--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in July: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/july/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in July, day by day: St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Mary Magdalene and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *July* July 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. Thomas the Apostle and St. Mary Magdalene. 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). ## July 1 ### [St. Junípero Serra](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-junipero-serra/) Priest · died 1784 A Mallorcan philosophy professor who sailed for the missions at thirty-five, walked to Mexico City on an injured leg he never let heal, and founded nine of California’s twenty-one missions from San Diego to San Francisco, confirming thousands. He lived by a simple rule: always go forward, never turn back. [Upcoming dates for St. Junípero Serra](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-junipero-serra/) ## July 2 ### [Sts. Processus and Martinian](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-processus-and-martinian/) Martyrs By ancient Roman tradition, the warders of the Mamertine prison who guarded Peter and Paul — and were baptized by Peter with water he struck from the prison rock. Martyred for it, they were venerated in the basilica of St. Peter from its earliest days; their altar stands in the transept still. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Processus and Martinian](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-processus-and-martinian/) ## July 3 ### [St. Thomas the Apostle](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-the-apostle/) Apostle · died c. 72 (Feast) Patron of India, architects, and doubters The twin, blunt and brave: ready to die with Jesus at Bethany — ‘Let us go, too, so that we may die with him’ — and unwilling to believe the Resurrection on hearsay, unless he could place his finger into the place of the nails. [The life of St. Thomas the Apostle](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-the-apostle/) ## July 4 ### [St. Elizabeth of Portugal](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-of-portugal/) Queen · died c. 1336 Patron of peacemakers An Aragonese princess named for her great-aunt of Hungary, married at twelve to a faithless king whose children by other women she raised. [The life of St. Elizabeth of Portugal](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-of-portugal/) ## July 5 ### [St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-mary-zaccaria/) Priest · died 1539 A physician of Cremona who found souls needed more healing than bodies, was ordained, and founded the Barnabites — priests vowed to reform a decadent age through the Eucharist, St. Paul’s letters, and the Forty Hours’ devotion he helped spread. He burned out at thirty-six. [Upcoming dates for St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-mary-zaccaria/) ## July 6 ### [St. Maria Goretti](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/) Virgin and Martyr · died 1902 Patron of youth and victims of assault A farm laborer’s daughter of the Pontine marshes, eleven years old, keeping house for her widowed mother. [The life of St. Maria Goretti](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maria-goretti/) ## July 7 ### [St. Willibald](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-willibald/) Bishop · died c. 787 An English monk, kinsman of Boniface, and the first recorded English pilgrim to the Holy Land — seven years wandering from Rome to Jerusalem, dictating his travels in old age. Boniface drafted him for the German mission, where he served as bishop of Eichstätt for over forty years. [Upcoming dates for St. Willibald](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-willibald/) ## July 8 ### [Sts. Aquila and Priscilla](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-aquila-and-priscilla/) Disciples The tentmaker couple exiled from Rome who sheltered Paul at Corinth, worked his trade beside him, corrected the eloquent Apollos ‘more thoroughly’ in private, and ‘risked their own necks’ for the apostle — who greets them in three letters, with the church that met in their house. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Aquila and Priscilla](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-aquila-and-priscilla/) ## July 9 ### [St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-augustine-zhao-rong-and-companions/) Martyrs of China · died 1815 A Chinese soldier who escorted a martyr-bishop to execution, was won by his serenity, sought baptism, and became a priest — dying in prison for it in 1815. With him the Church honors one hundred twenty companions, Chinese faithful and foreign missionaries, from three centuries of persecution. [Upcoming dates for St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-augustine-zhao-rong-and-companions/) ## July 10 ### [Sts. Rufina and Secunda](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-rufina-and-secunda/) Virgins and Martyrs · died c. 257 Two sisters of a Roman senatorial family whose betrothed apostatized in the Valerian persecution; the sisters would not, fled, were caught, and died — Rufina by the sword, Secunda after her. The place of their burial on the Via Cornelia was called the Black Forest; it became the White, from their glory. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Rufina and Secunda](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-rufina-and-secunda/) ## July 11 ### [St. Benedict of Nursia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benedict-of-nursia/) Abbot · died c. 547 (Memorial) Patron of Europe, monks, and students Born at Nursia and educated at Rome, Benedict fled the city’s corruption for a cave at Subiaco, where disciples gathered around his holiness. [The life of St. Benedict of Nursia, with 5 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benedict-of-nursia/) ## July 12 ### [Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-louis-and-zelie-martin/) Married Laypeople · died 1894 A watchmaker and a lacemaker of Alençon, both once refused by religious orders, who married and raised nine children — losing four small — in a home of daily Mass, honest work, and open-handed charity. All five surviving daughters became nuns; the youngest was Thérèse. They are the first married couple canonized together. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-louis-and-zelie-martin/) ## July 13 ### [St. Henry](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-henry/) Emperor · died c. 1024 The last Holy Roman Emperor of the Ottonian line, who ruled with a monk’s discipline — founding the see of Bamberg, restoring churches, twice marching to secure a threatened papacy — and asked a monastery to receive him as an oblate. Its abbot accepted his vow of obedience, then ordered him back to his throne. [Upcoming dates for St. Henry](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-henry/) ## July 14 ### [St. Kateri Tekakwitha](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-kateri-tekakwitha/) Virgin · died 1680 (Memorial) Patron of ecology and Native peoples Daughter of a Mohawk chief and an Algonquin Christian mother, orphaned by smallpox at four and left half-blind and scarred. [The life of St. Kateri Tekakwitha](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-kateri-tekakwitha/) ## July 15 ### [St. Bonaventure](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bonaventure/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 1274 (Memorial) Minister general of the Franciscans a generation after Francis, and the order’s second founder in troubled times. Paris colleague and friend of Thomas Aquinas, he matched the Dominican’s logic with a theology of love and ascent. [The life of St. Bonaventure, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bonaventure/) ## July 16 ### [St. Marie-Madeleine Postel](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marie-madeleine-postel/) Virgin · died 1846 A Norman schoolmistress who hid priests and the Blessed Sacrament through the Revolution — carrying it to the dying at risk of her head — then at fifty-one founded the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy, rebuilding a ruined abbey stone by stone in her eighties. [Upcoming dates for St. Marie-Madeleine Postel](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-marie-madeleine-postel/) ## July 17 ### [Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne](https://blessbible.app/saints/carmelite-martyrs-of-compiegne/) Virgins and Martyrs · died 1794 Sixteen Carmelites who offered their lives daily for peace in France’s Terror, were arrested for keeping their common life, and went to the guillotine singing the Veni Creator, each renewing her vows at the scaffold before the youngest climbed first. The Terror collapsed ten days later; they were canonized in 2024. [Upcoming dates for Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne](https://blessbible.app/saints/carmelite-martyrs-of-compiegne/) ## July 18 ### [St. Camillus de Lellis](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-camillus-de-lellis/) Priest · died 1614 Patron of nurses, hospitals, and the sick A six-foot-six soldier and compulsive gambler who lost everything he owned, was converted while working as a builder’s laborer, and — refused by the Capuchins for a diseased leg — turned to the hospitals whose neglect he knew as… [The life of St. Camillus de Lellis](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-camillus-de-lellis/) ## July 19 ### [St. Macrina the Younger](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-macrina-the-younger/) Virgin · died c. 379 Eldest of ten in the most saint-crowded family of the early Church, who turned the family estate into a community of prayer and, by her brother Gregory of Nyssa’s account, made Basil himself humble. His dialogue On the Soul and the Resurrection records her deathbed teaching — the sister as the theologians’ teacher. [Upcoming dates for St. Macrina the Younger](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-macrina-the-younger/) ## July 20 ### [St. Apollinaris of Ravenna](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollinaris-of-ravenna/) Bishop and Martyr First bishop of Ravenna, by ancient tradition sent from Antioch, who shepherded his church through repeated expulsions and beatings and is honored as a martyr for dying of them. The shimmering basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe rose over his grave, where mosaics show him praying amid his sheep. [Upcoming dates for St. Apollinaris of Ravenna](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollinaris-of-ravenna/) ## July 21 ### [St. Lawrence of Brindisi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-of-brindisi/) Priest and Doctor of the Church · died 1619 A Capuchin who preached in a dozen languages across Europe, read Scripture in its originals from memory, served as his order’s general walking to every province, and — sent as chaplain against an invading army — rode before the troops with a crucifix. His collected sermons fill fifteen volumes; he is the ‘Apostolic Doctor.’ [Upcoming dates for St. Lawrence of Brindisi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-of-brindisi/) ## July 22 ### [St. Mary Magdalene](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-mary-magdalene/) Apostle to the Apostles (Feast) Patron of penitents and perfumers The woman of Magdala out of whom the Lord cast seven devils, and who followed him from Galilee, provided for him from her means, and stood by the Cross when nearly all the men had fled. [The life of St. Mary Magdalene](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-mary-magdalene/) ## July 23 ### [St. Bridget of Sweden](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bridget-of-sweden/) Religious · died c. 1373 Patron of Sweden and Europe A Swedish noblewoman, lady-in-waiting to the queen, wife of thirty years and mother of eight — one of them St. Catherine of Sweden. [The life of St. Bridget of Sweden](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bridget-of-sweden/) ## July 24 ### [St. Sharbel Makhlouf](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-sharbel-makhlouf/) Priest and Hermit · died 1898 Patron of Lebanon A Lebanese mountain boy who became a Maronite monk at Annaya, then for twenty-three years a hermit, dividing his days between the altar and the field, speaking little, possessing nothing. [The life of St. Sharbel Makhlouf](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-sharbel-makhlouf/) ## July 25 ### [St. James](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-james/) Apostle · died c. 44 (Feast) Patron of Spain and pilgrims Son of Zebedee, brother of John, mending nets when the call came. With Peter and John he made the inner three — at the raising of Jairus’s daughter, on Tabor, in Gethsemane. [The life of St. James](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-james/) ## July 26 ### [Sts. Joachim and Anne](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-joachim-and-anne/) Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Memorial) Patron of grandparents and mothers The parents of the Virgin Mary, named by a tradition reaching back to the second century: Joachim and Anne, an aged and childless couple whose prayers were answered with the girl full of grace. [The life of Sts. Joachim and Anne](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-joachim-and-anne/) ## July 27 ### [St. Pantaleon](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pantaleon/) Martyr · died c. 305 Patron of physicians Physician to the emperor Maximian at Nicomedia, who treated the poor without fee — one of the ‘unmercenary healers’ the East reveres — lapsed from the faith of his mother, was reconverted, and gave his goods to his patients… [The life of St. Pantaleon](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pantaleon/) ## July 28 ### [St. Alphonsa of India](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphonsa-of-india/) Virgin · died 1946 Anna Muttathupadathu of Kerala, a Franciscan Clarist whose short life was one long illness — burns, tumors, malaria — borne with a hidden gaiety her students loved. She wrote that she felt the Lord had destined her to be an offering of suffering. Cures at her tomb began with schoolchildren; she is India’s first canonized woman. [Upcoming dates for St. Alphonsa of India](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphonsa-of-india/) ## July 29 ### [St. Martha](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martha/) Disciple of the Lord (Memorial) Patron of cooks, homemakers, and hosts The mistress of the house at Bethany where Jesus loved to stay; the doer beside her listening sister Mary. [The life of St. Martha](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martha/) ## July 30 ### [St. Peter Chrysologus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-chrysologus/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 450 Bishop of Ravenna when it was the imperial capital, nicknamed Chrysologus — ‘golden-worded’ — for sermons so short and dense the people begged for more. He warned that no one who jests with the devil can rejoice with Christ. [The life of St. Peter Chrysologus, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-chrysologus/) ## July 31 ### [St. Ignatius of Loyola](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ignatius-of-loyola/) Priest · died 1556 (Memorial) Patron of soldiers and retreats A Basque soldier whose leg was shattered by a cannonball at Pamplona. Convalescing with nothing to read but lives of Christ and the saints, he noticed that worldly daydreams left him dry while thoughts of God left him in peace… [The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ignatius-of-loyola/) [Previous month Saints of June](https://blessbible.app/saints/june/) [Next month Saints of August](https://blessbible.app/saints/august/) 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.