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Saints of 14 December

29 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 14 December, with short facts.

Saints (15)

  • St. John of the Cross Born: 24 June 1542 at Fontiveros, Spain as Juan de Santa María de Yepes. Died: 14 December 1591 at Ubeda, Andalusia, Spain. Canonized: 27 December 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII. Also called Doctor of Mystical Theology, John della Croce, John de la Croix, John de la Cruz, and John vom Kreuz.
  • St. Venantius Fortunatus Born: c.535 at Treviso, Italy. Died: c.605 at Poitiers, Gaul (in modern France). Also called Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus.
  • St. Abundius of Spain Died: 283 in Spain.
  • St. Agnellus of Naples Born: 535 in Naples, Italy. Died: 14 December 596 in Naples, Italy. Patronage: against invaders and Naples, Italy.
  • St. Eutropia of Rheims Died: beheaded c.451 at Rheims, France.
  • St. Florentius of Rheims Died: beheaded c.451 at Rheims, France.
  • St. Folcuino of Therouanne Died: c.955 in Morini, France. Also called Folquin.
  • St. John Bread-and-Water Died: c.1150. Also called John Pan y Agua.
  • St. Jucundus of Rheims Died: beheaded c.451 at Rheims, France.
  • St. Justus of Spain Died: 283 in Spain.
  • St. Matronianus of Milan Born: Milan, Italy. Also called Matronian.
  • St. Nicasius of Rheims Died: beheaded c.451 at Rheims, France in the doorway of his church. Patronage: against eye disease, against mice, and Rheims, France.
  • St. Pompeius of Pavia Died: c.290.
  • St. Viator of Bergamo Died: c.78. Patronage: catechists. Also called Viater of Bergamo and Viateur of Bergamo.
  • St. Yusuf Jurj Kassab al-Hardini Born: 1808 in Hardine, Batrun, Ash Shamal, Lebanon. Died: 14 December 1858 in Kfifan, Batrun, Ash Shamal, Lebanon. Canonized: 16 May 2004 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Nimatullah al-Hardini and Nimatullah Youssef Kassab Al-Hardini.

Blessed (7)

  • Blessed Buenaventura Bonaccorsi Died: 1315 at Orvieto, Tuscany, Italy. Also called Buenaventura of Pistoia and Bonaventura....
  • Blessed Castino Died: 1292. Also called Castissimo.
  • Blessed János Brenner Born: 17 December 1931 in Szombathely, Vas, Hungary. Died: stabbed 32 times. Beatified: 1 May 2018 by Pope Francis. Also called Brother Anasztáz, Brother Anastasius, and The Hungarian Tarcisius.
  • Blessed John Discalceat Born: c.1278 in Saint-Vougay, Finistère. Died: 15 December 1349. Beatified: 4 April 1989 by Pope John Paul II (cultus confirmation). Also called John Descalzo and John Discalceatus.
  • Blessed Mary Frances Schervier Born: 3 January 1819 at Aachen, Germany. Died: 14 December 1876 at Aachen Germany. Beatified: 28 April 1974 by Pope Paul VI at Rome, Italy. Also called Franziska Schervier.
  • Blessed Protasi Cubells Minguell Born: 27 December 1880 in Coll de Nargó, Lleida, Spain. Died: 14 December 1936 in Barcelona, Spain. Beatified: 25 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed William de Rovira

Martyr groups (5)

  • Martyrs of Alexandria Died: burned to death in 250 at Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Martyrs of Apollonia Died: Apollonia, Bithynia (in modern Turkey).
  • Martyrs of Ashkelon Died: burned at the stake or beheaded at the gates of Ashkelon c.308.
  • Martyrs of Hayle Died: 5th century at Hayle, Cornwall, England.
  • Martyrs of Syria

Other (2)

  • Berthold of Regensburg
  • Joan Lambertini

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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