General Theology & Religions
- ARDA: Association of Religion Data Archives
- National and international statistics on faith groups and churches, their numbers, their members, their distribution, and much more.
- British Library: Discovering Sacred Texts
Discovering Sacred Texts provides access to the richness and diversity of the texts from some of the world’s greatest faiths. Discover more about the sacred texts from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and the Baha’i Faith, Jainism and Zoroastrianism.
- Encyclopedia of Religion ebook
- Full text of a 2005 reference book on world religions. (Check with librarian for password.)
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics.
- Patheos
Patheos connects seekers, students, and believers to faith communities, scholars, and resources for deeper exploration and greater understanding of faith practices, wisdom traditions, and spirituality.
Includes a Library of World Religions and Faith Traditions
- Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life … seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. … it tracks and aggregates news and conducts independent research, including surveys, legal backgrounders, reports, books and Q&A interviews.
- Religion in Context
Religious literacy requires engaging religion in context, not in the abstract. Religions are internally diverse, historically dynamic, and embedded in culture. … Only when we know sufficient details about context can we ask the deeper question: Why?
From the Harvard Divinity School.
- Religion Facts
As its name suggests, the purpose of ReligionFacts is to provide “just the facts” on the world’s religions and topics of religious interest. Every effort has been taken to present material from an impartial, academic perspective.
- Religion for Breakfast videos
An educational channel dedicated to the academic, nonsectarian study of religion.
Short (10-20 minute) videos about various aspects of religions past and present.
- Religious Studies Web Guide
This web site, in existence since 1995, focuses on free (open-access) internet resources ( bibliographies/indexes, library and archive catalogues, dictionaries/encyclopedias, e-texts and journals) supporting the academic study of religion.
- Religious Holidays
- View holidays for major worlds religious or see which ones are coming up soon.
- Religious Tolerance.org
- From the the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (OCRT), information about religions and movements plus discussions of current moral issues. “hot topics”, church and state issues, and laws about religion worldwide.
- This I Believe
- Archives of a radio program which
engaged listeners in a discussion of the core beliefs that guide their daily lives.
- Visualised: World’s major religions from 1945-2019 (video)
- Watch the changes in a simple bar graph illustrating the changes in number of the seven most popular world religions.
- World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts
- The site provides quotes from various world scriptures on various theological and social topics. Organized by subject. Based on a 1991 publication.
- Yale University Library – Free Web Resources on Religion
- Links to online resources, organized by type of resource (text, statistics, images, etc.)
Catholic & General Religion News
The Bible
- ASLV – Deaf Missions Bible
- This site offers a number of videos presenting the Bible in American Sign Language. See it on the web or download the app.
- Beginning Catholic Bible Study
This section’s Scripture study guides were created especially for adults who are beginning to read the Bible seriously.
- Bible Gateway
- Searchable online Bibles in multiple versions and languages.
- Bible Study Tools
- Numerous Bibles, including Online Parallel Bible, Bible search options, commentaries, concordances, Bible dictionaries, and Church writings and history.
- Bible Hub
- Multiple languages and translations of the Bible as well as Bible dictionaries, atlases, concordances, and other reference tools.
- Catholic Online: Bible
- Catholic Online: Books of the Bible
- Daily readings and links to the entire New Jerusalem Bible online.
- How to Choose a Catholic Study Bible
[T]here exists a spectrum of Catholic study bibles created by the scriptural translations and study tools. … Let me share some thoughts on the most readily available Catholic study bibles on the market today.
- New American Bible, Revised Edition
- Full-text NAB online with commentary from the US Council of Catholic Bishops.
- Online Parallel Bible
Enter any word, phrase, chapter, verse or combination
to find passages in various translations.
- St. Paul Center: Online Studies
The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology is a non-profit research and educational institute that promotes life-transforming Scripture study in the Catholic tradition.
- USCCB: Bible Study Materials
- Articles about bible study from a Catholic perspective. From the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- USCCB: Daily Readings
- Daily readings from the New American Bible at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops site.
Catholicism
- All About Mary
Designed for everyone from expert theologians to those simply exploring, this tool, created and maintained by the International Marian Research Institute in partnership with the Marian Library at the University of Dayton, is the online destination for resources on the subject of the Blessed Virgin Mary and related topics.
- The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
- Biographies, photos, and documents (in Latin) related to cardinals from the 17th century through the present, a general list of cardinals for the last thousand years, and links to cardinals’ sites on the web.
- Catholic Answers
Catholic Answers is a media company dedicated to sharing what the Church really teaches, and …. for reliable information about the Catholic Church’s doctrine, tradition, and beliefs.
- Catholic Social Teaching
- A guide from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops describing the principles and ideas of Catholic social teaching. A quick reference to the main points may be found on the Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching page.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
- From the Vatican website, this is the current official catechism of the Catholic Church in English.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, Simplified
- To help readers understand the catechism, this page offers summary explanations of each section.
- The Catholic Directory
One of the easiest to use and most comprehensive searchable Catholic database on the Internet! Our mission is to help people find Mass.
Includes people look-up Mass times, view weekly bulletins, web sites, email addresses, maps, directions, staff, and other important information.
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Online version of the classic 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia. Note that this edition is over 100 years old and some information may be badly dated.
- Catholic Online
- A wealth of information about Catholicism, including saints, prayers, holidays, and practices.
- Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature, Volume 1
- Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature, Volume 2
This encyclopedia covers the vast riches of the Catholic literary tradition from its origins to the present day. Included are substantial entries on more than 70 major works from around the world.
From Greenwood eBooks. (SCC students, check with librarian for password.)
- Fransciscan Media
- Newsletters, meditations, saints, online store, and more. (Formerly called American Catholic)
- GCatholic
Giga-Catholic Information is a non-profit website aimed at providing comprehensive and useful information of the Universal Catholic Church for all Catholics in the world.
- How to Pray the Rosary
- From Medjugorje.org, a page explaining the rosary, its associated mysteries, and the process of praying a rosary.
- National Catholic Education Association
NCEA works with Catholic educators to support ongoing faith formation and the teaching mission of the Catholic Church.
The NCEA also published Momentum Magazine for educators.
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse (NY)
- News and information from the Diocese of Syracuse, includes partial archives of the Catholic Sun, notices, events, reflections, contact information, and more.
- The Stations of the Cross
- A guide to the stations of the Cross, station by station. Includes version in Spanish.
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Information about the Church, Catholic news, documents, family and church issues, and other related topics.
- The Vatican (The Holy See)
- The official Vatican website, available in multiple languages. Includes an archive page with online texts of the Bible, the Catechism, the Code of Canon Law, Documents of Vatican II, and other materials. Videos are available through a YouTube channel.
- Vatican Library
- Main page for the Vaican Library. To access the digitized collections, head to DigiVatLib, which
provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).
Popes
General Information
- Catholic Online: Popes of the Roman Catholic Church
- A timeline with links to articles about individual popes, and further articles about the history of the popes and the papacy.
- CNN: Pope
Go inside the Vatican to reveal how popes have used their power to shape the course of world history.
- How the Papacy Works
- From the How Stuff Works website, a short review of the history of the Catholic Church and the Popes.
- Papal Encyclicals Online
- This site offers access to papal encyclicals over the years, up through the present day.
- Papal Infallibility
The Catholic Church’s teaching on papal infallibility is one which is generally misunderstood by those outside the Church.
This article explains what this doctrine does and does not mean.
Papal News
Pope Francis I
Elected March 2013
Pope Benedict XVI
Resigned February 2013
Pope John Paul II
Died April 2005
Saints - General Information
- Catholic Online: Saints & Angels
- Lists of saints by name, date, patronage, origin, plus saint of the day, FAQ, and more. Also offers a separate page just for Patron Saints.
- CatholicSaints.Info
This site has information on topics with patron saints, and profiles of those saints. Profiles have portraits, biographical information, areas of patronage, prayers, links to related sites, readings, etc.
- EWTN: Saints
Saints are the heroes of the Catholic faith. They lived lives in holiness, dedicated to serving God and spreading his message of salvation.
This page links to articles about dozens of saints.
- Franciscan Media: Saint of the Day Calendar
- Online calendar showing the prominent saints associated with each day. For more detailed information, check out Catholic.org: Saints Feast Days by Month and CatholicSaints.Info’s Calendar of Saints.
- How Does Someone Become a Saint?
- An overview of how saints are canonized; that is, officially recognized as being saints by the Catholic Church.
- Popular Saints
- A list with links to articles about 250 popular saints, from Catholic Online.
- USCCB: Saints
- This page from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops talks about what saints are, how they’re honored, and how they’re recognized.
- What is a saint?
Saints are not the opposite of sinners. There are no opposites of sinners in this world. There are only saved sinners and unsaved sinners. Thus holy does not mean “sinless” but “set-apart:” called out of the world to the destiny of eternal ecstasy with God.
Saints by Name
- Adrian of Canterbury
- (January 9) Monk, abbot, teacher
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Agnes of Assisi
- (November 19) Abbess. Founder of monasteries. Younger sister of St. Clare of Assisi.
- see: Catholic Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus)
- (November 15) Patron of scientists.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – Stanford Ency. of Philosophy
- Blessed Alcuin of York
- (May 19) Abbot, scholar, theologian, mathematician.
- see: BBC History – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – History of York – Loyola Press
- Alphonsus Rodriguez
- (October 30) Doorkeeper and mystic.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Fire – Catholic Online – St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (poem)
- All Saints Day
- (November 1) Holy day of obligation in celebration of all saints known and unknown.
- see: All Saints’ Day, Halloween and All Souls’ Day: What’s the difference? – Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- All Souls Day
- (November 2) ‘The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed’
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Education – ChurchYear.net – MexOnline – Wikipedia: All Souls – Wikipedia: Day of the Dead
- Ambrose (‘Patron of the Veneration of Mary’)
- (December 7) Doctor of the Church, Bishop of Milan. Patron of bees; bee keepers; candlemakers; chandlers; domestic animals; learning; schoolchildren; students.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Andrew
- (November 30) Apostle. Patron of fishermen; gout; Greece; maidens; Russia; Scotland; singers; sore throats; spinsters; women who wish to become mothers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CIN – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Angela Merici
- (January 27) Founder of the Company of St. Ursula (Ursulines)
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Company of St. Ursula – Franciscan Media
- The Annunciation
- (March 25) The angel Gabriel comes to Mary
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Saints.info – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Q&A: The Annunciation – Entering the Annunciation – Redemptoris Mater
- Anselm of Canterbury
- (April 21) Monk, Archbishop, Theologian, Philosopher, Doctor of the Church.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Anselm of Canterbury – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Saint Anselm – CatholicSaints.Info
- Ansgar (St. Anskar, St. Oscar)
- (February 3) Patron of Scandanivia, Sweden, Denmark.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Medieval Sourcebook
- Anthony of Egypt (aka Anthony of Thebes, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert)
- (January 17) Founder of Christian monasticism. Patron of amputees, animals, basket makers, butchers, epileptics, gravediggers, hermits, monks, skin diseases, swine
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Anthony of Padua
- (June 13) Doctor of the Church. Patron of fishermen, sailors, seekers of lost things, poor people, expectant mothers, Native Americans, against starvation, against shipwrecks.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Apollinaris (Apollinaris Claudius)
- (January 8) The Apologist.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- The Ascension (Feast of the Ascension, Ascension Thursday)
- (varies) Holy Day of Obligation; Celebration of the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven
- see: Britannica – Catholic Culture – Catholic Online – Catholic Online (2) – Church Year.net – Wikipedia: Ascension in Art
- Ash Wednesday
- (Varies from mid-February to early March) The start of Lent.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – My Catholic Life – US Catholic
- Athanasius (Athanasius of Alexandria)
- (May 2) Bishop, Writer, Doctor of the Church.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Augustine of Canterbury
- (May 27) First Archbishop of Canterbury; Patron of England.
- see: Augustine of Canterbury – Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Augustine of Hippo
- (August 28) Doctor of the Church. Patron of brewers, printers, sore eyes, theologians
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Barnabas
- (June 11) Martyr. Patron of Antioch, Cyprus, against hailstorms, as peacemaker
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- Bede the Venerable
- (May 25) Doctor of the Church. Patron of scholars, lectors; English writers and historians.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Benedict (Benedict of Nursia)
- (July 11) Patron of Europe; against poison; against gall stones, kidney disease, fevers; of cavers; civil engineers; farmers; monks; schoolchildren; those in religious orders
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Order of St. Benedict
- Benedict the African
- (April 4) Patron of African missions; African American; black missions; black people; Palermo, Sicily; San Fratello, Sicily
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Roman Catholic Saints – Saints SQPN
- Bernadette Soubirous (Bernadette of Lourdes)
- (April 16) Patroness of illness, Lourdes France, poverty, shepherds, sick people.
- see: Catholic Online – Catholic Pilgrims – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – Lourdes, France
- Bernardine of Siena
- (May 20) Monk, missionary, reformer. Patron of compulsive gamblers, lung problems, public relations advertisers, communications personnel. Called the ‘Apostle of Italy’.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Bonaventure
- (July 15) Bishop, Doctor of the Church; patron against intestinal problems
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.org – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – CatholicSaints.Info – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Boniface (Winfrid; Wynfrith)
- (June 5) Apostle of Germany. Patron of brewers, tailors, Germany.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Brigid of Ireland (Brigid of Kildare, St. Bride)
- (February 1) Patroness of Ireland; also of babies, blacksmiths, dairy workers, mariners, midwives, nuns, poets, poultry farmers, sailors, scholars, travellers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia –Catholic News Agency – Catholic Saints.Info – Catholic Online – IrelandsEye – St. Brigid Church, SF
- Casimir
- (March 4) Patron of Lithuania, Poland; against plague, of bachelors, kings, princes
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Catherine Laboure
- (November 28) Also known as Catherine Laboure Of The Miraculous Medal.
- see: Association of the Miraculous Medal – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Magnificat Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- Catherine of Alexandria
- (November 25) Patron of girls, lawyers, librarians, mechanics, nurses, philosophers, potters, spinners, students, teachers, unmarried girls
- see: Britannica – Catholic Saints.Info – Franciscan Media – Loyola Press
- Catherine of Sienna
- (April 29) Doctor of the Church. Patron of firefighters, nurses, sick people.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Thought.co
- Catherine of Sweden
- (March 24) Abbess, daughter of St. Brigit and founder of Bridgettine Order; invoked against miscarriages.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency — Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Cecilia
- (November 22) Martyr. Patron of music, musicians.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saint Cecilia – CatholicSaints.Info
- Charles Borromeo
- (November 4) Patron of apple orchards; bishops; catechists and catechumens, seminarians; spiritual leaders; against ulcers and other stomach disorders.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Charles Lwanga and Companions
- (June 3) Martyrs
- see: Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Loyola Press
- Christmas
- (December 25) Celebration of the birth of Jesus
- see: Catholic Culture – Catholic Online – Christmas on the Net – Crossroads Initiative – The Real St. Nicholas – US Conference of Catholic Bishops: Christmas
- Clement I
- (November 23) Pope. Patron of marble workers; sailors; sick children; stonecutters.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – CatholicSaints.Info – Catholic Online – NNDB: St. Clement I – Franciscan Media
- Colette
- (March 6) Founder of the Poor Clares Colettine. Patron of craftsmen, of servants, against eye disorders, fever, and headaches; and against the death of parents.
- see: Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – The Poor Clares Colettine – Poor Clare Colettine Nuns
- Conrad of Parzham
- (April 21) 19th century Capuchin lay brother. Patron of doorkeepers.
- see: Capuchin Franciscans – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Roman Catholic Saints
- Crispin and Crispinian
- (October 25) Martyrs. Patrons of cobblers, lace workers, leather workers, shoemakers, weavers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Crispin – CatholicSaints.Info – Crispian – Lives of the Saints
- Cyprian
- (September 16) Bishop. Martyr. Patron of North Africa
- see: Franciscan Media – Butler’s Lives of the Saints – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Orthodox Info. Center
- Cyril and Methodius
- (February 14) Patrons of Europe, ecumenism, unity of the Eastern and Western Churches. Cyril: creator of Cyrillic alphabet. Methodius: translator of Bible into Slavic languages.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info: St. Cyril / CatholicSaints.Info: St. Methodius – Franciscan Media – James Kiefer’s Christian Biographies
- Damien de Veuster (Damien of Moloka’i)
- (May 10) Missionary to leper colony on Molokai, Hawaii.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saints Alive – CatholicSaints.Info
- David of Wales
- (March 1) Patron of Wales, vegetarians, doves.
- see: Catholic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Early British Kingdoms – Franciscan Media – Historic U.K.
- Dominic (Dominic de Guzman)
- (August 8) Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). Patron of astronomers, the Dominican Republic, falsely accused people, scientists.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.com: The Rosary – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – EWTN: History of the Rosary – CatholicSaints.Info
- Dominic Savio
- (March 9) Patron of boys, choir boys, choirs, the falsely accused, juvenile delinquents.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Life of Dominic Savio – CatholicSaints.Info
- Easter (Spring)
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – History.com – How Stuff Works – Thought.co
- Edward the Confessor
- (October 13) Patron of difficult marriages, kings, separated spouses.
- see: BBC History – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – `Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – English Monarchs
- Eligius
- (December 1) Patron of metalworkers, blacksmiths, cab drivers, jewelers, veterinarians, watch makers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Medieval Sourcebook – CatholicSaints.Info
- Elizabeth
- (November 5) Cousin of Mary; mother of John the Baptist. Patron of expectant mothers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Mary Pages
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
- (January 4) Founder of the Sisters of Charity, Patron Saint of SCCHS.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – Pope Paul VI Homily
- Elizabeth of Hungary
- (November 17) Patron of bakers; beggars; brides; charities; exiles; the homeless; hospitals; nursing services; tertiaries; widows.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Ephrem
- (June 9) Patron of spiritual directors and spiritual leaders
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Orthodox Wiki
- Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- (September 14) Feast celebrated since the seventh century.
- see: About: Catholicism – Franciscan Media – Catholic Culture – Catholic Encyclopedia – EWTN: Holy Cross Novena – Vatican: Pope Francis Homily
- Fabian
- (January 20) Pope.
- see: Catholic Answers – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Faustina Kowalska (Maria Faustina Kowalska, Faustina of Lodz)
- (October 5) Visionary; Patron of Mercy.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Frances Xavier Cabrini (‘Mother Cabrini’)
- (November 13) Patron of immigrants; hospital administrators, orphans.
- see: Catholic Online – Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – CatholicSaints.Info – St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
- Francis de Sales
- (January 24) Doctor of the Church. Patron of authors, Catholic press, confessors, deaf people, educators, journalists, writers
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Christian Classics Ethereal Library – Franciscan Media/dd>
- Francis of Assisi
- (October 4) Founder of the Franciscan Order. Patron of animals, families, lacemakers, merchants, ecology, environment, zoos.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – PBS – Prayer of St. Francis
- Francis of Paola
- (April 2) Patron of boatmen; Calabria, Italy; mariners; naval officers; against plague epidemics; sterility; travelers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info– Franciscan Media
- Francis Xavier (‘Apostle to the Far East’)
- (December 3) Patron of African missions; Australia; black missions; East Indies; foreign missions; India; missionaries; New Zealand; plague epidemics.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- George
- (April 23) Patron of archers; armorers; Boy Scouts; butchers; Canada; cavalry; chivalry; crusaders; England; equestrians; horses; knights; lepers; plague; sheep; shepherds; soldiers.
- see: BBC – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Britannia: St. George – Order of the Garter – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Gregory the Great
- (September 3) Benedictine monk, pope, Doctor of the Church. Patron of choir boys; educators; England; masons; musicians; papacy; plague; Popes; schoolchildren; singers; students; teachers; West Indies.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Christianity Today – Franciscan Media
- Hilary
- (January 13) Bishop of Poitiers, Hymnist, Doctor of the Church, Patron against snakebites.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- The Holy Family
- December (date varies)
- see: Advent to Epiphany – Holy Family Radiates Example of True Love – CatholicSaints.Info
- Holy Week
- (Spring) The week leading up to Easter.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Stations of the Cross
- Ignatius of Loyola
- (July 31) Founder of the Jesuits. Patron of Basques; retreats; soldiers
- see: <Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Ignatian Spirituality – Medieval Sourcebook
- Isidore of Seville
- (April 4) Doctor of the Church. Patron of computers, computer users, the Internet, schoolchildren, and students.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholicism.org – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – A Prayer Before Logging Onto the Internet
- Jacinta and Francisco Marto
- (February 20) Received apparitions at Fatima along with Lúcia Santos.
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – Vatican
- Jerome
- (September 30) Doctor of the Church. Patron of archeologists, archivists, librarians, translators.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Jerome Emiliani
- (February 8) Founder of the Somascan Fathers and Brothers. Patron of orphans and abandoned children.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Somascan Fathers and Brothers
- Joan of Arc (‘The Maid of Orleans’)
- (May 30) Visionary, martyr. Patron of France, prisoners, soldiers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Joan of Arc Archive – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – National Geographic
- John I
- (May 18) Pope and martyr.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- John the Apostle
- (December 27) Apostle and Evangelist
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Magnificat – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- John Baptist de la Salle
- (April 7) Founder of the Christian Brothers (De La Salle Brothers).
Patron of: educators, school principals, teachers
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – De La Salle Christian Brothers – Franciscan Media
- John Bosco
- (January 31) Patron of apprentices, boys, editors, Mexican youths, laborers, schoolchildren.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- John Chrysostom
- (September 13) Doctor of the Church. Patron of Constantinople (Istanbul); epileptics; lecturers; orators; preachers; speakers.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- John Climacus (aka John Scholasticus; John of the Ladder)
- (March 30) Abbot, hermit, and author.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- John Fisher
- (June 22) Martyr
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- John Neumann
- (January 5) Patron of Catholic Education.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – National Shrine of St. John Neumann
- John of Capistrano
- (October 23) Patron of judges, jurists, military chaplains.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- John of God
- (March 8) Founder of the Order of Charity and the Order of Hospitallers of Saint John of God. Patron of alcoholics, booksellers, dying people, firefighters, heart patients, hospitals, publishers.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – The Hospitaller Order of St. John of God
- Blessed John of Parma
- (March 20) Minister General of the Friars Minor (13th century).
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Roman Catholic Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- John of the Cross
- (December 14) Doctor of the Church.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – The Metaphysics of Mysticism – CatholicSaints.Info
- John Ogilvie
- (March 10) Jesuit priest and martyr.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – St. John Ogilvie SJ
- John XXIII
- (October 11). “Good Pope John”. Convened the Second Vatican Council.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Catholic Culture – Documents of the Second Vatican Council – CatholicSaints.Info – Vatican – Wikipedia: Second Vatican Council – 50th Anniversary of Vatican II
- Joseph
- (March 19) Husband of Mary, foster-father of Jesus.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Straight Answers – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN: Novena to St. Joseph – Franciscan Media
- Joseph the Worker
- (May 1) Patron of carpenters, pregnant women, social justice, against doubt.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online –Lives of the Saints – Sisters of St. Joseph
- Joseph of Cupertino
- (September 18) Patron of of aviators, air travelers, astronauts, paratroopers, students, test takers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media
- Josephine Bakhita (‘Mother Bakhita’)
- (February 8) Patron of Sudan.
- see: AFROL Background – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – NC Register – Vatican
- Juan Diego
- (December 9) Visionary who saw the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Sancta.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- Jude
- (October 28) Patron of desperate situations; forgotten causes; hospital workers; hospitals; impossible causes; lost causes.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saint Jude Novena Site – CatholicSaints.Info
- Katharine Drexel
- (March 3) Founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
- see: Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Philanthropy Roundtable – Vatican News Service
- Kateri Tekakwitha
- (July 14) Patron of the environment and ecology; exiles; loss of parents; those ridiculed for their piety.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – Conservation.Catholic.org – Kaia’tanó:ron – Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine – CatholicSaints.Info
- Lawrence (Lawrence of Rome)
- (August 10) Patron of Rome; Canada; Sri Lanka; chefs; comedians; librarians; students; miners; tanners
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Leo I: Sermon on St. Lawrence – CatholicSaints.Info
- Leo the Great
- (November 10) Pope and Doctor of the Church.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Louise de Marillac
- (March 15) Co-founder of Daughters of Charity. Patron of loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, Vincentian Service Corps, widows.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Daughters of Charity – Franciscan Media
- Lucy of Syracuse
- (December 13) Virgin and martyr. Patron of the blind, those with eye problems, glaziers, authors, peasants.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Luke the Apostle
- (October 18) Patron of physicians and surgeons; also of artists, bachelors, bookbinders, brewers, glassmakers, goldsmiths, lacemakers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Madeleine Sophie Barat
- (May 25) Nun, teacher, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Madeleine Sophie Barat – CatholicSaints.Info – Society of the Sacred Heart
- Margaret of Scotland
- (November 16) Patron against the death of children; of learning; parents of large families; queens; Scotland; widows.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Bl. Maria Teresa Fasce
- (October 12) Sister and Abbess
- see: Augustinians.net – Catholic.net – Catholic Online – – CatholicSaints.Info – A Minor Friar Blog
- Marianne Cope
- (January 23) Franciscan Sister; founder of hospitals, missionary to lepers.
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – St. Marianne Cope Shrine – StarBulletin (Honolulu) article – Vatican News Service
- Mark
- (April 25) Apostle. Also known as Mark the Evangelist. Patron of Venice, glaziers, notaries.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – Catholic Saints.net – CatholicSaints.Info
- Martin I
- (April 13) Pope and Martyr.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Martin de Porres
- (November 3) Patron of black people, hairdressers, innkeepers, the poor, public education, public health, race relations, social justice, television.
- see: Black Past – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – St. Martin de Porres National Shrine – Vatican News
- Martin of Tours (‘Martin the Merciful’)
- (November 11) Patron of beggers, horses, reformed alcoholics, soldiers, tailors, vintners.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – The Life of St. Martin – CatholicSaints.Info
- Mary – Blessed Virgin
- (December 8) December 8 is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception means that Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin.
- see: All About Mary – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.com – Catholic.org: Mary, Mother of God – Franciscan Media – National Catholic Register – Women for Faith & Family
- Mary Magdalene (‘Apostle to the Apostles’; ‘The Penitent’)
- (July 22) Patron against sexual temptation, apothecaries and pharmacists, contemplative life, converts, glove makers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumers, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women.
- see: Franciscan Media – Butler’s Lives of the Saints – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Saints – Saints SQPN
- Matthew the Apostle
- (September 21) Apostle. Patron of bankers, accountants, bookkeepers, civil servants, stock brokers, tax collectors.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Saints Resource
- Matthias the Apostle
- (May 14) Apostle. Patron of alcoholics, carpenters, smallpox, tailors.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Saints Resource
- Maximilian Mary Kolbe (‘Apostle of Consecration to Mary’)
- (August 14) Martyr. Patron of drug addicts, families, journalists, prisoners, political prisoners, pro-life movement.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Catholic Pages – Catholicism.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro (Padre Pro)
- (November 23) Martyr.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.org – Catholicism.org
- Nicholas (Nicholas of Bari, Nicholas of Myra)
- (December 6) Patron of bakers, children, the poor, judges, sailors.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saint Nicholas Center – CatholicSaints.Info
- Nicholas Owen
- (March 22) Martyr.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – The Life of St. Nicholas Owen – CatholicSaints.Info
- Norbert (Norbert of Xanten)
- (June 6) Patron of Bohemia; Magdeburg, Germany; peace.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – CatholicSaints.Info
- Oscar Romero
- (March 24). Martyr. Patron of El Salvador, persecuted Christians, Christian communicators.
- see: Catholic News Service — Catholic Saints.Info — Franciscan Media — National Catholic Reporter — OSV — US Catholic
- Oswald
- (February 28/29) aka Oswald of Worcester, Oswald of York. Monk and bishop
- see: Britannica – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Celtic Saints –
Franciscan Media
- Our Lady of Fatima
- (May 13) Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- see: Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Fatima Center – Shrine of Fatima
- Our Lady of Grace
- (May 31)
- see: Catholic Answers: Mary, Full of Grace – Catholic Encyclopedia: Visitation of Mary – Praying for Grace – Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- (December 12) Apparition of the Virgin Mary.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Marian Library – Sancta.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- (February 11)
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN: Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes – Franciscan Media – Lourdes-France.org
- Our Lady of the Rosary
- (October 7)
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.com: The Rosary – Catholic Culture – EWTN: History of the Rosary – The Holy Rosary – USCCB: How to Pray the Rosary
- Our Lady of Sorrows
- (September 15)
- see: Catholic News Agency – Franciscan Media – Catholic.org – CatholicCulture.org – Catholic Education – EWTN: Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows
- Palm Sunday
- (Spring) The Sunday a week before Easter Sunday.
- see: Catholic Culture – Catholic Online – Catholic Online: Coming Face to Face with Jesus – Thought.co
- Paschal Baylon
- (May 17) Patron of cooks; Eucharistic congresses and organizations.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Patrick
- (March 17) Patron of Ireland, of cattle, hairdressers, engineers, miners, against snakes, and of many dioceses around the world.
- see: BBC: Christianity: St. Patrick – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Peregrine Laziosi (‘The Cancer Saint’)
- (May 1) Patron for cancer patients, AIDS sufferers, breast cancer, sick people, skin diseases.
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Missions – Saint Peregrine Novena
- Perpetua and Felicity
- (March 7) Patrons of mothers, expectant mothers, married women, widows, cattle, butchers, ranchers, martyrs.
- see: Catholic News Agency — Catholic Online — CatholicSaints.Info — Franciscan Media — Internet History Sourcebook — Loyola Press
- Peter Canisius
- (December 21) Doctor of the Church. Author of catechisms. Patron of Catholic press, Germany.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Peter Damian
- (February 21) Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Stanford Ency. of Philosophy
- Peter Gonzalez
- (April 14) Aka ‘Saint Elmo’. Dominican priest, court chaplain, patron of sailors
- see: Catholic Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Philomena
- (August 11) Patron of babies, children, students, young people
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Saints.Info – Regina Magazine
- Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
- (September 23) Patron of civil defense volunteers, Catholic adolescents
- see: CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Padre Pio.net – The Vatican
- Polycarp of Smyrna
- (February 23) Martyr. Patron against earache and dysentery.
- see: Catholic Online – Coptic Church.net – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Thought.co
- Rita of Cascia
- (May 22) Patron of impossible causes, abuse victims, difficult marriages, parenthood, widows.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – National Shrine of St. Rita – CatholicSaints.Info
- Robert Bellarmine
- (September 17) Doctor of the Church. Patron of canon lawyers; catechists; catechumens
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org
- Rose Venerini
- (May 7) Teacher; founder of the Venerini Sisters.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Newman Ministory – The Vatican
- Scholastica
- (February 10) Patron against rain, of convulsive children, nuns, storms.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Sebastian
- (January 20) Martyr. Patron of archers, gardeners, lacemakers, soldiers, stonecutters.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Catholic Saints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Stanislaus of Kracow
- (April 11) Patron of Poland; archdiocese of Krakow, Poland; soldiers in battle.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Herald – Catholic Online – Saints Alive – CatholicSaints.Info
- Blessed Stanley Rother
- (July 28) American-born martyr
- see: America (magazine) – Cathollic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Our Sunday Visitor
- Stephen (‘The Protomartyr’)
- (December 26) Martyr. Patron of deacons, bricklayers, stonemasons.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- Teresa of Avila
- (October 15) Doctor of the Church. Also known as Teresa of Jesus. Patron of headaches. lacemakers, people in religious orders, sick people.
- see: Franciscan Media – Biography Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Teresa of Calcutta (‘Mother Teresa’)
- (September 5) Sister, missionary, founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
- see: Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center – Pope John Paul II Homily – Thought.co
- Therese of Lisieux (‘The Little Flower’)
- (October 1) Doctor of the Church. Patron of Australia; aviators; florists; France; illness; missionaries; Russia; sick people.
- see: Franciscan Media – Cathlolic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Society of the Little Flower – Vatican
- Thomas the Apostle
- (July 3) Patron of architects, India
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Encyclopedia Britannica – Franciscan Media – New World Encyclopedia – St. Thomas the Apostle
- Thomas Aquinas
- (January 28) Doctor of the Church. Patron of schools, students, chastity, lightning, theologians.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Thomas Becket
- (December 29) Patron of clergy.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Medieval Sourcebook – – Sources of British History
- Thomas More
- (June 22) Doctor of the Church. Patron of lawyers; adopted children, civil servants, court clerks, difficult marriages, large families, politicians, statesmen, step-parents, widowers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – English History.net – Franciscan Media – Works of St. Thomas More
- Thomas of Villanueva
- (Sept. 22). AKA “The Almsgiver”, “The Father of the Poor”
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info – Rosary a Day
- Valentine
- (February 14) Patron of betrothed couples, epileptics, love, travellers, young people.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Vincent de Paul
- (September 27) Founder and co-founder of charitable orders. Patron of charities, charitable workers, hospitals, hospital workers, lepers, volunteers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Vincentian Encyclopedia
- Vincent Pallotti
- (January 22) Founder of The Pious Society of Missions (Pallottines)
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholicism.org – CatholicSaints.Info – The Pallottines
- Wilfrid of York
- (October 12)
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
Saints by Date
- January 4: Elizabeth Ann Seton
- Founder of the Sisters of Charity, Patron Saint of Catholic Schools.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – Pope Paul VI Homily
- January 5: John Neumann
- Patron of Catholic Education.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – National Shrine of St. John Neumann
- January 8: Apollinaris (Apollinaris Claudius)
- The Apologist.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- January 9: Adrian of Canterbury
- Monk, abbot, teacher
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- January 13: Hilary
- Bishop of Poitiers, Hymnist, Doctor of the Church; Patron against snakebites.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- January 17: Anthony of Egypt
- aka Anthony of Thebes, Antony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert. Founder of Christian monasticism. Patron of amputees, animals, basket makers, butchers, epileptics, gravediggers, hermits, monks, skin diseases, swine.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- January 20: Fabian
- Pope, Martyr.
- see: Catholic Answers – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- January 20: Sebastian
- Martyr. Patronage includes archers, gardeners, lacemakers, soldiers, stonecutters.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Catholic Saints.Info – Franciscan Media
- January 22: Vincent Pallotti
- Founder of The Pious Society of Missions (Pallottines)
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholicism.org – CatholicSaints.Info – The Pallottines
- January 23: Marianne Cope
- Franciscan Sister; founder of hospitals, missionary to lepers.
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – St. Marianne Cope Shrine – StarBulletin (Honolulu) article – Vatican News Service
- January 24: Francis de Sales
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of authors, Catholic press, confessors, deaf people, educators, journalists, writers
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Christian Classics Ethereal Library – Franciscan Media
- January 27: Angela Merici
- Founder of the Company of St. Ursula (Ursulines)
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Company of St. Ursula – Franciscan Media
- January 28: Thomas Aquinas
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of schools, students, chastity, lightning, theologians.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- January 31: John Bosco
- Patron of apprentices, boys, editors, Mexican youths, laborers, schoolchildren.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info– Franciscan Media
- February 1: Brigid of Ireland
- Patroness of Ireland; also of babies, blacksmiths, dairy workers, mariners, midwives, nuns, poets, poultry farmers, sailors, scholars, travellers. Aka St. Brigid of Kildare, St. Bride.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia –Catholic News Agency – Catholic Saints.Info – Catholic Online – IrelandsEye – St. Brigid Church, SF
- February 3: Ansgar
- Also known as St. Anskar, St. Oscar. Patron of Scandanivia, Sweden, Denmark.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Medieval Sourcebook
- February 8: Jerome Emiliani
- Founder of the Somascan Fathers and Brothers. Patron of orphans and abandoned children.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Somascan Fathers and Brothers
- February 8: Josephine Bakhita (Mother Josephine Bakhita)
- Patron of Sudan.
- see: AFROL Background – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – NC Register – Vatican
- Feb 10: Scholastica
- Patron against rain, of convulsive children, nuns, storms.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Feb 11: Our Lady of Lourdes
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN: Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes – Franciscan Media – Lourdes-France.org
- Feb 14: Cyril and Methodius
- Patrons of Europe, ecumenism, unity of the Eastern and Western Churches. Cyril: creator of Cyrillic alphabet. Methodius: translator of Bible into Slavic languages.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info: St. Cyril / CatholicSaints.Info: St. Methodius – Franciscan Media – James Kiefer’s Christian Biographies
- Feb 14: Valentine
- Patron of betrothed couples, epileptics, love, travellers, young people.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- Feb 20: Jacinta and Francisco Marto
- Received apparitions at Fatima along with Lúcia Santos.
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – Vatican
- Feb 21: Peter Damian
- Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia.
- see: Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Stanford Ency. of Philosophy
- Feb 23: Polycarp of Smyrna
- Martyr. Patron against earache and dysentery.
- see: Catholic Online – Coptic Church.net – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Thought.co
- Feb 28: Oswald
- aka Oswald of Worcester, Oswald of York. Monk and bishop.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Celtic Saints –
Franciscan Media
- Mid-Feb to Early March: Ash Wednesday
- The start of Lent.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – My Catholic Life – US Catholic
- March 1: David of Wales
- Patron of Wales, vegetarians, doves.
- see: Catholic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Early British Kingdoms – Franciscan Media – Historic U.K.
- March 3: Katharine Drexel
- Founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
- see: Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Philanthropy Roundtable – Vatican News Service
- March 4: Casimir
- Patron of Lithuania, Poland; against plague, of bachelors, kings, princes
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- March 6: Colette
- Founder of the Poor Clares Colettine. Patron of craftsmen, of servants, against eye disorders, fever, and headaches; and against the death of parents.
- see: Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – The Poor Clares Colettine – Poor Clare Colettine Nuns
- March 7: Perpetua and Felicity
- Patrons of mothers, expectant mothers, married women, widows, cattle, butchers, ranchers, martyrs.
- see: Catholic News Agency — Catholic Online — CatholicSaints.Info — Franciscan Media — Internet History Sourcebook — Loyola Press
- March 8: John of God
- Founder of the Order of Charity and the Order of Hospitallers of Saint John of God. Patron of alcoholics, booksellers, dying people, firefighters, heart patients, hospitals, publishers.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – The Hospitaller Order of St. John of God
- March 9: Dominic Savio
- Patron of boys, choir boys, choirs, the falsely accused, juvenile delinquents.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Life of Dominic Savio – CatholicSaints.Info
- March 10: John Ogilvie
- Jesuit priest and martyr.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – St. John Ogilvie SJ
- March 15: Louise de Marillac
- Founder of the Sisters of Charity; co-founder of Daughters of Charity. Patron of loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, Vincentian Service Corps, widows.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Daughters of Charity – Franciscan Media
- March 17: Patrick
- Patron of Ireland, of engineers, against snakes, and of many dioceses around the world.
- see: BBC: Christianity: St. Patrick – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- March 19: Joseph
- Husband of Mary.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Straight Answers – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN: Novena to St. Joseph – Franciscan Media
- March 20: Blessed John of Parma
- Minister General of the Friars Minor (13th century).
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Roman Catholic Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- March 22: Nicholas Owen
- Martyr
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- March 24: Catherine of Sweden
- Abbess – daughter of St. Brigit and founder of Bridgettine Order; invoked against miscarriages.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- March 24: Oscar Romero
- Martyr. Patron of El Salvador, persecuted Christians, Christian communicators.
- see: Catholic News Service — Catholic Saints.Info — Franciscan Media — National Catholic Reporter — OSV — US Catholic
- March 25: The Annunciation
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Saints.info – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Q&A: The Annunciation – Entering the Annunciation – Redemptoris Mater
- March 30: John Climacus
- Also known as John Scholasticus and John of the Ladder. Abbot, hermit, and author.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Spring (varies): Palm Sunday
- see: Catholic Culture – Catholic Online – Catholic Online: Coming Face to Face with Jesus – Thought.co
- Spring (varies): Holy Week
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Stations of the Cross
- Spring (varies): Easter
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – History.com – How Stuff Works – Thought.co
- April 2: Francis of Paola
- Patron of boatmen; Calabria, Italy; mariners; naval officers; against plague; sterility; travelers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info– Franciscan Media
- April 4: Benedict the African
- Patron of African missions; African American; black missions; black people; Palermo, Sicily; San Fratello, Sicily
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Roman Catholic Saints – Saints SQPN
- April 4: Isidore of Seville
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of computers, computer users, the Internet, schoolchildren, and students
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholicism.org – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – A Prayer Before Logging Onto the Internet
- April 7: John Baptist de la Salle
- Founder of the Christian Brothers (De La Salle Brothers). Patron of: educators, school principals, teachers
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – De La Salle Christian Brothers – Franciscan Media
- April 11: Stanislaus of Kracow
- Patron of Poland; archdiocese of Krakow, Poland; soldiers in battle.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Herald – Catholic Online – Saints Alive – CatholicSaints.Info
- April 13: Martin I
- Pope and Martyr.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- April 14: Peter Gonzalez
- Aka ‘Saint Elmo’. Dominican priest, court chaplain, patron of sailors
- see: Catholic Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- April 16: Bernadette Soubirous
- aka Bernadette of Lourdes. Patroness of illness, Lourdes France, poverty, shepherds, sick people.
- see: Catholic Online – Catholic Pilgrims – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – Lourdes, France
- April 21: Anselm of Canterbury
- Monk, Archbishop, Theologian, Philosopher, Doctor of the Church.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Anselm of Canterbury – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Saint Anselm – CatholicSaints.Info
- April 21: Conrad of Parzham
- 19th century Capuchin lay brother. Patron of doorkeepers.
- see: Capuchin Franciscans – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Roman Catholic Saints
- April 23: George
- Patron of archers; armorers; Boy Scouts; butchers; Canada; cavalry; chivalry; crusaders; England; equestrians; horses; knights; lepers; plague; sheep; shepherds; soldiers.
- see: BBC – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Britannia: St. George – Order of the Garter – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- April 25: Mark
- Apostle. Also known as Mark the Evangelist. Patron of Venice, glaziers, notaries.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – Catholic Saints.net – CatholicSaints.Info
- April 29: Catherine of Sienna
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of firefighters, nurses, sick people.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Thought.co
- May 1: Joseph the Worker
- Husband of Mary, Foster-father of Jesus. Patron of carpenters, pregnant women, social justice, against doubt.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online –Lives of the Saints – Sisters of St. Joseph
- May 1: Peregrine Laziosi
- Sometimes called “The Cancer Saint”. Patron for cancer patients, AIDS sufferers, breast cancer, sick people, skin diseases.
- see: Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Missions – Saint Peregrine Novena
- May 2: Athanasius
- aka Athanasius of Alexandria. Bishop, Writer, Doctor of the Church.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- May 7: Rose Venerini
- Teacher; founder of the Venerini Sisters.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Newman Ministory – The Vatican
- May 10: Damien de Veuster (Damien of Moloka’i)
- “The Leper Priest”. Missionary to leper colony on Molokai, Hawaii.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saints Alive – CatholicSaints.Info
- May 13: Our Lady of Fatima
- Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- see: Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Fatima Center – Shrine of Fatima
- May 14: Matthias the Apostle
- Apostle. Patron of alcoholics, carpenters, smallpox, tailors.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Saints Resource
- May 17: Paschal Baylon
- Patron of cooks; Eucharistic congresses and organizations.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- May 18: John I
- Pope and martyr.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- May 19: Blessed Alcuin of York
- Abbot, scholar, theologian, mathematician.
- see: BBC History – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – History of York – Loyola Press
- May 20: Bernardine of Siena
- Monk, missionary, reformer. Patron of compulsive gamblers, lung problems, public relations advertisers, communications personnel. Called the “Apostle of Italy”.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- May 22: Rita of Cascia
- Patron of impossible causes, abuse victims, difficult marriages, parenthood, sick people, widows.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – National Shrine of St. Rita – CatholicSaints.Info
- May 25: Madeleine Sophie Barat
- Nun, teacher, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Madeleine Sophie Barat – CatholicSaints.Info – Society of the Sacred Heart
- May 25: Bede the Venerable
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of scholars, lectors; English writers and historians.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- May 27: Augustine of Canterbury
- First Archbishop of Canterbury; Patron of England.
- see: Augustine of Canterbury – Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- May 30: Joan of Arc
- “Maid of Orleans”. Visionary, martyr. Patron of France, prisoners, soldiers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Joan of Arc Archive – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – National Geographic
- May 31: Our Lady of Grace
- see: Catholic Answers: Mary, Full of Grace – Catholic Encyclopedia: Visitation of Mary – Praying for Grace – Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- May ? (varies): Feast of the Ascension
- Holy Day of Obligation; Celebration of the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven
- see: Britannica – Catholic Culture – Catholic Online – Catholic Online (2) – Church Year.net – Wikipedia: Ascension in Art
- June 3: Charles Lwanga and Companions
- Martyrs
- see: Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Loyola Press
- June 5: Boniface (aka Winfrid; Wynfrith)
- Apostle of Germany. Patron of brewers, tailors, Germany.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- June 6: Norbert (Norbert of Xanten)
- Patron of Bohemia; Magdeburg, Germany; peace.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – CatholicSaints.Info
- June 9: Ephrem
- Patron of spiritual directors and spiritual leaders
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Orthodox Wiki
- June 11: Barnabas
- Martyr. Patron of Antioch, Cyprus, against hailstorms, as peacemaker
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- June 13: Anthony of Padua
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of fishermen, sailors, seekers of lost things, poor people, expectant mothers, Native Americans, against starvation, against shipwrecks.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- June 22: John Fisher
- Martyr
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- June 22: Thomas More
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of lawyers; adopted children, civil servants, court clerks, difficult marriages, large families, politicians, statesmen, step-parents, widowers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – English History.net – Franciscan Media – Works of St. Thomas More
- July 3: Thomas the Apostle
- Patron of architects, India
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Encyclopedia Britannica – Franciscan Media – New World Encyclopedia – St. Thomas the Apostle
- July 11: Benedict; aka Benedict of Nursia
- Patron of Europe; against poison; against gall stones, kidney disease, fevers; of cavers; civil engineers; farmers; monks; schoolchildren; those in religious orders
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Order of St. Benedict
- July 14: Kateri Tekakwitha
- Patron of the environment and ecology; exiles; loss of parents; those ridiculed for their piety.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – Conservation.Catholic.org – Kaia’tanó:ron – Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine – CatholicSaints.Info
- July 15: Bonaventure
- Bishop, Doctor of the Church; patron against intestinal problems
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.org – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – CatholicSaints.Info – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- July 22: Mary Magdalene (‘Apostle to the Apostles’; ‘The Penitent’)
- Patron against sexual temptation, apothecaries and pharmacists, contemplative life, converts, glove makers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumers, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women.
- see: Franciscan Media – Butler’s Lives of the Saints – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- July 28: Blessed Stanley Rother
- American-born martyr
- see: America (magazine) – Cathollic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Our Sunday Visitor
- July 31: Ignatius of Loyola
- Founder of the Jesuits. Patron of Basques; retreats; soldiers
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Ignatian Spirituality – Medieval Sourcebook
- August 8: Dominic (Dominic de Guzman)
- Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). Patron of astronomers, the Dominican Republic, falsely accused people, scientists.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.com: The Rosary – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – EWTN: History of the Rosary – CatholicSaints.Info
- August 10: Lawrence aka St. Lawrence of Rome
- Patron of Rome; Canada; Sri Lanka; chefs; comedians; librarians; students; miners; tanners
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Leo I: Sermon on St. Lawrence – CatholicSaints.Info
- August 11: Philomena
- Patron of babies, children, students, young people
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic Saints.Info – Regina Magazine
- August 14: Maximilian Mary Kolbe – “Apostle of Consecration to Mary” – Martyr
- Patron of drug addicts, families, journalists, prisoners, political prisoners, pro-life movement.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Catholic Pages – Catholicism.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- August 28: Augustine of Hippo
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of brewers, printers, sore eyes, theologians
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- September 3: Gregory the Great
- Benedictine monk. Pope. Doctor of the Church. Patron of choir boys; educators; England; masons; musicians; papacy; plague; Popes; schoolchildren; singers; students; teachers; West Indies.
- see: Britannica – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Christianity Today – Franciscan Media
- September 5: Teresa of Calcutta (‘Mother Teresa’)
- Sister, missionary, founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
- see: Catholic Online – Franciscan Media – Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center – Pope John Paul II Homily – Thought.co
- September 13: John Chrysostom
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of Constantinople (Istanbul); epileptics; lecturers; orators; preachers; speakers.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- September 14: Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- Feast celebrated since the seventh century.
- see: About: Catholicism – Franciscan Media – Catholic Culture – Catholic Encyclopedia – EWTN: Holy Cross Novena – Vatican: Pope Francis Homily
- September 15: Our Lady of Sorrows
- see: Catholic News Agency – Franciscan Media – Catholic.org – CatholicCulture.org – Catholic Education – EWTN: Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows
- September 16: Cyprian
- Bishop; martyr; Patron of North Africa
- see: Franciscan Media – Butler’s Lives of the Saints – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Orthodox Info. Center
- September 17: Robert Bellarmine
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of canon lawyers; catechists; catechumens
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org
- September 18: Joseph of Cupertino
- Patron of of aviators, air travelers, astronauts, paratroopers, students, test takers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media
- September 21: Matthew
- Apostle. Patron of bankers, accountants, bookkeepers, civil servants, stock brokers, tax collectors.
- see: Cathedral of St. Matthew – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- September 22: Thomas of Villanueva
- aka “The Almsgiver”, “The Father of the Poor”
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – CatholicSaints.Info – Rosary a Day
- September 23: Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
- Patron of civil defense volunteers, Catholic adolescents
- see: CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Padre Pio.net – The Vatican
- September 27: Vincent de Paul
- Founder and co-founder of charitable orders. Patron of charities, charitable workers, hospitals, hospital workers, lepers, volunteers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – Vincentian Encyclopedia
- September 30: Jerome
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of archeologists, archivists, librarians, translators.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- October 1: Therese of Lisieux (‘The Little Flower’)
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of Australia; aviators; florists; France; illness; missionaries; Russia; sick people.
- see: Franciscan Media – Cathlolic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Society of the Little Flower – Vatican
- October 4: Francis of Assisi
- Founder of the Franciscan Order. Patron of animals, families, lacemakers, merchants, ecology, environment, zoos.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – PBS – Prayer of St. Francis
- October 5: Faustina Kowalska (Maria Faustina Kowalska, Faustina of Lodz)
- Visionary; Patron of Mercy.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- October 7: Our Lady of the Rosary
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.com: The Rosary – Catholic Culture – EWTN: History of the Rosary – The Holy Rosary – USCCB: How to Pray the Rosary
- October 11: Pope John XXIII
- aka “Good Pope John”. Convened the Second Vatican Council.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Catholic Culture – Documents of the Second Vatican Council – CatholicSaints.Info – Vatican – Wikipedia: Second Vatican Council – 50th Anniversary of Vatican II
- October 12: Bl. Maria Teresa Fasce
- Sister and Abbess
- see: Augustinians.net – Catholic.net – Catholic Online – – CatholicSaints.Info – A Minor Friar Blog
- October 12: Wilfrid of York
- see: <Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- October 13: Edward the Confessor
- Patron of difficult marriages, kings, separated spouses.
- see: BBC History – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – `Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – English Monarchs
- October 15: Teresa of Avila
- Doctor of the Church. Also known as Teresa of Jesus. Patron of headaches, lacemakers, people in religious orders, sick people.
- see: Franciscan Media – Biography Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- October 18: Luke the Apostle
- Patron of physicians and surgeons; also of artists, bachelors, bookbinders, brewers, glassmakers, goldsmiths, lacemakers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- October 23: John of Capistrano
- Patron of judges, jurists, military chaplains.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- October 25: Crispin and Crispinian
- Martyrs. Patrons of cobblers, lace workers, leather workers, shoemakers, weavers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Crispin – CatholicSaints.Info – Crispian – Lives of the Saints
- October 28: Jude
- Patron of desperate situations; forgotten causes; hospital workers; hospitals; impossible causes; lost causes.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saint Jude Novena Site – CatholicSaints.Info
- October 30: Alphonsus Rodriguez
- Doorkeeper and mystic.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Fire – Catholic Online – St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (poem)
- November 1: All Saints Day
- Holy day of obligation in celebration of all saints known and unknown.
- see: All Saints’ Day, Halloween and All Souls’ Day: What’s the difference? – Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- November 2: Feast of All Souls
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Education – ChurchYear.net – MexOnline – Wikipedia: All Souls – Wikipedia: Day of the Dead
- November 3: Martin de Porres
- Patron of black people, hairdressers, innkeepers, the poor, public education, public health, race relations, social justice, television.
- see:Black Past – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media – St. Martin de Porres National Shrine – Vatican News
- November 4: Charles Borromeo
- Patron of apple orchards; bishops; catechists and catechumens, seminarians; spiritual leaders; against ulcers and other stomach disorders.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- November 5: Elizabeth
- Cousin of Mary; mother of John the Baptist. Patron of expectant mothers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Mary Pages
- November 10: Leo the Great
- Pope and Doctor of the Church.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Catholic News Agency – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- November 11: Martin of Tours (Martin the Merciful)
- Patron of beggers, horses, reformed alcoholics, soldiers, tailors, vintners.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – The Life of St. Martin – CatholicSaints.Info
- November 13: Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini)
- Patron of immigrants; hospital administrators, orphans.
- see: Catholic Online – Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – CatholicSaints.Info – St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
- November 15: Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus)
- Patron of scientists.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – EWTN – Franciscan Media – Stanford Ency. of Philosophy
- November 16: Agnes of Assisi
- Abbess. Founder of monestaries. Younger sister of St. Clare of Assisi.
- see: Catholic Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- November 16: Margaret of Scotland
- Patron against the death of children; of learning; parents of large families; queens; Scotland; widows.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- November 17: Elizabeth of Hungary
- Patron of bakers; beggars; brides; charities; exiles; the homeless; hospitals; nursing services; tertiaries; widows.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- November 19: Agnes of Assisi
- Abbess. Founder of monasteries. Younger sister of St. Clare of Assisi.
- see: Catholic Online – Catholic Encyclopedia – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- November 22: Cecilia
- Martyr. Patron of music, musicians.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saint Cecilia – CatholicSaints.Info
- November 23: Clement I
- Pope. Patron of marble workers; sailors; sick children; stonecutters.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – CatholicSaints.Info – Catholic Online – NNDB: St. Clement I – Franciscan Media
- November 23: Miguel Agustín Pro [Padre Pro]
- Martyr.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic.org – Catholicism.org
- November 25: Catherine of Alexandria
- Patron of girls, lawyers, librarians, mechanics, nurses, philosophers, potters, spinners, students, teachers, unmarried girls
- see: Britannica – Catholic Saints.Info – Franciscan Media – Loyola Press
- November 28: Catherine Laboure
- Also known as Catherine Laboure Of The Miraculous Medal.
- see: Association of the Miraculous Medal – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Magnificat Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- November 30: Andrew
- Apostle. Patron of fishermen; gout; Greece; maidens; Russia; Scotland; singers; sore throats; spinsters; women who wish to become mothers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CIN – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- December: The Holy Family (date varies)
- see: Advent to Epiphany – Holy Family Radiates Example of True Love – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 1: Eligius
- Patron of metalworkers, blacksmiths, cab drivers, jewelers, veterinarians, watch makers.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic News Agency – Catholic Online – Medieval Sourcebook – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 3: Francis Xavier (‘Apostle to the Far East’)
- Patron of African missions; Australia; black missions; East Indies; foreign missions; India; missionaries; New Zealand; plague epidemics.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 6: Nicholas (Nicholas of Bari, Nicholas of Myra)
- Patron of bakers, children, the poor, judges, sailors.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Saint Nicholas Center – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 7: Ambrose
- Doctor of the Church – Bishop of Milan. “Patron of the Veneration of Mary”. Patron of bees; bee keepers; candlemakers; chandlers; domestic animals; learning; schoolchildren; students.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- Dec. 8: Blessed Virgin Mary
- December 8 is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception means that Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin.
- see: All About Mary – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.com – Catholic.org: Mary, Mother of God – Franciscan Media – National Catholic Register – Women for Faith & Family
- Dec. 9: Juan Diego
- Visionary who saw the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Online – Sancta.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Apparition of the Virgin Mary.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – Marian Library – Sancta.org – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 13: Lucy of Syracuse
- Virgin and martyr. Patron of the blind, those with eye problems, glaziers, authors, peasants.
- see: Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info – Franciscan Media
- December 14: John of the Cross
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of contemplative life, contemplatives, mystical theology, mystics, Spanish poets.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Online – The Metaphysics of Mysticism – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 21: Peter Canisius
- Doctor of the Church. Patron of Catholic press; Germany; writers of catechisms.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 25: Christmas Day
- Celebration of the birth of Jesus
- see: Catholic Culture – Catholic Online – Christmas on the Net – Crossroads Initiative – The Real St. Nicholas – US Conference of Catholic Bishops: Christmas
- December 26: Stephen, aka “The Protomartyr”
- Martyr. Patron of deacons, bricklayers, stonemasons.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic.org – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 27: John the Apostle
- Apostle and Evangelist
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Magnificat – Lives of the Saints – CatholicSaints.Info
- December 29: Thomas Becket
- Patron of clergy.
- see: Franciscan Media – Catholic Encyclopedia – Catholic Information Network – Catholic Online – Medieval Sourcebook – CatholicSaints.Info – Sources of British History
United States - Religion
- Association of Religion Data Archives
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion…. now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.
- Divining America: Religion in American History
Essays by leading scholars
, hosted by TeacherServe.
- On Being
- Radio show
On Being is a spacious conversation — and an evolving media space — about the big questions at the center of human life, from the boldest new science of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit.
(Formerly called Speaking of Faith.)
- If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious affiliations
What if we imagined the U.S. as a small town, population 100, instead of a continent-spanning nation with hundreds of millions of people? Doing so presents an interesting thought experiment because it allows us to see basic data about the U.S. and its people in a fresh, simple and illuminating way.
- Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life … seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. … it tracks and aggregates news and conducts independent research, including surveys, legal backgrounders, reports, books and Q&A interviews.
- Pew Research Center: Religious Landscape Study
- A survey of religion in America. Includes demographic data, beliefs, and social and political views, published in 2014.
- The Pluralism Project
Through an expanding network of affiliates, we document the contours of our multi-religious society, explore new forms of interfaith engagement, and study the impact of religious diversity in civic life.
From Harvard University.
- Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
- From the Library of Congress, a look at the role of religion in 17th and 18th century America.
- The Second-Largest Religion in Each State
Christianity is by far the largest religion in the United States….But what about the rest of us?
This article has maps showing the second-largest religions by state and county. (2014)
US - Major Non-Catholic Christian Denominations
US - Major Non-Christian Religions
Major World Religions
Buddhism
- A Basic Buddhism Guide
- Introductory articles on Buddhism and various aspects of Buddhist belief and practice.
- Basics of Buddhism
- A page introducing the concepts of Buddhism as part of a longer examination of Thailand.
- BBC Bitesize: Buddhism
- Information on the basics of Buddhism for British students reviewing for exams.
- Learn Religions: Buddhism
- Articles introducing the basic ideas of Buddhism, its origins, varieties, modern teachings, and related topics.
- What the Buddha Taught
- Online edition of popular and influential book about Buddhism.
- World History Encyclopedia: Buddhism
- Engyclopedia aArticle describing the origins of Buddhism and its core beliefs.
Christianity
- Anno Domini; Jesus Through the Centuries
- An art-based exhibit about how Jesus has been viewed by different ages and cultures.
- BBC Bitesize: Christianity
- Information on the basics of Christianity for British students reviewing for exams.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Scripture, commentaries, fiction, hymns, and essays by Christian writers.
- ReligionFacts: Christianity
- Statistics and information about Christianity, its history, beliefs and practices, denominations, and other related topics in an easy to follow topic-organized format.
- Theology Library at Spring Hill College
- Extensive set of links relating to Christian history and theology.
- World Council of Churches
A worldwide fellowship of churches seeking unity, a common witness and Christian service.
- World History Encyclopedia: Christianity
- Encyclopedia article describing the origins and early history of Christianity.
Hinduism
- BBC Bitesize: Hinduism
- Information on the basics of Hinduism for British students reviewing for exams.
- History.com: Hinduism
- Articles about the history and beliefs of Hinduism.
- Learn Religions: Hinduism
- Articles introducing the basic ideas of Hinduism, its origins, varities, modern teachings, and related topics.
- ReligionFacts: Hinduism
- Statistics and information about Hinduism, its history, beliefs and practices, and other related topics in an easy to follow topic-organized format.
- World History Encyclopedia: Hinduism
- Encyclopedia article describing the traditions and beliefs of Hinduism.
Islam
- BBC Bitesize: Islam
- Information on the basics of Islam for British students reviewing for exams.
- History Channel: Islam
- Facts about Islam, its founder, history, and Islam today.
- Islamic Society of North America
ISNA is an association of Muslim organizations and individuals that provides a common platform for presenting Islam, supporting Muslim communities, developing educational, social and outreach programs and fostering good relations with other religious communities, and civic and service organizations.
- Learn Religions: Islam
- Articles introducing the basic ideas of Islam, its origins, varities, modern teachings, and related topics.
- Muslim Heritage
Discover 1000 years of missing history and explore the fascinating Muslim contribution to present day Science, Technology, Arts and Civilisation.
- Pew Research: Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world
Here are answers to some key questions about Muslims, compiled from several Pew Research Center reports published in recent years…
. (August 2017)
- The Secret History of Muslims in the U.S.
Muslims arrived with Columbus and have been leaving their mark on American culture and society ever since.
A video from the New York Times. (Dec. 2018)
Judaism
- BBC Bitesize: Judaism
- Information on the basics of Judaism for British students reviewing for exams.
- Jewish Virtual Library: Judaism
The Jewish Virtual Library (JVL) is the most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history, politics and culture. With nearly 25,000 entries, the JVL is a one-stop shop for students of all ages interested in anything from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
- Judaism 101
Judaism 101 is an online encyclopedia of Judaism, covering Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture, holidays, practices and customs.
- Learn Religions: Judaism
- Articles introducing the basic ideas of Judaism, its origins, varieties, modern teachings, and related topics.
- My Jewish Learning
Offering articles and resources on all aspects of Judaism and Jewish life, the site is geared toward adults of all ages and backgrounds….
- Reform Judaism.org
ReformJudaism.org seeks to provide content that describes and demonstrates the traditions and innovations of Reform Jewish life.
Shinto
- Japan Guide: Shinto
Shinto (“the way of the gods”) is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan itself. It remains Japan’s major religion alongside Buddhism.
- Japan: Where Gods Aren’t Gods and Worshipers Aren’t Religious (Shinto Explained) (video)
Have you ever wondered about all the gates (torii) you see around Japan? They are entrances to the sacred ground of Shinto shrines (jinja). While some might see Japan’s traditional practices of Shinto as a religion, and their various kami as gods, it’s not quite as simple as that.
- Patheos: Shinto
Shinto (“the way of the Kami”) is the name of the formal state religion of Japan….
Look here for an overview, origins, history, beliefs, rituals and worship, and ethics and community topics related to Shinto.
- ReligionFacts: Shinto
- Statistics and information about Shinto, its history, beliefs, practices, and other related topics in an easy to follow topic-organized format.
- World History Encyclopedia: Shinto
- Overview of the origins, stories, and traditions of Shinto, and links to related articles.
Sikhism
- BBC Bitesize: Sikhism
- Information on the basics of Sikhism for British students reviewing for exams.
- BBC Bitesize: Taoism
- Information on the basics of Taoism for British students reviewing for exams.
- Learn Religions: Sikhism
- Articles introducing the basic ideas and practices of Sikhism.
- SikhNet: Who Are The Sikhs?
A short overview explaining the basic beliefs and practices of followers of Sikhism
- Sikhs.org: Introduction to Sikhism
- An introduction to the history and beliefs of Sikhs.