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Saints of 31 October

26 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 31 October, with short facts.

Saints (17)

  • St. Alonso Rodriguez Born: 25 July 1532 at Segovia, Spain. Died: 31 October 1617 at Palma, Mallorca, Spain. Canonized: 6 September 1887 by Pope Leo XIII. Patronage: Majorca, Spain, city of and Majorca, Spain, island of. Also called Alphonsus Rodriguez.
  • St. Ampliatus
  • St. Antoninus of Milan Died: 660. Also called Antonino, Fontana.
  • St. Apelles of Eraclea Sintica Born: Heraklion (modern Candia, Crete), Greece. Died: Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey). Also called Apelle.
  • St. Arnulf of Novalesa Died: c.840.
  • St. Begu of Hackness Died: 660.
  • St. Epimachus of Melusio Died: beheaded c.250. Also called Epimachus of Alexandria, Epimachus Pelusiota, Epimachus of Pelusium, and Epimachio.
  • St. Erth of Cornwall Born: Ireland. Died: 6th century. Also called Herygh, Urith.
  • St. Foillan of Fosses Born: 7th century Ireland. Died: murdered 31 October 655 in the forest near Nivelles, Belgium. Patronage: children's nurses, dentists, Fosses, Belgium, surgeons, and truss makers. Also called Faelan, Faillan, Faolan, Feuillien, Foalan, Foelan.
  • St. Lucilla of Rome Born: Roman citizen. Died: beheaded.
  • St. María Isabel Salvat Romero Born: 20 February 1926 in Madrid, Spain. Died: 31 October 1998 in Seville, Spain. Canonized: 18 October 2015 by Pope Francis at Rome, Italy. Also called María de la Purísima de la Cruz.
  • St. Narcissus
  • St. Notburga of Cologne Died: c.714.
  • St. Quentin Born: Rome, Italy. Died: tortured and beheaded in 287 at Augusta Veromanduorum, Gaul (now Saint-Quentin, France). Patronage: against coughs. Also called Quintin, Quintinus.
  • St. Stachys of Constantinople Also called Stachis.
  • St. Urban
  • St. Wolfgang of Ratisbon Born: 924 in Swabia, Germany. Died: 31 October 994 at Pupping, Linz (modern Austria). Canonized: 1052 by Pope Leo IX. Patronage: against apoplexy or strokes, against paralysis; paralyzed people, against stomach diseases, apoplexics or stroke victims, carpenters, and diocese of Regensburg, Germany.

Blessed (9)

  • Blessed Christopher of Romagna Born: late 12 century in the Romagna region of Italy. Died: 1272 in Cahors, France. Beatified: 1905 by Pope Pius X (cultus confirmation).
  • Blessed Dominic Collins Born: c.1566 in Youghal, Cork, Ireland. Died: 31 October 1602 in Youghal, Cork, Ireland. Beatified: 27 September 1992 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy. Also called Doiminic Ó Coileéin.
  • Blessed Irene Stefani Born: 22 August 1891 in Anfo, Brescia, Italy as Aurelia Mercede Stefani. Died: 31 October 1930 in Gikondi, Mukurweini, Nyeri, Kenya. Beatified: 23 May 2015 by Pope Francis. Also called Aurelia Mercede Stefani.
  • Blessed Leon Nowakowski Born: 28 June 1913 in Byton (Cuiavia), Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. Died: shot on the night of 31 October 1939 in Piotrków Kujawski, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Maria de Requesens Born: mid-13th century Spain. Died: 1345.
  • Blessed Miguel Tiu Imul Born: 5 September 1941 in La Montaña, Parraxtut, Sacapulas, Quiché, Guatemala. Died: 31 October 1991 in Parraxtut, Sacapulas, Quiché, Guatemala. Beatified: 23 April 2021 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Modesta Moro Briz Born: 11 July 1901 in Santibéñez de Béjar, Salamanca, Spain. Died: 31 October 1936 in Vallecas, Madrid, Spain. Beatified: 27 October 2013 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Blessed Pilar Isabel Sénchez Suérez Born: 5 November 1906 in Madrid, Spain. Died: 31 October 1936 in Vallecas, Madrid, Spain. Beatified: 27 October 2013 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Blessed Thomas Bellacci Born: 1370 at Florence, Italy. Died: 31 October 1447 in Rieti, Italy. Beatified: 1771 by Pope Clement XIV. Patronage: butchers. Also called Thomas of Florence and Tommaso Bellacci.

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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