Saints
A collection of 30, chosen across regions, centuries and traditions. Where a life is known mainly from later tradition, the entry says so.
30 entries
- Apostolic age
Mary, Mother of Jesus
1st centuryNazareth and Jerusalem - Apostolic age
Saint Peter
1st centuryGalilee, Jerusalem and Rome - Apostolic age
Saint Paul
1st centuryTarsus, the eastern Mediterranean and Rome - Apostolic age
Saint Mary Magdalene
1st centuryMagdala, Galilee - Apostolic age
Saint Thomas the Apostle
1st centuryGalilee; by tradition Persia and India - Early Church
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
4th century (died 373)Alexandria, Egypt - Early Church
Saint Augustine of Hippo
354–430Roman North Africa and Milan - Early Church
Saint Anthony the Great
3rd–4th century (died c. 356)Lower Egypt and the Eastern Desert - Early Church
Saint Nicholas of Myra
4th centuryMyra, Lycia (modern Turkey) - Early Church
Saint George
Early 4th century (traditional)Cappadocia and Lydda (Palestine) - Early Church
Saint Patrick
Fifth centuryRoman Britain and Ireland - Early medieval
Saint Brigid of Kildare
5th–6th centuryKildare, Ireland - Early medieval
Saint Benedict of Nursia
c. 480 – c. 547Nursia, Subiaco and Monte Cassino, Italy - High medieval
Saint Francis of Assisi
1181/82–1226Assisi, Italy - High medieval
Saint Clare of Assisi
1194–1253Assisi, Italy - High medieval
Saint Hildegard of Bingen
1098–1179Rhineland, Germany - Late medieval
Saint Joan of Arc
c. 1412–1431Domrémy, Orléans and Rouen, France - Late medieval
Saint Andrei Rublev
Late 14th – early 15th centuryMoscow and Vladimir - Early modern
Saint Martin de Porres
1579–1639Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru - Modern
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
1910–1997Skopje and Kolkata, India - Early Church
Columba of Iona
521–597 (traditional dates)Donegal and Derry (Ireland); Iona and the Hebrides (Scotland) - High medieval
Bernard of Clairvaux
c. 1090–1153Cîteaux, Clairvaux and Troyes (France); Vézelay (France); preaching in Germany - High medieval
Thomas Aquinas
c. 1225–1274Roccasecca and Aquino (Kingdom of Sicily); Paris, Cologne, Orvieto and Rome; died at Fossanova - Late medieval
Catherine of Siena
1347–1380Siena and Pisa; Florence; Avignon; Rome - Early modern
Teresa of Ávila
1515–1582Ávila and Alba de Tormes (Castile, Spain) - High medieval
Dominic de Guzmán
1170–1221Caleruega (Castile); Prouille (France); Bologna (Italy) - Early modern
Ignatius of Loyola
c. 1491–1556Loyola and Azpeitia (Gipuzkoa, Spain); Pamplona; Montserrat; Manresa; Rome - Early modern
John of the Cross
1542–1591Fontiveros and Ávila; Duruelo; Toledo; Granada; Úbeda (Spain) - Early Church
Scholastica
c. 480–543Nursia (Norcia); near Monte Cassino (Italy) - Early medieval
Bede the Venerable
c. 672–735Monkwearmouth and Jarrow (Northumbria, England); Durham (relics)
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