Anthony the Abbot«Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓ / Αντώνιος ο Μέγας / Antonius abbas / القديس أنطونيوس الكبير»
(251–356)
Anchorite
one of the Four Holy Marshals (Vier Marschälle Gottes), Renewer of the Church (Lutheran Book of Worship)
Place of birth:Province of Egypt (Roman Empire)†
Place of death:Province of Thebais (The Thebaid) (Diocese of the East) (Romain Empire)††
Place(s) associated with:Monastery of Saint Anthony†††; Mount Colzim††††; Saint Antoine l'Abbaye†††††
Feastday
17 January
Patronage
Patron of:Cologne††††††; Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy†††††††
Patron of:animals, basket makers, brush makers, butchers, domestic animals, farmers, gravediggers, herdsmen, motorists, pets, pigs, swineherds, the poor
Invoked against:afflictions associated with the skin, eczema, ergotism {St. Anthony's fire}, plague
†Provincia Aegypti (Imperium Romanum) / Ἐπαρχία Αἰγύπτου (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [30 BC– 270 / 273–297]
††Provincia Thebais (Thebaid) (Dioecēsis Orientis) (Imperium Romanum) / ἐπαρχία Θηβαΐς (Θηβαΐδος) (Διοίκησις Ἑῴα) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [c. 304–c. 380]
†††دير الأنبا أنطونيوس / Μοναστήρι του Αγίου Αντωνίου [300– ]
††††Inner Mountain of Saint Anthony / Κλῦσμα / ⲡⲉⲕⲗⲟⲩⲥⲙⲁ / القلزم
†††††Saint-Antoine-en-Viennois [1095–1903]
††††††Köln / Kölle
†††††††Pontificia Ecclesiastica Academia /Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia