Saints
St. Hyacinth
Born: 1185 at Lanka Castle, Kamien Slaski, Opole, Upper Silesia (in modern Poland) Died: 15 August 1257 at Krakow, Poland of natural causes, relics at Paris, France Canonized: 17 April 1594 by Pope Clement VIII Patronage: against drowning, Camalaniugan, Philippines, Ermita de Piedra de San Jacinto, Tuguegarao, Philippines, Krakow, Poland, archdiocese of Lithuania (named by […]
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St. Florus of Illyria
Died: drowned in a well. Also known as Floro Twin brother of Saint Laurus of Illyria. Stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches. Martyr.
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St. Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga
Born: 22 January 1901 at Vina del Mar, Chile Died: 18 August 1952 at Santiago, Chile of pancreatic cancer Canonized: 23 October 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI at Rome, Italy. Alberto’s father died when the boy was four years old, and he grew up in poverty. Educated at the Jesuit College in Santiago, Chile. He […]
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St. Helena of Constantinople
Born: c.248 at Drepanon, Bithynia, Asia Minor Died: c.328 in Nicomedia of natural causes, interred in the Church of Santa Maria di Aracoeli, Rome, Italy Patronage: against fire, against thunder, archeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, dyers, empresses, nail smiths, needle makers, Birkirkara, Malta, Helena, Montana. Also known as Elene, Helen, Flavia Julia Helena Augusta […]
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St. Syncletica
Patronage: against bodily ills or sickness, against loss of parents, against temptations, sick people, single laywomen Also known as Sincletica Wealthy Alexandrian lady who abandoned her riches and lived till age 84 as a hermitess in a tomb. She suffered in her youth with temptations and spiritual desolation; she suffered in her maturity by cancer […]
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St. Gerlac of Valkenburg
Born: c.1100 at Valkenburg, Netherlands Died: 1172 – 1177 at Houthem, the Netherlands of natural causes Patronage: against cattle disease, against plague, domestic animals Also known as Gerlac von Houthem, Gerlac of Maastricht, Gerlach, Gerlache, Gerlacus, Gerlachus, Gerlak Born the nobility, he served as a soldier in the imperial German army. Led a wild and […]
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St. Genoveva Torres Morales
Born: 3 January 1870 in Almenara, Castile, Spain Died: 5 January 1956 in Zaragoza, Spain of natural causes Canonized: 4 May 2003 by Pope John Paul II at Plaza de Colón, Madrid, Spain Youngest of six children. By the age of eight, both her parents and four of her siblings had died. A child homemaker […]
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St. Gaudentius of Gniezno
Born: c.960 at Castle Libice near Pardubice, Bohemia (in modern Czech Republic as Radzim Died: c.1004 in Gniezno, Bohemia (in modern Poland) of natural causes, relics transferred to the Saint Veit Cathedral in Prague, Bohemia (in modern Czech Republic) in 1039 Also known as Gaudenty, Radim, Radzim Slavnik, Radim Gaudentius Born into the Bohemia nobility; […]
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St. Emiliana of Rome
Born: Roman citizen Died: relics at the Oratory of Saint Andrew on the Celian Hill, Rome, Italy Patronage: single laywomen Also known as Aemiliana, Emilian, Emilienne Daughter of the senator Gordian and Saint Silvia of Rome. Sister of Saint Trasilla. Paternal aunt of Pope Saint Gregory the Great. Niece of Pope Saint Felix III. Spent […]
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St. Edward the Confessor
Born: 1003 at Islip, Oxford, England Died: 5 January 1066 of natural causes, interred at the Abbey of Saint Thomas Becket, body incorrupt Canonized: 1161 by Pope Alexander III Patronage: difficult marriages, English royal family, kings, separated spouses, Sestriere, Italy Born a prince, the son of King Ethelred II and Queen Emma; half-brother to King […]
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