Saints

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Introduction

"The Church . . . is held, as a matter of faith, to be unfailingly holy. This is because Christ, the Son of God, who with the Father and the Spirit is hailed as 'alone holy,' loved the Church as his Bride, giving himself up for her so as to sanctify her; he joined her to himself as his body and endowed her with the gift of the Holy Spirit for the glory of God."289 The Church, then, is "the holy People of God,"290 and her members are called "saints."291 (CCC 823)

By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God's grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness within her and sustains the hope of believers by proposing the saints to them as models and intercessors.303 "The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history."304 Indeed, "holiness is the hidden source and infallible measure of her apostolic activity and missionary zeal."305 (CCC 828)

This is not an exhausted list of saints.

Parish Patron Saint

St. Blase
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Joseph
St. Nicholas
St. Patrick
St. Therese of the Child Jesus
St. Mark
St. Philip
St. James
St. John
St. Luke
St. Matthew
St. Andrew
St. Peter
St. Catherine of Siena
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
St. Martin of Tours
St. John Bosco
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
St. Isadore
St. John the Baptist

Parish Patron Saint
St. Augustine (Diocese of Superior patron)
Venerable Solanus Casey (from Wisconsin)
Mary, Mother of God

• Our Lady of Sorrows
• Our Lady of the Rosary
• Our Lady of Lourdes
• Our Lady of Fatima
• Our Lady of Guadalupe
• Our Lady of Czestochowa

St. Jude
St. Martin de Porres
St. Francis Xavier
St. John Neumann
St. Agnes
St. Paul
St. Peter Claver
St. Vincent de Paul
St. Teresa of Jesus
St. Margaret Mary Alocoque
St. Isaac Jogues and Companions
St. Simon
St. Paul Miki and Companions
St. Louise de Marillac
St. Philip Neri
St. Joan of Arc
St. John Vianney

Parish Patron Saint
St. Augustine (Diocese of Superior patron)
Venerable Solanus Casey (from Wisconsin)
St. Katharine Drexel
St. Rose of Lima
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Anthony of Padua
St. Edith Stein
St. Gregory the Great
St. Jerome
St. Bernadette D St. Juan Diego D St. Pius X
St. Teresa of Avila
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Blessed Maria Romero Meneses
Blessed Vasil Hopko
St. Josemaria Excriva de Balaguer
Blessed Cyprian
St. John XXIII
Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Santiago
Blessed Faustina Kowalska
St. John Calabria
St. Josephine Bakhita
St. Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
St. Pio da Pietrelcina, O.F.M.
St. Genoveva Torres Morales

American Catholic http://www.americancatholic.org/Features
/Saints/byname.asp

Catholic Forum http://www.catholic- forum.com/saints/patron02.htm

Catholic Information Network http://www.cin.org/saints.html

Catholic Mom http://www.catholicmom.com/saint.htm

Saint Cast http://saintcast.org/

New Advent http://www.newadvent.org/

Saints Canonized under Pope John Paul II http://www.vatican.va/news_services/litur gy/saints/index_saints_en.html

Congregation for the Causes of Saints http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congr egations/csaints/