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Saints of 27 August

36 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 27 August, with short facts.

Saints (24)

  • St. Caesarius of Arles Born: 470 at Châlons, Burgundy, Gaul (modern France). Died: 27 August 543 at Saint John's convent, Arles, Gaul (modern France). Patronage: against fire.
  • St. Monica of Hippo Born: 322 at Tagaste (Souk Ahrus), Roman North Africa (modern Algeria). Died: 387 at Ostia, Italy.
  • St. Agilo of Sithin Died: 957.
  • St. Anthusa the Younger Born: Persian.
  • St. Arontius of Potenza Died: beheaded in 303 at Potenza, Italy. Also called Orontius.
  • St. Baculus of Sorrento Died: 27 August c.660. Patronage: Sorento, Italy. Also called Bacolo, Baccolo.
  • St. Carpophorus Died: 295. Also called Carpone.
  • St. David Lewis Born: 1616 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. Died: hanged. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI.
  • St. Decuman Born: Wales. Died: 706 in Saint Decumans, Somerset, England. Also called Dagan.
  • St. Ebbo of Sens Born: Tonnere, France. Died: 740.
  • St. Etherius of Lyons Died: 602. Also called Alermius.
  • St. Euthalia of Leontini Born: Sicily, Italy. Died: 3rd century Leontini, Sicily.
  • St. Fortunatus of Potenza Died: beheaded in 303 at Potenza, Italy.
  • St. Gebhard of Constance Born: 949 in Austria. Died: 27 August 995. Patronage: Constance, Germany, city of and Vorarlberg, Austria, province of. Also called Gebhard II.
  • St. Giovanni of Pavia Died: 813.
  • St. Guarinus of Sion Born: c.1065 at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine (in modern France). Died: 27 August 1150 in the Aulps monastery in Savoy (in modern France). Patronage: against plague and cattle. Also called Guarinus of Molesmes, Guarinus of Sitten, Guarinus of Zion, and Guarin, Guarino, Guerin, Guerrino, Warin, Warinus.
  • St. Honoratus of Potenza Died: beheaded in 303 at Potenza, Italy.
  • St. Licerius of Couserans Born: 500 in Lleida in the Pyrenees (in modern Spain). Died: c.548 in Courserans, Aquitaine (in modern France). Also called Licerio, Lizier.
  • St. Malrubius of Merns Died: c.1040.
  • St. Narnus of Bergamo Died: c.345 in Bergamo, Italy. Also called Narno.
  • St. Phanurius Born: at Crete. Died: stoned to death. Patronage: lost articles and desperate, forgotten, impossible or lost causes. Also called Fanourios, Fanurius, Phanurios, Phanourios.
  • St. Poemen Died: c.450. Also called Pastor, Shepherd.
  • St. Rufus of Capua Died: 295. Also called Rufino, Rufo.
  • St. Sabinian of Potenza Died: beheaded in 303 at Potenza, Italy.

Blessed (9)

  • Blessed Amadeus of Lausanne Born: 1110 in the castle of Chatte, Dauphine, France. Died: 27 August 1159. Beatified: 1710 (public cultus began). Also called Amadeus von Lausanne.
  • Blessed Angelus of Foligno Born: 1226 in Foligno, Umbria, Italy. Died: 26 or 27 August 1312 in Foligno, Umbria, Italy. Beatified: 11 March 1891 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation). Also called Angelo Conti, Angelo of Foligno, and Angelus Conti.
  • Blessed Dominic Barberi Born: 22 June 1792 at Viterbo, Italy. Died: 3pm 27 August 1849 at Reading, Berkshire, England. Beatified: 27 October 1963 by Pope Paul VI at Rome, Italy. Also called Dominic of the Mother of God and Apostle to England.
  • Blessed Gabriel Mary Born: 1463 at Clermont, France as Gilbert Nicolas. Died: 1532. Beatified: 1647 by Pope Innocent X (cultus confirmed). Also called Gilbert Nicolas.
  • Blessed Jean Baptiste Guillaume Born: 1 February 1755 in Fraisans, Doubs, France. Died: 27 August 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Brother Uldaric.
  • Blessed Jean-Baptiste Souzy Born: 24 March 1732 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France. Died: 27 August 1794 aboard the prison ship Deux-Associés. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Juan Sánchez Molina Born: 20 November 1882 in Rioja, Almería, Spain. Died: 27 August 1936 aboard the battleship Jaime I anchored in the harbor in Almería, Spain. Beatified: 25 March 2017 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Maria Pilar Izquierdo Albero Born: 27 July 1906 in Zaragoza, Spain. Died: 27 August 1945 in San Sebastian, Guipúzcoa, Spain. Beatified: 4 November 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Roger Cadwallador Born: 1566 at Stratton Sugwas, Herefordshire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.

Martyr groups (2)

  • Martyred in the Spanish Civil War Died: 16 August 1627 in Nagasaki, Japan. Beatified: 7 May 1867 Pope Pius IX.
  • Martyrs of Tomi Died: beheaded in 304 in Tomi, Mesia (modern Costanza, Romania). Also called Martyrs of Mesia, Martyrs of Oxyrynchus, and Martyrs of Tomis.

Other (1)

  • Luis Suarez

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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