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Saints of 7 August

36 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 7 August, with short facts.

Saints (15)

  • St. Afra of Augsburg Born: at Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. Died: suffocated. Patronage: Augsburg, Germany, converts, martyrs, and penitent women.
  • St. Albert of Sicily Born: 1250 to 1257 (sources vary) at Trapani, Sicily, Italy. Died: 7 August 1306 at Messina, Italy. Canonized: 31 May 1476 by Pope Sixtus IV. Patronage: Carmelite schools, Messina, Italy, and Trapani, Italy. Also called Albert of Trapani and Albert degli Abbati.
  • St. Cajetan Born: October 1480 at Vicenza, Italy as Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene. Died: 1547 at Naples, Italy. Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X. Patronage: job seekers, unemployed people, and Theatines.
  • St. Claudia of Rome
  • St. Donat Patronage: Llandunwyd, Glamorgan, Wales. Also called Danat, Dunwyd.
  • St. Donatian of Châlons-sur-Marne Died: 4th century.
  • St. Donatus of Arezzo Born: Nicomedia (part of modern Turkey). Died: 362. Patronage: Arezzo, Italy, Arezzo, Italy, diocese of, Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy, diocese of, and Cavriglia, Italy. Also called Donato.
  • St. Donatus of Besançon Died: c.660. Patronage: Cercepiccola, Italy.
  • St. Faustus of Milan Born: 2nd century Milan, Italy. Died: c.190 in Milan, Italy.
  • St. Hilarinus of Ostia Died: scourged to death in 361 at Ostia, Italy.
  • St. Hyperechios Born: Egyptian.
  • St. Julian of Rome Died: martyred c.260 in Rome, Italy. Also called Juliana.
  • St. Miguel de la Mora Born: 19 June 1874 at Tecalitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. Died: shot by firing squad around noon on 7 August 1927 at Cardonna, Colima, Mexico. Canonized: 21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of Mexico. Also called Michele de la Mora.
  • St. Peter of Rome Died: c.260 in Rome, Italy.
  • St. Victricius of Rouen Died: 407 in Rouen, France.

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Sixtus II Born: Greek. Died: beheaded on 6 August 258 in a cemetery on the Appian Way, Rome, Italy. Patronage: Bellegra, Italy.

Blessed (10)

  • Blessed Agathangelus Nourry Born: 31 July 1598 near Vendome, France. Died: stoned to death or hanged. Beatified: 23 October 1904 by Pope Pius X. Also called Agathangelo Noury, Agathangelus of Vendome, Agathangelus Noury, and Agathange Noury of Vendôme.
  • Blessed Cassian Vaz Lopez-Neto Born: 1607 at Nantes, France. Died: stoned to death in 1638 in Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia). Beatified: 1 January 1904 by Pope Saint Pius X.
  • Blessed Dalmacio Bellota Pérez Born: 22 November 1908 in Capillas, Palencia, Spain. Died: over the night of 6 to 7 August 1936 in “Boca del Congosto”, Los Yébenes, Toledo, Spain. Beatified: 28 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called Carlos Jorge.
  • Blessed Edmund Bojanowski Born: 14 November 1814 in Grabonog, Poland. Died: 7 August 1871 in Gorka Duchowna, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland. Also called Edmund Bojanowski Adalbert Stanislas and Edmund Wojciech Stanislaw.
  • Blessed Edward Bamber Born: c.1600 in Carleton, Lancashire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Edward Helmes, Edward Reding, Edward Richardson, Edward Wallis, and Edward Walsh.
  • Blessed John Woodcock Born: 1603 in Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire, England. Died: 7 August 1646 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called John Farington, John Thompson, and Martin of Saint Felix.
  • Blessed Jordan Forzatei Born: 1158 at Padua, Italy. Died: 1248 at Venice. Also called Jordan of Padua.
  • Blessed Nicholas Postgate Born: 1597 in Egton Bridge, North Yorkshire, England. Died: 7 August 1679 in York, North Yorkshire, England. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Thomas Whitaker Born: c.1612 in Burnley, Lancashire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Thomas Starkie.
  • Blessed Vincent de L'Aquila Born: c.1435. Beatified: 19 September 1787 by Pope Pius VI (cultus confirmation).

Martyr groups (3)

  • Martyred Deacons of Rome Died: beheaded on 6 August 258 in a cemetery on the Appian Way, Rome, Italy.
  • Martyred in the Spanish Civil War Also kept on 6 April, 20 May, 22 May, 25 July, and 92 other days in some calendars.
  • Martyrs of Como Died: c.295 on the north side of Lake Como.

Other (7)

  • Albert of Sassoferrato
  • Conrad Nantwein
  • Donatus of Muenstereifel
  • Isabel Remiñán Carracedo
  • Leodebodo
  • Matthew Noll
  • Thomas Hunt

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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