Maria Skobtsova«Mother Maria of Paris / Мать Мария / Елизавета Юрьевна Пиленко Кузьмина-Караваева Скобцова»

(1891–1945)
Martyr, Nun
Passion Bearer / страстотéрпец / Страстоте́рпець / Паку́тнік / страстаце́рпец, Righteous Among the Nations / חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם (Yad Vashem / יָד וַשֵׁם)
Place of birth:Russian Empire (Imperial Russia)
Place of death:Ravensbrück Concentration Camp††
Place(s) associated with:Latvia†††
Feastday
20 July
Canonisation
01/05/2004 by Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαῖος
Россійская Имперія (Российская Империя) [1721–1917]
††KZ Ravensbrück / Frauen-KZ Ravensbrück / Konzentrazioonslaager Ravensbrück [1939–1945]
†††Latvija / Lețmō / Latveja / Ла́твия

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