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Saints of 17 November

21 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 17 November, with short facts.

Saints (18)

  • St. Gregory of Tours Born: 540 at Auvergne, France as George Florentius. Died: 594. Also called George Florentius.
  • St. Gregory Thaumaturgus Born: c.213 at Pontus, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey) as Theodorus. Died: c.270 at Pontus, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey). Patronage: against earthquakes, against floods, and desperate, forgotten, impossible or lost causes.
  • St. Acisclus Born: at Cordoba, Spain. Died: beheaded in 304. Patronage: Cordoba, Spain. Also called Aciscle, Acisclo, Ascylus, Iscle, Ocysellus.
  • St. Aignan of Orléans Born: 358 at Vienne, France. Died: 453. Patronage: Diocese of Orléans, France. Also called Agnan, Anian, Anianus.
  • St. Alphaeus of Palestine Died: beheaded c.302 in Palestine.
  • St. Elizabeth of Hungary Born: 1207 at Presburg, Hungary. Died: 1231 at Marburg, Germany. Canonized: 27 May 1235 by Pope Gregory IX at Perugia, Italy. Patronage: against in-law problems, against the death of children, against toothache, bakers, beggars, brides, charitable societies, charitable workers, and others.
  • St. Eugene of Florence Died: 422.
  • St. Florinus of Remüs Born: late 8th century Val Venosta, Italy. Died: c.856 at Remüs (modern Ramosch), Switzerland. Patronage: Chur, Switzerland, diocese of, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, diocese of, Lower Engadine, Switzerland, and Val Venosta, Italy.
  • St. Giacinto Ansalone Born: 1 November 1598 in San Stefano Quisquina, Agrigento, Italy. Died: 17 November 1634 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan. Canonized: 18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Patronage: Santo Stefano Quisquina, Italy. Also called Giordano Ansaloni, Giordano of Saint Stephen, and Hyacinth Jordan Ansalone.
  • St. Hilda of Whitby Born: 614 at Northumbria, England. Died: 680. Also called Hild of Whitby.
  • St. Hugh of Lincoln Born: 1135 at Avalon Castle, Burgundy, France. Died: 16 November 1200 at London, England. Canonized: 18 February 1220 by Pope Honorius III. Patronage: sick children, sick people, and swans. Also called Hugh of Avalon and Hugh of Burgundy.
  • St. Hugh of Novara Born: French. Died: c.1170. Patronage: Bovara, Sicily. Also called Hugo of Nucaria, Hugo of Noaria, and Ugo, Hugh.
  • St. Juan del Castillo Rodríguez Born: 14 September 1595 in Belmonte, Cuenca, Spain. Died: stoned to death on 17 November 1628 in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraguay (in modern Brazil). Canonized: 16 May 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Patronage: native traditions.
  • St. Lazarus Zographos Died: 867. Also called Lazarus the Painter, Lazarus of Constantinople, and Lazzaro....
  • St. Namasius of Vienne Died: c.599. Also called Naamat, Namaise, Namacio, Namat, Namatius.
  • Blessed Sébastien-Loup Hunot Born: 7 August 1745 in Brienon-l'Archevêque, Yonne, France at Cordoba, Spain. Died: 17 November 1794 aboard the prison ship Washington. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II Saint Victoria of Cordoba. Patronage: Cordoba, Spain.
  • St. Thomas Hioji Nishi Rokuzaemon Born: 1590 in Hirado, Nagasaki, Japan. Died: 17 November 1634 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan. Canonized: 18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Father Thomas of Saint Hyacinth.
  • St. Zacchaeus of Palestine Died: beheaded c.302 in Palestine.

Blessed (2)

  • Blessed Salomea of Galicia Born: 13th century Galicia (in modern Poland). Died: 17 November 1268 near Cracow, Poland. Beatified: 1673 by Pope Clement X (cultus confirmation). Also called Salomea of Poland, Salomea of Polonia, and Salome....
  • Blessed Yosafat Kotsylovskyi Born: 3 March 1876 at Pakoshivka, Lemkiv District, Ukraine. Died: martyred on 17 November 1947 in prison in Kiev, Ukraine. Beatified: 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine. Also called Josaphat Kocylovskyj and Josaphat Kotsylovsky.

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.

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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