Anthony Fantosati«Antonino Fantosati / 范懷德»
(1842–1900)
Bishop, Martyr, Missionary, Vicar Apostolic (of Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Hunan†)
Orders/Societies Associated with: Franciscans*
Place of birth:Papal States (State of the Church)††
Place of death:China (Great Qing)†††
Feastday
7 July
Beatification
24/11/1946 by Pius XII
Canonisation
01/10/2000 by Ioannes Paulus II
*Orders of Friars Minor / Ordo Fratrum Minorum / Frati Minori [1209]
†Vicariatus Apostolicus Hunanensis Meridionalis / 宗座代 湖南南境 [1879–1924]
††Dicio Pontificia / Patrimonium Sancti Petri (Status Ecclesiasticus) / Stato Pontificio / Patrimonio di San Pietro (Stato della Chiesa) [1177–1798 / 1799–1809 / 1814–1849 / 1850–1870]
†††中国 (大清 / ᡩᠠᡳ᠌ᠴᡳᠩ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ) [1644–1912]
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