Agnes of Assisi«Agnese di Assisi »
(1197–1253)
Nun
Orders/Societies Associated with: Poor Clares / Clarisses / Order of Poor Ladies*
Place of birth:Duchy of Spoleto (Kingdom of Italy / Imperial Italy)†
Place of death:City-state of Assisi / Signoria of Assisi††
Feastday
16 November
Canonisation
22/05/2024 by Benedictus XIV
*Order of St. Clare / Franciscan Clarist Order / Second Order of Saint Francis / Ordo Sanctae Clarae [1212]
†Ducatus Spolitanorum (Regnum Italiae / Italia Imperiale) / Ducato di Spoleto (Regno d'Italia / Italia imperiale) [855–1201]
††Comune di Assisi / Signoria cittadina di Assisi [1198–1542]
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