Andrew«Ἀνδρέας / Andreas / אַנדּרֵאוָס / ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ»
(c. 5– 60/70)
Apostle, Martyr
First-Called / Πρωτόκλητος
Place of birth:Herodian Tetrarchy (Galilee & Perea under Tetrarch Herod Antipas)†
Place of death:Province of Achaia (Roman Empire)††
Place(s) associated with:Asia Minor†††; Province of Judaea (Roman Empire)††††
Feastday
30 November
Patronage
Patron of:Amalfi; Barbados†††††; Burgundy††††††; Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire)†††††††; Candaba, Pampanga††††††††; Cyprus†††††††††; Diocese of Parañaque††††††††††; Diocese of Victoria of Vancouver Island†††††††††††; Georgia††††††††††††; Greece†††††††††††††; Luqa††††††††††††††; Manila†††††††††††††††; Masinloc, Zambales††††††††††††††††; Patras†††††††††††††††††; Pienza; Prussia††††††††††††††††††; Romania†††††††††††††††††††; Russia††††††††††††††††††††; San Andrés†††††††††††††††††††††; Sarzana††††††††††††††††††††††; Scotland†††††††††††††††††††††††; Telhado; Ukraine††††††††††††††††††††††††
Patron of:75th Ranger Regiment, butchers, farm workers, fishermen, fishmongers, golfers, miners, pregnant women, rope makers, Russian Navy / Военно-морской флот Российской Федерации, sailors, singers, spinsters, Tables of Authority, textile workers, women who wish to become mothers
Invoked against:afflictions associated with the neck, afflictions associated with the throat, convulsions, fever, gout, whooping cough
†Ηρώδεια Τετραρχία (Γαλιλαία και Περαία υπό τον τετράρχη Ἡρῴδης Ἀντίπας) / התקופה הרומית (אדום, שומרון ויהודה תחת הטטרארך הורדוס אנטיפס) / Herodian tetrarchia (Galilaea et Peraea sub Herode Tetrarches Antipas) [4 BC–39]
††Provincia Achaia (Imperium Romanum) / επαρχίες της Αχαΐας (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [27 BC–293]
†††Μικρὰ Ἀσία
††††פרובינקיה יודיאה (רוימישע אימפעריע) / Provincia Iudaea (Imperium Romanum / (الإمبراطورية الرومانية) مقاطعة يهودا / Ἐπαρχία Ιουδαίας (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [6–132]
†††††Ichirouganaim
††††††Bourgogne / Burgund
†††††††Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία (Ανατολική Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία) / Imperium Romanum (Imperium Romanum Orientale) [330–1453]
††††††††Balen ning Candaba / Bayan ng Candaba / Candawe
†††††††††Kýpros / Kıbrıs
††††††††††Dioecesis Paranaquensis / Diocesis de Paranaque / Diyosesis ng Parañaque
†††††††††††Dioecesis Victoriensis in Insula Vancouver
††††††††††††საქართველო
†††††††††††††Hellás
††††††††††††††Ħal Luqa / Casal Luca
†††††††††††††††Maynila
††††††††††††††††Babali nin Masinloc / Ili ti Masinloc / Bayan ng Masinloc
†††††††††††††††††Πάτρα / Πάτραι / Patrae
††††††††††††††††††Preußen / Prūsija / Prūsija / Prūsa
†††††††††††††††††††România
††††††††††††††††††††Россия / Ρωσία
†††††††††††††††††††††Abicor / Ibaute
††††††††††††††††††††††Sarzann-a
†††††††††††††††††††††††Alba
††††††††††††††††††††††††Ukrayina
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