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Saint Agnes of Rome
Feast day: 21 January
A Roman girl of about twelve who refused marriage and sacrifice to the gods, choosing death rather than betray her consecration to Christ; the most celebrated virgin martyr of the Latin Church.
Saint of the Day
Saint Monica
Sancta Monica
The persevering mother whose seventeen years of prayer obtained the conversion of her son Augustine.
- Feast day
- 27 August
- Patronages
- Mothers · Wives and married women · Victims of adultery and abuse · Parents of wayward children
Popular Saints
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Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
Feast day: 21 June
An Italian marquis's heir who renounced his principality to become a Jesuit and died at twenty-three after nursing plague victims in Rome.
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Saint Ambrose of Milan
Feast day: 7 December
Roman governor acclaimed bishop of Milan while still unbaptised, Ambrose became the great defender of the Church's freedom before emperors, the master of Latin hymnody, and the man who baptised Augustine.
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Saint André Bessette
Feast day: 6 January
An illiterate, sickly Quebec porter of Holy Cross whose devotion to Saint Joseph drew thousands of cures and built the Oratory of Mount Royal.
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Saint Andrew the Apostle
Feast day: 30 November
Brother of Simon Peter and a disciple of John the Baptist, Andrew was the first to follow Jesus and immediately brought his brother to him; tradition places his preaching in Greece and his martyrdom on a cross at Patras.
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Saint Anthony of Padua
Feast day: 13 June
An Augustinian scholar who became a Franciscan preacher of extraordinary power, famous today as the finder of lost things.
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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
Feast day: 2 May
Deacon at Nicaea and then bishop of Alexandria for forty-five years, five times exiled, Athanasius almost single-handedly preserved the confession that the Son is 'consubstantial with the Father'.
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
Feast day: 28 August
A brilliant, restless North African who lived far from God, was converted at thirty-two, and became the most influential theologian of the Latin Church.
Doctors of the Church
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Saint Ambrose of Milan
Feast day: 7 December
Roman governor acclaimed bishop of Milan while still unbaptised, Ambrose became the great defender of the Church's freedom before emperors, the master of Latin hymnody, and the man who baptised Augustine.
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Saint Anthony of Padua
Feast day: 13 June
An Augustinian scholar who became a Franciscan preacher of extraordinary power, famous today as the finder of lost things.
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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
Feast day: 2 May
Deacon at Nicaea and then bishop of Alexandria for forty-five years, five times exiled, Athanasius almost single-handedly preserved the confession that the Son is 'consubstantial with the Father'.
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
Feast day: 28 August
A brilliant, restless North African who lived far from God, was converted at thirty-two, and became the most influential theologian of the Latin Church.
About our sources
Entries are drawn from the Roman Martyrology, the General Roman Calendar, canonization records of the Holy See, and the saints' own writings. Where a date, quotation or attribution is uncertain, it is marked as such.