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Saints of 28 August

43 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 28 August, with short facts.

Marian titles (1)

  • Our Lady of Mailane

Saints (23)

  • St. Augustine of Hippo Born: 13 November 354 at Tagaste, Numidia, North Africa (Souk-Ahras, Algeria) as Aurelius Augustinus. Died: 28 August 430 at Hippo, North Africa. Patronage: against sore eyes, against vermin, brewers, printers, theologians, 7 dioceses, and 7 cities. Also kept on 5 May in some calendars.
  • St. Moses the Black Born: 330; Ethiopian ancestry. Died: murdered 405 by Berbers at Petra, Skete, Egypt. Patronage: Africa. Also called Moses the Ethiopian and Moses of Scete.
  • St. Agnes of Cologne Born: British Isles.
  • St. Alexander of Constantinople Died: 340.
  • St. Ambrose of Saintes Died: c.450.
  • St. Anthes of Salerno Died: 303 near Salerno, Italy.
  • St. Edmund Arrowsmith Born: 1585 at Haydock, Lancashire, England as Brian Arrowsmith. Died: hanged. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Also called Brian Arrowsmith, Edmund Bradshaw, and Edmund Rigby.
  • St. Facundinus of Taino Died: c.620.
  • St. Felix of Venosa Died: c.303 at Venosa, Italy.
  • St. Florentina of Cartagena Born: Cartagena, Spain. Died: c.636. Also called Florence, Fiorentina.
  • St. Fortunatus of Salerno Died: 303 near Salerno, Italy.
  • St. Gaius of Salerno Died: 303 near Salerno, Italy. Also called Caius.
  • St. Gorman of Schleswig Died: 965.
  • St. Hermes of Rome Died: martyred c.125 at Rome, Italy. Patronage: Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Italy and Acquapendente, Italy.
  • St. Januarius of Venosa Died: c.303 at Venosa, Italy.
  • St. Joaquina Vedruna Vidal de Mas Born: 16 April 1783 in Barcelona, Spain. Died: 28 August 1854 at Vic, Barcelona, Spain. Canonized: 12 April 1959 by Pope John XXIII. Patronage: abuse victims, death of children, exiles, and widows.
  • St. Julian of Auvergne Born: at Vienne, Dauphiny, Gaul (modern France). Died: beheaded near Brionde, Gaul. Also called Julian of Brioude.
  • St. Pelagius of Istria Died: c.283 in Istria (part of modern Croatia). Patronage: Constance, Germany. Also called Pelagio.
  • St. Restitutus of Carthage Died: c.360. Also called Restituto.
  • St. Rumwold the Prince Died: c.650. Also called Rumwald.
  • St. Septiminus of Venosa Died: c.303 at Venosa, Italy.
  • St. Vicinius of Sarsina Born: late 3rd century Liguria, Italy. Died: 28 August 330 in the area of Sarsina, Italy. Patronage: Sarsina, Italy. Also called Vicinio.
  • St. Vivian of Saintes Born: c.419. Died: c.460 at Saintes, France. Also called Bibiano.

Blessed (14)

  • Blessed Adelindis of Buchau Died: c.930. Also called Adelindis of Poulagy and Adelinda, Adele, Adelaide.
  • Blessed Alfons Maria Mazurek Born: 1 March 1891 at Baranówka, Lubelskie, Poland as Józef Mazurek. Died: beaten then shot on 28 August 1944 in Nawojowa Góra, Malopolskie, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Angelo da Pesche d'Isernia Born: c.1400 in Pesche d'Isernia, Italy. Died: 1460 in the Franciscan monastery in Lucera, Foggia, Italy.
  • Blessed Charles-Arnould Hanus Born: 18 October 1723 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Died: 28 August 1794 aboard the prison ship Washington. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Francisco Romero Ortega Born: 30 March 1872 in Almería, Spain. Died: shot. Beatified: 25 March 2017 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Henry Webley Born: in Gloucester, Glocestershire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Hugh More Born: at Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Died: hanged on 28 August 1588 at Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI.
  • Blessed James Claxton Born: 16th century Yorkshire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 15 December1929 by Pope Pius XI. Also called James Clarkson.
  • Blessed José Romero Ortega Born: 2 April 1875 in Almería, Spain. Died: shot on 28 August 1936 in Huércal, Almería, Spain. Beatified: 25 March 2017 by Pope Francis.
  • St. Junipero Serra Born: 24 November 1713 at Petra, Spanish Majorca as Miguel Jose Serra. Died: 28 August 1784. Canonized: 23 September 2015 by Pope Francis. Also called Apostle of California and Miguel José Serra Ferrer.
  • Blessed Robert Morton Born: Bawtry, Yorkshire, England. Died: 28 August 1588 in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, England. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Thomas Felton Born: c.1567 in Bermondsey, London, England. Died: hanged on 28 August 1588 in Isleworth, London, England. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI.
  • Blessed William Dean Born: at Linton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England. Died: 28 August 1588 at Mile End Green, East London, England. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI.
  • Blessed William Gunter Born: Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales. Died: 28 August 1588 in Shoreditch, London, England. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.

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 (4)

  • Diego de Tahust
  • Feidlimid
  • Hezekiah of Judah
  • Thomas Holford

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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