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Saints of 30 December

21 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 30 December, with short facts.

Saints (11)

  • St. Anysia of Salonika Born: in Salonika, Thessaly, Greece. Died: stabbed. Also called Anysia of Thessalonica.
  • St. Anysius of Thessalonica Died: c.410. Also called Anysius of Salonika.
  • St. Egwin of Worcester Born: 7th century England. Died: 30 December 717. Also called Egwin of Evesham and Ecgwin, Ecgwine, Eegwine, Egvino, Egwinus.
  • St. Eugene of Milan Also called Eugenius.
  • St. Geremarus Born: 7th century at Beauvais, France. Died: c.658 at Flay Abbey, France. Also called Germer, Geremar, Geremaro.
  • St. Hermes of Moesia Died: c.300 in Moesia (in modern Bulgaria). Also called Ermete, Hermas.
  • St. Liberius of Ravenna Died: c.200.
  • St. Perpetuus of Tours Died: c.490. Also called Perpet, Perpetue, Perpetuo.
  • St. Raynerius of Aquila Died: 1077. Canonized: by Pope Honorius III. Also called Rainer, Raniero, Rainerius.
  • St. Ruggero of Canne Born: mid-11th century. Died: 30 December 1129. Patronage: Barletta, Italy and Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie, Italy, archdiocese of. Also called Roger.
  • St. Sebastian of Esztergom Died: c.1036.

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Felix I Born: in Rome, Italy. Died: 274.

Blessed (5)

  • Blessed Eugenia Ravasco Born: 4 January 1845 at Milan, Italy. Died: 30 December 1900 at Genoa, Italy. Beatified: 27 April 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo Born: 20 November 1848 in Ca'Bianca, Moncalieri, Turin, Italy. Died: 30 December 1913 in Moncalieri, Turin, Italy. Beatified: 24 May 1998 by Pope John Paul II. Patronage: against cancer. Also called Father of the Poor.
  • Blessed Margaret Colonna Born: c.1255 at Palestrina, Rome, Italy. Died: 30 December 1284 at Castel San Pietro, Rome, Italy. Beatified: 17 September 1847 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmed). Also called Margaret of Cortona and Margarita, Margherita, Marguerite.
  • Blessed Raoul of Vaucelles Born: in England. Died: 1152. Also called Radulphe, Ralph, Raul, Rodulphe.
  • Blessed Richard of Wedinghausen Born: early 12 century in Germany. Died: c.1190 at the Norbertine monastery of Wedinghausen in Arnsberg, Germany. Also called Richard of Arnsberg and Richard of Anglicus.

Martyr groups (3)

  • Martyrs of Alexandria Died: c.483 at Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Martyrs of Oia Died: Oia, Greece.
  • Martyrs of Spoleto Died: 303 in Spoleto, Italy.

Other (1)

  • Elias of Conques

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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