Celestine V«Caelestinus V / Pietro di Morrone»
(1215–1294)
Founder, Hermit, Pope
Pontificate/Patriarchate:/etc.:(1294–1294)
Orders/Societies Associated with: Benedictines*; Celestines / Moronites**
Place of birth:Kingdom of Sicily†
Place of death:Papal States (State of the Church)††
Feastday
19 May
Canonisation
05/05/1313 by Clemens V
Patronage
Patron of:bookbinders
*Order of Saint Benedict / Ordo Sancti Benedicti [529]
**Hermits of St Damiano / Congregatio Coelestinorum / fratelli di Santo Spirito [1244–1785]
†Regnum Siciliae / Regnu di Sicilia / Regno di Sicilia [1130–1412 / 1806–1816]
††Dicio Pontificia / Patrimonium Sancti Petri (Status Ecclesiasticus) / Stato Pontificio / Patrimonio di San Pietro (Stato della Chiesa) [1177–1798 / 1799–1809 / 1814–1849 / 1850–1870]
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.
Select a saint’s name from the dropdown below to see more details:
Select criteria below and submit the form to see a list of saints that match the criteria:
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