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1768–1840 · Modern

Saint Anthony Nguyễn Hữu Quỳnh (born c. 1768 in Mỹ Hương, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam; died July 10, 1840, in Đồng Hới, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam) was a martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church.

1769–1838 · Modern

Saint Anthony Nguyễn Đích (Vietnamese: Antôn Nguyễn Đích) (born c. 1769 in Chi Long, Vietnam; died August 12, 1838, in Bảy Mẫu, Vietnam) was a martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church. Anthony Nguyễn Đích was born in Chi Long.

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Anthony the Confessor was an Orthodox clergyman, a metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and a saint. Anthony was a prominent participant in the second period of the Iconoclast schism, during which he supported the veneration of icons.

1424–1494 · Medieval

Antonio dell'Aquila, born Antonio Torriani or della Torre (c. 1424 – July 24, 1494), was an Italian religious figure. A priest of the Order of Saint Augustine, his cult as a blessed was confirmed by Pope Clement XIII in 1769.

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Anthusa of North Africa is one of the Catholic martyrs brutally killed by the Vandals in the 5th century, during the reign of the Arian king Huneric. She was burned alive. Her story was recorded by Bishop Victor of Vita. She has been venerated as a saint since ancient times.

1764–1794 · Modern

Antoine Auriel-Constant, born in Manobre (in the modern-day commune of Sainte-Mondane) in Guyenne on April 19, 1764, and died on June 16, 1794, on the prison ships of Rochefort, was a priest for the Diocese of Cahors and was martyred during the Reign of Terror.

1906–1945 · Contemporary

Antoine Charmet, born on December 26, 1906, in Saint-Martin-la-Plaine and died on April 2, 1945, in Buchenwald, was a French Catholic priest and a victim of Nazism.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Antolín Calvo y Calvo, C.M.F. (Gumiel de Mercado, September 2, 1912 – Barbastro, August 13, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1901–1945 · Contemporary

Anton Granig (born September 17, 1901, in Mitten im Mölltal, municipality of Großkirchheim, Carinthia; died April 15, 1945, in Stein an der Donau) was an Austrian priest and resistance fighter against National Socialism.

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Anthony of Martkopi (Georgian: ანტონ მარტყოფელი) (died 6th century) was a Christian monastic saint. According to hagiography, he came from Syria.

1921–1948 · Contemporary

Anton Muzaj (born March 19, 1921, in Vërnakolla, in present-day Kosovo; died spring 1948 in Shkodër; Croatian: Anton Muzić) was a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested and tortured for his faith in atheist Albania under the Enver Hoxha regime.

1902–1946 · Contemporary

Anton Zogaj (born 1902, or according to other sources 1905 or July 26, 1908, in Kthella, Mirdita; died 1946, or according to another source 1948, in Durrës) was an Albanian Roman Catholic priest who was shot for his faith under the communist regime.

1772–1858 · Modern · Congregation of the Schools of Charity

Antonio Angelo Cavanis (Venice, January 16, 1772 – Venice, March 12, 1858) was an Italian priest and educator, founder of the Congregation of the Schools of Charity. The Catholic Church has bestowed upon him the title of Venerable.

1885–1936 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Antonio María Martín Hernández, S.D.B. (born July 18, 1885, in La Calzada de Béjar; died December 10, 1936, in Picadero de Paterna, Salamanca province) was a Spanish Salesian priest, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution who is honored as a…

1870–1936 · Contemporary

Antonia Gosens Saez de Ibarra de San Timoteo (born January 17, 1870, died November 24, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. Coming from a religious family, she felt a calling to religious life and joined the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

1907–2008 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Antonietta Böhm, born in Bottrop, Germany, on September 23, 1907, and died in Mexico on April 27, 2008, was a German Catholic religious sister of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. A missionary in Latin America for 74 years, she was particularly devoted to the poor.

473 · Early Church

Antonin of Carpentras was born in the early 5th century. Drawn to the monastic life, he became a monk at the Abbey of Lérins and was later elevated to the episcopal see of the city of Carpentras (Vaucluse, France), in the Comtat Venaissin. He died in 473.

250 · Early Church

Antonin was born around the middle of the 3rd century. A Christian during the time of the persecutions, he was arrested and martyred alongside other companions—Zebinas, Nicephorus, Germanus, and Saint Manathas (or Ennathas)—in Caesarea, Palestine, under the Roman emperor Galerius…

1918–1930 · Contemporary

Antônio da Rocha Marmo (São Paulo, October 19, 1918 – São Paulo, December 21, 1930), known as "Antoninho," was a Catholic child from São Paulo who was attributed with the gift of predicting future events.

671 · Medieval

Antonin of Milan was Archbishop of Milan in Lombardy during the 7th century, serving from 669 until his presumed death on October 31, 671, or according to some controversial historians, as early as 661. Antonin of Milan was recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

300–400 · Early Church

Antonin of Apamea lived in the 3rd century. He worked as a stonemason. While the Roman Empire was persecuting Christianity, he was tortured and martyred in Apamea, Syria, for participating in the construction of a Christian place of worship and for refusing to sculpt Roman deitie…

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Antonio Arribas Hortigüela (born April 29, 1908, in Cardeñadijo; died September 29, 1936, in Serinyà) was a Spanish religious of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, a martyr for the faith, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Antonio Dalmau Rosich, C.M.F. (Miralcamp, October 4, 1912 – Barbastro, August 13, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1892–1936 · Contemporary

Antonio Silvestre Moya (born October 26, 1892, in Olleria; died August 8, 1936, in El Salter) was a Spanish Catholic priest and a blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born on October 26, 1892, and was baptized the same day.

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Antonio Sáez de Ybarra López de Arcaute, O.F.M., born Ruperto (Hijona, Álava, March 25, 1914 – Azuaga, Badajoz, September 22, 1936), was a Spanish blessed and martyr.

1817–1851 · Modern

Antonio Vicente González Suárez (Agüimes, April 5, 1817 – Las Palmas, June 22, 1851) was a Spanish diocesan priest. Pope Francis approved the decree recognizing his heroic virtues on December 22, 2020, and he is recognized as venerable, a preliminary step toward beatification.

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Antonio de Jesús y María, born Juan Antonio Salútregui y Uribarren (Guernica, February 5, 1902 – Alcázar de San Juan, July 26, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

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Saint Antidius (born ?, died c. 411) was a Catholic saint, Bishop of Besançon, and martyr. The biography of this saint, written many years after his death, was based on undocumented legends.

1883–1942 · Contemporary · Teutonic Order

Anselm Leo Polák (April 8, 1883, Dolní Životice – October 17, 1942, Jasenovac concentration camp, Gradina Donja, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, then the Independent State of Croatia) was a Catholic priest, a member of the Teutonic Order, and a martyr of Nazi totalitarianism.

1505–1622 · Reformation · Franciscans

Apollinaire Franco, or Apollinaire of Japan, was a Franciscan priest born in Aguilar de Campoo in Old Castile (Spain) around 1570. He was burned alive in Omura, Japan, in 1622 for failing to comply with the 1614 order issued by the shoguns for Catholic missionaries to leave the c…

1739–1792 · Modern · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Apollinaire Morel, born on June 12, 1739, in Prez-vers-Noréaz and died on September 2, 1792, in Paris, was a Swiss Capuchin. He was a martyr of the French Revolution and is recognized as blessed by the Catholic Church.

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Apollonius lived in the 4th century. Canonized by the Orthodox Church, he is liturgically celebrated on January 21, the date of his martyrdom. Apollonius was an anchorite in the Thebaid.

1867–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Charity

Apolonia Lizárraga Ochoa de Zabalegui (18 April 1867 – 8 September 1936), known in religion as Mother Apolonia of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Carmelite nun and superior of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity.

321 · Early Church

Saint Aprius of Rome, better known by the nickname The Holy Child, was a catechumen boy martyred in the year 321. According to Christian belief, his body remained incorrupt for fifteen centuries and was coated in wax, although some believe it is a wax sculpture and does not conta…

1165 · Medieval

Arcady of Novgorod (died 1163) was Bishop of Novgorod and the successor of Niphon, as well as the first bishop elected by the city's veche. His feast days are September 18 (dormition) and February 10 (Synaxis of the Bishops of Novgorod).

740 · Medieval

Arcontius (died Viviers, 8th century) was Bishop of Viviers in the second half of the 8th century and is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Information about this Bishop of Viviers is scarce.

303 · Early Church

Aristeus (died c. 303) was a hieromartyr and Bishop of Capua. His feast day is July 2. Saint Aristeus is often identified with Agrestius Chromatius, who served as a Roman prefect in the 280s. In 286, he moved from Rome to Sinuessa and was subsequently appointed Bishop of Capua.

284 · Early Church

Ariston (died c. 284) was a martyr from Campania. His feast day is July 2. Saint Ariston suffered alongside Crescentian, Futychian, Urban, Vitalis, Justus, Felicissimus, Felix, Marcia, and Symphorosa in Campania, in southern Italy, during the persecutions of Diocletian.

750 · Medieval

Arnoul of Mouzon (born and died at an unknown date in the 8th century) was, according to tradition, an obscure pilgrim who was murdered by brigands, buried, and forgotten. It was the miracles surrounding his tomb and relics that convinced the Church of his sanctity.

500–535 · Medieval

Arnoul of Yvelines (Arnoult, Arnoul, or Arnulfus), known as Saint Arnoult, is a legendary saint who is said to have been Bishop of Tours. The burial site attributed to him became the village where he is honored, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines.

1833–1905 · Contemporary

Arsenia, born Anna Gavrilovna Dobronravova, and known in the great schema as Thomaisa (born 1879 in Shagarskoye, died January 23, 1939, in Ivanovo), was a Russian Orthodox nun and a holy new martyr.

810–904 · Medieval

Arsenius of Armo (Reggio Calabria, 810 – Armo, 904) was a Basilian monk who lived in the 9th century. The events of his life are known through the Bios of Saint Elias the Speleot, who was his disciple and companion until his death.

1410 · Medieval

Bishop Arsenius (died March 2, 1409, Tver) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Tver, and author of the oldest recension of the Kiev Caves Patericon (the Arsenian recension).

320–396 · Early Church

Artemius, also known as Saint Artemius (in Latin: Artemius), was the sixth bishop of Clermont in the 4th century. Through his daughter Arthemia, he is also the ancestor of Saint Rusticus of Lyon. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Arturo Ros Montalt (born October 26, 1901; died August 28, 1936) was a blessed of the Catholic Church. On November 26, 1927, he married Mary Llopis Sirer, and six children were born from this union. He founded the Catholic Action Center.

350–412 · Early Church

Asturio Anulino Serrano (Villaseca de la Sagra, 4th century – Complutum, c. 412) was a bishop of the Diocese of Toletum (395–412) and the first bishop of the Diocese of Complutum (412–). He is venerated as a saint by several Christian denominations.

1911–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Atanasio Vidaurreta Labra (Adiós, May 2, 1911 – Barbastro, August 18, 1936) was a Spanish religious, martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

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Saint Athanasius, of unknown birth and death date and place, is according to tradition the first bishop of Zaragoza, serving from the year 39 until 59, when he was martyred near the city by troops of Nero who had come in search of him.

451 · Early Church

Athanasius (Jerusalem?, 5th century – 451 or 452) was a deacon of Jerusalem who was killed for defending the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon. He is venerated as a saint by the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.

1176 · Medieval

Athanasius of the Kiev Caves, also known as Athanasius the Recluse (died c. 1176), was an Orthodox saint and a monk of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Information about his life is scarce and comes primarily from his biography in the Kiev Caves Patericon.