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Communion of saints

Saints

Who they were, when they are celebrated, and when Catholics ask for their prayers. Patronages vary by country, diocese and devotion.

Church teaching

Why ask the saints to pray for us?

Saints do not replace God and have no power of their own. Asking for their intercession means asking those already united with God to pray for us — as we would ask a friend. All grace comes from God; a saint is an intercessor, an example and a companion on the way.

Saint N., pray for me to God.Not: Saint N., grant me this miracle by your own power.

CCC 956; CCC 2683

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Saints around the world

65 saints
Saints around the world
Saint Ignatius of AntiochSaint Polycarp of SmyrnaSaint ScholasticaSaint DominicSaint Joan of ArcSaint John of the CrossSaint Bernadette SoubirousSaint Hildegard of BingenSaint Carlo AcutisSaint Pier Giorgio FrassatiSaint José Gregorio HernándezSaint Bartolo LongoSaint Ignatius Choukrallah MaloyanSaint Peter To RotSaint Vincenza Maria PoloniSaint María Carmen Rendiles MartínezSaint Maria TroncattiSaint Teresa of CalcuttaSaint John Paul IISaint John XXIIISaint Paul VISaint Óscar RomeroSaint Charles de FoucauldSaints Louis and Zélie MartinSaint José Sánchez del RíoSaint JosephSaint Anthony of Padua (of Lisbon)Saint Francis of AssisiSaint Clare of AssisiSaint Benedict of NursiaSaint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)Saint Rita of CasciaSaint Jude ThaddeusSaint ExpeditusSaint Thérèse of the Child Jesus (of Lisieux)Saint Teresa of Jesus (of Ávila)Saint Faustina KowalskaSaint Augustine of HippoSaint MonicaSaint John BoscoSaint Dominic SavioSaint Thomas AquinasSaint Joseph of CupertinoSaint Luke the EvangelistSaint Camillus de LellisSaint Peregrine LaziosiSaint BlaiseSaint AgathaSaint LucySaint Gianna Beretta MollaSaint PeterSaint Paul the ApostleSaint John the EvangelistSaint Mary MagdaleneSaint StephenSaint GeorgeSaint SebastianSaint BarbaraSaint Maximilian Maria KolbeSaint Ignatius of LoyolaSaint Francis XavierSaint Catherine of SienaSaint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)Saint Vincent de Paul

The first centuries

Saints of our times

The best-known saints

Health and healing

The archangels

Apostles and the New Testament

Courage, protection and hardship

Mission, charity and discernment

Our Lady — one Mary, many titles

Our Lady of Fátima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, Aparecida, Mount Carmel or Sorrows are not different Marys: they are titles of the same Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, linked to events, places or aspects of her mission.

Some feasts are universal; others belong to national, diocesan or religious-order calendars. Dates marked “traditional” are devotional, not in the General Roman Calendar.