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Saints of 13 August

34 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 13 August, with short facts.

Marian titles (1)

  • Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners

Saints (18)

  • St. Hippolytus of Rome Patronage: horses, prison guards, officers and workers, Bibbiena, Italy, and Laterina, Italy. Also called Hippolytus of Porto and Ippolito....
  • St. Maximus the Confessor Born: c.580 at Constantinople. Died: 13 August 662 at Batum near the Black Sea. Also called Maximus of Constantinople, Maximus Confessor, Maximus the Theologian, and Maximus Homogoletes.
  • St. Anastasius the Monk Died: c.662.
  • St. Anastasius the Priest Died: c.662.
  • St. Antiochus of Lyons Died: 5th century. Also called Andeol of Lyon.
  • St. Benildus Born: 14 June 1805 at Thuret, France as Pierre Romancon. Died: 13 August 1862 at Saugues, France. Canonized: 29 October 1967 by Pope Paul VI. Also called Benilde, Peter Romancon, and Pierre Romancon.
  • St. Cassian of Imola Died: tied to a post. Patronage: parish clerks, secretaries, stenographers, students, teachers, Mexico City, Mexico, Las Galletas, Tenerife, Spain, dioceses, and others. Also called Cassiano.
  • St. Cassian of Todi
  • St. Concordia of Rome Died: beheaded outside Rome, Italy. Patronage: nursing mothers and wet nurses.
  • St. Helen of Burgos Died: c.304 at Burgos, Spain. Also called Helena.
  • St. Herulph of Langres Died: 785. Also called Herulph of Ellwangen and Hariolfus of....
  • St. John Berchmans Born: 13 March 1599 at Driest, Brabant, Belgium. Died: 12 August 1621 at Rome, Italy. Canonized: 15 January 1888 by Pope Leo XIII. Patronage: altar boys, altar girls, altar servers, Oblate novices, and young people. Also called Jan Berchmans.
  • St. Junian of Mairé Died: 587.
  • St. Ludolf Died: 983. Also called Ludolph.
  • St. Nerses Glaietsi Born: 1102. Died: 1173. Also called Chnorhali and Nerses the Gracious.
  • St. Radegund
  • St. Radegunde Born: 518 in Erfurt, Saxony. Died: 13 August 587 in Poitiers, France. Patronage: against drowning, against fever, against leprosy, against scabies, against scabs, against the death of parents, against ulcers, difficult marriages, and others.
  • St. Wigbert of Fritzlar Born: c.675 in England. Died: c.746 at Hersfeld, Germany. Patronage: Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

Blessed (7)

  • Blessed Gertrude of Altenberg Born: 1227. Died: 1297. Beatified: 1311 by Pope Clement VI.
  • Blessed Jakob Gapp Born: 26 July 1897 at Wattens, Tyrol, Austria. Died: guillotined at 7.08pm 13 August 1943 at Plotzensee Prison, Berlin, Germany. Beatified: 24 November 1996 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Jacob Gapp and Jakub Gapp.
  • Blessed Juan Agramunt y Riera Born: 14 February 1907 in Almazora, Castellón, Spain. Died: shot. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Juan of the Sacred Hearts.
  • Blessed Mark of Aviano Born: 17 November 1631 at Aviano, Italy as Carlo Domenico Cristofori. Died: 13 August 1699. Beatified: 27 April 2003 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Carlo Domenico Cristofori, Marco D'Aviano, and Marco of Aviano.
  • Blessed Michael Joseph McGivney Born: 12 August 1852 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Died: 14 August 1890 at Thomaston, Connecticut. Beatified: 31 October 2020 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Pierre Gabilhaud Born: 26 July 1747 in Point-Saint-Martin, Haute-Vienne, France. Died: 13 August 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed William Freeman Born: Menthorpre, North Yorkshire, England. Died: hanged on 13 August 1595 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI.

Martyr groups (2)

  • Martyred Claretians of Barbastro Died: 2 August through 18 August 1936 in Barbastro, Huesca, Spain. Beatified: 25 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II. Also kept on 15 August in some calendars.
  • Martyred in the Spanish Civil War Also kept on 6 April, 20 May, 22 May, 25 July, and 92 other days in some calendars.

Other (6)

  • Connor O'Rourke
  • Irene of Hungary
  • Patrick O'Healy
  • Pietro di Santa Maria
  • Simone de Lara Martiri
  • Zwentibold

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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