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Saints of 17 September

32 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 17 September, with short facts.

Saints (20)

  • St. Francis of Assisi Born: 1181 at Assisi, Umbria, Italy as Francis Bernardone. Died: 4 October 1226 at Portiuncula, Italy. Canonized: 16 July 1228 by Pope Gregory IX. Also called Francis Bernardone. Date differs between sources; also kept on 4 October.
  • St. Hildegard of Bingen Born: 1098 at Bermersheim, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany). Died: 17 September 1179 at Bingen, Rhineland Palatinate (modern Germany). Beatified: 26 August 1326 by Pope John XXII. Canonized: 10 May 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI (equipollent canonization).
  • St. Robert Bellarmine Born: 4 October 1542 at Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy as Roberto Francesco Romolo. Died: in the morning of 17 September 1621 at Rome, Italy. Canonized: 29 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI. Patronage: canon lawyers; canonists, catechists, catechumens, and Cincinnati, Ohio, archdiocese of.
  • St. Agathoclia Patronage: Aragon, Spain.
  • St. Brogan of Ross Tuirc
  • St. Columba of Cordova Born: 8th century at Cordova, Spain. Died: beheaded in 853 at Tabanos, Spain. Also called Columba of Cordoba and Columba of Spain.
  • St. Crescendo of Rome Died: c.260. Also called Crescentio.
  • St. Emmanuel Nguyen Van Trieu Born: c.1756 in The Ðúc, Phu Xuân (now Hue), Vietnam. Died: 17 September 1798 in Bãi Dâu, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. Canonized: 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Emmanuel Triêu and Emmanuel Triêu Van Nguyen.
  • St. Flocellus Died: tortured and thrown to wild animals in 2nd century at Autun, France.
  • St. Justin of Rome Died: 259 in Rome, Italy.
  • St. Lambert of Maastricht Born: c.635 at Maastricht, Netherlands. Patronage: Liège, Belgium, diocese of and Middelaar, Netherlands. Also called Lambert of Liege and Lamberto, Lambertus, Landebertus.
  • St. Narcissus of Rome Died: c.260.
  • St. Peter Arbues Born: 1442 at Aragon, Spain. Died: 17 September 1485 in the cathedral of Saragossa, Spain. Beatified: 20 April 1664 by Pope Alexander VII. Canonized: 29 June 1867 by Pope Pius IX. Also called Peter of Arbues.
  • St. Rodingus Born: Ireland. Died: c.690. Also called Radingus, Ronin, Rouin.
  • St. Satyrus of Milan Born: Trier, Germany. Died: 376 in Milan, Italy. Patronage: sacristans of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy.
  • St. Socrates
  • St. Stephen
  • St. Theodora Died: 305.
  • St. Uni of Bremen Died: 936 in Birka, Sweden. Also called Huno, Unni, Unno.
  • St. Zygmunt Szcesny Felinski Born: 1 November 1822 in Voyutin (Wojutyn), Poland (in modern Ukraine). Died: 17 September 1895 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. Canonized: 11 October 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI Works.

Blessed (3)

  • Blessed Leonella Sgorbati Born: 9 December 1940 at Gazzola, Piacenza, Italy as Rosa Maria Sgorbati. Died: shot just. Beatified: 26 May 2018 by Pope Francis. Also called Rosa Maria Sgorbati.
  • Blessed Stanislaw of Jesus and Mary Born: 18 May 1631 in Podegrodzie, Malopolskie, Poland. Died: 17 September 1701 in Góra Kalwaria, Mazowieckie, Poland. Beatified: 16 September 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called Jan Papczynski, Jana Papczynski, Stanislao de Jesus Maria, and Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary.
  • Blessed Zygmunt Sajna Born: 20 January 1897 in Zurawlówka, Podlaskie, Poland. Died: shot on 17 September 1940 in in the woods outside Palmiry, Mazowieckie, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland. Also called Sigismund.

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 (8)

  • Andoletus of Liege
  • Antonio Morell
  • Badurad of Paderborn
  • Camilla of Carcassonne
  • Cherubino Testa of Avigliana
  • Francis Mary of Camporosso
  • Peter of Liege
  • Reginald of Mélinais

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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