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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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

860–921 · Medieval

Ludmila of Bohemia (c. 860 – 15 September 921) is a Czech saint and martyr venerated by Catholic and Orthodox Christians. She was born in Mělník as the daughter of the Sorbian prince Slavibor.

509 · Medieval

Saint-Lunaire is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Fantastic viewpoints on the Pointe du Décollé, hill of La Garde Guérin and the Pointe du Nick.

500–548 · Medieval

Saint Lycerius (sometimes also Glycerius; French: Saint Lizier; Catalan: Sant Lliceri) (died 548) was a bishop of Couserans in the late 5th and 6th centuries. Bishop Glycerius is recorded as having attended the Council of Agde in 506.

550 · Medieval

Machar was a 6th-century Irish Saint active in Scotland. A Bishop of Irish origin, Machar is said to have been a former nobleman, baptized by St Colman. He came to Iona with Columba and preached in Mull and later ministered to the Picts around Aberdeen.

1094–1148 · Medieval · Benedictines

Malachy (1094 – 2 November 1148) is an Irish saint who was Archbishop of Armagh, to whom were attributed several miracles and an alleged vision of 112 popes later attributed to the apocryphal (i.e. of doubtful authenticity) Prophecy of the Popes.

490–588 · Medieval · Benedictines

Marculf (in French Marcoult, Marcouf, Marcoul or Marcou) (d. 558) was the abbot at Nantus in the Cotentin. He is regarded as a saint and is associated with the healing of scrofula. Marculf was born in the Saxon colony of Bayeux around AD 500.

500 · Medieval

Saint Materiana (also spelled Madrun, Madryn, Merteriana, Merthiana, and other variations) is a Welsh saint, patron of two churches in Cornwall and one in Wales. The name Materiana was corrupted to "Marcelliana" in medieval times.

401–600 · Medieval · Benedictines

Maudez is a Breton saint who lived in the 5th or 6th century. He is also known as Maudé, Maudet (Breton French), Maodez or Modez (Breton), Maudetus (Latin), Mandé (French) and Mawes (in Cornwall). In the Breton calendar his feast is 18 November.

512–584 · Medieval · Benedictines

Maurus, OSB (French: Maur; Italian: Mauro) (512–584) was an Italian Catholic monk best known as the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia. He is mentioned in Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate, offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a y…

447–515 · Medieval

Saint Maxentius (c. 445 – c. 515; French: Saint Maxence, Maixent) was born in Agde, France, and originally had the name Adjutor. Adjutor attended the local monastery school where he was greatly influenced the Abbot Severus, and became a monk in the abbey.

1130–1196 · Medieval · Augustinians

Saint Meinhard (1134 or 1136 – August 14 or October 11, 1196) was a German Augustinian canon regular and the first bishop of Livonia. His life was described in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry.

565–620 · Medieval

Saint Mirin who was born around 565, is also known as Mirren of Benchor (now called Bangor), Merinus, Merryn and Meadhrán. The patron saint of Paisley, Renfrewshire in Scotland and of the Roman Catholic diocese of Paisley, he was the founder of a religious community which grew to…

501 · Medieval

St Modan was the son of an Irish chieftain. He became a monk and built a chapel at Dryburgh, Scotland, in 522 which he used as a base for several years. This later became the site of a monastery: Dryburgh Abbey.

550–648 · Medieval

Saint Modoald, also known as Romoald, was the Frankish archbishop of Trier from 626 to 645. He is the patron saint of the Reichsabtei Helmarshausen and his liturgical feast is on 12 May. Modoald was born in Aquitaine, the son of Arnulf, later Bishop of Metz.

550–614 · Medieval

Kentigern (Welsh: Cyndeyrn Garthwys; Latin: Kentigernus), known as Mungo, was a missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow.

635 · Medieval

Saint Fintán, or Munnu (died 635) is one of the saints of Ireland and Britain who served in Ireland and Scotland, being the founder and abbot of the abbey at Teach-Mhunn (The House of Saint Munn), where his bed may be visited and is a pilgrimage site; today Taghmon is in the Coun…

700–700 · Medieval · Benedictines

Saint Mederic or Medericus, also known in French as Saint Merri or Médéric (died 29 August 700), was a monk and a hermit, who is considered patron saint of the right bank of the river Seine in central Paris.

600 · Medieval

Namadia (French: Namadie) was the wife of Calminius, with whom she is venerated as a Christian saint. On her husband's death in the 6th or 7th century she retired until her death to the monastic community at Marsat, which later became a dependent house of Mozac Abbey 2 kilometres…

830–910 · Medieval

Naum (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Свети Наум, romanized: Sveti Naum), also known as Naum of Ohrid or Naum of Preslav (c. 830 – December 23, 910), was a medieval Bulgarian writer and missionary among the Slavs, considered one of the Seven Apostles of the First Bulgarian Empire.

930–998 · Medieval

Nikon the "Metanoite" (Greek: Νίκων ὁ Μετανοεῖτε, Nikon ho Metanoeite (Nikon "Repent!" ); born circa 930, died 26 November, 998) was a Byzantine monk, itinerant preacher, and saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

550 · Medieval

Saint Vouga (or Vougar, Vaughe, Vauge, Vorech, Vie; died 585) was an Irish priest who moved to Brittany, now in France. He attempted to live as a hermit, but could not avoid people who came to him for cures, drawn by his reputation.

680–726 · Medieval

Saint Oda of Scotland (c. 680 – c. 726) was a woman, supposedly of Scottish origin, who became a holy recluse in the Netherlands. Her feast day is 23 October. Oda was born blind and her father sent her on pilgrimage to Liège to visit the relics of Saint Lambert.

501–601 · Medieval

Saint Pardus (Italian: San Pardo; 6th century - 7th century) is a Roman Catholic saint associated with Larino in Italy. Larino Cathedral is dedicated to him. There is some disagreement about the life of Saint Pardus.

850 · Medieval

Saint Paul of Latrus (or Paul of Latra; died c. 956) was a Greek hermit. His feast day is 20 December. Saint Paul of Latrus spent most of his religious life as a hermit on Mount Latrus near the city of Miletus in Caria (now western Turkey).

900–900 · Medieval

Paul of Xeropotamou (Ancient Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Ξηροποταμινός) was a Byzantine ascetic, lived between the 9th and the 10th century on Mount Athos, where he also restored and founded monasteries. He is commemorated in the Orthodox Church and his feast day is on 28 July.

1001–1052 · Medieval

Peter the Hermit (c. 1050 – 8 July 1115 or 1131), also known as Little Peter, Peter of Amiens (French: Pierre d'Amiens) or Peter of Achères (French: Pierre d'Achères), was a Roman Catholic priest of Amiens and a key figure during the military expedition from France to Jerusalem i…