Pio da Pietrelcina«Padre Pio / Francesco Forgione»

(1887–1968)
Friar, Visionary
Orders/Societies Associated with: Capuchins {Order of Friars Minor Capuchin}
Place of birth:Kingdom of Italy1
Place of death:Italian Republic2
Place(s) associated with:Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Santuario di San Pio da Pietrelcina3
Feastday
23 September
Beatification
02/05/1999 by Ioannes Paulus II
Canonisation
16/06/2002 by Ioannes Paulus II
Patronage
Patron of:Pietrelcina4
Patron of:adolescents, civil defense volunteers
Petitioned for: stress relief
Invoked against:January blues, New Year's blues
1Regno d'Italia [1861–1946]
2Repubblica Italiana / Republega Italiana / Repùblica Italiana / República Italian-a / Ripùbblica Tàliana / repóblica italiâna / repùbbrica italiànn-a / Repubbreca italiana / Repùblega Itałiana [1946– ]
3Santuario di san Pio
4Pretapucìna

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