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Saints of 4 May

40 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 4 May, with short facts.

Saints (23)

  • St. Albian of Albee Died: 304 near Ephesus.
  • St. Antonia of Constantinople Died: burned at the stake in the late 3rd century in Constantinople.
  • St. Antonia of Nicomedia Died: burned to death in Nicomedia (in modern Turkey).
  • St. Antonina of Nicaea Died: scourged.
  • St. Antonius of Rocher
  • St. Arbeo of Freising Born: c.723 in Mais (modern Meran), South Tyrol, Italy. Died: 4 May 783. Also called Aribo of Freising.
  • St. Augustine Webster Died: dragged through the street. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
  • St. Cunegund of Regensburg Died: c.1052.
  • St. Curcodomus of Auxerre
  • St. Cyriacus of Ancona Patronage: archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo, Italy. Also called Quiriacus.
  • St. Enéour Born: Welsh. Also called Enegwor, Enemour, Ener, Enevor.
  • St. Ethelred of Bardney Died: 716 at the at Bardney, England. Also called Ailred of Bardney.
  • St. Florian of Lorch Died: scourged. Patronage: against battle, against drowning, drowning victims, against fire, against flood, barrel-makers, coopers, brewers, chimney sweeps, fire prevention, and others.
  • St. John Houghton Born: 1487 at Essex, England. Died: hanged. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
  • St. Judas Cyriacus Patronage: Ancona, Italy. Also called Cyriacus of Ancona, Judas Quiriacus, Quiriace, and Quiriacus.
  • St. Nepotian of Altino Died: 395.
  • St. Paulinus of Cologne
  • St. Paulinus of Senigallia Died: 826. Patronage: Senigallia, Italy.
  • St. Pelagia of Tarsus Died: burned to death in a bronze ox at Tarsus.
  • St. Porphyrius of Camerelle Rino Died: beheaded in 250.
  • St. Richard Reynolds Born: 1492 in Devon, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed). Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
  • St. Robert Lawrence Born: English. Died: hanged. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI. Also called Robert Laurence.
  • St. Silvanus of Gaza Died: beheaded at the mines of Phennes in Palestine. Also called Sylvain.

Blessed (10)

  • Blessed Angela Bartolomea dei Ranzi Died: 1515. Also called Bartolomea.
  • Blessed Angela Isabella dei Ranzi Died: 1492. Also called Isabella.
  • Blessed Hilsindis Died: 1028.
  • Blessed Jean-Martin Moÿe Born: 27 January 1730 in Cutting, Meurthe, France. Died: 8 February 1793 in Trier, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany). Beatified: 21 November 1954 by Pope Pius XII.
  • Blessed Ladislas of Gielniów Born: c.1440 in Gniezno, Poland. Died: 4 May 1505. Beatified: 1586 by Pope Sixtus V. Patronage: Lithuania (chosen in August 1753), Poland (chosen in August 1753), Galicia (eastern Europe), and Warsaw, Poland (chosen in August 1753).
  • Blessed Luca da Toro
  • Blessed Margareta Kratz Born: c.1430 in Scharfenstein, Germany. Died: 1532. Also called Margaret Kratz and Margaretha Kratz.
  • Blessed Michal Giedroyc Born: c.1425 in Giedraiciai (Giedrojcie), Moletu rajonas, Lithuania. Died: 4 May 1485 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. Beatified: relics elevated and enshrined in 1624. Also called Michael Giedroyc and Mykolas Giedraitis.
  • Blessed Paolino Bigazzini Beatified: cultus known to have been in place in Perugia, Italy by the 14th century.
  • Blessed Victor Emilio Moscoso-Cárdenas Born: 21 April 1846 in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador. Died: shot twice on 4 May 1897 in Riobamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador. Beatified: 16 November 2019 by Pope Francis.

Martyr groups (3)

  • Martyrs of Cirta Also called Martyrs of Cirtha and Martyrs of Tzirta.
  • Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also kept on 22 November in some calendars.
  • Martyrs of Novellara Died: 26 March 303.

Other (4)

  • Carthusian Martyrs
  • Marco Ongaro of Conegliano
  • Mochua of Sliabh Eibhlinne
  • Shroud of Turin

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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