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Saints of 6 July

30 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 6 July, with short facts.

Marian titles (1)

Our Lady of Akita

Saints (15)

St. Maria Goretti Born: 16 October 1890 at Corinaldo, Ancona, Italy. Died: choked and stabbed to death. Canonized: 24 June 1950 by Pope Pius XII. Patronage: against poverty, against the death of parents, children, girls, martyrs, poor people, rape victims, young people in general, and others.
St. Cyril of Thessaloniki Died: burned to death in 1566 near the church of Saint Constantine in Tessaloniki.
St. Dominica of Campania Born: 287 in Tropea, Calabria, Italy. Died: beheaded 6 July 303 in Nicomedia, Bithynia (in modern Turkey). Canonized: Pre-Congregation. Patronage: Camaldoli, Italy, Caraffa di Catanzaro, Italy, Mandanici, Italy, Scorrano, Italy, Torre di Ruggiero, Italy, Tremestieri, Italy, and Tropea, Italy.
St. Gervais
St. Giusto of Condat
St. Goar of Aquitaine Born: in Aquitaine (part of modern France). Died: c.575. Patronage: hotel keepers, innkeepers, potters, and vine growers.
St. Macrine of Niort Born: Spain. Patronage: Marais Poitevin, France. Also called Macrina.
St. Monenna Died: 518. Also called Darerca, Moninna, Modenna, Medana, Medan.
St. Noyala of Brittany Died: beheaded at Beignan, Brittany (in modern France). Also called Noiala.
St. Palladius of Ireland Died: 432 at Fordun, Scotland. Patronage: Scotland. Also called Palladius of Aberdeen, Palladius of Scotland, Pallade, Palladio, and Apostle of the Scots.
St. Petrus Wang Zuolung Born: c.1842 in Shuanzhong, Jizhou, Hebei, China. Died: 6 July 1900 in Shuanzhong, Jizhou, Hebei, China. Beatified: 17 April 1955 by Pope Pius XII. Canonized: 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Baiduo, Peter Wang Zuolong, and Pietro Wang Zuolong.
St. Romulus of Fiesole Died: martyred c.90. Patronage: Fiesole, Italy. Also called Romolo di Fiesole.
St. Saxburgh of Ely Born: c.635 in England. Died: c.699. Also called Sexburga, Sexburgh.
St. Sisoes the Great Born: Egypt. Died: c.430 in Clisma, Egypt. Also called Sisoes the Hermit, Sisoes Magna, and Sisoe, Siso, Soses.
St. Tranquillinus of Rome Died: stoned to death c.288 in Rome, Italy. Also called Tranquillino.

Blessed (7)

Blessed Angela of Bohemia Died: c.1243 in a monastery in Prague, Bohemia (in modern Czech Republic).
Blessed Augustin-Joseph Desgardin Born: 21 December 1750 in Hénin-Liétard, Pas-de-Calais, France. Died: 6 July 1794. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
Blessed Christopher Solino
Blessed Maria Theresia Ledóchowska Born: 24 April 1863 in Loosdorf, Melk, Austria. Died: 6 July 1922 in Rome, Italy. Beatified: 19 October 1975 by Pope Paul VI.
Blessed Nazaria Ignacia March y Mesa Born: 10 January 1889 at Arcos de Santa María N° 41 (Augusto Figueroa), Madrid, Spain. Died: 6 July 1943 in the Rivadavia Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Beatified: 27 September 1992 by Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy. Canonized: 26 January 2018.
Blessed Suzanne-Agathe Deloye Born: 4 February 1741 in Sérignan, Vaucluse, France as Suzanne-Agathe Deloye. Died: guillotined in 6 July 1794 at Orange, Vaucluse, France. Beatified: 10 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Maria Rosa de Loye, Marie Rose Deloye, Mary Rose de Loye, and Susanna-Agatha de Loye.
Blessed Thomas Alfield Born: Gloucester, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Thomas Aufield, Thomas Alphilde, Thomas Hawfield, Thomas Offeldus, and Thomas Badger.

Martyr groups (2)

Martyrs of Campania
Martyrs of Fiesole Died: c.90 near Fiesole, Italy.

Other (5)

Attalein of Menoux
Bertharius of Menoux
Gredfyw
Modwenna of Burton-upon-Trent
Rictiovarus of Gaul

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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