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Saints of 18 April

32 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 18 April, with short facts.

Saints (20)

  • St. Agia of Hainault Died: c.711. Patronage: lawsuits. Also called Agia of Mons and Aia, Austregildis, Aya, Aye.
  • St. Anthia of Illyria Died: c.138.
  • St. Athanasia of Aegina Born: 8th century on the Island of Aegina, Greece. Died: 14 August 860 at Timia.
  • St. Bitheus
  • St. Calocerus of Brescia Died: beheaded in 2nd century Albenga, Italy. Also called Calogerus.
  • St. Cogitosus
  • St. Corebus Died: c.138.
  • St. Eleutherius of Illyria Born: c.100. Died: beaten to death c.138. Patronage: diocese of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia, Italy and Civitacampomarano, Italy.
  • St. Elpidius of Melitene Born: 4th century Armenian. Died: at Melitene, Armenian. Also called Elpidio.
  • St. Eugene of Raith-Sithe Born: latter 6th century Ireland. Died: 618–619 in Ireland. Also called Eoghan.
  • St. Eusebius of Fano Died: in 526 in prison at Ravenna, Italy.
  • St. Galdinus of Milan Born: 1100 at Milan, Italy. Died: 1176 at Milan, Italy. Also called Galdinus della Sala and Galdimus, Galdin, Galdino.
  • St. Gebuinus of Lyons Died: 1080. Patronage: cathedral chapter of Langres.
  • St. Genocus
  • St. Hermogenes of Melitene Born: 4th century Armenian. Died: at Melitene, Armenian.
  • St. Laserian of Leighlin Died: 7th century. Patronage: diocese of Leighlin, Ireland. Also called Laserian mac Nadfraech.
  • St. Perfecto of Córdoba Born: at Córdoba, Spain. Died: 850 at Cordova, Spain. Also called Perfectus.
  • St. Pusicio
  • St. Ursmar of Lobbes Born: c.640. Died: 713 in Lobbes, Belgium. Patronage: Lobbes, Belgium. Also called Ursmaro.
  • St. Wicterp of Augsburg Died: 749.

Blessed (9)

  • Blessed Andrés Hibernón Real Born: 1534 in Murcia, Spain. Died: 18 April 1602 in Gandia, Valencia, Spain. Beatified: 22 May 1791 by Pope Pius VI. Patronage: Alcantarilla, Spain (chosen in May 1950) and Murcia, Spain.
  • Blessed Idesbald of Dunes Born: c.1095 at Flanders, Belgium. Died: 1167. Beatified: 23 July 1894 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed). Patronage: against fever, against rheumatism, against gout, sailors, shrimp fishers, polder farmers, Flemnish nobility, and Sint-Idesbald, Belgium.
  • Blessed James Oldo Born: 1364 at Lodi, Italy. Died: 18 April 1404. Beatified: 26 March 1934 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmed). Also called James of Oldo, James D'Oldo, James of Lodi, James Oldi, and Jakob, Jacopo, Giacomo.
  • Blessed Joseph Moreau Born: 21 October 1763 in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Plaine, Maine-et-Loire, France. Died: guillotined on Good Friday, 18 April 1794 at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. Beatified: 19 February 1984 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy.
  • Blessed Louis Leroy Born: 8 October 1923 in Ducey, Manche, France. Died: 18 April 1961 in Ban Pha, Xieng Khouang, Laos. Beatified: 11 December 2016 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Luca Passi Born: 22 January 1789 in Bergamo, Italy. Died: 18 April 1866 in Venice, Italy. Beatified: 13 April 2013 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Marie of the Incarnation Born: 1 February 1566 at Paris, France as Barbe Aurillot. Died: 18 April 1618 at Pontoise, France. Beatified: 5 June 1791 by Pope Pius VI. Patronage: against impoverishment, against loss of parents, against poverty, parents separated from children, poor people, and widows.
  • Blessed Roman Archutowski Born: 5 August 1882 in Karolin, Mazowieckie, Poland. Died: Palm Sunday, 18 April 1943 in Majdanek, Lubelskie, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Savina Petrilli Born: 29 August 1851 in Siena, Italy. Died: 5:20pm on 18 April 1923 in Siena, Italy. Beatified: 24 April 1988 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter’s Square, Rome, Italy. Also called Sabrina.

Other (3)

  • Antusa of Constantinople
  • Giovanni Isauro
  • Lassair of Donaghmoyne

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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