St. Giles
Patron of the disabled and the poor
A Greek-born hermit of the Provençal forest, whose companion — legend says — was a deer, and who was crippled by a hunter’s arrow meant for her.
The life of St. GilesSaints by feast day
Saints’ feast days in September
September has 30 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 30 days. 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. Matthew and Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.
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).
September 1
September 2
St. William of Roskilde
An English chaplain who stayed in Denmark to strengthen its young Christianity, became bishop of Roskilde, and once barred the church door to the king after a night of slaughter — the king did public penance, and the two became fast friends, dying, tradition says, within days of each other.
September 3
St. Gregory the Great
A Roman prefect who sold his estates to feed the poor, became a monk, and was dragged protesting to the papacy as plague and Lombard armies ravaged Italy. He called himself ‘servant of the servants of God,’ and meant it.
The life of St. Gregory the Great, with 4 quotationsSeptember 4
St. Rosalia
Patron of Palermo
A Norman noblewoman of Sicily who left the court for caves on Monte Pellegrino, where she died alone with her crucifix.
The life of St. RosaliaSeptember 5
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, an Albanian girl who left home at eighteen for the Loreto sisters and India, and eighteen years later heard on a train to Darjeeling a ‘call within a call’: to leave the convent for the slums, to quench…
The life of St. Teresa of CalcuttaSeptember 6
St. Magnus of Füssen
A missionary monk of the Allgäu, remembered as apostle of that Alpine country — clearing land, teaching the mountain people, founding at Füssen the abbey that bears his name. For twelve centuries the farmers of the region have asked his blessing on their fields against vermin and storm.
September 7
St. Cloud
A Merovingian prince whose two brothers were murdered by their uncles for their inheritance; the child Cloud escaped, and when he came of age renounced throne and vengeance together, cutting his royal hair to become a priest and hermit. The village of his hermitage near Paris keeps his name: Saint-Cloud.
September 8
St. Adrian of Nicomedia
An officer of the imperial guard who, watching Christians tortured, asked what reward made them so steadfast — and enrolled himself among them. His young wife Natalia strengthened him through martyrdom; soldiers of East and West afterward took him as their patron.
September 9
St. Peter Claver
Patron of enslaved peoples and race relations
A Catalan Jesuit who landed at Cartagena, the great slave port of the Americas, and vowed himself the slave of the Africans forever. For thirty-eight years he met every slave ship with food, medicine, and catechists.
The life of St. Peter ClaverSeptember 10
St. Nicholas of Tolentino
Patron of the souls in purgatory
An Augustinian friar of the Italian Marches, thirty years in one friary, whose nights of prayer for the dead and days in the slums of Tolentino made him the first canonized of his order.
The life of St. Nicholas of TolentinoSeptember 11
Sts. Protus and Hyacinth
Two brothers, servants of the Roman household of Eugenia, martyred by fire and sword under Valerian. In 1845 the archaeologist Marchi found Hyacinth’s loculus in the catacomb of Bassilla still sealed, ashes and charred bones within — the rarest thing in Rome: a martyr’s grave untouched since the third century.
September 12
St. Guy of Anderlecht
A poor Brabant sacristan who lost his one venture into trade — the ship sank at the dock — and took it as God’s answer, spending seven years as a pilgrim to Rome and Jerusalem on foot. He died a pauper at Anderlecht; the working poor of the Low Countries made ‘poor Guy’ their own.
September 13
St. John Chrysostom
A monk of Antioch dragged from his solitude and made a preacher, then patriarch of Constantinople.
The life of St. John Chrysostom, with 6 quotationsSeptember 14
St. Notburga
Patron of servants and agricultural workers
A Tyrolean serving-maid dismissed for giving leftovers to the poor, who hired herself to a farmer on condition of freedom to attend church — her upheld sickle, hanging in the air, settled a dispute about Sabbath work, says the…
The life of St. NotburgaSeptember 15
St. Catherine of Genoa
A Genoese noblewoman married at sixteen to a wastrel, whose midlife conversion in a confessional turned her into mystic and hospital administrator at once — she ran Genoa’s great Pammatone hospital through plague years while…
The life of St. Catherine of Genoa, with 1 quotationSeptember 16
St. Cyprian
A wealthy rhetorician of Carthage converted in middle age, made bishop within a decade, and martyred a decade after that under Valerian. His letters steer the Church through persecution and plague with a Roman’s clarity.
The life of St. Cyprian, with 3 quotationsSeptember 17
St. Robert Bellarmine
Patron of catechists and canon lawyers
A Tuscan Jesuit, nephew of a pope, and the Counter-Reformation’s most formidable theologian: his Controversies stated Protestant arguments so fairly that some thought the book dangerous to print.
The life of St. Robert BellarmineSeptember 18
St. Joseph of Cupertino
Patron of pilots, astronauts, and students taking examinations
An absent-minded, unlucky friar — ‘Brother Open-Mouth’ — who could scarcely pass an examination and rose in ecstasy at the name of Jesus: his flights, witnessed by popes, dukes, and a skeptical Lutheran or two, are among the…
The life of St. Joseph of CupertinoSeptember 19
St. Januarius
Patron of Naples
Bishop of Benevento, martyred at Pozzuoli in Diocletian’s persecution while visiting imprisoned deacons.
The life of St. JanuariusSeptember 20
Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn and Companions
The Korean church was founded by no missionary: lay scholars found Christ in books brought from Beijing and baptized one another.
The life of Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn and CompanionsSeptember 21
St. Matthew
Patron of accountants and bankers
Levi the tax collector sat at his customs booth in Capernaum — a collaborator, despised — until Jesus passed and said two words: ‘Follow me.’
The life of St. MatthewSeptember 22
St. Maurice and Companions
Officer of the Theban Legion, Christian soldiers from Egypt serving in Gaul, who refused an order to harm innocent Christians, answering that they were the emperor’s soldiers but first the soldiers of God. Decimated once, then again, the legion stood fast and was slaughtered at the place now called Saint-Maurice, whose abbey has kept unbroken prayer since 515.
September 23
St. Pius of Pietrelcina
Francesco Forgione of Pietrelcina, Capuchin friar of San Giovanni Rotondo, who in 1918 received the visible stigmata and bore the wounds for fifty years under medical scrutiny and no little suspicion — which he met with obedience.
The life of St. Pius of PietrelcinaSeptember 24
St. Gerard of Csanád
A Venetian monk waylaid — providentially — on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, who stayed to tutor St. Stephen of Hungary’s son and become the first bishop of Csanád. In the pagan uprising after Stephen’s death he was hurled from the Buda hill that now bears his name, blessing his killers.
September 25
St. Cleophas
One of the two downcast disciples on the Emmaus road whom the risen Lord joined unrecognized, opening the Scriptures until their hearts burned, and revealing himself in the breaking of the bread. Ancient tradition counts Cleophas among the Lord’s own kin, and a martyr in the house where he had received him.
September 26
Sts. Cosmas and Damian
Patron of physicians, surgeons, and pharmacists
Twin Arab physicians who took no fee — the ‘moneyless ones’ of Eastern devotion — healing bodies and commending the Physician of souls, martyred in Syria under Diocletian.
The life of Sts. Cosmas and DamianSeptember 27
St. Vincent de Paul
Patron of charitable societies and volunteers
A Gascon peasant’s son, captured by pirates and enslaved in Tunis before escaping to become the apostle of charity in seventeenth-century France.
The life of St. Vincent de Paul, with 3 quotationsSeptember 28
St. Wenceslaus
Patron of the Czech people
Duke of Bohemia, raised Christian by his grandmother St. Ludmila in a half-pagan land. As ruler he built churches, judged justly, and was remembered for carrying firewood and alms to the poor with his own hands — the memory…
The life of St. WenceslausSeptember 29
Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
Patron of police, messengers, and travelers
The three angels Scripture names. Michael — ‘Who is like God?’ — captain of the heavenly host, who casts the dragon down; Gabriel — ‘the strength of God’ — who stood before Daniel, Zechariah, and the Virgin of Nazareth with the…
The life of Sts. Michael, Gabriel and RaphaelSeptember 30
St. Jerome
Patron of Scripture scholars and librarians
The greatest biblical scholar of the early Church, secretary to a pope, and a hermit of legendary temper.
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