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Saints of 24 August

31 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 24 August, with short facts.

Saints (16)

  • St. Abban Born: Irish.
  • St. Abyce Also called Abycia.
  • St. Agofridus of Lacroix Also called Agofroi.
  • St. Bartholomew the Apostle Born: Galilee. Patronage: against nervous diseases, against neurological diseases, against twitching, bookbinders, butchers, cobblers, Florentine cheese merchants, Florentine salt merchants, and others. Also called Bartolomé, Bartolomeo, Nathanael bar Tolomai.
  • St. Emily de Vialar Born: 12 September 1797 at Gaillace, Albi. Died: 24 August 1856 at Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Canonized: 24 June 1951 by Pope Pius XII. Also called Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar, Emilie de Vialar, and Emilie de Vialard.
  • St. Eutychius of Troas Born: 1st century Phrygia.
  • St. George Limniotes Born: c.635. Died: mutilated and burned to death c.730.
  • St. Irchard Born: at Kincardineshire, Scotland. Also called Apostle of the Picts and Erthad, Merchard, Yarcard, Yrchard.
  • St. Jane Antide Thouret Born: 27 November 1765 at Sancy-le-Long. Died: 24 August 1826 at Naples, Italy. Canonized: 14 January 1934 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Joan Antide Thouret and Jeanne Antide Thouret.
  • St. María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament Born: 1 January 1809 in Madrid, Spain. Died: 24 August 1865 in Valencia, Spain. Canonized: 4 March 1934 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Micaela Desmaisières López de Dicastillo and Maria Micaela Desmaisieres.
  • St. Ouen of Rouen Born: c.605 at Sancy, Soissons, France. Died: 24 August 684 at Clichy, France. Patronage: against deafness and deaf people.
  • St. Patrick the Elder Died: c.450.
  • St. Ptolemy of Nepi Died: martyred in the 1st century in Nepi, Italy. Patronage: Nepi, Italy.
  • St. Romanus of Nepi Died: martyred in the 1st century in Nepi, Italy. Patronage: Nepi, Italy.
  • St. Sandratus Died: 986. Also called Sandradus.
  • St. Taziano of Claudiopolis Died: Claudiopolis, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey). Also called Tatian, Tatio, Tazione.

Blessed (13)

  • Blessed André Fardeau Born: 19 November 1761 in Soucelles, Maine-et-Loire, France. Died: beheaded on 24 August 1794 at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. Beatified: 19 February 1984 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy.
  • Blessed Antonio de Blanes Died: 1415.
  • Blessed Czeslaw Jozwiak Born: 7 September 1919 in Lazyn, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. Died: guillotined on 24 August 1942 in Dresden, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Edward Kazmierski Born: 1 October 1919 Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Died: guillotined on 24 August 1942 in Dresden, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Edward Klinik Born: 21 July 1919 in Bochum, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Died: guillotined on 24 August 1942 in Dresden, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Félix González Tejedor Born: 17 April 1888 in Ledesma, Salamanca, Spain. Died: shot on 24 August 1936 in Madrid, Spain. Beatified: 28 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Blessed Franciszek Kesy Born: 13 November 1920 in Berlin, Germany. Died: guillotined on 24 August 1942 in Dresden, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Jarogniew Wojciechowski Born: 5 November 1922 Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Died: guillotined on 24 August 1942 in Dresden, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Lorenzo Lizasoáin Lizaso Born: 8pm on 4 September 1886 at 17 Calle de San Juan, Irañeta, Navarra, Spain. Died: 24 August 1936 in Toledo, Spain. Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis. Also called Jorge Luis, Aniceto Lizasoáin Lizaso, and Aniceto María Miguel.
  • Blessed Luis Almécija Lázaro Born: 23 April 1883 in Illar, Almería, Spain. Died: 24 August 1936 in Puente de los Calvos, Ráglos, Almería, Spain. Beatified: 25 March 2017 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Maksymilian Binkiewicz Born: 21 February 1908 in Zarnowiec, Slaskie, Poland. Died: died. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Maximilian.
  • Blessed Miroslav Bulesic Born: 13 May 1920 in Cabrunici, Svetvincenat, Istarska, Croatia. Beatified: 28 September 2013 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Veronica Antal Born: 7 December 1935 in Nisiporesti, Botesti, Neamt, Romania. Beatified: 22 September 2018 by Pope Francis.

Martyr groups (1)

  • 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 (1)

  • Maria Encarnaciòn Rosal

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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