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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.
Feast day: 13 June
An Augustinian scholar who became a Franciscan preacher of extraordinary power, famous today as the finder of lost things.
Feast day: 10 May
A Belgian missionary priest who volunteered to live among the exiled lepers of Molokai, rebuilt their community in dignity, contracted the disease himself and died among them.
Feast day: 8 August
The Castilian canon who answered heresy with learned, poor and joyful preaching, founding the Order of Preachers and spreading the Rosary.
Feast day: 3 December
A Basque nobleman won for Christ by Ignatius of Loyola who baptised tens of thousands in India, the Moluccas and Japan and died in sight of China.
Feast day: 3 September
Roman prefect turned monk and then pope, Gregory fed a starving city, negotiated with the Lombards, reformed the liturgy and chant that bear his name, and sent Augustine of Canterbury to convert the English.
Feast day: 25 July
One of the three apostles closest to Jesus, first of the Twelve to be martyred, and, through the shrine of Compostela, the patron of Christian pilgrimage in the West.
Feast day: 23 January
A German-American Franciscan sister and hospital founder who answered Hawaii's call for help with leprosy when fifty other congregations refused, and cared for Saint Damien and the exiles of Molokai for thirty years.
Feast day: 25 April
Companion of Peter and Paul who wrote the shortest and earliest Gospel and, by tradition, brought the faith to Alexandria where he died a martyr.
Feast day: 14 August
Polish Franciscan publisher and missionary who offered his life in place of a father condemned to die of starvation at Auschwitz.
Feast day: 17 March
A Romano-British youth carried off as a slave to Ireland who escaped, became a bishop, and returned to evangelise the island that had enslaved him, leaving in his Confessio one of the earliest autobiographies of Western Christianity.
Feast day: 29 June
A persecutor of Christians struck down on the road to Damascus, who became the greatest missionary of the apostolic age and author of thirteen New Testament letters.
Feast day: 5 September
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, the Loreto sister who left her convent to serve 'the poorest of the poor' in the streets of Calcutta and founded a congregation now present in more than 130 countries.
Feast day: 3 July
The apostle who refused to believe without seeing and then made the greatest confession of faith in the Gospels, 'My Lord and my God'; ancient tradition sends him to evangelise India, where a Christian community bears his name to this day.
Feast day: 27 September
A peasant's son who became the organiser of French charity, founding the Vincentians, co-founding the Daughters of Charity with Louise de Marillac, and reforming the training of priests.