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Saints of 31 December

30 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 31 December, with short facts.

Feasts (1)

  • Holy Family Patronage: Alto Valle de Rio Negro, Argentina, diocese of, Reno, Nevada, diocese of, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, diocese of.

Saints (14)

  • St. Barbatian of Ravenna
  • St. Columba of Sens Born: c.257 in Spain. Died: beheaded in 273 at Sens, France near a fountain named d'Azon. Patronage: for rain.
  • St. Festus of Valencia Also called Sextus, Sextius.
  • St. Gelasius of Palestine
  • St. Hermes the Exorcist Died: c.270. Also called Hermes of Rome.
  • St. John Francis Regis Born: 31 January 1597 at Font-Couverte, Narbonne, Languedoc, France. Died: 31 December 1640. Canonized: 16 June 1737 by Pope Clement XII. Patronage: against plague, embroiderers, lace makers, lace workers, medical social workers, social workers, French Jesuits, and Sisters of Saint Francis Régis.
  • St. Marius Aventicus Born: c.530 in the diocese of Autun, Burgundy (in modern France). Died: 31 December 594 at Lausanne, Switzerland. Canonized: 1605 (cultus confirmation). Also called Marius Aventicensis.
  • St. Melania the Younger Born: c.383. Died: late December 439 at Jerusalem. Patronage: against the death of children and exiles.
  • St. Offa of Benevento Died: c.1070.
  • St. Pinian Died: c.438. Also called Pinianus and Valerius Pinianus.
  • St. Potentian of Sens Died: c.300. Patronage: Sens, France, archdiocese of.
  • St. Sabinian of Sens Died: c.300. Patronage: Sens, France, diocese of. Also called Sabinianus, Savinien.
  • St. Theophylact of Ohrid Died: 1126.
  • St. Zoticus of Constantinople Born: Italy. Died: dragged through the streets of Constantinople behind a wild ass c.350. Patronage: poor people. Also called Feeder of Orphans and Zotico.

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Sylvester I Born: Roman. Died: 31 December 335 at Rome, Italy. Patronage: animals, for good harvests, stone masons, Order of Saint Sylvester, Calvisano, Italy, Castroreale, Italy, Feroleto Antico, Italy, and Poggio Catino, Italy. Also called Silvester.

Blessed (7)

  • Blessed Alan de Solminihac Born: 25 November 1593 in the family castle at Belet, Dordogne, France. Died: 31 December 1659 at Mercues, Lot, France. Beatified: 4 October 1981 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Alain, Alamus, Alanus.
  • Blessed Dominic de Cubells
  • Blessed Giuseppina Nicoli Born: 18 November 1863 in Casatisma, Pavia, Italy. Died: 9am on 31 December 1924 in Cagliari, Italy. Beatified: 3 February 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Blessed Leandro Gómez Gil Born: 13 March 1915 in Hontomín, Burgos, Spain. Died: 31 December 1936 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. Beatified: 3 October 2015 by Pope Francis.
  • Blessed Peter of Subiaco Died: 1003.
  • Blessed Walembert of Cambrai Born: 1084 near Furness, Belgium. Died: 31 December 1141. Also called Garembert.
  • Blessed Wisinto of Kremsmünster Died: c.1250.

Martyr groups (2)

  • Martyrs of Catania Died: Catania, Sicily, Italy.
  • Martyrs of Rome

Other (5)

  • Donatus of Rome
  • Elisabeth Radermecher
  • Eustadius of Bourges
  • Gwynin ap Helig
  • Zeno of Rome

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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