Stanisław Kostka«Stanislaus Kostka»
(1550–1568)
Novice
Orders/Societies Associated with: Jesuits*
Place of birth:Kingdom of Poland (Crown of the Kingdom of Poland)†
Place of death:Rome (Papal States)††
Feastday
13 November
Beatification
19/10/1605 by Paulus V
Canonisation
31/12/1726 by Benedictus XIII
Patronage
Patron of:Ateneo de Manila Junior High School; Poland†††; Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston, Texas
Patron of:Jesuit novices, sufferers from broken bones, young people
*Society of Jesus / Societas Iesu / Jesusen Lagundia / Compañía de Jesús [1540]
†Królestwo Polskie (Korona Królestwa Polskiego) / Regnum Poloniae (Corona Regni Poloniae) [1385–1569]
††Roma (Dicio Pontificia) / Roma (Stato Pontificio) [756–1798 / 1799–1809 / 1814–1849 / 1849–1870]
†††Polska
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