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Saints of 19 May

32 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 19 May, with short facts.

Saints (14)

  • St. Calocerus of Rome Born: c.250 Armenia. Also called Calogero, Caio, Calocero.
  • St. Crispin of Viterbo Born: 13 November 1668 at Viterbo, Italy as Pietro Fioretti. Died: 19 May 1750. Canonized: 20 June 1982 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Crispinus of Viterbo, Crispinus von Viterbo, Peter Fioretti, and Pietro Fioretti.
  • St. Cyriaca of Nicomedia Died: burned to death in 307 at Nicomedia.
  • St. Cyril of Trier
  • St. Dunstan of Canterbury Born: 909 at Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, England. Died: 19 May 988 at Canterbury, England. Canonized: 1029 by Pope John XIX. Patronage: armourers, blacksmiths, blind people, gold workers, goldsmiths, jewellers, lighthouse keepers, locksmiths, musicians, and others.
  • St. Evonio of Auvergne Also called Enonio, Igonio, Ivonio.
  • St. Hadulfus of Cambrai Born: Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Neustria (in modern France). Died: 728. Canonized: Bishop Engranno elevated him to the altars in Cambrai c.960. Also called Adolfo, Hadulph.
  • St. Ivo of Kermartin Born: 17 October 1253 at Kermartin near Treguier, Brittany. Died: 19 May 1303 at Louannec, Brittany. Canonized: June 1347 by Pope Clement VI. Patronage: abandoned people, advocates, attorneys, barristers, lawyers, bailiffs, Brittany, canon lawyers, canonists, judges, jurists, notaries, and orphans.
  • St. Parthenius of Rome Born: c.250 Armenia. Also called Partenio.
  • St. Philoterus Born: Nicomedia (in modern Turkey). Died: 303.
  • St. Pudens of Rome Also called Pudencio.
  • St. Pudentiana of Rome Died: c.160. Also called Potentiana.
  • St. Theophilus of Corte Born: at Corte, Corsica, France as Biagio Arrighi. Died: 1740. Canonized: 1930 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Biagio Arrighi and Teofilo.
  • St. Verena Bütler Born: 28 May 1848 in Auw, Aargau, Switzerland. Died: 19 May 1924 in Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia. Beatified: 29 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Canonized: 12 October 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called Maria Bernarda of the Holy Heart of Mary.

Popes (2)

  • Pope St. Celestine V Born: 1210 at Isneria, Abruzzi, Italy as Pietro del Morrone. Died: 19 May 1296 in Rome, Italy. Canonized: 1313 by Pope Clement V. Patronage: Aquila, Italy and bookbinders. Also called Peter Celestine, Peter Morrone, Peter of Moroni, Pietro del Morrone, and Pietro di Murrone.
  • Pope St. Urban I Born: Rome, Italy. Died: 23 May 230.

Blessed (14)

  • Blessed Alcuin Born: c.730 at York, England. Died: 19 May 804 at Tours, France. Also called Albinus, Alrinus, Flaccus.
  • Blessed Augustine Novello Born: at Taormina, Sicily as Matthew of Taormina. Died: 1309 at San Leonardo, Italy. Beatified: 1759 by Pope Clement XIII (cultus confirmed). Also called Agostino Novello, Augustine Novellus, Matthew of Taormina, and Matteo de' Termini.
  • Blessed Bartolomea of Siena Born: late 13th century. Died: 19 May 1348. Also called Elisabetta.
  • Blessed Hanz Wagner Born: c.1456 in Riedlinger, Germany. Died: 19 May 1516 at his hermitage on Mount Pilate near Lucerne, Switzerland. Also called Hans, John.
  • Blessed Humiliana de' Cerchi Born: 1220 at Florence, Italy. Died: 19 May 1246 in Florence, Italy. Beatified: 24 July 1694 by Pope Innocent XII (cultus confirmed). Also called Umiliana de' Cerchi.
  • Blessed Jean-Baptiste-Xavier Loir Born: 11 March 1720 in Besançon, Doubs, France. Died: 19 May 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Jacques-Louis of Besançon.
  • Blessed Józef Czempiel Born: 21 September 1883 in Józefka, Sláskie, Poland. Died: gassed on 19 May 1942 in the concentration camp at Dachau, Oberbayern, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Juan of Cetina Born: Spain. Died: beheaded in 1397 in Granada, Spain.
  • Blessed Juan of San Domenico Born: Manzanal de los Infantes, Zamora, Spain. Died: 19 March 1618 in prison in Suzúta, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan. Beatified: 7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX. Also called Juan Martinez y Cid.
  • Blessed Louis Rafiringa Born: 3 November 1856 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Died: 19 May 1919 in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. Beatified: 7 June 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called Brother Raphaël and Raffaele Luigi Rafiringa.
  • Blessed Lucinio Fontanil Medina Born: 12 February 1884 in Villamizar, León, Spain. Died: 19 May 1937 in Madrid, Spain. Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis. Also called Primitivo of Villamizar.
  • Blessed Lupo of Sagra
  • Blessed Peter de Duenas Born: 1378 in Valencia, Spain. Died: beheaded in Granada, Spain in 1397.
  • Blessed Peter Wright Born: 1603 at Slipton, Northamptonshire, England. Died: hanged on 19 May (Whit Monday) 1651 at Tyburn, London, England. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI.

Other (2)

  • Ciarán, Son of Colga
  • Pina Suriano

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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