--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in April: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/april/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in April, day by day: St. Mark (Apr 25), St. Catherine of Siena (Apr 29) and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *April* April has 31 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 30 days and two on April 11. In 2026–2028 the US calendar keeps the day of 3 of them as a memorial, feast or solemnity at least once, among them St. Mark and St. Catherine of Siena. About these dates Feast days, titles and patronages come from the app’s calendar of saints; “Memorial”, “Feast” and “Solemnity” mark the saints whose day the US calendar keeps (at least once in 2026–2028). ## April 1 ### [St. Hugh of Grenoble](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-hugh-of-grenoble/) Bishop · died c. 1132 Made bishop at twenty-seven, he spent fifty-two years reforming a diocese he repeatedly begged to leave for a monastery — every pope refused. He gave Bruno and his six companions the mountain solitude of the Chartreuse, and sold his ring and chalice in famine. [Upcoming dates for St. Hugh of Grenoble](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-hugh-of-grenoble/) ## April 2 ### [St. Francis of Paola](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-of-paola/) Hermit · died 1507 A Calabrian hermit from age fifteen, founder of the Minims — ‘the least’ — vowed to a perpetual Lent without meat, eggs, or milk. Kings could not command him until a pope did: he spent his last twenty-five years reforming the French court, and died there on Good Friday at ninety-one. [Upcoming dates for St. Francis of Paola](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-of-paola/) ## April 3 ### [St. Richard of Chichester](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-richard-of-chichester/) Bishop · died c. 1253 An Oxford scholar who plowed his brother’s fields in youth and never lost the touch; as bishop of Chichester — locked out of his own palace by the king for two years — he lived on charity, visited every corner of his diocese on foot, and left a prayer the whole world knows: to see Christ more clearly, love him more dearly, follow him more nearly. [Upcoming dates for St. Richard of Chichester](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-richard-of-chichester/) ## April 4 ### [St. Isidore of Seville](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-isidore-of-seville/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 636 Patron of the internet (proposed) and students Archbishop of Seville for nearly four decades as Roman Spain became Visigothic Spain, he converted kings from Arianism and presided over councils that shaped the Spanish church for centuries. [The life of St. Isidore of Seville, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-isidore-of-seville/) ## April 5 ### [St. Vincent Ferrer](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-ferrer/) Priest · died c. 1419 Patron of builders A Valencian Dominican who preached penance across half of Europe for twenty years — tens of thousands following him from town to town — and labored to heal the Great Schism that had broken the Church he loved, finally… [The life of St. Vincent Ferrer](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-ferrer/) ## April 6 ### [St. Marcellinus of Carthage](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marcellinus-of-carthage/) Martyr · died c. 413 A Roman imperial secretary, friend and correspondent of Augustine — who dedicated the City of God to him — sent to Carthage to judge between Catholics and Donatists. Falsely entangled in a rebellion by his enemies, he was summarily executed; the empire exonerated him too late. [Upcoming dates for St. Marcellinus of Carthage](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marcellinus-of-carthage/) ## April 7 ### [St. John Baptist de la Salle](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-baptist-de-la-salle/) Priest · died 1719 (Memorial) Patron of teachers A wealthy canon of Reims drawn, almost against his will, into the schooling of poor boys — until he gave away his fortune in a famine, moved in with his rough schoolmasters, and founded the Brothers of the Christian Schools. [The life of St. John Baptist de la Salle](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-baptist-de-la-salle/) ## April 8 ### [St. Julie Billiart](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-julie-billiart/) Religious · died 1816 A Picard farm girl, catechist from childhood, paralyzed for twenty-two years and hunted through the Revolution for hiding priests. Cured at fifty-three, when she was asked to take a step for the Sacred Heart and walked, she founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur for the education of poor girls, with the conviction that carried her through everything: how good the good God is. [Upcoming dates for St. Julie Billiart](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-julie-billiart/) ## April 9 ### [St. Waldetrude](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-waldetrude/) Religious · died c. 688 A Frankish noblewoman of a family of saints — parents, husband, sister, and all four children are venerated — who, when her husband entered a monastery, founded her own convent at the place that grew into the city of Mons, whose patroness she remains. [Upcoming dates for St. Waldetrude](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-waldetrude/) ## April 10 ### [St. Fulbert of Chartres](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-fulbert-of-chartres/) Bishop · died c. 1028 Master of the cathedral school that made Chartres the schoolroom of Europe, and bishop who rebuilt its burned cathedral over the crypt that still bears his work. His students scattered across the continent; his hymns to the Virgin’s nativity are sung yet. [Upcoming dates for St. Fulbert of Chartres](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-fulbert-of-chartres/) ## April 11 ### [St. Gemma Galgani](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gemma-galgani/) Virgin · died 1903 A poor girl of Lucca who longed for Passion and received it: from twenty-one she bore the stigmata, ridiculed by neighbors and examined by doctors while remaining transparently humble and cheerful. [The life of St. Gemma Galgani, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gemma-galgani/) ### [St. Stanislaus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-stanislaus/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 1079 Patron of Poland Bishop of Kraków who defended his people against King Bolesław the Bold — reproving the king’s cruelties and injustices to his face and finally excommunicating him. The king called it treason. [The life of St. Stanislaus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-stanislaus/) ## April 12 ### [St. Teresa of Los Andes](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-los-andes/) Virgin · died 1920 Juanita Fernández of Santiago, a lively, athletic girl who read Thérèse and Elizabeth of the Trinity and burned with the same fire. She entered the Andean Carmel of Los Andes at nineteen and died of typhus eleven months later, professed on her deathbed — Chile’s first saint. [Upcoming dates for St. Teresa of Los Andes](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-los-andes/) ## April 13 ### [St. Martin I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martin-i/) Pope and Martyr · died c. 655 The last pope venerated as a martyr: he condemned the emperor’s compromise on Christ’s two wills without waiting for imperial approval, was seized in the Lateran, tried for treason at Constantinople, mocked, chained, and exiled to the Crimea, where he died of ill-treatment, abandoned even by his own church. [Upcoming dates for St. Martin I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martin-i/) ## April 14 ### [St. Peter González](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-gonzalez/) Priest · died c. 1246 Patron of sailors A worldly Spanish canon whose horse threw him into the mud before a laughing crowd — and who rose a changed man, became a Dominican, preached to soldiers and sailors on the docks of Galicia, and is invoked by Spanish seamen as… [The life of St. Peter González](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-gonzalez/) ## April 15 ### [St. César de Bus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cesar-de-bus/) Priest · died 1607 A Provençal soldier-poet converted from a dissolute youth, who gave himself to teaching catechism in the streets and founded the Fathers of Christian Doctrine — convinced that half the era’s ruin came from simple ignorance of the faith, and that patient teaching could mend it. [Upcoming dates for St. César de Bus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cesar-de-bus/) ## April 16 ### [St. Bernadette Soubirous](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/) Virgin · died 1879 Patron of the sick and Lourdes pilgrims A miller’s daughter of Lourdes, sickly and unlettered, to whom the Virgin appeared eighteen times at the grotto of Massabielle in 1858, naming herself the Immaculate Conception and leaving a spring that still heals. [The life of St. Bernadette Soubirous, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/) ## April 17 ### [St. Stephen Harding](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-stephen-harding/) Abbot · died c. 1134 An English monk, third abbot of the struggling new monastery of Cîteaux, who wrote the Charter of Charity that organized the Cistercian order — and who, when the house seemed dying, received at the gate a young noble named Bernard with thirty companions. [Upcoming dates for St. Stephen Harding](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-stephen-harding/) ## April 18 ### [St. Apollonius the Apologist](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollonius-the-apologist/) Martyr · died c. 185 A Roman senator denounced as a Christian under Commodus, who used his trial to deliver a reasoned defense of the faith before the Senate — among the earliest such speeches preserved — and accepted the sentence, loving his life but unafraid of death, since something better awaited him. [Upcoming dates for St. Apollonius the Apologist](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollonius-the-apologist/) ## April 19 ### [St. Alphege](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphege/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 1012 Archbishop of Canterbury carried off by Danish raiders, who forbade his impoverished people to ransom him. After seven months, at a drunken feast, his captors pelted him with ox bones and an axe finished him — a martyr, Anselm later ruled, for justice as truly as for the faith. [Upcoming dates for St. Alphege](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphege/) ## April 20 ### [St. Agnes of Montepulciano](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes-of-montepulciano/) Virgin · died c. 1317 A Tuscan girl who entered religious life at nine and was made abbess at fifteen by papal dispensation; she founded a Dominican convent in her home town, which she governed with visions, austerities, and practical charity until her death. Catherine of Siena venerated her body a generation later. [Upcoming dates for St. Agnes of Montepulciano](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes-of-montepulciano/) ## April 21 ### [St. Anselm](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anselm/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 1109 A Burgundian who crossed to the abbey of Bec and became the finest mind of his age, then archbishop of Canterbury, twice exiled for defending the Church’s liberty against kings. [The life of St. Anselm, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anselm/) ## April 22 ### [St. Theodore of Sykeon](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodore-of-sykeon/) Bishop · died c. 613 Son of an innkeeper on the Anatolian high road, a boy-ascetic who became the wonder-worker of his province — healing, reconciling villages, blessing crops — and briefly, unwillingly, a bishop. Emperors sought his blessing; he preferred his iron cage on the hillside. [Upcoming dates for St. Theodore of Sykeon](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodore-of-sykeon/) ## April 23 ### [St. George](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-george/) Martyr · died c. 303 Patron of England, soldiers, and scouts A soldier of Cappadocia martyred at Lydda in Diocletian’s great persecution — one of the earliest and most universally venerated of all martyrs, honored from Ethiopia to England within two centuries of his death. [The life of St. George](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-george/) ## April 24 ### [St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-fidelis-of-sigmaringen/) Priest and Martyr · died 1622 A Swabian lawyer called ‘the advocate of the poor’ who burned his briefs, became a Capuchin, and was sent to preach to the Calvinists of the Grisons. Warned of his death, he preached anyway; a band of armed men cut him down on the road. He is protomartyr of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. [Upcoming dates for St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-fidelis-of-sigmaringen/) ## April 25 ### [St. Mark](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-mark/) Evangelist · died c. 68 (Feast) Patron of Venice and notaries John Mark of Jerusalem, in whose mother’s house the Church prayed while Peter sat in prison. [The life of St. Mark](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-mark/) ## April 26 ### [St. Anacletus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anacletus/) Pope · died c. 92 Third bishop of Rome after Peter and Linus, in the generation when apostolic memory was still living voice. Ancient tradition credits him with ordaining priests for the city and honoring the burial place of Peter, near which he was himself laid. [Upcoming dates for St. Anacletus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anacletus/) ## April 27 ### [St. Zita](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-zita/) Virgin · died c. 1272 Patron of domestic workers A servant in the Fatinelli household of Lucca from the age of twelve until her death at sixty — resented by fellow servants for her diligence, beloved at last by all, giving her food and her master’s (with his eventual blessing)… [The life of St. Zita](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-zita/) ## April 28 ### [St. Louis de Montfort](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-louis-de-montfort/) Priest · died 1716 A Breton priest who walked from parish to parish preaching missions, rosary in hand, often opposed by Jansenist bishops and once poisoned. He founded the Company of Mary and the Daughters of Wisdom. [The life of St. Louis de Montfort, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-louis-de-montfort/) ## April 29 ### [St. Catherine of Siena](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-siena/) Virgin and Doctor of the Church · died c. 1380 (Memorial) Patron of Italy and Europe, nurses, and those ridiculed for piety The twenty-third child of a Sienese dyer, Catherine refused marriage, joined the Dominican third order, and turned her family home into a hospital and her cell into a court of counsel. [The life of St. Catherine of Siena, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-siena/) ## April 30 ### [St. Pius V](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pius-v/) Pope · died 1572 A shepherd boy turned Dominican inquisitor turned pope, who enforced the Council of Trent, published the catechism, breviary, and missal that bore his name for four centuries, and called the alliance whose fleet won at Lepanto — instituting Our Lady of Victory in thanksgiving. He wore his friar’s habit beneath the papal white, beginning a custom that endures. [Upcoming dates for St. Pius V](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pius-v/) [Previous month Saints of March](https://blessbible.app/saints/march/) [Next month Saints of May](https://blessbible.app/saints/may/) Spotted a mistake in a date, a patronage or a quotation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here.