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Saints of 28 May

37 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 28 May, with short facts.

Saints (19)

  • St. Accidia
  • St. Caraunus of Chartres Born: Gaul. Died: killed by robbers near Chartres, France in the 5th century. Also called Carauno, Ceraunus, Cheron.
  • St. Caraunus the Deacon Born: Rome, Italy. Died: 98 near Chartres in modern France. Also called Cheron.
  • St. Crescens of Rome Died: burned to death c.244 in Rome, Italy.
  • St. Dioscorides of Rome Died: burned to death c.244 in Rome, Italy.
  • St. Eoghan the Sage Also called Eoghan Sapiens, Eoghan the Wise, Eoghan of Cranfield, Eoghan of Cremhcaille, and Magh-Creainb-Chaille.
  • St. Eugene of Armagh Born: 8th century Ireland. Died: 834 in Ireland. Also called Eoghan, Fear-leighinn, and Lector of Monastrboice.
  • St. Gemiliano of Cagliari Also called Emily, Emilio, Emiliano, Millanu.
  • St. Germanus of Paris Born: 496 at Autun, France. Died: 28 May 576 in Paris, France. Canonized: 754 by Pope Stephen II. Patronage: archdiocese of Rimouski, Quebec. Also called Father of the Poor and Germain.
  • St. Heliconis of Thessalonica Born: at Thessalonica. Died: beheaded c.250 at Corinth, Greece. Also called Eliconide, Helicondes, Heliconides.
  • St. Helladius of Rome Died: burned to death c.244 in Rome, Italy.
  • St. Justus of Urgell Died: c.527. Also called Giusto.
  • St. Luciano of Cagliari Born: Sardinia. Died: stabbed. Also called Feliciano.
  • St. Moel-Odhran of Iona Also called Maelodran, Mailodranus.
  • St. Paulus of Rome Died: burned to death c.244 in Rome, Italy.
  • St. Phaolô Hanh Born: c.1826 in Cho Quán, Gia Dinh, Vietnam. Died: beheaded on 28 May 1859 at Saigon (modern Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. Beatified: 2 May 1909 by Pope Pius X as part of the Annamite Martyrs. Canonized: 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Paul Hanh.
  • St. Podius of Florence Born: Tuscany, Italy. Died: 1002.
  • St. Ubaldesca Taccini Born: 1136 in Calcinaia, Pisa, Italy. Died: feast of the Holy Trinity, 28 May 1206 in Pisa, Italy.
  • St. William of Gellone Born: 755 in France. Died: 812. Canonized: 1066 by Pope Alexander II. Also called William of Aquitaine, William of Orange, William of Toulouse, Willliam Fierabrace, and William in the Desert.

Blessed (14)

  • Blessed Albert of Csanád Died: c.1492 at the monastery of Bjacs, Hungary.
  • Blessed Antoni Julian Nowowiejski Born: 11 February 1858 in Lubien, Poland. Died: died of starvation and abuse on 28 May 1941 at Dzialdowo death camp. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland. Also called Antonio Giuliano Nowowiejski.
  • Blessed Herculaneum of Piegaro Born: late 14th-century at Piegaro, Italy. Died: summer of 1451 in the convent of Castelnuovo, Garfagnana, Tuscany, Italy. Beatified: 29 March 1860 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmation). Also called Herculaneum of Pieghèro and Ercolano, Herculan, Herculanus.
  • Blessed Iuliu Hossu Born: 30 January 1885 in Milas, Bistrita-Nasaud. Died: 9 a.m. on 28 May 1970 at Coletina Hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Beatified: 2 June 2019 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed John Shert Born: at Shert Hall. Died: hanged. Beatified: 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation).
  • Blessed Lanfranc of Canterbury Born: c.1005 in Pavia, Italy. Died: 24 May 1089 in Canterbury, England.
  • Blessed Lluís Berenguer Moratona Born: 5 July 1869 in Santa Maria d'Horta, Barcelona, Spain. Died: 28 May 1937 in Barcelona, Spain Venerated 1 December 2016 by Pope Francis (decree of martyrdom).
  • Blessed Luigi Biraghi Born: 2 November 1801 in Vignate, Milan, Italy. Died: 11 August 1879 in Milan, Italy. Beatified: 30 April 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Blessed Margaret Pole Born: 14 August 1473 in Somerset, Wilshire, England as Margaret Plantaganet. Died: beheaded 28 May 1541 on Tower Hill, London, England. Beatified: 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation). Also called Margaret Plantaganet.
  • Blessed Maria Bagnesi Born: 15 August 1514 at Florence, Italy. Died: 28 May 1577 at Florence, Italy. Beatified: 11 July 1804 by Pope Pius VII (cultus confirmed). Patronage: abuse victims, against the death of parents, and sick people.
  • Blessed Mary of the Nativity Died: 1580 at the convent of the Assumption in Seville, Spain. Also called Anna de Corro.
  • Blessed Robert Johnson Born: in Shropshire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation).
  • Blessed Thomas Ford Born: Devon, Devonshire, England. Died: hanged on 28 May 1582 in Tyburn, London, England. Beatified: 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII.
  • Blessed Wladyslaw Demski Born: 5 August 1884 in Sztum, Pomorskie, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Ladislao Demski and Ladislaus Demski.

Martyr groups (2)

  • Martyrs of Palestine
  • Martyrs of Sardinia Patronage: diocese of Alghero-Bosa, Italy.

Other (2)

  • Andreas Salos
  • Gussur Isleifson of Skalholt

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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