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Saints of 8 September

35 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 8 September, with short facts.

Feasts (1)

  • Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Patronage: chefs, cooks and restauranteurs, coffee house owners or keepers, distillers, drapers, fish dealers or fishmongers, gold workers or goldsmiths, needle and pin makers, potters, and others. Also called Natività di Maria Vergine and Nativité di Maria Vergine.

Marian titles (6)

  • Our Lady of Charity of el Cobre Patronage: Cuba, Miami, Florida, archdiocese of, and Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, diocese of. Also called Cachita.
  • Our Lady of Covadonga
  • Our Lady of Health of Vailankanni
  • Our Lady of Meritxell Patronage: Andorra (proclaimed by the General Council in 1873).
  • Our Lady of Ripalta
  • Our Lady of Valldeflors

Saints (9)

  • St. Adela of Messines Died: 1071 in Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. Also called Adelais, Adelaide.
  • St. Corbinian Born: 670 at Châtres, France as Waldegiso. Died: 730. Patronage: Freising, Germany and Munich, Germany, archdiocese of. Also called Korbinian, Waldegiso.
  • St. Disibod of Disenberg Born: c.619 in Ireland. Died: 8 July or 8 September (records vary) 700. Patronage: Disenberg, Germany and Disibodenberg, Germany. Also called Disibode, Disen.
  • St. Faustus of Antioch Died: Antioch (in modern Turkey).
  • St. Isaac the Great Born: 350. Died: 440 at Ashtishat. Also called Sahak.
  • St. István Pongrácz Born: c.1583 in Vintu de Jos, Alba, Hungary (now in Romania). Died: 8 September 1619 in Kosice, Kosický kraj, Hungary (now in Slovakia). Canonized: 2 July 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Stefan Pongrác.
  • St. Kingsmark Also called Cynfarch.
  • St. Thomas of Villanova Born: 1488 at Fuentellana, Castile, Spain. Died: 8 September 1555 at Valencia, Spain. Canonized: 1 November 1658 by Pope Alexander VII. Patronage: Genzano di Roma, Italy. Also called Father of the Poor, Model of Bishops, Thomas of Villanueva, Thomas the Almsgiver, and Tomas of Villanova.
  • St. Timothy of Antioch Died: Antioch (in modern Turkey).

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Sergius I Born: at Palermo, Sicily. Died: 7 September 701.

Blessed (14)

  • Blessed Adam Bargielski Born: 7 January 1903 in Kalinowo, Poland. Died: murdered by a guard 8 September 1942 at the Dachau concentration camp, Oberbayern, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Alanus de Rupe Born: c.1428 in Sizun, Brittany, France. Died: 8 September 1475 in Zwolle, Netherlands. Beatified: never formally confirmed or beatified. Also called Alain de la Roche, Alan de Rupe, Alano de la Roca, and Alanus Rupe.
  • Blessed Alfredo Pellicer Muñoz Born: 10 April 1914 in Bellreguard, Valencia, Spain. Died: shot by firing squad at approximately 3pm on Sunday 8 September 1936 in Castellón, Spain. Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam Born: 23 April 1813 in Milan, Italy. Died: 8 September 1853 in Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Beatified: 22 August 1997 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Apolonia Lizárraga Ochoa de Zabalegui Born: 18 April 1867 in Lezáun, Pamplona, Spain. Died: 8 September 1936 in Barcelona, Spain. Beatified: 28 October 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called Sister Apolonia of the Blessed Sacrament.
  • Blessed John Norton Born: in Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed John Talbot Born: in Thornton-le-Street, North Yorkshire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Marino Blanes Giner Born: 19 September 1888 in Alcoi, Alicante, Spain. Died: shot soon. Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Pascual Fortuño Almela Born: 3 March 1886 in Villareal, Castellón, Spain. Died: shot and stabbed in the chest. Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Peter of Chavanon Born: 1003 in Langeac, Haute Loire, France. Died: 1080.
  • Blessed Plácido García Gilabert Born: 1 January 1895 in Benitachell. Died: at dawn on 8 September 1936 in Castellón, Spain. Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Seraphina Sforza Born: c.1432 at Urbino, Italy as Sueva. Died: 8 September 1478 at Pesaro, Italy. Beatified: 17 July 1754 by Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed). Also called Sueva Sforza.
  • Blessed Thomas Palaser Born: c.1570 in Ellerton-upon-Swale, North Yorkshire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Thomas Palasor, Thomas Palaster, and Thomas Pallicer.
  • Blessed Wladyslaw Bladzinski Born: January 1908 in Myslatycze, Podkarpackie, Poland. Died: 8 September 1944 in Gross-Rosen, Goczalków, Dolnoslaskie. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland. Also called Ladislao.

Martyr groups (3)

  • 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 Alexandria Born: Egypt. Died: Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Martyrs of Japan Died: 8 September 1628 in Nagasaki, Japan. Beatified: 7 May 1867 by Pope Pius IX.

Other (1)

  • Madonna della Libera

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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