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Saints of 27 January

32 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 27 January, with short facts.

Saints (17)

  • St. Angela Merici Born: 21 March 1474 at Desenzano, Lake Garda, Italy. Died: 24 January 1540 at Brescia, Italy. Canonized: 24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII. Patronage: against bodily ills, illness, sickness, against the death of parents, disabled, handicapped or physically challenged people, and sick people.
  • St. Avitus Died: in Africa.
  • St. Candida of Bañoles Born: in Spain. Died: c.798.
  • St. Devota Born: Mariana, Corsica, France. Died: tortured to death on the rack c.303. Patronage: Corsica and Monaco. Also called Dévote.
  • St. Domitian of Melitene Died: 27 January 473. Also called Domitian of Palestine.
  • St. Donatus of Africa Died: in Africa.
  • St. Emerius of Bañoles Born: France. Died: 8th century. Also called Emerus, Memerius.
  • St. Enric de Osso y Cervello Born: 16 October 1840 at Vinebre, Tarragona, Spain. Died: 27 January 1896 at Gilet, Valencia, Spain. Canonized: 16 June 1993 by Pope John Paul II at Madrid, Spain. Also called Enrique, Henry.
  • St. Felix of Messina Also called Felice.
  • St. Gilduin of Dol Born: 1052. Died: 1077 near Chartres, France natural causes. Also called Gilduino.
  • St. John Maria Muzeyi Born: at Buganda, Uganda. Died: beheaded on 27 January 1887 at Mengo, Uganda. Canonized: 18 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI at Rome, Italy. Also called Jean-Marie Muzeeyi and Jean-Marie the Elder.
  • St. Julian of Le Mans Died: 3rd century at Sarthe, Gaul (modern Sant-Marceaux, France).
  • St. Julian of Sora Born: Dalmatia. Died: beheaded c.150 at in a collapsed pagan temple in Sora, Campania, Italy. Patronage: Accettura, Italy. Also called Giuliano di Sora.
  • St. Lupus of Châlons Died: 610.
  • St. Marius of Bodon Born: late 5th-century Orleans, France. Died: 27 January 555 at La-Val-Benois monastery, Sisteron, France. Also called Maire, Marino, Mario, Mary, Maurus, May, Mere.
  • St. Natalis of Ulster Born: 6th century Irish. Also called Naal of Ulster.
  • St. Theodoric of Orleans Died: 1022 in Tonnerre, Burgundy, France. Also called Theodoric II.

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Vitalian Born: at Segni, Campania, Italy. Died: 27 January 672. Also called Vitalianus.

Blessed (13)

  • Blessed Alruna of Cham Born: c.990 in Vohburg castle on the Danube River in Bavaria, Germany. Died: 27 January 1045 in Niederaltaich, Bavaria, Germany. Patronage: against fever and pregnant women. Also called Alrun, Mother of the Poor.
  • Blessed Antonio Mascaró Colomina Born: 12 March 1913 in Albelda, Huesca, Spain. Died: 27 January 1937 in Montcada, Barcelona, Spain. Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Benvenuta of Perugia Died: c.1257 in Assisi, Italy.
  • Blessed Bruno of Paris Born: 12th century. Died: 27 January 1227.
  • Blessed Carolina Santocanale Born: 2 October 1852 in Palermo, Italy as Carolina Concetta Angela Santocanale. Died: 27 January 1923 in Cinisi, Palermo, Italy. Beatified: 12 June 2016 by Pope Francis. Also called Sister Maria of Jesus, Sister Maria di Gesù Santocanale, and Carolina Concetta Angela Santocanale.
  • Blessed Gonzalo Diaz di Amarante Born: 1540 in Amarante, Portugal. Died: 27 January 1618 in Callao, Peru.
  • Blessed João Schiavo Born: 8 July 1903 in Sant'Urbano de Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, Italy. Died: at 9:30am on 27 January 1967 in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Beatified: 28 October 2017 by Pope Francis. Also called Giovanni Schiavo.
  • Blessed John of Warneton Born: Warneton, French Flanders. Died: 27 January 1130. Also called John of Saint Omer and John of Thérouanne.
  • Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulewicz Born: 13 April 1871 at Lugine, Lithuania. Died: 27 January 1927. Beatified: 28 June 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called George Matulaitis, Jerzy Matulevicz, Jorge Matulaitis, Jurgis Matulewicz, and Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius.
  • Blessed Manfredo Settala Born: latter 12th century Milan, Italy. Died: 27 January 1217 in Riva San Vitaly, Lombardy, Italy.
  • Blessed Michael Pini Born: c.1445 at Florence, Italy. Died: 1522.
  • Blessed Paul Josef Nardini Born: 25 July 1821 in Germersheim, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany). Died: 27 January 1862 in Pirmasens, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany). Beatified: 22 October 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Blessed Rosalie du Verdier de la Sorinière Born: 12 August 1745 in Saint-Pierre de Chemillé, Maine-et-Loire, France. Died: beheaded on 27 January 1794 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. Beatified: 19 February 1984 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy. Also called Soeur Saint Celeste.

Martyr groups (1)

  • Martyrs of North Africa Died: c.500 in North Africa.

This list combines the Vatican News “Saint of the day” pages with a long-form calendar of saints, blessed, and feasts (credited on our Resources page). Calendars differ, so a note marks each place the sources disagree. This is not the General Roman Calendar. Resources · Sources & method

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