--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in October: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/october/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in October, day by day: St. Luke (Oct 18), Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28) and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *October* October has 31 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 31 days. In 2026–2028 the US calendar keeps the day of 8 of them as a memorial, feast or solemnity at least once, among them St. Luke and Sts. Simon and Jude. 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). ## October 1 ### [St. Thérèse of Lisieux](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-therese-of-lisieux/) Virgin and Doctor of the Church · died 1897 (Memorial) Patron of missions and florists Born at Alençon in France, Thérèse Martin entered the Carmel of Lisieux at fifteen and died there of tuberculosis at twenty-four, unknown to the world. [The life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, with 9 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-therese-of-lisieux/) ## October 2 ### [The Holy Guardian Angels](https://blessbible.app/saints/the-holy-guardian-angels/) Guardians (Memorial) Patron of all under their care ‘See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones,’ the Lord said, ‘for I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father.’ [The life of the Holy Guardian Angels](https://blessbible.app/saints/the-holy-guardian-angels/) ## October 3 ### [St. Théodore Guérin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodore-guerin/) Virgin · died 1856 A Breton Sister of Providence sent with five companions to the Indiana forest, where she found a log cabin and a mission: to do the works of God. Through fires, crop failures, and a bishop who briefly locked her up for independence, she built schools across the state and the motherhouse of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. [Upcoming dates for St. Théodore Guérin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-theodore-guerin/) ## October 4 ### [St. Francis of Assisi](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-of-assisi/) Religious · died c. 1226 (Memorial) Patron of animals, ecology, and Italy The son of a rich cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis renounced his inheritance in the public square, stripping off his fine clothes to marry Lady Poverty. [The life of St. Francis of Assisi, with 5 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-of-assisi/) ## October 5 ### [St. Faustina Kowalska](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-faustina-kowalska/) Virgin · died 1938 Helena Kowalska, third of ten children of a poor Polish family, a sister of Our Lady of Mercy assigned to kitchens, gardens, and gatehouses — and the confidante of Christ, who asked her to be the apostle and secretary of his… [The life of St. Faustina Kowalska](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-faustina-kowalska/) ## October 6 ### [St. Bruno](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bruno/) Priest · died c. 1101 Master of the cathedral school of Reims who walked away from certain preferment with six companions into the alpine desert of the Chartreuse — birthplace of the Carthusians, the one order never reformed ‘because never deformed.’ Called to Rome by a former pupil turned pope, he served, begged leave, and founded a second hermitage in Calabria, dying as he lived: in silence. [Upcoming dates for St. Bruno](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bruno/) ## October 7 ### [St. Justina of Padua](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-justina-of-padua/) Virgin and Martyr · died c. 304 A maiden of Padua martyred by the sword under Diocletian, venerated by the Paduans from earliest times as their protomartyr and patroness beside Prosdocimus, their first bishop. The great basilica of Santa Giustina rose over her tomb, and the reforming Benedictine congregation born there carried her name across Europe. [More on St. Justina of Padua](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-justina-of-padua/) ## October 8 ### [St. Pelagia of Antioch](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pelagia-of-antioch/) Penitent · died c. 457 The most celebrated actress and courtesan of Antioch, who overheard the bishop Nonnus preach — he had wept at her beauty, that a soul so adorned outward cared nothing for its God — sought baptism, gave her jewels to the poor, and vanished. Years later a holy hermit ‘Pelagius’ on the Mount of Olives was found in death to be Pelagia. [Upcoming dates for St. Pelagia of Antioch](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pelagia-of-antioch/) ## October 9 ### [St. Denis and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-denis-and-companions/) Bishop and Martyrs · died c. 250 Patron of France and against headaches First bishop of Paris, sent from Rome to Gaul, beheaded with his priest and deacon on the hill later called Montmartre — the martyrs’ mount. [The life of St. Denis and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-denis-and-companions/) ## October 10 ### [St. Francis Borgia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-borgia/) Priest · died 1572 Duke of Gandía and great-grandson of a notorious pope, whose conversion deepened escorting the corpse of a beautiful empress, resolved never again to serve a master who could die. Widowed father of eight, he entered the Jesuits in secret, refused every honor, and as third general built the missions and colleges that made the Society worldwide. [Upcoming dates for St. Francis Borgia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-borgia/) ## October 11 ### [St. John XXIII](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-xxiii/) Pope · died 1963 Angelo Roncalli, a sharecropper’s son from Bergamo: army chaplain, historian, Vatican diplomat in Bulgaria, Turkey — where he helped Jewish refugees escape — and France, then patriarch of Venice, elected pope at nearly… [The life of St. John XXIII](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-xxiii/) ## October 12 ### [St. Wilfrid](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wilfrid/) Bishop · died c. 709 A turbulent, magnificent Northumbrian who won the Synod of Whitby for Roman usage, built stone churches at Ripon and Hexham with singing schools and libraries, was exiled repeatedly by kings — evangelizing the pagan South Saxons meanwhile, and teaching them, first, to fish — and appealed twice to Rome, the first Englishman to do so. [Upcoming dates for St. Wilfrid](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wilfrid/) ## October 13 ### [St. Edward the Confessor](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-edward-the-confessor/) King · died c. 1066 The last Anglo-Saxon king of the old line, remembered as pious, peaceable, and open-handed — his surname ‘Confessor’ marking a sanctity of life rather than martyrdom. He rebuilt Westminster Abbey, where he lies enshrined behind the high altar to this day, the one royal shrine to survive the Reformation. [Upcoming dates for St. Edward the Confessor](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-edward-the-confessor/) ## October 14 ### [St. Callistus I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-callistus-i/) Pope and Martyr · died c. 222 A slave, failed banker, and convict of the Sardinian mines who rose to administer the Church’s cemetery on the Appian Way — the catacomb that bears his name — and then to the papacy, where his mercy toward repentant sinners scandalized the rigorists. He governed five years and died a martyr in a popular riot. [Upcoming dates for St. Callistus I](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-callistus-i/) ## October 15 ### [St. Teresa of Ávila](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-avila/) Virgin and Doctor of the Church · died 1582 (Memorial) Patron of those who suffer headaches, and Spain A Spanish noblewoman who entered Carmel at twenty and spent two decades as a mediocre religious, by her own account, before a conversion before an image of the wounded Christ set her on fire. [The life of St. Teresa of Ávila, with 6 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-avila/) ## October 16 ### [St. Margaret Mary Alacoque](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-mary-alacoque/) Virgin · died 1690 A Visitation nun of Paray-le-Monial to whom Christ showed his heart — ‘which has so loved men’ — in revelations between 1673 and 1675, asking for a feast, reparation, and the communion of First Fridays. [The life of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-mary-alacoque/) ## October 17 ### [St. Ignatius of Antioch](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ignatius-of-antioch/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 108 (Memorial) Bishop of Antioch in the generation after the apostles, arrested and marched across Asia Minor to be killed at Rome. [The life of St. Ignatius of Antioch, with 4 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ignatius-of-antioch/) ## October 18 ### [St. Luke](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-luke/) Evangelist (Feast) Patron of physicians, surgeons, and artists ‘Luke, a most beloved physician,’ Paul calls him — a Gentile convert who joined the second missionary journey and stayed to the end: ‘Luke alone is with me,’ Paul writes from his last prison. [The life of St. Luke](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-luke/) ## October 19 ### [Sts. John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-john-de-brebeuf-isaac-jogues-and-companions/) North American Martyrs · died 1649 (Memorial) Eight French Jesuits who carried the Gospel to the Huron nation and beyond — learning the languages, mapping the country, and living in longhouses through winter and smallpox. [The life of Sts. John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-john-de-brebeuf-isaac-jogues-and-companions/) ## October 20 ### [St. Paul of the Cross](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-of-the-cross/) Priest · died 1775 A Ligurian merchant’s son who saw in vision a black habit with the sign of the Passion, fasted forty days writing his rule, and founded the Passionists — contemplatives who leave the cloister to preach Christ crucified. Fifty years of missions made him the most sought preacher in Italy; he kept to the end his watchword, that the Passion of Jesus be ever in our hearts. [Upcoming dates for St. Paul of the Cross](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-of-the-cross/) ## October 21 ### [St. Ursula and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ursula-and-companions/) Virgins and Martyrs A British princess martyred at Cologne with her virgin companions while returning from pilgrimage — so the ancient tradition, embroidered by legend into eleven thousand. Whatever their number, their veneration is early and deep: an inscription of the fourth century already honors virgins martyred at Cologne, and Angela Merici placed her teaching company under Ursula’s name. [Upcoming dates for St. Ursula and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ursula-and-companions/) ## October 22 ### [St. John Paul II](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-paul-ii/) Pope · died 2005 Karol Wojtyła of Wadowice: laborer and clandestine seminarian under Nazi occupation, actor, poet, philosopher, skiing archbishop of Kraków under communism — and in 1978 the first non-Italian pope in four and a half centuries. [The life of St. John Paul II](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-paul-ii/) ## October 23 ### [St. John of Capistrano](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-capistrano/) Priest · died c. 1456 Patron of military chaplains A lawyer and governor of Perugia, imprisoned in war, converted in chains, who became with Bernardine the great Franciscan preacher of the age — crowds of tens of thousands, cities reformed, feuds healed. [The life of St. John of Capistrano](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-capistrano/) ## October 24 ### [St. Anthony Mary Claret](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-mary-claret/) Bishop · died 1870 A Catalan weaver’s son who preached ten thousand sermons across Spain and the Canaries, founded the Claretians and a publishing house that scattered millions of books, then endured seven years as archbishop of Santiago de Cuba — reforming, defending the enslaved, surviving assassination. He died in exile in France, days after the loss of Rome. [Upcoming dates for St. Anthony Mary Claret](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-anthony-mary-claret/) ## October 25 ### [Forty Martyrs of England and Wales](https://blessbible.app/saints/forty-martyrs-of-england-and-wales/) Martyrs · died 1679 Forty men and women canonized together in 1970 from among the hundreds who died for the old faith between 1535 and 1679: Margaret Clitherow pressed to death for hiding priests, Edmund Campion the Oxford ornament, Cuthbert Mayne the proto-martyr of the seminaries, priests, mothers, schoolmasters — one cause, one crown. [Upcoming dates for Forty Martyrs of England and Wales](https://blessbible.app/saints/forty-martyrs-of-england-and-wales/) ## October 26 ### [St. Cedd](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cedd/) Bishop · died c. 664 A Northumbrian trained at Lindisfarne, missionary to the Middle Angles and then bishop of the East Saxons, founding monasteries at Tilbury and Lastingham; at the Synod of Whitby he served as interpreter between the parties, trusted by both. He died of the plague at Lastingham, and thirty of his Essex monks came north to die beside him. [Upcoming dates for St. Cedd](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cedd/) ## October 27 ### [St. Frumentius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frumentius/) Bishop · died c. 380 A boy of Tyre shipwrecked on the Red Sea coast and raised at the Ethiopian court, who as regent opened the country to Christian merchants and then, sent by Athanasius as its first bishop, baptized the king. Ethiopia calls him Abba Salama, ‘father of peace,’ and its ancient church descends from his mission. [Upcoming dates for St. Frumentius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frumentius/) ## October 28 ### [Sts. Simon and Jude](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-simon-and-jude/) Apostles (Feast) Patron of desperate and hopeless causes Simon the Zealot, who traded revolution for the kingdom, and Jude Thaddaeus, who asked at the Last Supper why the Lord would show himself to the disciples and not the world. [The life of Sts. Simon and Jude](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-simon-and-jude/) ## October 29 ### [St. Narcissus of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-narcissus-of-jerusalem/) Bishop · died c. 216 Bishop of Jerusalem said to have been over a hundred when he died — slandered in old age by perjurers, he withdrew to the desert until the truth outed, then returned to his see and served on with a coadjutor. Eusebius preserves the memory of his holiness and of the accusers’ fates. [Upcoming dates for St. Narcissus of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-narcissus-of-jerusalem/) ## October 30 ### [St. Alphonsus Rodríguez](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphonsus-rodriguez/) Religious · died 1617 A Segovian wool merchant who buried his wife and all three children, failed in business, and at nearly forty was accepted by the Jesuits only as a lay brother. For forty-six years he kept the door of the Majorca college — greeting every ring of the bell as if it were the Lord — and his hidden counsel formed the missionary saint Peter Claver. [Upcoming dates for St. Alphonsus Rodríguez](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-alphonsus-rodriguez/) ## October 31 ### [St. Wolfgang](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wolfgang/) Bishop · died c. 994 A Swabian monk-schoolmaster who became bishop of Regensburg, reformed its monasteries, tutored the future emperor Henry II, and gladly gave away territory to create the new diocese of Prague. He died on journey in an open chapel; Austria’s lake and village of St. Wolfgang keep his name and pilgrimage. [Upcoming dates for St. Wolfgang](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wolfgang/) [Previous month Saints of September](https://blessbible.app/saints/september/) [Next month Saints of November](https://blessbible.app/saints/november/) 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.