Doctor of the Church · December 4
St. John of Damascus
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.
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Priest / Deacon · December 5
St. Sabbas the Sanctified
Sabas , in Church parlance Saint Sabas or Sabbas the Sanctified , was a Cappadocian Greek monk, priest, grazer and saint, who was born in Cappadocia and lived mainly in Palaestina Prima.
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Doctor of the Church · December 14
St. John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 38 Doctors of the Church.
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Doctor of the Church · September 17
St. Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen , also known as the "Sibyl of the Rhine", was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic…
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Doctor of the Church · December 21
St. Peter Canisius
Peter Canisius was a Dutch Jesuit priest known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland and the British Isles.
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Religious · October 16
St. Gerard Majella
Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Monastic / Hermit · February 1
St. Brigid of Kildare
Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland is the patroness saint of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with Patrick and Columba.
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Priest / Deacon · June 9
St. Columba
Columba or Colmcille was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission in what became Scotland.
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Bishop · August 31
St. Aidan of Lindisfarne
Aidan of Lindisfarne was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria.
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Monastic / Hermit · January 12
St. Benedict Biscop
Benedict Biscop , also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory .
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Martyr · August 5
St. Oswald of Northumbria
Oswald was King of Northumbria from 634 until his death, and is venerated as a saint, of whom there was a particular cult in the Middle Ages.
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Monastic / Hermit · July 12
St. John Gualbert
Giovanni Gualberto was an Italian Roman Catholic abbot and the founder of the Vallumbrosan Order.
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