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Saints of 17 October

34 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 17 October, with short facts.

Saints (20)

  • St. Ignatius of Antioch Born: c.50 in Syria. Died: thrown to wild animals c.107 at Rome, Italy. Patronage: against throat diseases, Church in eastern Mediterranean, and Church in North Africa. Also called God-Bearer, Theophoros.
  • St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Born: 22 July 1647 at L'Hautecourt, Burgundy, France. Died: 17 October 1690. Beatified: 18 September 1864 by Pope Blessed Pius IX. Canonized: 13 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV. Patronage: against polio, against the death of parents, devotees of the Sacred Heart, and polio patients. Date differs between sources; also kept on 16 October.
  • St. Anstrudis of Laon Died: 688. Also called Anstrude, Austru, Austrude.
  • St. Berarius I of Le Mans Died: c.680.
  • St. Catervus Died: sarcophagus opened in 1455 and his head transferred to a reliquary for veneration. Patronage: diocese of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy and Tolentino, Italy. Also called Catervo and Flavius Julius Catervus.
  • St. Colman of Kilroot Born: 6th century Irish.
  • St. Ethelbert of Eastry Died: 640 at Eastry, England. Also called Aethelbert.
  • St. Ethelred of Eastry Died: 640 at Eastry, England. Also called Aethelred.
  • St. Florentius of Orange Born: Tours, France. Died: c.526 in Orange, Provence, Gaul (in modern France). Also called Fiorenzo, Florence, Florencio.
  • St. François-Isidore Gagelin Born: 10 May 1799 in Montperreux, Doubs, France. Died: strangled to death on 17 October 1833 in Bãi Dâu, Saigon, Vietnam. Canonized: 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Francis Isidore Gagelin and Frans Isidor Gagelin.
  • St. Heron of Antioch Died: c.136. Also called Herodion.
  • St. John the Short Born: c.339 at Basta, Egypt. Died: at Mount Qolzum. Also called John Colobus, John Kolobos, John the Little, John the Dwarf, and Yoannis Pi Kolobos.
  • St. Louthiern Born: Ireland. Died: 6th century. Patronage: Ludgran, Cornwall, England.
  • St. Mamelta of Persia Died: stoned and then drowned in a lake in Persia c.344.
  • St. Nothelm of Canterbury Died: 739. Also called Nothhelm.
  • St. Richard Gwyn Born: c.1537 at Llanidloes, Powys, Wales. Died: 17 October 1584 at Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI. Patronage: large families, parents of large families, and torture victims. Also called Richard White.
  • St. Rudolph of Gubbio Died: c.1066. Also called Rodolph.
  • St. Rufus of Rome Born: Philippi, Greek. Died: mangled by wild animals c.107 in the arena of Rome, Italy.
  • St. Solina of Chartres Born: Gascony, France. Died: beheaded c.290 in Chartres, France. Also called Solina of Gascony.
  • St. Zosimus of Rome Born: Greek. Died: mangled by wild animals c.107 in the arena of Rome, Italy.

Blessed (7)

  • Blessed Balthassar of Chiavari Born: 1420 in Chiavari, Genoa, Italy. Died: 17 October 1492 in Binasco, Milan, Italy. Beatified: 8 January 1930 by Pope Pius XI (cultus confirmed). Also called Baldassare Ravaschieri.
  • Blessed Battista de Bonafede Died: Sant'Anne convent in Palermo, Sicily.
  • Blessed Contardo Ferrini Born: 4 April 1859 at Milan, Italy. Died: 17 October 1902 at Suna, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy. Beatified: 13 April 1947 by Pope Pius XII. Patronage: colleges, schools, universities.
  • Blessed Gilbert the Theologian Born: in England. Died: 1167. Also called Gilbert of Citeaux, Gilbert of Ourscamp, and Gilbert the Great.
  • Blessed Jacques Burin Born: 6 January 1756 in Champfleur, Sarthe, France. Died: 17 October 1794 in Laval, Mayenne, France. Beatified: 19 June 1955 by Pope Pius XII at Rome, Italy.
  • Blessed Peter Casini Died: 1647 in Rome, Italy. Also called Peter of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  • Blessed Társila Córdoba Belda de Girona Born: 8 May 1861 in Sollana, Valencia, Spain. Died: shot at dawn on 17 October 1936 against the wall of the cemetery in Algemesí, Valencia, Spain. Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II.

Martyr groups (4)

  • 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 Nicomedia Died: 303 in Nicomedia (in modern Turkey).
  • Martyrs of Valenciennes Died: guillotined on 17 October 1794 at Valenciennes, Nord, France. Beatified: 13 June 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.
  • Martyrs of Volitani Died: Volitani. Also called Martyrs of Bolitani.

Other (3)

  • Dominic Navarro
  • Hosea the Prophet Also called Osee.
  • Juan de Zamora

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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