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Saints of 4 April

31 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 4 April, with short facts.

Saints (17)

  • St. Isidore of Seville Born: c.560 at Cartagena, Spain. Died: 4 April 636 at Seville, Spain. Patronage: computer technicians, computer users, computers, the Internet, and schoolchildren, students. Also called Isidore the Bishop and Schoolmaster of the Middle Ages.
  • St. Agathopus the Deacon Died: drowned in the sea. Also called Agathopus of Thessalonica and Agathopedes, Agatopodo.
  • St. Aleth of Dijon Died: 1105. Also called Aleth of Montbard and Aleth of Zélie.
  • St. Benedict the Black Born: 1526 at Messina, Italy on the estate of Chevalier de Lanza a San Fratello. Died: 1589. Beatified: 15 May 1743 by Pope Benedict XIV. Canonized: 24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VIII. Patronage: African missions, African-Americans, black people, and Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
  • St. Francisco Marto Born: 11 June 1908 at Aljustrel, Portugal. Died: 4 April 1919 at Aljustrel, Portugal. Canonized: 13 May 2017 by Pope Francis. Also called Franz Marto.
  • St. Gaetano Catanoso Born: 14 February 1879 at Chorio di San Lorenzo, Reggio Calabria, Italy. Died: 4 April 1953 in Reggio Calabria, Italy. Canonized: 23 October 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI at Rome, Italy. Patronage: Reggio Calabria, Italy (given on 10 March 2010). Also called Cajetan Catanoso.
  • St. Gonval of Scotland Born: late 8th century Scotland. Died: 824. Also called Conval, Conwall.
  • St. Gwerir of Liskeard Also called Guier.
  • St. Henry of Gheest Died: c.1190.
  • St. Hildebert of Ghent Died: 752. Also called Emebert.
  • St. Peter of Poitiers Died: 1115.
  • St. Plato Born: c.734. Died: 19 March 813. Also called Platon.
  • St. Theodulus the Lector Died: drowned in the sea. Also called Theodolus of Thessalonica and Teodulo....
  • St. Theonas of Egypt Died: 395.
  • St. Tigernach of Clogher Died: 549. Also called Tigernake, Tierney, Tierry, Terry.
  • St. Victor of Barcelona Also called Vittore.
  • St. Zosimus of Palestine

Blessed (6)

  • Blessed Abraham of Strelna Born: late 11th-century in Strelna, Moravia (modern Czech Republic). Died: 4 April 1232 in his hermitage in Hradisko, Moravia (in modern Slovakia).
  • Blessed François de la Terre de Labour Died: c.1358 in Cairo, Egypt. Also called François of Cairo.
  • Blessed Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet Born: 15 August 1818 at Palermo, Sicily. Died: 4 April 1894 at Catania, Sicily. Beatified: 25 September 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Ndue Serreqi Born: 26 February 1911 in Shkodrë, Albania. Died: 4 April 1954 in Burrel, Shkodrë, Albania. Beatified: 5 November 2016 by Pope Francis. Also called Karl.
  • Blessed Nicolas of Montecorpino Died: c.1358 in Cairo, Egypt. Also called Nicolas of Cairo.
  • Blessed Thomas of Naples Died: stabbed to death in 1540 at the Saint Eulalia convent in Montpellier, France.

Martyr groups (1)

  • Martyrs of Thessalonica Died: Thessalonica, Greece.

Other (7)

  • Coine of Kilkine
  • Conrad of Weissenau
  • George Solitarius
  • Guglielmo of Noto
  • Maurus Xaverius Herbst
  • Merryn
  • Pherbutha

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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