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(† 303)

Martyr

one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (Vierzehn Nothelfer)

Place of birth:Province of Cappadocia (Roman Empire)^†

Place of death:Province of Syria Palaestina (Diocese of the East) (Roman Empire)^††

Feastday

23 April

Patronage

Patron of:Aragón^†††; Beirut^††††; Province of Cappadocia (Roman Empire); Catalonia^{†††††}; England^{††††††}; Ethiopia^{†††††††}; Ferrara^{††††††††}; Genoa^{†††††††††}; Georgia^{††††††††††}; Germany^{†††††††††††}; Gozo^{††††††††††††}; Greece^{†††††††††††††}; Istanbul^{††††††††††††††}; Kragujevac^{†††††††††††††††}; Lithuania^{††††††††††††††††}; Malta^{†††††††††††††††††}; Moldova; Montenegro^{††††††††††††††††††}; Moscow^{†††††††††††††††††††}; Modica^{††††††††††††††††††††}; Palestine^{†††††††††††††††††††††}; Pettau^{††††††††††††††††††††††}; Portugal^{†††††††††††††††††††††††}; Russia^{††††††††††††††††††††††††}; Serbia^{†††††††††††††††††††††††††}; Svätý Jur^{††††††††††††††††††††††††††}; Venice^{†††††††††††††††††††††††††††}

Patron of:agricultural workers, archers, armourers, Boy Scouts, butchers, cavalry, Crusaders, equestrians, farmers, farmworkers, field workers, firefighters (Brasil), horsemen, husbandmen, husbandry, knights, policemen (Brasil), riders, Rover Scouts, saddle makers, shepherds, soldiers, Teutonic Knights

Petitioned for: health of domestic animals

Invoked against:herpes, leprosy, syphilis

^†Provincia Cappadocia (Imperium Romanum) / ἐπαρχία Καππαδοκίας (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) / ܩܦܘܕܩܝܐ / Katpatuka / Կապադովկիայի նահանգ (Հռոմէական կայսրութիւն) [18–314]

^††Provincia Syria Palaestina (Dioecēsis Orientis) (Imperium Romanum) / Ἐπαρχία Συρίας τῆς Παλαιστίνης (Ἑῴα Διοίκησις) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [297–390]

^†††Aragó

^††††بيروت / Beyrouth / Βηρυτός

^{†††††}Catalunya / Cataluña / Catalonha / Cathalaunia

^{††††††}Englaland / Engla londe / Sasunn / Lloegr

^{†††††††}የኢትዮጵያ / Αἰθιοπία / Abyssinia / አቢሲኒያ / الحبشة

^{††††††††}Fràra

^{†††††††††}Genova / Zena

^{††††††††††}საქართველო

^{†††††††††††}Deutschland

^{††††††††††††}Għawdex / Γαῦλος / Gaudos

^{†††††††††††††}Hellás

^{††††††††††††††}İstanbul / Βυζάντιον / Νέα Ῥώμη / Nova Roma / Constantinopolis / εἰς τὴν Πόλιν / Κωνσταντινούπολις / قسطنطينيه

^{†††††††††††††††}Крагујевац

^{††††††††††††††††}Lietuva

^{†††††††††††††††††}Μελίτη / Melita / مالطا

^{††††††††††††††††††}Crna Gora

^{†††††††††††††††††††}Москва

^{††††††††††††††††††††}Muòrica

^{†††††††††††††††††††††}Παλαιστίνη / Palaestina / فِلَسْطِينَ‎ / פלשתינה / Peleset / Palashtu or Pilistu

^{††††††††††††††††††††††}Ptuj / Poetovium / Poetovio

^{†††††††††††††††††††††††}Lusitania / Hispania Gallaecia

^{††††††††††††††††††††††††}Россия / Ρωσία

^{†††††††††††††††††††††††††}Srbija

^{††††††††††††††††††††††††††}Sankt Georgen / Szentgyörgy / Jur pri Bratislave

^{†††††††††††††††††††††††††††}Venezia / Venesia

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:

Saints.SQPN.com

Santi, beati e testimoni - Enciclopedia dei Santi

Santi e beati della Toscana

eCatholicHub Catholic Saints Database

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

Martyrologium Romanum - Index Generalis

www.synaxaristis - ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ

Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes)

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Database Home

focal.ie - Dictionary of Irish Terms - Foclóir Téarmaíochta

logainm.ie - Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland

Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia