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Saints of 9 June

29 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 9 June, with short facts.

Marian titles (1)

Mary of the Walnut

Saints (16)

St. Ephrem the Syrian Born: c.306 at Nisibis, Mesopotamia (in modern Syria). Died: 9 June 373 at Edessa (in modern Iraq). Patronage: spiritual directors and spiritual leaders. Also called Ephrem of Edessa, Ephrem the Syrian, Ephraem..., Ephraim..., and Ephraem Syrus.
St. Alexander of Prusa Also called Alexandros.
St. Baithen of Iona Born: 536 in Ireland. Died: c.599. Also called Baithen Mor, Baithen the Great, and Baithin, Comin, Cominus.
St. Columba of Iona Born: 7 December 521 at Garton, County Donegal, Ireland. Died: 9 June 597 at Iona, Scotland. Patronage: against floods, bookbinders, poets, Ireland, Scotland, and 5 dioceses, 2 cities. Also called Apostle of the Picts and Apostle to Scotland.
St. Comus of Scotland Also called Come.
St. Cumian of Bobbio Born: Ireland. Also called Cummian, Cummin, Cummianus.
St. Cyrus Also called Kyros.
St. Diomedes of Tarsus Born: Tarsus, Cilicia. Died: beheaded c.305 at Nicaea, Bithynia. Also called Diomedes of Nicaea and Diomede....
St. Felicianus and Saint Primus Died: beheaded in 286 on the Via Nomentana, Rome, Italy.
St. José de Anchieta Born: 19 March 1534 at San Cristobal de la Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Died: 9 June 1597 at Reritigba (Anchieta), Brazil. Canonized: 3 April 2014 by Pope Francis (equipollent canonization). Also called Apostle of Brazil, Giuseppe de Anchieta, Jose Anchieta, and Joseph Anchieta.
St. Julian of Mesopotamia Died: c.370.
St. Maximian of Syracuse Born: Sicily. Died: 594.
St. Pelagia of Antioch Born: late 3rd century in Antioch. Died: c.311 by jumping off a roof. Patronage: against sexual temptation.
St. Richard of Andria Born: England. Died: c.1200. Patronage: city of Andria, Italy and diocese of Andria, Italy.
St. Valerius of Milan
St. Vincent of Agen Died: staked out. Also called Vincenzo di Aquitania.

Blessed (9)

Blessed Alexander of Kouchta Died: 1439.
Blessed Anne Marie Taigi Born: 29 May 1769 at Siena, Italy as Anne Marie Gianetti. Died: 9 June 1837 at Rome, Italy. Beatified: 30 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV. Patronage: victims of verbal spouse abuse. Also called Anna Maria Gesualda Antonia Taigi, Anna Maria Taigi, and Anne Marie Gianetti.
Blessed Arnulf of Velseca Born: 12th century in the area of modern Belgium. Died: fractured his skull.
Blessed Henry the Shoemaker Born: in Luxembourg. Died: 1666. Also called Der Gute Heinrich, Heinrich Bucke, Henry Michael Bucke, and Henry the Good.
Blessed Joseph Imbert Born: c.1720 in Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Died: 9 June 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
Blessed Luciano Verdejo Acuña Born: 26 October 1885 in Almeria Spain. Died: 9 June 1938 in Tur´n, Granada Spain Venerated 14 June 2016 by Pope Francis (decree of martyrdom).
Blessed Luigi Boccardo Born: 9 August 1861 in Moncalieri, Turin, Italy. Died: 9 June 1936 at Turin, Italy. Beatified: 14 April 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called Apostle of Merciful Love.
Blessed Robert Salt Born: English. Died: starved to death on 9 June 1537 at Newgate Prison, London, England. Beatified: 20 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII.
Blessed Sylvester Ventura Born: Florence, Italy. Died: 1348. Also called Sylvester of Valdisive.

Martyr groups (1)

Martyrs of Arbil Died: beheaded on 31 May 347 at Arbil, Assyria (in modern Kurdistan, Iraq).

Other (2)

Madonna della Fonte Nuova
Mary, Mother of Grace

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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