A long-held superstition declares it will rain for forty days if it rains on his feast day. | Feast day is July 15 |
| St.Teilo | St.Teilo, Died.6th century. Welsh bishop, also called Eliud, Issell, Teillo, Teilou, Dub, and Theliau. A native of Penally, Pembrokshire, Wales, he studied under St.Dyfrig and St.Dubricius. He founded and served as abbot-bishop of Llandaff monastery in Dyfed, Wales, and was buried in Llandaff Cathedral. | Feast day is February 9 |
| St.Thomas | St.Thomas was a Jew, called to be one of the twelve Apostles. He was speared to death at a place called Calamine. He is the patron of architects. | Feast day is July 3 |
| St.Tudy | St.Tudy, Died.5th century, Welsh virgin also called Tybie, Uda, or Tudelyd, she is honored by a church in Dyfed, Wales. | Feast day is January 30 |
| St.Tudy | St.Tudy, Died.5th century. An abbot, also called Tegwin and Tudinus. A native of Brittany, France, a disciple of St. Brioc and served as abbot of a community of monks near Landevennec, Brittany. Later, he preached in Cornwall. | Feast day is May 11 |
| St.Vincent | St.Vincent, Roman martyr. He was executed beyond the walls of the city of Rome on the road to Tivoli, Italy. | Feast day is July 24 |
| St.Werburg | St.Werburg, Died.785, Widow and abbess. A woman from Mercia, England, she became a nun after her husband died. Werburg entered a convent, possibly Bardney, where she became abbess. | Feast day is February 3 |
| St.Wilfrid | St.Wilfrid born in Northumberland in 634, he was educated at Lindesfarne. He was abbot of Ripon and later Bishop of York. He was also a dedicated pastor and a zealous and skilled missionary; his brief time spent in Friesland in 678-679 was the starting point for the great English mission to the Germanic peoples of continental Europe. | Feast day is October 12 |
| St.Winifred | St.Winifred, was according to legend, the daughter of a wealthy resident of Tegeingl, Flintshire, Wales. She was supposedly beheaded on June 22 by one Caradog when she refused to submit to him, had her head restored by her sister St.Beuno. A spring supposedly springing up where Winifred's head fell, is called Holy Well or St. Winifred's Well. She is also known as Gwenfrewi. | Feast day is November 3 |
| St.Winwaloc | St.Winwaloc, Died.6th century, Abbot-founder, also called Wonnow, Wynwallow, and Gwenno. Born at Ploufragen, in Brittany, France, he was of Anglo-Saxon descent. At fifteen he entered the monastery on Lauren Island under Abbot Budoc. There are several churches in Cornwall, England, dedicated to him. | Feast day is March 3 |
