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Saints of 3 October

29 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 3 October, with short facts.

Saints (14)

  • St. Adalgott of Chur Died: 1165.
  • St. Benedetto of Como
  • St. Candidus the Martyr Died: martyred in the cemetery of Pontian. Patronage: Fucecchio, Italy. Also called Candidus of Rome and Candida, Candido.
  • St. Cyprian of Toulon Born: 476 at Marseilles, France. Died: 546.
  • St. Dionysius the Aeropagite Died: burned to death c.95 in Athens, Greece. Patronage: against headaches, against the devil, and Zakynthos Island, Greece. Also called Denis the Aeropagite and Dionysius of Athens.
  • St. Ewald the Black Born: Northumbria, England. Died: torn limb. Patronage: Westphalia. Also called Hewald.
  • St. Ewald the Fair Born: Northumbria, England. Died: torn limb. Patronage: Westphalia. Also called Hewald the Fair.
  • St. Gerard of Brogne Born: c.895 at Staves, Namur, Belgium. Died: 3 October 959 at Brogne, Belgium.
  • St. Hesychius Died: c.380 at Majuma, Palestine.
  • St. Maximian of Bagaia Died: martyred in 404.
  • St. Menna Born: 4th century Lorraine (part of modern France). Died: c.395. Also called Manna.
  • St. Theodore Guerin Born: 2 October 1798 at Etables-sur-Mer, Brittany, France as Anne-Thérèse Guérin. Died: 14 May 1856 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, USA. Canonized: 15 October 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. Patronage: Lafayette, Indiana, diocese of. Also called Mother Theodore and Anne-Thérèse Guérin.
  • St. Virila Born: in a small village near Tiermas, Spain. Died: 10th century in Leyre, Navarre, Spain.
  • St. Widradus Died: 747. Also called Waré.

Blessed (9)

  • Blessed Agostina of the Assumption
  • Blessed Damian de Portu Died: 1399 in Lerida, Spain.
  • Blessed Desiderio Franco Born: Villafranca Piemonte, Italy. Died: c.1450.
  • Blessed Edmund of Scotland Died: 1100 at the monastery of Montague in Somerset, England.
  • Blessed Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve Born: 16 February 1916 in Santo Domingo, Antioquia, Colombia. Died: shot twice in the head on 3 October 1989 near Fortul, Arauca, Colombia. Beatified: 8 September 2017 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Juan Tapia Died: 1562.
  • Blessed Maddalena the Greater
  • Blessed Szilárd István Bogdánffy Born: 21 February 1911 in Crna Bara, Coka, Hungary (in modern Serbia). Died: 3 October 1953 in Nagyenyed (Aiud), Alba, Romania. Beatified: 30 October 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Blessed Utto of Metten Born: c.750. Died: c.820. Beatified: 25 August 1909 by Pope Saint Pius X (cultus confirmed). Also called Udo, Utho, Otto, Ottone, Odon.

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 Died: Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Martyrs of Brazil Died: 1645. Beatified: 5 March 2000 at Rome, Italy by Pope John Paul II.

Other (3)

  • Abd al Misah
  • Julian of Palermo
  • Miracle of Ocotlán Also called Our Lord of Mercy and Señor de la Misericordia.

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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