John of the Cross«Juan de la Cruz / Ioannes a Cruce / Juan de Yepes y Álvarez»

(1542–1591)
Co-Founder, Mystic, Priest
Doctor of the Church
Orders/Societies Associated with: Carmelites*; Discalced Carmelites**
Place of birth:Kingdom of Castile (Crown of Castile)
Place of death:Kingdom of Jaén (Crown of Castile)††
Feastday
14 December
Beatification
25/01/1675 by Clemens X
Canonisation
27/12/1726 by Benedictus XIII
Patronage
Patron of:poets
*Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel / Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo [12th cent.]
**Order of the Discalced Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel / Ordo Fratrum Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo [1562]
Reino de Castilla (Corona de Castilla) / Regnum Castellae (Corona Castellae) [1065–1715]
††Reino de Jaén (Corona de Castilla) [1246–1833]

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