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1116–1148 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Ernest (died 1148) was the abbot of the Benedictine Zwiefalten Abbey at Zwiefalten, Germany from 1141 to 1146. He participated in the Second Crusade fought by Christians between 1146 and 1149 to defend the Holy Land following the Turkish atabeg Zengi's capture of the strate…

500–560 · Medieval

Saint Ernier was born in Aquitaine in 500 and died in Ceaucé in 560. He is recognized as a saint.

1020–1087 · Medieval

Saint Eskil (11th century) was an Anglo-Saxon monk particularly venerated during the end of the 11th century in the province of Södermanland, Sweden. He was the founder of the first diocese of the lands surrounding Lake Mälaren, today the Diocese of Strängnäs.

590–660 · Medieval

Saint Etton was a religious figure born in 590 and died in 660. He served as an abbot.

596–675 · Medieval · Benedictines

Faro (or Burgundofaro; died c. 675 AD), Count of Guînes, was bishop of Meaux. The family to which Faro belonged is known as the Faronids and is named after him. He is canonized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.

730 · Medieval

Saint Fergus (also Fergustian) (died c. 730 AD) was a bishop who worked in Scotland as a missionary. Ten saints of this name are mentioned in the martyrology of Donegal. The exact date and place of Fergus's birth remain unknown. He was a contemporary of St. Drostan and St.

659 · Medieval

Saint Ferjus of Grenoble (or Ferreol) was the bishop of Gratianopolis (current Grenoble) in the 7th century. He was assassinated about 660 A.D., probably on the instruction of Clotaire III, meeting the same fate as other bishops who defied Clotair's authority.

415–520 · Medieval

Saint Fiacc (c. 415-520) was a poet, the chief bishop of Leinster, and founder of two churches. His father, MacDara, was prince of the Uí Bairrche in the country around Carlow, Ireland.

1238–1253 · Medieval

Fina (Serafina) (1238–1253) was an Italian Christian virgin who is especially venerated in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano. She developed a paralytic illness and spent the rest of her life on a bed made from a wooden pallet, where, according to legends, Saint Gregory the Great a…

630 · Medieval

Saint Flavitus (or Flaive) was a priest and hermit of the early Middle Ages. He was born in the mid-6th century in Lombardy. In 568, he was brought to the Champagne region of France as a prisoner of war, where his master made him intendant of his castle.

866 · Medieval

Saint Fremund, also known as Freomund, was a ninth-century saint, hermit and martyr in Anglo-Saxon England. He is venerated at both the village of Prescote in Oxfordshire, where he is patron saint, and at Dunstable Priory in Bedfordshire.

700–715 · Medieval

Saint Fructus (Spanish: San Fruitos, Frutos, Fructos) was a Castilian hermit of the eighth century venerated as a saint. Christian tradition states that he had two siblings, named Valentine (Valentín) and Engratia (Engracia).

650–1101 · Medieval

Saint Fulk was an English pilgrim who was beatified for his selfless assistance of plague victims even when this was a risk to himself. He was travelling to Rome sometime in the 12th century, when he stopped at Santopadre, or Castrofuli, in southern Italy, to help plague victims.…

567–650 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Fursey (also known as Fursa, Fursy, Forseus, and Furseus: died 650) was an Irish monk who did much to establish Christianity throughout the British Isles and particularly in East Anglia. He reportedly experienced angelic visions of the afterlife.

550–645 · Medieval · Q3454227

Gall (Latin: Gallus; c. 550 – c. 645) according to hagiographic tradition was a disciple and one of the traditional twelve companions of Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent.

1060–1140 · Medieval

Gaucherius (1060 - 1140), a Christian saint, was born at Meulan-sur-Seine, France. He received a classical education and became a priest. He felt a deep longing for solitude.

1104–1127 · Medieval

Saint Gens (1104 – 16 May 1127), also named Saint Gens du Beaucet, was a hermit. He was born in Monteux, near Carpentras, in today's southern France at the beginning of the 12th century.

1407–1437 · Medieval

Saint George the New of Sofia is one of the nine martyrs of Sofia for the Orthodox faith. He is commemorated on March 26. His hagiography is preserved in a Greek manuscript. George was born in Sofia in 1407. He was introduced to and raised in the Christian faith by his parents.

1100–1170 · Medieval · Premonstratensians

Gerlach (Gerlache, Gerlac, Gerlachus van Houthem, Gerlac of Valkenberg) (d. c. 1170) was a 12th-century Dutch hermit. His cult is centered at Houthem near Valkenburg in the south of the province of Limburg.

700–680 · Medieval

Ghislain (died 9 October 680) was a confessor and anchorite in Belgium. He died at the town named after him, Saint-Ghislain. He was probably of Germanic origin. Ghislain lived in the province of Hainaut in the time of Amandus (d.

448–545 · Medieval

Gildard or Gildardus, or Gildaredus also known as Godard or Godardus (c. 448 – c. 525), was the Bishop of Rouen from 488 to 525. He is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, and the missal of the Sarum Rite refers to him as a confessor.

1051–1077 · Medieval

Gilduin of Dol (born in Combourg around 1051, died in Chartres on January 27, 1077) was a Breton nobleman who was the archbishop-elect of Dol from August to September 1076, and was later proclaimed a saint after his death.

601–670 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Gobain (died 670), also known as Goban, was an Irish monk and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England. Born in Ireland, he was a brother of Saint Wasnon, (to whom a church is dedicated in Condé-sur-l'Escaut).

1000–1044 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Gregory of Ostia (10th century – Logroño, May 9, 1044) was an Italian bishop and cardinal. He was abbot of the Monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Rome. Pope John XVIII appointed him Bishop of Ostia and subsequently a cardinal.

600–700 · Medieval

Saint Grwst the Confessor (also known as Gwrwst, Gwrst, Gorwst or Gorst ap Gwaith Hengaer) was a 6th and 7th century saint operating in the Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd.

628 · Medieval

Saint Gurval was a Catholic bishop who died in 628. He is recognized as a saint.

450–550 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Gwenhael (French: Guénaël; Breton: Gwenael; Old Breton: Gwenhael) was a Breton saint of the 6th century, born at Ergué-Gabéric (Finistère), the second abbot of Landévennec Abbey, successor in 532 to the founder, Saint Winwaloe (Gwenole).

617–690 · Medieval

Saint Hadelin (or Adelin, Hadelinus; died c. 690), born in Guyenne, was one of the scholarly monks who preached Christianity and started conversion work in what is now Belgium, along with Saint Remaclus. Of noble parentage, Hadelin lived at the court of Sigebert of Austrasia.

540 · Medieval

Saint Hernin was a hermit who died in 535. He died in Locarn.

521–556 · Medieval

Saint Hervé (c. 521 – 575 AD), also known as Harvey, Herveus, or Houarniaule, was a sixth-century Breton saint. Along with Saint Ives, he is one of the most popular of the Breton saints. He was born in Guimiliau (Gwimilio).

1200–1164 · Medieval

Hilarion (died October 21, 1164) was Bishop of Moglena from 1143/1150, under Emperor Manuel Komnenos. At that time, the Bogomil religion flourished in Moglena and Macedonia; at the emperor's urging, Hilarion preached against this religion.

1117–1197 · Medieval

Saint Homobonus (Italian: Sant'Omobono, German: Sankt Gutmann, Lombard: San Mobon) is the patron saint of business people, tailors, shoemakers, and clothworkers, as well as of Cremona, Italy. He was canonized in 1199 at the urgent request of the citizens of Cremona.

1226–1310 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Humility (Latin: Humilitas; Italian: Umiltà) (c. 1226 – 22 May 1310), known as Saint Roxanne (Italian: Santa Rosanna) was the founder of the Vallumbrosan Nuns.

800–866 · Medieval

Hunger (died 866), also known as Hungerus Frisus, was the Bishop of Utrecht from 854 to 866. He is a saint of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Born around 800, Hunger became a Benedictine.

600 · Medieval

A Saint Ilar ([iːlɑr]; Latin: Hilarus or Elerius) is listed among the 6th-century saints of Wales and is the probable namesake of Llanilar in Ceredigion and its former hundred of Ilar.

900–900 · Medieval

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1201–1282 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Ingrid of Skänninge (died 9 September 1282) was a Swedish prioress. She founded Skänninge Abbey, a nunnery belonging to the Order of Preachers, in 1272. Her feast day is on 2 September. Ingrid was the daughter of Elof, a nobleman from Östergötland.

1000–1075 · Medieval

Saint Irmgardis, Saint Irmgard of Süchteln (1000 - † 1065 or 1082/1089, Cologne, Germany) was a medieval saint and sovereign Countess Irmgardis of Aspel (Germany) in 1013–1085. Her relics are preserved in sarcophagus in the altar of Cologne Cathedral.

655–700 · Medieval

Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia eas…

550 · Medieval

Saint Joavan (or Jaoua, Joévin, Jouva, Jaouen, Yaouen; died c. 555) was an Irish priest and bishop in Brittany. The Monks of Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921), Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) in his Lives Of The Saints wrote under March 2, The hagiographer Alban Bu…

590–658 · Medieval

Judicael or Judicaël (c. 590 – 16 December 647 or 652) (Breton: Yudikael), also spelled Judhael (with many other variants), was the King of Domnonée, part of Brittany, in the mid-7th century and later revered as a Roman Catholic saint.

450–532 · Medieval

Saint Judulus is said to have been abbot of Landévennec around 520, according to Albert Le Grand, and was beheaded by a lord of Le Faou in the church of Daoulas.

400–600 · Medieval

Kea (Breton and Cornish: Ke; French: Ké) was a late 5th-century British saint from the Hen Ogledd ("Old North")—the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England.

786–821 · Medieval

Saint Kenelm (or Cynehelm) was an Anglo-Saxon saint, venerated throughout medieval England, and mentioned in the Canterbury Tales (The Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 290–301, in which the cockerel Chauntecleer tries to demonstrate the reality of prophetic dreams to his wife Pertelote…

640–689 · Medieval

Kilian, also spelled Cillian or Killian (or alternatively Irish: Cillín; Latin: Kilianus, original Gaelic form Ceallach), was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia (now the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his labours in the latter half of the 7th centu…

864 · Medieval

Laura of Cordoba (Spanish: Santa Laura de Córdoba; died 864) was a Spanish Christian who lived in Muslim Spain during the 9th century. She was born in Córdoba, and became a nun at Cuteclara after her husband died, eventually rising to become an abbess.

1420–1453 · Medieval · Trinitarian Order

Saint Laura of Constantinople (died 1453) was a Roman Catholic nun who lived in Constantinople. She was a member of the Order of the Holy Trinity. Her birth name was Theodolinde Trasci.

1377 · Medieval

Saint Leontius of Monemvasia or Saint Leontius of Achaia (Greek: Άγιος Λεόντιος o Μονεμβασιώτης ή Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ ἐν Ἀχαΐᾳ), was an Eastern Orthodox Saint born in Monemvasia in 1377 and lived in asceticism in the region of north Peloponnese in the 15th century.

450–533 · Medieval

Saint Lie (Lié, Lyé, Laetus, Lætus) (died 533) of Orléans is a French saint. He is honored in the bishopric of Orléans and his relics are enshrined in the village of Saint-Lyé-la-Forêt in that diocese. His feast day is November 5.

501 · Medieval

Llechid was a 6th-century pre-congregational saint of Wales. Born about 556 AD in Brittany, she was the child of Ithel Hael de Cornouaille and an unknown mother. Her family moved to Wales, where many of her siblings founded churches.