--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in June: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/june/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in June, day by day: St. John the Baptist (Jun 24), St. Peter (Jun 29) and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *June* June has 31 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 30 days and two on June 29. In 2026–2028 the US calendar keeps the day of 10 of them as a memorial, feast or solemnity at least once, among them St. John the Baptist and St. Peter. 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). ## June 1 ### [St. Justin Martyr](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-justin-martyr/) Martyr and Apologist · died c. 165 (Memorial) Patron of philosophers and apologists A Samaritan-born philosopher who tried Stoics, Peripatetics, Pythagoreans, and Platonists before an old man by the sea pointed him to the prophets and to Christ, in whom he found the only sure and worthy philosophy. [The life of St. Justin Martyr, with 1 quotation](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-justin-martyr/) ## June 2 ### [Sts. Marcellinus and Peter](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-marcellinus-and-peter/) Martyrs · died c. 304 A priest and an exorcist of Rome, beheaded secretly in a wood so their graves might be unknown — but their executioner, converted, revealed the place. Constantine raised a basilica over them, and their names entered the Roman Canon, where they remain. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Marcellinus and Peter](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-marcellinus-and-peter/) ## June 3 ### [St. Charles Lwanga and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-charles-lwanga-and-companions/) Martyrs of Uganda · died 1886 (Memorial) Patron of African youth Pages and officials of the court of Buganda, converts of the White Fathers’ young mission, who resisted the predations of King Mwanga and would not renounce the faith. [The life of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-charles-lwanga-and-companions/) ## June 4 ### [St. Francis Caracciolo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-caracciolo/) Priest · died 1608 A Neapolitan noble, cured of a disfiguring disease in youth, who co-founded the Minor Clerks Regular — vowed, uniquely, not to seek office — and added to their life perpetual adoration by turns. He begged for the poor, slept little, and died on the eve of Corpus Christi, at forty-four, eager to go to heaven. [Upcoming dates for St. Francis Caracciolo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-caracciolo/) ## June 5 ### [St. Boniface](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-boniface/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 754 (Memorial) Patron of Germany and brewers Winfrid of Wessex, a monk-scholar who left a safe abbacy for the German frontier, renamed Boniface by the pope who sent him. [The life of St. Boniface](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-boniface/) ## June 6 ### [St. Norbert](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-norbert/) Bishop · died c. 1134 A worldly canon of Xanten thrown from his horse by lightning, who rose to give everything away and walk Europe barefoot preaching peace. At Prémontré he founded his white canons; as archbishop of Magdeburg he entered his city barefoot, and defended the Eucharist so ardently he is painted with a monstrance. [Upcoming dates for St. Norbert](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-norbert/) ## June 7 ### [St. Robert of Newminster](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-robert-of-newminster/) Abbot · died c. 1159 A Yorkshire priest among the founders of Fountains Abbey — begun in midwinter under an elm — and first abbot of Newminster, from which three daughter houses rose in his lifetime. Bernard of Clairvaux was his friend; gentleness with the wayward was his mark. [Upcoming dates for St. Robert of Newminster](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-robert-of-newminster/) ## June 8 ### [St. Médard](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-medard/) Bishop · died c. 545 A Frankish bishop of Noyon remembered across the French countryside for protecting farmers and vineyards — folk weather-lore still turns on his feast — and for consecrating the penitent queen Radegund, who fled her murderous husband to become a nun and a saint. [Upcoming dates for St. Médard](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-medard/) ## June 9 ### [St. Ephrem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ephrem/) Deacon and Doctor of the Church · died c. 373 A deacon of Nisibis and then Edessa who never sought priesthood, called ‘the harp of the Holy Spirit’: he wrote theology almost entirely in verse, hundreds of hymns on the Nativity, on Paradise, on faith, against the heresies of… [The life of St. Ephrem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ephrem/) ## June 10 ### [St. Landericus of Paris](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-landericus-of-paris/) Bishop · died c. 661 Bishop of Paris under the Merovingians who, in the famine of 650, sold his own goods and even the sacred vessels to feed the starving — and founded by the river a hospital for the poor, St. Christopher’s, which grew into the Hôtel-Dieu: the oldest hospital in the world still serving the sick. [Upcoming dates for St. Landericus of Paris](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-landericus-of-paris/) ## June 11 ### [St. Barnabas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-barnabas/) Apostle (Memorial) Patron of Cyprus and peacemakers A Levite of Cyprus named Joseph, whom the apostles renamed Barnabas — ‘son of encouragement’ — for good reason: he sold his field for the common purse, vouched for the ex-persecutor Saul when all Jerusalem feared him, and… [The life of St. Barnabas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-barnabas/) ## June 12 ### [St. John of Sahagún](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-sahagun/) Priest · died c. 1479 An Augustinian friar of Salamanca whose preaching named the sins of the powerful so plainly that a duke sent assassins — who returned converted. He calmed the city’s blood feuds, was famous for reconciling enemies, and died, many believed, poisoned for reproving a nobleman’s adultery. [Upcoming dates for St. John of Sahagún](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-sahagun/) ## June 13 ### [St. Anthony of Padua](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-of-padua/) Priest and Doctor of the Church · died c. 1231 (Memorial) Patron of lost things and the poor A Portuguese Augustinian who jumped ship to the Franciscans hoping for martyrdom in Morocco, and was blown by storm and providence to Italy instead. [The life of St. Anthony of Padua](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-of-padua/) ## June 14 ### [St. Methodius I of Constantinople](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-methodius-i-of-constantinople/) Bishop · died c. 847 A Sicilian monk imprisoned seven years in a tomb-like cell for defending the holy icons; when the persecution fell, he was made patriarch of Constantinople and presided over the icons’ restoration in 843 — the ‘Triumph of Orthodoxy’ the Eastern Church still celebrates each Lent. [Upcoming dates for St. Methodius I of Constantinople](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-methodius-i-of-constantinople/) ## June 15 ### [St. Germaine Cousin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-germaine-cousin/) Virgin · died 1601 A shepherd girl of Pibrac, sickly and deformed, despised by her stepmother, who slept under the stairs and shared her scraps of bread with beggars. She heard Mass daily, leaving her sheep to her guardian angel — they never strayed — and was found dead at twenty-two on her straw. Her body, unearthed incorrupt, undid the village’s contempt. [Upcoming dates for St. Germaine Cousin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-germaine-cousin/) ## June 16 ### [St. Lutgardis](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lutgardis/) Virgin · died c. 1246 A Flemish Cistercian mystic — among the first devoted to the Sacred Heart, exchanging hearts with Christ in vision — who spent her last eleven years blind, offering three seven-year fasts for the Church. Asked what gift she wanted, she asked only for the Heart of Christ. [Upcoming dates for St. Lutgardis](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lutgardis/) ## June 17 ### [St. Albert Chmielowski](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-albert-chmielowski/) Religious · died 1916 A one-legged veteran of the Polish uprising and a painter of real gifts who abandoned art — leaving his Ecce Homo unfinished — to live in Kraków’s poorhouse among its outcasts, founding the Albertine brothers and sisters to serve them. Karol Wojtyła wrote a play about him and called him a spiritual father. [Upcoming dates for St. Albert Chmielowski](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-albert-chmielowski/) ## June 18 ### [St. Gregory Barbarigo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-barbarigo/) Bishop · died 1697 A Venetian diplomat’s son who organized plague relief in Rome, then as bishop of Bergamo and Padua poured his fortune into seminaries, libraries, and a printing press with fonts for eastern tongues — dreaming of reunion with the Greek Church. He gave literally everything; his household inventory at death fit on a page. [Upcoming dates for St. Gregory Barbarigo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-barbarigo/) ## June 19 ### [St. Romuald](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-romuald/) Abbot · died c. 1027 A Ravenna noble who fled to a monastery in horror after his father killed a man in a duel — and spent seventy years founding hermitages across Italy, joining the hermit’s solitude to the monk’s obedience in the Camaldolese order. His little rule survives, bidding the monk sit in his cell as in paradise and watch his thoughts as a good fisherman watches for fish. [Upcoming dates for St. Romuald](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-romuald/) ## June 20 ### [St. Silverius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-silverius/) Pope and Martyr · died c. 537 Son of Pope Hormisdas, elected to Peter’s chair in dangerous times: refusing the empress Theodora’s demand to restore a condemned patriarch, he was framed with forged letters, deposed by the general Belisarius, and exiled to the barren island of Palmarola, where he starved to death. The faithful honored his grave as a martyr’s from the first. [Upcoming dates for St. Silverius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-silverius/) ## June 21 ### [St. Aloysius Gonzaga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-aloysius-gonzaga/) Religious · died 1591 (Memorial) Patron of youth and students Eldest son of a princely Italian house, page in the courts of Florence and Madrid, who signed away a marquisate to enter the Jesuit novitiate at seventeen — where his director, the future saint Robert Bellarmine, had to moderate… [The life of St. Aloysius Gonzaga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-aloysius-gonzaga/) ## June 22 ### [St. Thomas More](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-more/) Martyr · died 1535 Patron of lawyers, politicians, and difficult marriages Lawyer, scholar, and the wittiest man in England; Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII and author of Utopia. When the king broke with Rome over his marriage, More resigned, kept silence, and was condemned on perjured testimony. [The life of St. Thomas More, with 4 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-thomas-more/) ## June 23 ### [St. Joseph Cafasso](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph-cafasso/) Priest · died 1860 Patron of prisoners and the condemned A small, slightly crooked Piedmontese priest who formed a generation of clergy at the Turin institute — John Bosco above all, whom he guided and funded — and accompanied sixty-eight men to the gallows, hearing their confessions… [The life of St. Joseph Cafasso](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph-cafasso/) ## June 24 ### [St. John the Baptist](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-the-baptist/) Prophet and Forerunner of the Lord · died c. 30 (Solemnity) Patron of baptism and conversion The son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, who leapt in the womb at the approach of Christ and grew up to be the voice crying in the wilderness. All four Gospels open his preaching: repent, for the kingdom is at hand. [The life of St. John the Baptist, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-the-baptist/) ## June 25 ### [St. William of Vercelli](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-william-of-vercelli/) Abbot · died c. 1142 An Italian pilgrim-hermit who settled on the bare heights of Montevergine and found disciples gathering despite him; the abbey he founded there, with its shrine of the Virgin, still crowns the mountain. He ended his days founding houses across the Norman south, counselor to its king. [Upcoming dates for St. William of Vercelli](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-william-of-vercelli/) ## June 26 ### [St. Josemaría Escrivá](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-josemaria-escriva/) Priest · died 1975 An Aragonese priest who in 1928 ‘saw’ Opus Dei: ordinary Christians called to holiness through their daily work, sanctifying the world from within. He crossed the Pyrenees on foot in the Civil War, built the Work across the world from Rome, and left in The Way and his preaching one insistent message: your everyday life is the stuff of sanctity. [Upcoming dates for St. Josemaría Escrivá](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-josemaria-escriva/) ## June 27 ### [St. Cyril of Alexandria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyril-of-alexandria/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 444 Patriarch of Alexandria, a hard fighter in a hard age, whose lasting glory is the defense of a single word: Theotokos, God-bearer. [The life of St. Cyril of Alexandria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyril-of-alexandria/) ## June 28 ### [St. Irenaeus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-irenaeus/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 202 (Memorial) A disciple of Polycarp, who was a disciple of John — Irenaeus carried the apostolic memory from Smyrna to Gaul, where he became bishop of Lyons after its martyrs’ deaths. [The life of St. Irenaeus, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-irenaeus/) ## June 29 ### [St. Peter](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter/) Apostle · died c. 64 (Solemnity) Patron of fishermen and the papacy Simon the fisherman of Bethsaida, renamed Rock by the Lord he confessed as ‘the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ [The life of St. Peter](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter/) ### [St. Paul](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul/) Apostle to the Gentiles · died c. 67 (Solemnity) Patron of missionaries and writers Saul of Tarsus, Pharisee of Pharisees, guarded the cloaks at Stephen’s stoning and set out for Damascus to destroy the Church — and met the risen Christ on the road. [The life of St. Paul](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul/) ## June 30 ### [First Martyrs of the Church of Rome](https://blessbible.app/saints/first-martyrs-of-the-church-of-rome/) Martyrs · died c. 64 The nameless multitude Nero blamed for the burning of Rome: sewn into beasts’ skins for the dogs, crucified, burned as torches for his gardens — ‘a vast multitude,’ Tacitus wrote, condemned finally not for arson but for who they were. The Church keeps them the day after Peter and Paul, shepherds and flock together. [Upcoming dates for First Martyrs of the Church of Rome](https://blessbible.app/saints/first-martyrs-of-the-church-of-rome/) [Previous month Saints of May](https://blessbible.app/saints/may/) [Next month Saints of July](https://blessbible.app/saints/july/) 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.