Francesco Caracciolo«Ascanio dei Caracciolo Pisquizi»

(1563–1608)
Co-Founder, Priests
Place of birth:Kingdom of Naples (Spanish viceroyalty)
Place of death:Rome (Papal States)††
Feastday
4 June
Beatification
04/06/1789 by Clemens XIV
Canonisation
24/05/1807 by Pius VII
Patronage
Patron of:Naples†††
Patron of:Italian cooks
Regnum Neapolitanum (vicarius Regis Hispaniae) / Regno di Napoli (vicereame spagnolo) / Regno ‘e Napule (viceregno spagnuolo) / Reino de Nápoles (Virreinato español) [1503–1714]
††Roma (Dicio Pontificia) / Roma (Stato Pontificio) [756–1798 / 1799–1809 / 1814–1849 / 1849–1870]
†††Napoli / Napule / Παρθενόπη / Νεάπολις /

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