--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in January: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/january/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in January, day by day: St. Francis de Sales, St. Thomas Aquinas and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *January* January has 31 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 31 days. In 2026–2028 the US calendar keeps the day of 9 of them as a memorial, feast or solemnity at least once, among them St. Francis de Sales and St. Thomas Aquinas. 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). ## January 1 ### [St. Odilo of Cluny](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-odilo-of-cluny/) Abbot · died c. 1049 Fifth abbot of Cluny for half a century, who ransomed captives, fed famines, and instituted the commemoration of All Souls on November 2 — a monk’s gift of prayer to all the dead, which the whole Church adopted. [More on St. Odilo of Cluny](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-odilo-of-cluny/) ## January 2 ### [St. Basil the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-basil-the-great/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 379 (Memorial) Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, brother of saints, friend of Gregory Nazianzen. He faced down an emperor’s prefect who threatened confiscation and death, answering that a man who owns nothing has nothing to fear from… [The life of St. Basil the Great, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-basil-the-great/) ## January 3 ### [St. Genevieve](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-genevieve/) Virgin · died c. 512 Patron of Paris A shepherdess of Nanterre consecrated to God at seven, whose prayers and fasts were credited with turning Attila’s Huns from Paris in 451. When the Franks besieged the city she ran the blockade with grain boats. [The life of St. Genevieve](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-genevieve/) ## January 4 ### [St. Elizabeth Ann Seton](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-ann-seton/) Religious · died 1821 (Memorial) Patron of Catholic schools and widows A merchant’s daughter of New York, Episcopalian wife and mother of five, widowed at twenty-nine in Italy, where the faith of her hosts drew her to the Catholic Church at the cost of family and friends. [The life of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-ann-seton/) ## January 5 ### [St. John Neumann](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-neumann/) Bishop · died 1860 (Memorial) Patron of Catholic education A shoemaker’s son from Bohemia who came to New York with one suit and little else, was ordained, and worked the frontier parishes around Niagara before joining the Redemptorists. [The life of St. John Neumann](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-neumann/) ## January 6 ### [St. André Bessette](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-andre-bessette/) Religious · died 1937 A frail, barely lettered Holy Cross brother who kept the door of a Montreal college for forty years — and whose prayers to St. Joseph healed so many that a mountain shrine, St. Joseph’s Oratory, rose from his nickel collections. A million people filed past his coffin. [Upcoming dates for St. André Bessette](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-andre-bessette/) ## January 7 ### [St. Raymond of Peñafort](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-raymond-of-penafort/) Priest · died c. 1275 Patron of canon lawyers A Catalan Dominican who codified the Church’s canon law at the pope’s command, served as master general of his order, and worked into his hundredth year for the ransom of captives and the missions to the Moors. [The life of St. Raymond of Peñafort](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-raymond-of-penafort/) ## January 8 ### [St. Severinus of Noricum](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-severinus-of-noricum/) Abbot · died c. 482 The apostle of the crumbling Danube frontier, who appeared among terrified Roman towns as the empire fell, organizing relief, ransoming prisoners, and founding monasteries — refusing to say where he came from, content to be known only as a servant of God. [Upcoming dates for St. Severinus of Noricum](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-severinus-of-noricum/) ## January 9 ### [St. Adrian of Canterbury](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-adrian-of-canterbury/) Abbot · died c. 710 An African-born monk who twice refused the see of Canterbury, then accompanied the man he recommended, Theodore, and led its school for nearly forty years — making England, in Bede’s words, a land of scholars in Greek and Latin. [Upcoming dates for St. Adrian of Canterbury](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-adrian-of-canterbury/) ## January 10 ### [St. Gregory of Nyssa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-of-nyssa/) Bishop · died c. 395 Younger brother of Basil the Great and the deepest thinker of the Cappadocian fathers. His Life of Moses reads the soul’s endless ascent into God — ‘from one glory to another’ — and his defense of Nicaea earned him the council fathers’ title ‘pillar of orthodoxy.’ [Upcoming dates for St. Gregory of Nyssa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-of-nyssa/) ## January 11 ### [St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodosius-the-cenobiarch/) Abbot · died c. 529 A Cappadocian monk in the Judean desert whose monastery grew into a city of prayer with hospitals for the sick, the aged, and the mentally afflicted — the first of their kind — and who defied an emperor’s heresy in extreme old age. [Upcoming dates for St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodosius-the-cenobiarch/) ## January 12 ### [St. Marguerite Bourgeoys](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marguerite-bourgeoys/) Religious · died 1700 A Frenchwoman who sailed to the raw settlement of Montreal, opened its first school in a stable, and founded an uncloistered teaching congregation that followed the settlers wherever they went — the first woman saint of Canada. [Upcoming dates for St. Marguerite Bourgeoys](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marguerite-bourgeoys/) ## January 13 ### [St. Hilary of Poitiers](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-hilary-of-poitiers/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 367 Bishop of Poitiers, a married convert from paganism who became the West’s hammer against Arianism — exiled to Phrygia for it, where he learned the Greek fathers and brought their theology home. [The life of St. Hilary of Poitiers, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-hilary-of-poitiers/) ## January 14 ### [St. Felix of Nola](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-felix-of-nola/) Priest · died c. 260 A priest of Nola near Naples who suffered imprisonment in the Decian persecution, hid from his pursuers — a spider’s web across the cave mouth saved him, the old account says — and afterward refused the bishopric, farming a rented field to have alms for the poor. [Upcoming dates for St. Felix of Nola](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-felix-of-nola/) ## January 15 ### [St. Paul the First Hermit](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-the-first-hermit/) Hermit · died c. 341 Fleeing the Decian persecution as a youth, he lived some ninety years in the Egyptian desert unknown to the world, until the aged Antony, warned in a dream, found him days before his death — and buried him, tradition says, with the help of two lions. [Upcoming dates for St. Paul the First Hermit](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-the-first-hermit/) ## January 16 ### [St. Marcellus I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marcellus-i/) Pope and Martyr · died c. 309 Pope after a four-year vacancy caused by persecution, he reorganized the shattered Roman church and held a hard line on reconciling those who had lapsed — riots followed, and the emperor banished him from the city he had just rebuilt. [Upcoming dates for St. Marcellus I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marcellus-i/) ## January 17 ### [St. Anthony of Egypt](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-of-egypt/) Abbot · died c. 356 (Memorial) Patron of monks and against temptation Hearing ‘sell what you have, and give to the poor’ read in church, he did exactly that and walked into the desert — where he wrestled demons for twenty years and emerged serene, the father of monasticism. [The life of St. Anthony of Egypt](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-of-egypt/) ## January 18 ### [St. Margaret of Hungary](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-of-hungary/) Virgin · died c. 1270 A Hungarian princess offered to God before birth for the country’s deliverance from the Mongols, who held her royal father to the bargain — refusing two crowns to remain a Dominican nun on her Danube island, taking the convent’s lowest work for herself. [Upcoming dates for St. Margaret of Hungary](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-of-hungary/) ## January 19 ### [St. Wulfstan](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wulfstan/) Bishop · died c. 1095 The last great Anglo-Saxon bishop, who survived the Norman Conquest at Worcester by sheer holiness, rebuilt his cathedral while weeping for the old one, and with Lanfranc broke the slave trade running out of Bristol. [Upcoming dates for St. Wulfstan](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wulfstan/) ## January 20 ### [St. Sebastian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-sebastian/) Martyr · died c. 288 Patron of athletes, soldiers, and archers A soldier of the Praetorian Guard, secretly a Christian, who used his rank to strengthen imprisoned confessors until Diocletian discovered him and ordered him shot with arrows. [The life of St. Sebastian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-sebastian/) ## January 21 ### [St. Agnes](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes/) Virgin and Martyr · died c. 304 (Memorial) Patron of girls and engaged couples A Roman girl of about twelve or thirteen in Diocletian’s persecution who refused every suitor and every threat, counting herself already promised to the Lord of the universe. [The life of St. Agnes](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes/) ## January 22 ### [St. Vincent of Saragossa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-of-saragossa/) Deacon and Martyr · died c. 304 Deacon of Saragossa and protomartyr of Spain, tortured with fire and iron at Valencia in Diocletian’s persecution. The judge Dacian, the ancient account says, confessed himself beaten by the deacon’s joy. His fame spread across the whole Church within a generation. [Upcoming dates for St. Vincent of Saragossa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-of-saragossa/) ## January 23 ### [St. Marianne Cope](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marianne-cope/) Virgin · died 1918 A Franciscan hospital administrator of Syracuse, New York, who answered the plea no one else would: she led six sisters to the leper settlements of Hawaii, nursed the dying Fr. Damien, and mothered the exiles of Molokai for thirty years — never catching the disease. [Upcoming dates for St. Marianne Cope](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marianne-cope/) ## January 24 ### [St. Francis de Sales](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-de-sales/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died 1622 (Memorial) Patron of writers and journalists Bishop of Geneva in the bitter years after the Reformation, he won back the Chablais not with armies but with tracts slipped under doors and unfailing courtesy, sure that gentleness wins more hearts than harshness ever could. [The life of St. Francis de Sales, with 4 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-de-sales/) ## January 25 ### [St. Ananias of Damascus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ananias-of-damascus/) Disciple The reluctant disciple of Damascus told in a vision to seek out the persecutor Saul — ‘Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints.’ He went, laid hands on him, called him ‘Brother Saul,’ and baptized the apostle to the nations. [More on St. Ananias of Damascus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ananias-of-damascus/) ## January 26 ### [Sts. Timothy and Titus](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-timothy-and-titus/) Bishops (Memorial) Timothy, the timid, half-Greek disciple from Lystra whom Paul circumcised, trained, and loved as a son, of one mind with him as no one else was; and Titus, the Greek convert Paul refused to circumcise, his troubleshooter for the… [The life of Sts. Timothy and Titus](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-timothy-and-titus/) ## January 27 ### [St. Angela Merici](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-angela-merici/) Virgin · died 1540 Patron of educators of girls An orphan of the Italian lake country, a Franciscan tertiary who saw that the neglect of girls was the ruin of families — and did something no one had done: founded a company of women, under St. [The life of St. Angela Merici](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-angela-merici/) ## January 28 ### [St. Thomas Aquinas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-aquinas/) Priest and Doctor of the Church · died c. 1274 (Memorial) Patron of students and universities A nobleman’s son who chose the begging Dominicans over his family’s ambitions — they imprisoned him for a year to change his mind and failed. [The life of St. Thomas Aquinas, with 5 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-aquinas/) ## January 29 ### [St. Gildas the Wise](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gildas-the-wise/) Abbot · died c. 570 A British monk-historian whose fiery book On the Ruin of Britain called kings and clergy to repentance amid the Saxon invasions — the one written voice surviving from his island’s darkest century. He ended his days a hermit in Brittany. [Upcoming dates for St. Gildas the Wise](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gildas-the-wise/) ## January 30 ### [St. Hyacintha Mariscotti](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-hyacintha-mariscotti/) Virgin · died 1640 Forced into a convent she did not want, she kept private luxuries for ten years until a confessor’s rebuke broke her heart open. She became the community’s severest penitent and founded confraternities to serve prisoners, the sick, and the aged of Viterbo. [Upcoming dates for St. Hyacintha Mariscotti](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-hyacintha-mariscotti/) ## January 31 ### [St. John Bosco](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-bosco/) Priest · died 1888 (Memorial) Patron of youth, apprentices, and editors A juggler, acrobat, and farm boy of Piedmont who became the apostle of Turin’s street children. [The life of St. John Bosco, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-bosco/) [Previous month Saints of December](https://blessbible.app/saints/december/) [Next month Saints of February](https://blessbible.app/saints/february/) 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.