1. St. Junipero Serra
Spanish missionary to California who founded nine missions and converted 6,000 people. Stood up to the authorities over their treatment of the native population
2. St. Bernardino Realino
Lawyer turned Jesuit known for being a model confessor, being an excellent preacher and teacher of the faith, and his charity to the poor and sick
3. St. Thomas
Apostle best known for doubting the Resurrection until he could touch the wounds of Christ. Patron saint of architects/builders/construction workers/surveyors, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and theologians
4. Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
Anti-fascist, mountain-climbing young man dedicated to using his financial means to serve the poor and sick
5. St. Elizabeth of Portugal
Queen of Portugal, known for her works of peacemaking and charity
6. St. Maria Goretti
Young girl brutally attacked by a neighbor. While dying, she forgave her attacker.
7. Bl. Ralph Milner
English martyr, arrested on the day of his first communion
8. St. Grimbald
Benedictine abbot who declined the see of Canterbury, preferring to remain a monk
9. St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions
Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese soldier who eventually became a priest. These 120 martyrs were killed for the faith in China between 1648 and 1930
10. Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz
Spanish Franciscan martyred in Lebanon along with 12 companions
11. St. Benedict
Known as the founder of Western monasticism and twin brother of St. Scholastica
12. St. John Jones
Welsh Franciscan martyred for being a Catholic priest
13. St. Henry
Holy Roman Emperor known for his support of reform in the Church. Patron of the childless, of Dukes, of the handicapped and those rejected by Religious Order
14. St. Kateri Tekakwitha
Daughter of a Mohawk warrior and a Catholic Algonquin woman who decided to live life as a Christian virgin
15. St. Bonaventure
Franciscan friar known for his philosophical and theological writings
16. St. Helier
6th-century ascetic and hermit who brought Christianity to Jersey and is patron of diseases of the skin and eyes.
17. Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne
16 nuns who were guillotined for living their religious vocation during the French Revolution. Their names were: Marie Claude Brard; Madeleine Brideau; Maire Croissy; Marie Hanisset; Marie Meunier; Rose de Neufville Annette Pebras; Anne Piedcourt: Madeleine Lidoine, the prioress; Angelique Roussel; Catherine Soiron and Therese Soiron, Anne Mary Thouret; Marie Trezelle; and Elizabeth Verolot
18. St. Camillus of Lellis
Born into a noble family, but lost his wealth due to gambling and riotous living. Converted at the age of 25, and eventually founded a congregation of priests and lay brothers, the Servants of the Sick (later known as the Camillians)
19. St. John Plessington
Arrested in Chester during the Popish Plot (conspiracy theory invented by Titus Oates that led to anti-Catholic hysteria in England and Scotland) scare and martyred for being a Catholic priest
20. St. Apollinaris
Late-second-century bishop of Ravenna and probably martyred there.
21. St. Laurence of Brindisi
Capuchin friar known for his great preaching to Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. He also held many high administrative offices within the Capuchin order.
22. St. Mary Magdalen
Jesus casted out seven devils from her. One of the women who first discovered the empty tomb on Easter morning and the first to whom the Risen Jesus appeared.
23. St. Bridget of Sweden
Married to a nobleman and had eight children. Later, she and her husband decided to spend the rest of their lives in monasteries. A few years after her husband’s death, she went to Rome, served the poor, denounced the excesses of the aristocracy, and tried to convince the Pope to return to Rome from Avignon.
24. St. Charbel Makhlouf
19th century Maronite monk and hermit who refused to touch money and saw himself as the servant of all who came to visit his hermitage, which many did because of his wise counsel
25. St. James the Greater
Apostle, brother of St, John, present at the Transfiguration, one of those who slept through most of the Agony in the Garden, and the first of the Apostles to be martyred.
26. Sts. Anne and Joachim
Grandparents of Jesus and parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
27. St. Pantaleon
Physician and martyr for the faith. Patron of Physicians, midwives, livestock, headaches, consumption, locusts, witchcraft, accidents, loneliness, and crying children
28. St. Innocent I
Pope who confirmed the decrees of the African Bishops, condemning Pelagianism.
29. St. Martha
Sister of Mary of Bethany and Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead
30. St. Peter Chrysologus
Bishop of Ravenna, given the name “Chrysologus” which means “Golden speech” because he was a talented preacher
31. St. Ignatius of Loyola
Founder of the Jesuits and author of the Spiritual Exercises
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