--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in November: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/november/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in November, day by day: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, St. Andrew and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *November* November has 30 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 30 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. Frances Xavier Cabrini and St. Andrew. 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). ## November 1 ### [St. Benignus of Dijon](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benignus-of-dijon/) Priest and Martyr The apostle of Burgundy by ancient tradition — a missionary priest martyred at Dijon in the second century’s persecutions. Gregory of Tours tells how doubt about the old tomb ended in its vindication; the great abbey and cathedral of Saint-Bénigne rose above it, mother-church of the city. [Upcoming dates for St. Benignus of Dijon](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benignus-of-dijon/) ## November 2 ### [St. Malachy](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-malachy/) Bishop · died c. 1148 Reforming archbishop of Armagh who reknit the Irish church to Rome, restored the sacraments among a people grown wild in war, and twice crossed Europe to see the pope. He was Bernard of Clairvaux’s dearest friend, and died in his arms at Clairvaux on All Souls’ Day — Bernard wrote his Life and asked to be buried beside him. [Upcoming dates for St. Malachy](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-malachy/) ## November 3 ### [St. Martin de Porres](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martin-de-porres/) Religious · died 1639 Patron of racial harmony, barbers, and social justice Son of a Spanish knight and a freed Black woman of Lima, apprenticed to a barber-surgeon, received by the Dominicans as a servant because the law barred him from vows — until his holiness overruled the law. [The life of St. Martin de Porres](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martin-de-porres/) ## November 4 ### [St. Charles Borromeo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-charles-borromeo/) Bishop · died 1584 (Memorial) A Medici-connected nobleman made cardinal at twenty-two by his uncle the pope — who then stunned Rome by becoming its most austere reformer. [The life of St. Charles Borromeo, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-charles-borromeo/) ## November 5 ### [Sts. Zechariah and Elizabeth](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-zechariah-and-elizabeth/) Parents of John the Baptist The aged priest struck silent for doubting the angel, whose tongue was loosed at his son’s naming into the Benedictus the Church sings every morning; and his wife, ‘righteous before God,’ the first to hail Mary as ‘mother of my Lord.’ In them the Old Covenant’s long waiting greets the New. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Zechariah and Elizabeth](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-zechariah-and-elizabeth/) ## November 6 ### [St. Leonard of Noblac](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leonard-of-noblac/) Hermit · died c. 559 Patron of prisoners and captives A Frankish noble converted by Remigius, who refused a bishopric for a forest hermitage near Limoges. [The life of St. Leonard of Noblac](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leonard-of-noblac/) ## November 7 ### [St. Willibrord](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-willibrord/) Bishop · died c. 739 Patron of the Netherlands A Northumbrian monk, first of the great English missionaries to the continent, consecrated at Rome as archbishop of the Frisians with his see at Utrecht. [The life of St. Willibrord](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-willibrord/) ## November 8 ### [Four Crowned Martyrs](https://blessbible.app/saints/four-crowned-martyrs/) Martyrs · died c. 305 Patron of stonemasons and sculptors Four (or five) stone-carvers of the Pannonian quarries who worked marvels for Diocletian but would not carve an idol of Aesculapius, nor sacrifice — and were drowned in the river in leaden boxes. [The life of Four Crowned Martyrs](https://blessbible.app/saints/four-crowned-martyrs/) ## November 9 ### [St. Theodore Tiron](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodore-tiron/) Martyr · died c. 306 A young recruit — ‘Tiron’ — of the imperial legions in Pontus who declared himself a Christian, burned the temple of the Mother of the Gods, and was martyred by fire. One of the great warrior-saints of the East, his shrine at Euchaita drew pilgrims for a thousand years. [Upcoming dates for St. Theodore Tiron](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodore-tiron/) ## November 10 ### [St. Leo the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leo-the-great/) Pope and Doctor of the Church · died c. 461 (Memorial) Pope in the dying years of the Western empire, when the see of Peter was the last steady thing in Italy. [The life of St. Leo the Great, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leo-the-great/) ## November 11 ### [St. Martin of Tours](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martin-of-tours/) Bishop · died c. 397 (Memorial) Patron of soldiers and beggars A Roman cavalry officer’s son, catechumen at ten against his family’s wishes, soldier by conscription. At the gate of Amiens he cut his cloak in half for a freezing beggar; that night Christ appeared wearing it. [The life of St. Martin of Tours, with 1 quotation](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-martin-of-tours/) ## November 12 ### [St. Josaphat](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-josaphat/) Bishop and Martyr · died 1623 (Memorial) A merchant’s son of Volodymyr who became a Basilian monk at Vilnius, taking the name Josaphat, and rose to be archbishop of Polotsk. [The life of St. Josaphat](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-josaphat/) ## November 13 ### [St. Frances Xavier Cabrini](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frances-xavier-cabrini/) Virgin · died 1917 (Memorial) Patron of immigrants The smallest and frailest of thirteen children of an Italian farm family, refused by two religious orders for her health. [The life of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frances-xavier-cabrini/) ## November 14 ### [St. Lawrence O'Toole](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-otoole/) Bishop · died c. 1180 Abbot of Glendalough at twenty-six and first Irish-born archbishop of Dublin, hostage as a boy and peacemaker all his life — negotiating between Irish kings and Norman invaders, wearing a hairshirt under his robes, feeding hosts of the poor. He died at Eu in Normandy on yet another embassy of peace, content to leave the world without a penny. [Upcoming dates for St. Lawrence O'Toole](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-lawrence-otoole/) ## November 15 ### [St. Albert the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-albert-the-great/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 1280 Patron of scientists and philosophers A Swabian Dominican with perhaps the widest learning of the Middle Ages: he wrote on logic, botany, zoology, minerals, astronomy, and theology alike, insisting that observation of nature honors nature’s God. [The life of St. Albert the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-albert-the-great/) ## November 16 ### [St. Gertrude the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gertrude-the-great/) Virgin · died c. 1302 Given to the monastery of Helfta at four, a brilliant, worldly student until at twenty-five Christ appeared to her, promising to save and deliver her. Her Herald of Divine Love records a mystical life centered on the Sacred Heart, the liturgy, and the souls in purgatory — the only woman the Church styles ‘the Great.’ [Upcoming dates for St. Gertrude the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gertrude-the-great/) ## November 17 ### [St. Elizabeth of Hungary](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-of-hungary/) Religious · died c. 1231 (Memorial) Patron of bakers, brides, and charitable workers A Hungarian princess married at fourteen to the Landgrave of Thuringia — a genuine love match, rare in royal marriages. [The life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-of-hungary/) ## November 18 ### [St. Rose Philippine Duchesne](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-rose-philippine-duchesne/) Virgin · died 1852 A daughter of revolutionary Grenoble who waited thirty years to be a missionary, then sailed at forty-nine with four Religious of the Sacred Heart to the Missouri frontier, opening the first free school west of the Mississippi. At seventy-one she finally reached the Potawatomi, who — unable to teach her their language — named her for what they saw: ‘the woman who prays always.’ [Upcoming dates for St. Rose Philippine Duchesne](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-rose-philippine-duchesne/) ## November 19 ### [St. Raphael Kalinowski](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-raphael-kalinowski/) Priest · died 1907 A Polish military engineer sentenced to death — commuted to ten years’ Siberian exile — for his part in the 1863 rising, where his serenity steadied his fellow prisoners. Freed, he became a Discalced Carmelite, restored the order in Poland, and sat in the confessional so long they called him ‘the martyr of the confessional.’ [Upcoming dates for St. Raphael Kalinowski](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-raphael-kalinowski/) ## November 20 ### [St. Edmund](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-edmund/) King and Martyr · died c. 869 The young king of East Anglia defeated by the Great Heathen Army, who refused to rule as a pagan’s puppet or renounce Christ — shot full of arrows and beheaded, tradition says, at Hoxne. Bury St. Edmunds grew around his shrine; before St. George, he was England’s patron. [Upcoming dates for St. Edmund](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-edmund/) ## November 21 ### [St. Gelasius I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gelasius-i/) Pope · died c. 496 An African-born pope, more servant than sovereign, as his epitaph remembers him, famous for feeding a starving Rome and for the letter distinguishing the ‘two powers’ of priest and emperor — a sentence quoted for a millennium. He fixed the canon of Scripture in the West and gave his name to the oldest Roman sacramentary. [Upcoming dates for St. Gelasius I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gelasius-i/) ## November 22 ### [St. Cecilia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cecilia/) Virgin and Martyr · died c. 230 (Memorial) Patron of musicians A Roman maiden of senatorial family, married against her will to the pagan Valerian — whom she converted on their wedding night, along with his brother; both died martyrs before her. [The life of St. Cecilia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cecilia/) ## November 23 ### [St. Clement of Rome](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-clement-of-rome/) Pope and Martyr · died c. 99 Third successor of Peter at Rome, remembered by tradition as a fellow worker of Paul. When the church of Corinth deposed its clergy in a quarrel, Clement wrote them a letter — the oldest Christian document outside the New… [The life of St. Clement of Rome, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-clement-of-rome/) ## November 24 ### [Sts. Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-andrew-dung-lac-and-companions/) Martyrs of Vietnam · died 1839 (Memorial) Vietnam’s Christians endured three centuries of recurring persecution — by some counts a hundred thousand dead or more. [The life of Sts. Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-andrew-dung-lac-and-companions/) ## November 25 ### [St. Catherine of Alexandria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-alexandria/) Virgin and Martyr · died c. 305 Patron of philosophers, students, and wheelwrights By ancient account a learned maiden of Alexandria who confuted fifty philosophers summoned to argue her out of the faith — converting them — and was condemned to the spiked wheel, which shattered at her touch; the sword did what… [The life of St. Catherine of Alexandria](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-alexandria/) ## November 26 ### [St. Leonard of Port Maurice](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leonard-of-port-maurice/) Priest · died 1751 Patron of parish missions A Franciscan of the Riviera who preached three hundred forty missions across Italy, planting the Way of the Cross wherever he went — five hundred seventy-two sets of stations, including the one in the Colosseum, which his… [The life of St. Leonard of Port Maurice](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leonard-of-port-maurice/) ## November 27 ### [St. Francesco Antonio Fasani](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francesco-antonio-fasani/) Priest · died 1742 A Conventual Franciscan of Lucera in Apulia — ‘Padre Maestro’ to his people — professor, provincial, and above all confessor and father of the poor, who each Advent begged gifts for the prisoners and orphans. At his death the children of Lucera ran through the streets crying that the saint was dead. [Upcoming dates for St. Francesco Antonio Fasani](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francesco-antonio-fasani/) ## November 28 ### [St. Catherine Labouré](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-laboure/) Virgin · died 1876 A Burgundian farm girl, motherless at nine, who kept her father’s house and dovecote before joining the Daughters of Charity — where in the rue du Bac chapel in 1830 the Virgin sat beside her and gave the design of the Miraculous Medal. She told only her confessor, and spent forty-six years in perfect obscurity tending the old men of a hospice; the sisters learned who she was on her deathbed. [Upcoming dates for St. Catherine Labouré](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-laboure/) ## November 29 ### [St. Saturninus of Toulouse](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-saturninus-of-toulouse/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 257 First bishop of Toulouse, whose daily walk past the capitol was blamed for silencing the pagan oracles; seized and bidden to sacrifice, he refused, and was tied to the temple’s bull and dragged to death. The church of Notre-Dame du Taur marks where the rope broke, and the great basilica of Saint-Sernin holds his relics. [Upcoming dates for St. Saturninus of Toulouse](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-saturninus-of-toulouse/) ## November 30 ### [St. Andrew](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-andrew/) Apostle · died c. 60 (Feast) Patron of Scotland, Russia, and fishermen A fisherman of Bethsaida and disciple of John the Baptist who, hearing ‘Behold the Lamb of God,’ followed Jesus first — then went and fetched his brother Simon Peter. [The life of St. Andrew](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-andrew/) [Previous month Saints of October](https://blessbible.app/saints/october/) [Next month Saints of December](https://blessbible.app/saints/december/) 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.