Read about the lives of the saints. https://www.catholic.org Copyright 2026 Catholic Online en Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:44:34 PDT https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=4 Elizabeth was a Spanish princess who was given in marriage to King Denis of Portugal at the age of twelve. She was very beautiful and very lovable. She was also very devout, and went to Mass every day. Elizabeth was a holy wife, but although her husband was fond of her at first, he soon began to cause her great suffering. Though a good ruler, he did not imitate his wife's love of prayer and other virtues. In fact, his sins of impurity gave great scandle to the people. Later, to make matters ... Catholic Online 2026-07-04 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=4 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=3 St. Thomas was born a Jew and was called to be one of the twelve Apostles. His birth and death dates are unknown, but his feast day is celebrated July 3. He lived before the formal establishment of the Catholic Church but is recognized as the patron saint of architects. He was a dedicated but impetuous follower of Christ. When Jesus said He was returning to Judea to visit His sick friend Lazarus, Thomas immediately exhorted the other Apostles to accompany Him on the trip which involved certain ... Catholic Online 2026-07-03 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=3 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=2 St. Bernardino Realino was born into a noble family of Capri, Italy in 1530. After receiving a thorough and devout Christian education at the hands of his mother, he went on to study medicine at the University of Bologna, but after three years he switched to law and received his doctorate in 1563. Word of his learning, dedication, and legal brilliance spread rapidly, and in 1554 he was summoned to Naples to assume the position of auditor and lieutenant general. Shortly afterward, his ... Catholic Online 2026-07-02 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=2 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=1 Learn More about the Missions St. JunĂ?­pero Serra Helped Build with California Missions Adventure Junípero Serra, originally named Miguel José, was born on November 24, 1713, in Petra, Majorca, Spain. His parents, Antonio Nadal Serra and Margarita Rosa Ferrer, were farmers. Baptized at St. Peter's Church in Petra on the same day, Junípero would go on to become a renowned figure in the history of California. In his early years, Serra attended the primary school run by the ... Catholic Online 2026-07-01 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=July&day=1 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=30 The holy men and women are also called the âÂ?Â?Protomartyrs of Rome.âÂ?Â? They were accused of burning Rome by Nero , who burned Rome to cover his own crimes. Some martyrs were burned as living torches at evening banquets, some crucified, others were fed to wild animals. These martyrs died before Sts. Peter and Paul, and are called âÂ?Â?disciples of the Apostles. . . whom the Holy Roman church sent to their Lord before the ApostlesâÂ?Â? death.âÂ?Â? Catholic Online 2026-06-30 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=30 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=29 Discover More About St. Peter with Journey with the Saints Peter, who was also known as Simon Peter of Cephas, is considered the first Pope. Despite his papacy, Peter had humble beginnings and became one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was ordained by Jesus in the "Rock of My Church" written in Matthew 16:17-18, which says, "Jesus replied, 'Simon son of Jonah, you are a blessed man! Because it was no human agency that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You ... Catholic Online 2026-06-29 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=29 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=28 The writings of St. Irenaeus entitle him to a high place among the fathers of the Church, for they not only laid the foundations of Christian theology but, by exposing and refuting the errors of the gnostics, they delivered the Catholic Faith from the real danger of the doctrines of those heretics. He was probably born about the year 125, in one of those maritime provinces of Asia Minor where the memory of the apostles was still cherished and where Christians were numerous. He was most ... Catholic Online 2026-06-28 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=28 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=27 St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (June 27) Cyril was born at Alexandria, Egypt. He was nephew of the patriarch of that city, Theophilus. Cyril received a classical and theological education at Alexandria and was ordained by his uncle. He accompanied Theophilus to Constantinople in 403 and was present at the Synod of the Oak that deposed John Chrysostom, whom he believed guilty of the charges against him. He succeeded his uncle Theophilus as patriarch of Alexandria on ... Catholic Online 2026-06-27 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=27 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=26 Carthusian monk and bishop, defender of papal authority. Anthelm was born in 1107 in a castle near Chambery, in Savoy, France. He was ordained a priest and visited the Carthusian Charterhouse at Portes, where he entered the Order at the age of thirty. Two years later, in 1139, he was appointed abbot of Le Grande Chartreuse, which had been damaged. Anthelm made the monastery a worthy motherhouse of the Carthusians, constructing a defensive wall and an aqueduct. As minister-general, Anthelm also ... Catholic Online 2026-06-26 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=26 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=25 William of Vercelli, Saint 1085-1142. founder, born in Vercelli Italy he was brought up as an orphan became a hermit on Monte Vergine, Italy after a pilgrimage to Compostella and attracted so many followers that a monastery was buillt. By 1119 his followers were united in the Benedictine congregation, the Hermits of Monte Vergine (Williamites) which he headed. The austerity of his rule led to dissension among his monks to restore peace he left and was taken under the protection of Roger I of ... Catholic Online 2026-06-25 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=25 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=24 Discover More About St. John the Baptist with Journey with the Saints John the Baptist was a contemporary of Christ who was known for evangelization and his baptizing of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist was born through the intercession of God to Zachariah and Elizabeth, who was otherwise too old to bear children. According to scriptures, the Angel Gabriel visited Elizabeth and Zachariah to tell them they would have a son and that they should name him John. Zachariah was skeptical and for this ... Catholic Online 2026-06-24 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=24 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=23 Joseph Cafasso was born at Castelnuovo d'Asti in the Piedmont, Italy, of peasant parents. He studied at the seminary at Turin, and was ordained in 1833. He continued his theological studies at the seminary and university at Turin and then at the Institute of St. Franics, and despite a deformed spine, became a brilliant lecturer in moral theology there. He was a popular teacher, actively opposed Jansenism, and fought state intrusion into Church affairs. He succeeded Luigi Guala as rector of the ... Catholic Online 2026-06-23 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=23 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=22 Thomas More was born in London on February 7, 1478. His father, Sir John More, was a lawyer and judge who rose to prominence during the reign of Edward IV. His connections and wealth would help his son, Thomas, rise in station as a young man. Thomas' mother was Agnes Graunger, the first wife of John More. John would have four wives during his life, but they each died, leaving John as a widower. Thomas had two brothers and three sisters, but three of his siblings died within a year of their ... Catholic Online 2026-06-22 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=22 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=21 St. Aloysius was born in Castiglione, Italy. The first words St. Aloysius spoke were the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. He was destined for the military by his father (who was in service to Philip II), but by the age of 9 Aloysius had decided on a religious life, and made a vow of perpetual virginity. To safeguard himself from possible temptation, he would keep his eyes persistently downcast in the presence of women. St. Charles Borromeo gave him his first Holy Communion. A kidney disease ... Catholic Online 2026-06-21 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=21 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=20 Martyr of Japan. A native of Korea, he was brought to Japan in 1591 as a prisoner of war and was subsequently converted to Christianity. Entering the Jesuits, he studied at the Jesuit seminary of Arima and worked for three decades as a catechist in both Japan and China. Seized during the persecution of the Church, he was burned alive at Nagasaki with Blessed Francis Pacheco. He was beatified in 1867. Catholic Online 2026-06-20 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=20 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=19 St. Romuald was born at Ravenna about the year 956. In spite of an infinite desire for virtue and sanctity, his early life was wasted in the service of the world and its pleasures. Then one day, obliged by his father, Sergius, to be present at a duel fought by him, he beheld him slay his adversary. The crime made such an impression upon him that he determined to expiate it for forty days, as though it were entirely his own. For this purpose he retired to a Benedictine monastery of St. ... Catholic Online 2026-06-19 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=19 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=18 St. Gregory Barbarigo was born in 1625, of a very old and distinguished Venetian family. A brilliant student, he embraced a diplomatic career and accompanied the Venetian Ambassador, Contarini, to the Congress of Munster in 1648. Then he became a priest and was soon thereafter consecrated as the first Bishop of Bergamo by Pope Alexander VII. Later on he was elevated to the rank of Cardinal and also given authority over the diocese of Padua. He guided his flock with pastoral wisdom and deep ... Catholic Online 2026-06-18 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=18 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=17 St. Emily de Vialar, Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition" Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James Augustine de Vialar and his wife Antoinette, daughter of that Baron de Portal who was physician-in-ordinary to Louis XVIII and Charles X of France. She was born at Gaillac in Languedoc in 1797. At the age of fifteen she was removed from school in Paris to be companion to her father, now a widower, at ... Catholic Online 2026-06-17 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=17 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=16 St. John Francis Regis Confessor of the Society of Jesus June 16 True virtue, or Christian perfection, consists not in great or shining actions, but resides in the heart, and appears to great edification, though in the usual train of common and religious duties constantly performed fidelity and fervor. Such a life has its trials, and often a severer martyrdom than that which stands the test of the flames. This we find in the life of the holy servant of God, John Francis ... Catholic Online 2026-06-16 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=16 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=15 When Hortense decided to marry Laurent Cousin in Pibrac, France, it was not out of love for his infant daughter. Germaine was everything Hortense despised. Weak and ill, the girl had also been born with a right hand that was deformed and paralyzed. Hortense replaced the love that Germaine has lost when her mother died with cruelty and abuse. Laurent, who had a weak character, pretended not to notice that Germaine had been given so little food that she had learned to crawl in order to get to ... Catholic Online 2026-06-15 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=15 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=14 Patriarch of Constantinople, modem Istanbul. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and builta monastery on the island of Chios. After some time in Constantinople, he was sent to Rome in 815 as the representative of Patriarch Nicephorus, who was exiled by Emperor Leo V the Armenian for refusing to yield to the imperial decrees on the destruction of icons. Methodius returned in 821 and was himself scourged and imprisoned for seven years. Finally, in 842, Empress Theodora arranged for his elevation as ... Catholic Online 2026-06-14 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=14 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=13 Discover More About St. Anthony of Padua with Journey with the Saints Saint Anthony was born Fernando Martins in Lisbon, Portugal. He was born into a wealthy family and by the age of fifteen asked to be sent to the Abbey of Santa Cruz in Coimbra, the then capital of Portugal. During his time in the Abbey, he learned theology and Latin. Following his ordination to the priesthood, he was named guestmaster and was responsible for the abbey's hospitality. When Franciscan friars settled a small ... Catholic Online 2026-06-13 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=13 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=12 John Gonzales de Castrillo was born at Sahagun, Leon Spain. He was educated by the Benedictine monks of Fagondez monastery there and when twenty, received a canonry from the bishop of Burgos, though he already had several benefices. He was ordained in 1445; concerned about the evil of pluralism, he resigned all his benefices except that of St. Agatha in Burgos. He spent the next four years studying at the University of Salamanca and then began to preach. In the next decade he achieved a great ... Catholic Online 2026-06-12 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=12 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=11 All we know of Barnabas is to be found in the New Testament. A Jew, born in Cyprus and named Joseph, he sold his property, gave the proceeds to the Apostles, who gave him the name Barnabas, and lived in common with the earliest converts to Christianity in Jerusalem. He persuaded the community there to accept Paul as a disciple, was sent to Antioch, Syria, to look into the community there, and brought Paul there from Tarsus. With Paul he brought Antioch's donation to the Jerusalem community ... Catholic Online 2026-06-11 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=11 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=10 Martyr with Amantius, Caerealis, and Primitivus. He was the husband of St. Symphorosa. An officer in the Roman army, he resigned when he became a Christian and returned to his estates near Tivoli, Italy. There he converted Caerealis, an imperial legate sent to arrest him. With his brother Amantius and with Caerealis and Primitivus, Getulius was tortured and martyred at Tivoli. Catholic Online 2026-06-10 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=10 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=9 "I was born in the way of truth: though my childhood was unaware of the greatness of the benefit, I knew it when trial came." Ephrem (or Eprhaim) the Syrian left us hundreds of hymns and poems on the faith that inflamed and inspired the whole Church, but few facts about his own inspiring life. Most historians infer from the lines quoted above that Ephrem was born into a Christian family -- although not baptized until an adult (the trial or furnace), which was common at the ... Catholic Online 2026-06-09 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=9 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=8 St. William of York, Bishop (Feast day is June 8th). William of York was the son of Count Herbert, treasurer to Henry I. His mother Emma, was the half-sister of King William. Young William became treasurer of the church of York at an early age and was elected archbishop of York in 1140. William's election was challenged on the grounds of simony and unchastity. He was cleared by Rome, but later, a new Pope, the Cistercian Eugene III, suspended William, and in 1147, he was deposed as ... Catholic Online 2026-06-08 00:00:00 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=8 https://www.catholic.org/saints/sofd.php?month=June&day=7 Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he was the brother of Sts. Winebald and Walburga and was related through his mother to the great St. Boniface. After studying in a monastery in Waitham, in Hampshire, he went on a pilgrimage to Rome (c. 722) with his father, who died on the way at Lucca, Italy. Willibald continued on to Rome and then to Jerusalem. Captured by Saracens who thought him a spy, he was eventually released and continued on to all of the holy places and then to ... 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