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985 · Medieval

John Tornike (Georgian: იოანე თორნიკე, romanized: ioane tornik'e; Greek: Ιωάννης Τορνίκιος), also known as Tornike Eristavi (Georgian: თორნიკე ერისთავი; died in 985) was a retired Georgian general and monk who came to be better known as a founder of the formerly Georgian Orthodox…

1319–1379 · Medieval · Augustinians

John Twenge (Saint John of Bridlington, John Thwing, John of Thwing, John Thwing of Bridlington) (1320–1379) is an English saint of the 14th century. In his lifetime he enjoyed a reputation for great holiness and for miraculous powers.

1350–1423 · Medieval

Jovan Uroš Nemanjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Урош Немањић) or John Ouresis Doukas Palaiologos or Joasaph of Meteora (Greek: Ιωάννης Ούρεσης Δούκας Παλαιολόγος, romanized: Iōannēs Ouresēs Doúkas Palaiologos), was the ruler of Thessaly from c. 1370 to c.

675 · Medieval

John V of Constantinople (Greek: Ἰωάννης; died August 675) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 669 to 675. He had ecumenically been proceeded by Thomas II of Constantinople.

1200–1290 · Medieval

Blessed John dal Bastone or Bl. John of the Staff, born Giovanni Bonello Botegoni (24 March 1200 – 24 March 1290), is a Blessed of the Roman Catholic Church. John was born in Paterno, Fabriano, Italy.

1165–1217 · Medieval · Benedictines

Jean de Montmirail (or Monte-Mirabili), Baron de Montmirail, O.S.B. Cist. (1165 – 29 September 1217), was a French nobleman who became a Cistercian monk. He is venerated as a beatus in the Catholic Church.

700–721 · Medieval · Benedictines

John of Beverley (died 7 May 721) was an English bishop active in the kingdom of Northumbria. He was the bishop of Hexham and then the bishop of York, which was the most important religious designation in the area.

832 · Medieval

John of Constantinople (died 839), also known as John the Confessor, was an abbot of the Cathares Monastery, in Constantinople. He clashed with the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Armenian, who was instituting a policy of iconoclasm. John survived torture for his iconodulism.

675–749 · Medieval

John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monast…

1414–1484 · Medieval · Franciscans

John of Dukla (also called "Jan of Dukla") is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of the patron saints of Poland and Lithuania. John was born in Dukla, Poland, in 1414. He joined the Friars Minor Conventual, and studied at Kraków.

900–974 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint John of Gorze (French: Jean de Gorze, also called John of Lorraine) (c. 900 — 7 March 974) was a Lorraine-born monk, diplomat, administrator, and monastic reformer.

791 · Medieval

John of Gothia (Greek: ᾿Ιωάννης ἐπίσκοπος τῆς Γοτθίας, Iōánnēs epískopos tēs Gotthiás; died c. 791 AD) was a Crimean Gothic metropolitan bishop of Doros, and rebel leader who overthrew and briefly expelled the Khazars from Gothia in 787.

1259–1322 · Medieval · Franciscans

John of Fermo, more often called John of La Verna, from his time spent on that mountain (1259 – 10 August 1322) was an Italian Franciscan friar, who was a noted ascetic and preacher. John was born at Fermo in the March of Ancona.

1040–1106 · Medieval · Benedictines

John of Lodi (1025–1106) was an Italian hermit and bishop. John was born in Lodi Vecchio in 1025. In the 1060s he became a hermit at the Camaldolese monastery of Fonte Avellana.

1160–1213 · Medieval · Trinitarian Order

John of Matha, OSsT (23 June 1160 – 17 December 1213) was a French Catholic priest and cofounder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, initially dedicated to ransoming Christians who had been captured by marauders from North Africa.

1100–1159 · Medieval · Order of the Humiliates

John of Meda, Ord.Hum., (1100 – 26 September 1159) also known as John of Como, was an Italian monk of the Humiliati Order and abbot at their monasteries at Milan and Como. He has been declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

1001–1095 · Medieval

Saint John of Montemarano (Montemarano, 11th century – Montemarano, April 14, 1095) was the first bishop of the Diocese of Montemarano and is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1340–1393 · Medieval

John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus) (c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) was a saint of Bohemia. He was executed by King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia for disobedience. John was thrown into the Vltava river.

1208–1289 · Medieval · Franciscans

Giovanni Buralli (5 March 1208 – 19 March 1289), known as John of Parma, was an Italian Franciscan friar, who served as one of the first Ministers General of the Order of Friars Minor (1247–1257). He was also a noted theologian of the period.

876–946 · Medieval

Saint John of Rila, also known as Ivan Rilski (Bulgarian: Свети преподобни Иван Рилски Чудотворец, romanized: Sveti prepodobni Ivan Rilski Chudotvorets, lit. 'Saint John of Rila the Wondermaker'; c. 876 – 18 August 946), was the first Bulgarian hermit.

1293–1381 · Medieval · Canons Regular of Saint Augustine

John of Ruusbroec or Jan van Ruusbroec , sometimes modernized Ruysbroeck, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries.

450–539 · Medieval

Saint John of Réôme (French: Jean de Réôme, Latin: Iohannis Reomaensis; died c. 539) was an early Christian abbot in what is now Moutiers-Saint-Jean in the Côte-d'Or department of France. His feast is on 28 January. John of Réôme was born in Courtangy, France, around 450.

1419–1479 · Medieval · Order of St. Augustine

John of Sahagún, OESA (Spanish: Juan de Sahagún), (c. 1430 – 11 June 1479) was a Spanish Augustinian friar and priest. He was a leading preacher of his day, and was known as a peacemaker and reconciler of enemies among the nobles and factions of Salamanca.

1480 · Medieval

Saint John of Serres was born in Serres and died there in 1480. He is recognized as a saint.

1100–1111 · Medieval · Benedictines

John of Trogir (died before 1111) was the bishop of Trogir, a Christian saint who lived in the 11th century. He was originally a Benedictine monk in the monastery of Saint Peter in Osor, located on the island of Cres.

1084–1170 · Medieval

John of Tufara (Italian: Giovanni da Tufara; Latin: Ioannes de Tuphária) also known as John the Hermit (Italian: Giovanni Eremita; Latin: Ioannes eremítæ; 1084 – 14 November 1170) was an Italian hermit, monastery founder, and saint in the Catholic Church.

1146 · Medieval

John of Valence was a French presbyter who served as a bishop. He died in Valence in 1146 and is recognized as a Catholic saint.

1205–1283 · Medieval · Dominican Order

John of Vercelli (Giovanni da Vercelli) (c. 1205 – 30 November 1283) was the sixth Master General of the Dominican Order (1264-1283). John was born in 1205 to the Garbella family in Mosso Santa Maria in the Province of Biella, in the Piedmont region of Italy.

1065–1130 · Medieval

John I of Warneton, also known as Blessed or Saint John of Warneton, was a Flemish bishop of the former Diocese of Thérouanne. Born in 1065 in Warneton or Bas-Warneton and died on January 27, 1130, in Thérouanne, he was elected by the clergy in 1099 and confirmed by Pope Urban II…

1098–1168 · Medieval

John of the Grating (Latin: Johannes a Craticula, French: Jean de Châtillon; died 1163) was a Cistercian Bishop of Aleth. He moved his episcopal see to Saint-Malo to protect it from pirates. John was born in Brittany in 1098. He was made bishop of Aleth in 1144.

850–901 · Medieval

John the Exarch (also transcribed Joan Ekzarh; Church Slavonic: Їѡаннъ Єѯархъ Bulgarian: Йоан Екзарх) was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning o…

651 · Medieval

John the Good (Latin: Ioannes Bonus, Italian: Giovanni Bono or Buono), also known as John Camillus, was Archbishop of Milan from c. 641 to 669. He is honoured as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.

920–1005 · Medieval

John the Iberian (Georgian: იოანე მთაწმინდელი; died c. 1002) was a Georgian monk, who is venerated as a saint. His name refers to his origins from the Kingdom of the Iberians.

550–619 · Medieval

John V Eleemon (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἐλεήμων, romanized: Iōannēs ho Eleēmōn), also known as John the Almsgiver, John the Almoner, John the Compassionate, or John the Merciful, was the Chalcedonian Patriarch of Alexandria from 606 to 616. He was born in Amathus around 560.

1300–1340 · Medieval

Saint John the New Monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Sfântul Ioan cel Nou) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery in Suceava, Romania. Built between 1514 and 1522, the monastery church is one of eight buildings that make up the churches of Moldavia UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is also…

500–530 · Medieval

John the Prophet, known also as Venerable John, was an eastern christian hermit of the monastery of Seridus and teacher of Dorotheus of Gaza. He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

454–558 · Medieval

John the Silent (c. January 8, 454 – c. 558), also known as "John the Hesychast" (Greek: Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ἡσυχαστής), was a Christian saint known for living alone for seventy-six years. He was given the surname because of his affinity for recollection and silence. St.

1470 · Medieval

Jonah, born John (Russian: Иона, Iona; died November 5, 1470), was a Russian Orthodox archbishop who served as Bishop of Novgorod between 1458 and 1470.

1390–1461 · Medieval

Jonah of Moscow (Russian: Иона, romanized: Iona; died 31 March 1461) was Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1448 until his death in 1461.

1190–1237 · Medieval · Dominican Order

Jordan of Saxony, OP (referred to in Latin as Jordanis, also known as de Alamania; c. 1190 – 1237), was a German Catholic priest and one of the first leaders of the Dominican Order. His feast day is February 13.

884 · Medieval

Saint George of Lodève was a bishop originally from Rouergue, in the vicinity of Rodez. He was first a monk at the Abbey of Sainte-Foy de Conques. He experienced the Norman invasion, which destroyed the monastery.

700–764 · Medieval

Joseph of Freising (died 17 January 764), also known as Joseph of Verona, was Bishop of Freising from 747 or 748 until his death. There is no direct evidence of Joseph's place of origin or place of birth.

816–886 · Medieval

Joseph the Hymnographer (Greek: Όσιος Ιωσήφ ο Υμνογράφος, romanized: Ósios Iosif o Ymnográfos) was a Greek monk of the ninth century. He is regarded as one of the greatest liturgical poets and hymnographers of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

500–600 · Medieval

Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu Stylite and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between the Byzantine Empire and Persians between 502 and 506, and which is generally considered to be one of the earliest and most reli…

990–1016 · Medieval

Jovan Vladimir or John Vladimir (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Владимир; c. 990 – 22 May 1016) was the ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from around 1000 to 1016.

1340–1397 · Medieval · Franciscans

Juan Lorenzo de Cetina (Cetina, 1340 – Granada, May 19, 1397) was an Aragonese Spanish Franciscan friar who died as a martyr in the city of Granada while preaching with his companion Pedro de Dueñas. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

650–700 · Medieval

John of Atarés was a Hispanic hermit of the late 7th century. He is considered a blessed by the Catholic Church, which celebrates his feast day on May 29. In Upper Aragon, he is popularly considered a saint.

1080–1163 · Medieval

Juan de Ortega, better known as Saint John the Hermit (1080 – 1163), was a Spanish priest and hermit. A disciple of Dominic de la Calzada, he is best known for repairing roads and bridges along the Camino de Santiago.

450–523 · Medieval

Saint Jucundus was a Catholic priest and bishop born in 450. He died in Aosta in 523.

950–1000 · Medieval

Judith of Ringelheim (died March 13, 1000) was the abbess of the Ringelheim collegiate foundation. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Judith’s parents were Dietrich of Saxony (died 995) and Friteruna; her brother was Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim.