Mark the Evangelist«Iohannes Marcus Evangelista »

(c. 12–c. 68)
Place of birth:Province of Crete and Cyrenaica (Roman Empire)
Place of death:Province of Egypt (Roman Empire)††
Place(s) associated with:Libya†††
Feastday
25 April
Patronage
Patron of:Commonwealth of Australia††††; Egypt†††††; Venice††††††
Patron of:cattle breeders, lantern makers, notaries
Provincia Creta et Cyrenae (Imperium Romanum) / Ἐπαρχία Κρήτης καὶ Κυρήνης (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων (67 BC–c. 297)
††Provincia Aegypti (Imperium Romanum) / Ἐπαρχία Αἰγύπτου (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [30 BC– 270 / 273–297]
†††ليبيا / Λιβύη
††††[1901– ]
†††††Kemet [kuːmat] / ⲭⲏⲙⲓ / ⲕⲏⲙⲉ / Χημία / مصر / Αἴγυπτος / / Mu-ṣur / מִצְרַיִם
††††††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:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia