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Saints of 23 September

26 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 23 September, with short facts.

Saints (10)

  • St. Adamnan of Iona Born: c.628 in Drumhome, County Donegal, Ireland. Died: 23 September 704 at Iona Abbey. Canonized: Pre-Congregation. Patronage: Donegal, Ireland, county of, Raphoe, Ireland, city of, and Raphoe, Ireland, diocese of. Also called Adam, Adamnano, Adomnan, Eunan.
  • St. Pio of Pietrelcina Born: 25 May 1887 at Pietrelcina, Benevento, Italy as Francesco Forgione. Died: 23 September 1968 in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy. Canonized: 16 June 2002 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy. Also called Francesco Forgione, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, and Pio of Pietrelcina.
  • St. Cissa of Northumbria
  • St. Constantius of Ancona
  • St. Elizabeth of the Visitation Born: 1st century BC. Died: 1st century AD. Patronage: expectant mothers, pregnant women and diocese of Fulda, Germany.
  • St. Polyxena Died: late 1st century in Spain. Also called Polyxene.
  • St. Sosius of Misenum Born: 275 in Miseno, Italy. Died: beheaded on 19 September 305 at Pozzuoli, Campagna, Italy. Patronage: Frattamaggiore, Italy and San Sossio Baronia, Italy. Also called Sosius of Miseno, Sosius of Puzzuoli, and Sosier, Sosio, Sosius, Sossio, Sossius, Sosso.
  • St. Thecla of Iconium Died: late 1st century. Also called Tecla, Tegla, Tekla and Protomartyr among women and equal to the Apostles.
  • St. Xantippa Died: late 1st century in Spain. Also called Xanthippe.
  • St. Zechariah Also called Zaccaria, Zacharias, Zachary, Zakariya.

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Linus Born: in Tuscany, Italy. Died: 76 in Rome, Italy.

Blessed (11)

  • Blessed Antonio of Tlaxcala Born: c.1516-1517 in Tizatlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Died: beaten to death. Beatified: 6 May 1990 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Anthony.
  • Blessed Bernardina Maria Jablonska Born: 5 August 1878 in Pyzuny Lukawica, Poland. Died: 23 September 1940 in Krakow, Poland. Beatified: 6 June 1997 at Zakopane, Poland by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Cristobal of Tlaxcala Born: c.1514-1515 in Atlihuetzía, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Died: burned to death in 1527 at Tizatlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Beatified: 6 May 1990 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Christopher, Cristobalito.
  • Blessed Émilie Tavernier Gamelin Born: 19 February 1800 at Montreal, Canada. Died: 23 September 1851. Beatified: 7 October 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Francisco de Paula Victor Born: 12 April 1827 in Campanha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Died: 23 September 1905 in Três Pontas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Beatified: 14 November 2015 Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Guy of Durnes Died: c.1157.
  • Blessed Helen Duglioli Born: 1472 at Bologna, Italy. Died: 1520. Beatified: 1828 by Pope Leo XII (cultus confirmed). Also called Helen of Bologna and Elena Duglioli Dall'Olio.
  • Blessed Jozef Stanek Born: 4 December 1916 in Lapsze Nizne, Poland. Died: hanged on 23 September 1944 in a ruined factory in the Solec district of Czerniaków, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Blessed Juan of Tlaxcala Born: c.1516-1517 in Tizatlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Died: beaten to death. Beatified: 6 May 1990 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Norberto Cembranos de la Verdura Born: 6 June 1891 in Villalquite, León, Spain. Died: 23 September 1936 in Madrid, Spain. Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed William Way Born: Exeter, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI. Also called William Flower and William May.

Martyr groups (2)

  • 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 Syracuse Died: c.900.

Other (2)

  • Ascension of San Joseph Calasanz Llored Marco
  • Rebecca the Matriarch

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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