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Saints of 20 May

32 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 20 May, with short facts.

Saints (24)

  • St. Bernardino of Siena Born: 1380 at Massa di Carrara, Italy. Died: 1444 at Aquila, Italy. Patronage: against hoarseness, against chest problems, against respiratory problems, lung problems, lungs, advertisers, advertising, communications personnel, gambling addicts; against compulsive gambling, Italy, and others.
  • St. Abercius Died: exposed naked to a swarm of angry bees in the 1st century.
  • St. Alexander of Edessa Died: Edessa, Syria.
  • St. Althryda Died: 834. Also called Alfrida, Altrida, Etheldrytha.
  • St. Anastasius of Brescia Died: 610.
  • St. Aquila of Egypt Born: Egyptian. Died: torn to pieces. Also called Aquila of Nîmes.
  • St. Arcangelo Tadini Born: 12 October 1846 at Verolanuova, Brescia, Italy. Died: 20 May 1912 at Botticino Sera, Brescia, Italy. Canonized: 26 April 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • St. Asterius of Edessa Born: Syrian. Died: 284 at Edessa, Mesopotamia.
  • St. Aurea of Ostia Died: drowned c.270 in Ostia, Italy. Also called Aura, Chryse.
  • St. Austregisilus of Bourges Born: 551 in Bourges, France. Died: 624. Patronage: Bourges, France. Also called Aoustrille, Austregesilio, Outril, Outrille.
  • St. Basilla of Rome Died: beheaded in 304 in Rome, Italy. Also called Babilla.
  • St. Baudelius of Nimes Born: Orleans, France. Died: beheaded in late 3rd century Nîmes, France.
  • St. Codrato Also called Codro.
  • St. Ethelbert of East Anglia Died: murdered in 793 at Villa Australis, Mercia, England. Patronage: Hereford, England and Hereford Cathedral. Also called Aethelbert, Albert, Albright.
  • St. Helena Died: stoned to death in the 1st century.
  • St. Hilary of Toulouse
  • St. Lucifer of Cagliari Died: 370 in Cagliari, Italy. Also called Lucifero.
  • St. Lydia Purpuraria Born: Greek. Patronage: cloth dyers. Also called Lydia of Thyatira, Lydia of Philippi, and Lydia Philippisia.
  • St. Marcello
  • St. Plautilla of Rome Died: c.67.
  • St. Protasius Chong Kuk-bo Born: 1799 in Songdo, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Died: 20 May 1839 in Seoul Prison, South Korea. Canonized: 6 May 1984 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Jeong Guk-Bo, Peurotasio, and Protasio Chong Kuk-bo.
  • St. Talaleo of Egea Born: c.265 near Mount Lebanon, Phoenicia. Died: 284 in Egea, Macedonia (modern Edessa, Greece). Also called Taleleo, Thalelaeus, Thallelaeus.
  • St. Thalalaeus of Edessa Died: Edessa, Syria.
  • St. Theodore of Pavia Died: 778. Patronage: Pavia, Italy.

Blessed (5)

  • Blessed Albert of Bologna Born: in Bologna, Italy. Died: 1245.
  • Blessed Arnaldo Serra Died: of hunger and thirst in 1492 in prison in Tunis, Tunisia.
  • Blessed Columba of Rieti Born: 2 February 1467 at Rieti, Umbria, Italy as Angelella Guardagnoli. Died: 20 May 1501 at Perguia, Italy. Beatified: 25 February 1625 by Pope Urban VIII. Patronage: against magic or sorcery, against temptation, and Perugia, Italy. Also called Angelella Guardagnoli and Colomba of Rieti.
  • Blessed Guy de Gherardesca Born: at Pisa, Italy. Died: 1099. Also called Guido.
  • Blessed María Angélica Pérez Born: 17 August 1897 in San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Died: 20 May 1932 in Vallenar, Atacama, Argentina. Beatified: 17 November 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called María Crescencia, Sister Dulzura, and Sister Sweetness.

Martyr groups (1)

  • Martyred in the Spanish Civil War Also kept on 6 April, 22 May, 25 July, 26 July, and 92 other days in some calendars.

Other (2)

  • Josepha Endrina Stenmanns
  • Luigi Talamoni

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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