Saints ofthe Tridentine Period

of the Church

• St. Rose of Lima – 1586 – 1617

- a member of the Dominican Order- lived a life of sacrifice and penitence- patron of embroiderers and gardeners- feast day August 23

• St. Vincent dePaul – 1581 – 1660- a priest of the who dedicated himself to serving the poor.

- renowned for his compassion, humility and generosity

- known as the "Great Apostle of Charity”

- patron of charities and volunteers

- Feast day September 27

• St. Martin de Porres - 1579 – 1639- a member of the Dominican Order noted for his work on behalf

of the poor

- established an orphanage and a children's hospital

- patron of race relations and social justice

- feast day November 3

• St. Juan Diego - 1474–1548

- had apparitions of Mary on four separate occasions in December 1531

- an image of the Blessed Mother is said to have been impressed onto Juan Diego’s cloak

- This is the basis for Mary’s title of Our Lady of Guadalupe

- patron of indigenous people (people of the Americas before Columbus’s voyage)

- Juan Diego’s feast day – December 9

• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – 1774 – 1821- the first native-born citizen of the United States to

be canonized by the Church- She established the first Catholic school in the

nation- founded the first American congregation of Religious Sisters, the Sisters of Charity.- Patron of Catholic Schools and the sate of Maryland- Feast day January 4

• St. John Neumann – 1811 – 1860- Fourth bishop of

Philadelphia

- the first American bishop

to be canonized

- patron of Catholic education

- feast day January 5

• St. Katharine Drexel - 1858 – 1955 - an American heiress; gave upwealth to dedicate her life to God

- supported many missions and in the United States to help Native Americans

- Patron of philanthropists

- Feast day March 3

• St. Julie Billiart - 1751 — 1816

- French religious leader who founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

- Patron against poverty

- Feast day April 8

• St. Francis de Sales - 1567 – 1622

- bishop of Geneva

- known for his writings on spiritual formation

- patron of Catholic press and

deaf people

- feast day January 24

• St. John Bosco – 1815 – 1888- dedicated his life to the betterment and education

of disadvantaged youth

- Patron of schoolchildren and magicians

- Feast day January 31

• St. Therese of Liseaux - 1873 – 1897

- popularly known as The Little Flower 

- influential model of holiness because of the simplicity of her approach to the spiritual life

- The impact of The Story of a Soul, a collection of her autobiographical manuscripts, printed and distributed a year after her death was great, and she quickly became one of the most popular saints of the twentieth century

• On October 19, 1997 Pope John Paul II declared her the thirty-third Doctor of the Church, the youngest person, and at that time only the third woman, to be so honored

• Patron of AIDS sufferers, florists and gardeners

• Feast day October 1