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Saints of 11 December

32 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 11 December, with short facts.

Saints (11)

  • St. Aithalas of Arbela Died: c.354 in Arbela, Persia. Also called Aithelas.
  • St. Apseus of Arbela Died: c.354 in Arbela, Persia. Also called Acepsius.
  • St. Barsabas Born: Persian. Died: martyred in 342. Also called Barsabbas.
  • St. Cian of Wales Born: Welsh.
  • St. Daniel the Stylite Born: 409 at Maratha, Syria. Died: 493 near Constantinople. Also called Daniel of Constantinople.
  • St. Eutychius the Martyr Died: 4th century Spain. Also called Eutychius of Spain, Eutychius of Cadiz, Eutuchius of Merida, and Oye.
  • St. Fidweten Died: c.888. Also called Fivetein, Fidivitanus.
  • St. María Maravillas de Jesús Born: 4 November 1891 in Madrid, Spain. Died: 11 December 1974 in La Aldehuela monastery, Madrid province, Spain. Canonized: 4 May 2003 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Maravillas Pidal y Chico de Guzmán and Maria de las Maravillas Jesus.
  • St. Masona of Mérida Died: c.606 in Mérida, Spain. Also called Mausona.
  • St. Pens Patronage: Llanberis, Wales. Also called Peris.
  • St. Sabinus of Piacenza Died: 420.

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Damasus I Born: c.306 in Rome, Italy. Died: 11 December 384 in Rome, Italy. Patronage: archeologists.

Blessed (12)

  • Blessed Arthur Bell Born: 13 January 1590 in Temple Broughton, Worcestershire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Francis Bell.
  • Blessed David of Himmerod Born: c.1100 in Florence, Italy. Died: 11 December 1179. Beatified: 1699.
  • Blessed Dominic Yanez
  • Blessed Franco of Siena Born: 13th century Grottoes-Siena, Italy as Francesco Lippi. Died: 11 December 1291 in Siena, Italy. Beatified: 1670 by Pope Clement X (cultus confirmation). Also called Francesco Lippi.
  • Blessed Hugolinus Magalotti Born: at Camerino, Italy. Died: 11 December 1373. Beatified: 4 December 1856 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmed). Also called Hugolino Magalotti and Ugolino Magalotti.
  • Blessed Jean Laurens Born: 1548 in Miskom, Kortenaken, Vlaams, Brabant, Flanders (in modern Belgium). Died: 11 December 1613.
  • Blessed Jerome Ranuzzi Born: c.1410 at Sant'Angelo, Vado, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy. Died: c.1468. Beatified: 1 April 1775 by Pope Pius VI (cultus confirmed). Also called Jerome Ranucci and Angel of Good Counsel.
  • Blessed Martín Lumbreras Peralta Born: 8 December 1598 in Zaragoza, Spain. Died: burned alive on 11 December 1632 in Nagasaki, Japan. Beatified: 23 April 1989 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Father Martín of Saint Nicholas.
  • Blessed Martino de Melgar
  • Blessed Melchor Sánchez Pérez Born: 1599 in Granada, Spain. Died: burned alive on 11 December 1632 in Nagasaki, Japan. Beatified: 23 April 1989 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Father Melchor of Saint Augustine.
  • Blessed Pilar Villalonga Villalba Born: 22 January 1891 in Valencia, Spain. Died: 11 December 1936 in Burjassot, Valencia, Spain. Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Severin Ott Born: 1627 in Germany. Died: noon 11 December 1708. Also called Severinus, Mariophylus Severinus, and Mariae servus Singularis.

Martyr groups (2)

  • Martyrs of Rome Died: c.303 in Rome, Italy.
  • Martyrs of Saint Aux-Bois Died: beheaded in 287 in Saint Aux-Bois, Gaul (in modern France).

Other (6)

  • Ludolf van Craeywinckel
  • Luke of Chalcedon
  • Maria Piedal
  • Pablo di Merida
  • Tassilo III
  • Wilbirg

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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