Francis Borgia«Francesc de Borja i d'Arag, duc de Gandia / Francisco de Borja y Trastámara, duque de Gandía»
(1510–1572)
Priest, Widower
Orders/Societies Associated with: Jesuits*
Place of birth:Kingdom of Valencia (Crown of Aragon)†
Place of death:Rome (Papal States)††
Feastday
10 October
Beatification
23/11/1694 by Urbanus VIII
Canonisation
20/06/1670 by Clemens X
Patronage
Patron of:Gandia†††; Portugal††††; Rota (Mariana Islands)†††††
Invoked against:earthquakes
*Society of Jesus / Societas Iesu / Jesusen Lagundia / Compañía de Jesús [1540]
†Regne de València (Corona d'Aragó) / Reino de Valencia (Corona de Aragón) / Regnum Valentiae (Corona Aragonum) [1164 – 1700]
††Roma (Dicio Pontificia) / Roma (Stato Pontificio) [756–1798 / 1799–1809 / 1814–1849 / 1849–1870]
†††Gandía
††††Lusitania / Hispania Gallaecia
†††††Luta (Manislan Mariånas)
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