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Saints of 22 December

19 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 22 December, with short facts.

Saints (9)

  • St. Abban of New Ross Born: Irish. Died: at Wexford, Ireland. Also called Abhan, Evin, Ewin, Neville, Nevin, Stephen.
  • St. Amaswinthus of Málaga Died: 982. Also called Amaswinthus of Silva.
  • St. Athernaise of Fife Also called Athernaise the Silent, Ethernascus, and Ithernaisc.
  • St. Chaeremon of Nilopolis Died: c.250 of of unknown causes. Also called Chaerymon of Nilopolis.
  • St. Flavian of Acquapendente Died: 362 at Acquapendente, Italy.
  • St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Born: 15 July 1850 at Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy. Died: 22 December 1917 at Chicago, Illinois, USA. Beatified: 13 November 1938 by Pope Pius XI. Canonized: 7 July 1946 by Pope Pius XII. Patronage: against malaria, hospital administrators, orphans, Storefront, and medals and pendants.
  • St. Honoratus of Toulouse Born: Spanish Navarre. Also called Onorato.
  • St. Hunger of Utrecht Died: 866 at Prum, Germany. Also called Hungerus Frisus.
  • St. Zeno of Nicomedia Died: beheaded in 303 in Nicomedia, Bithynia (modern Izmit, Turkey). Also called Zenon, Zinon.

Blessed (5)

  • Blessed Adam of Saxony Born: 12th century. Died: c.1210. Also called Adam of Loccum.
  • Blessed Bertheid of Münster Died: 22 December 1042 in Münster, Germany.
  • Blessed Jutta of Disibodenberg Born: c.1084 in Spanheim, Rhineland-Palatinate (in modern Germany). Died: 22 December 1136 at Disibodenberg Abbey, Germany. Also called Jutta of Spamheim, Jutta of Sponheim, and Judith....
  • Blessed Ottone of Toulouse Died: poisoned in prison in Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey) in 1493. Also called Ottone da Tolosa.
  • Blessed Thomas Holland Born: 1600 at Sutton, Lancashire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Thomas Sanderson and Thomas Hammond.

Martyr groups (3)

  • Martyrs of Ostia Died: at Ostia, Italy.
  • Martyrs of Rhaitu Died: Raíthu, Egypt.
  • Martyrs of Via Lavicana Died: c.303 in Rome, Italy.

Other (2)

  • Eimhin of Rosglas
  • Ernan the Younger

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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