--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in September: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/september/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in September, day by day: St. Matthew, Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints 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 ### [St. Giles](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-giles/) Abbot · died c. 710 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. Giles](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-giles/) ## September 2 ### [St. William of Roskilde](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-william-of-roskilde/) Bishop · died c. 1073 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. [Upcoming dates for St. William of Roskilde](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-william-of-roskilde/) ## September 3 ### [St. Gregory the Great](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-the-great/) Pope and Doctor of the Church · died c. 604 (Memorial) 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 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-the-great/) ## September 4 ### [St. Rosalia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-rosalia/) Virgin · died c. 1166 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. Rosalia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-rosalia/) ## September 5 ### [St. Teresa of Calcutta](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-calcutta/) Religious · died 1997 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 Calcutta](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-teresa-of-calcutta/) ## September 6 ### [St. Magnus of Füssen](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-magnus-of-fussen/) Abbot · died c. 772 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. [Upcoming dates for St. Magnus of Füssen](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-magnus-of-fussen/) ## September 7 ### [St. Cloud](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cloud/) Priest · died c. 560 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. [Upcoming dates for St. Cloud](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cloud/) ## September 8 ### [St. Adrian of Nicomedia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-adrian-of-nicomedia/) Martyr · died c. 306 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. [More on St. Adrian of Nicomedia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-adrian-of-nicomedia/) ## September 9 ### [St. Peter Claver](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-claver/) Priest · died 1654 (Memorial) 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 Claver](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-claver/) ## September 10 ### [St. Nicholas of Tolentino](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-nicholas-of-tolentino/) Priest · died c. 1305 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 Tolentino](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-nicholas-of-tolentino/) ## September 11 ### [Sts. Protus and Hyacinth](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-protus-and-hyacinth/) Martyrs · died c. 257 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. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Protus and Hyacinth](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-protus-and-hyacinth/) ## September 12 ### [St. Guy of Anderlecht](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-guy-of-anderlecht/) Layman · died c. 1012 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. [Upcoming dates for St. Guy of Anderlecht](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-guy-of-anderlecht/) ## September 13 ### [St. John Chrysostom](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-chrysostom/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 407 (Memorial) A monk of Antioch dragged from his solitude and made a preacher, then patriarch of Constantinople. [The life of St. John Chrysostom, with 6 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-chrysostom/) ## September 14 ### [St. Notburga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-notburga/) Virgin · died c. 1313 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. Notburga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-notburga/) ## September 15 ### [St. Catherine of Genoa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/) Widow · died 1510 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 quotation](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-of-genoa/) ## September 16 ### [St. Cyprian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyprian/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 258 (Memorial) 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 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyprian/) ## September 17 ### [St. Robert Bellarmine](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-robert-bellarmine/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died 1621 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 Bellarmine](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-robert-bellarmine/) ## September 18 ### [St. Joseph of Cupertino](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph-of-cupertino/) Priest · died 1663 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 Cupertino](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph-of-cupertino/) ## September 19 ### [St. Januarius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-januarius/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 305 Patron of Naples Bishop of Benevento, martyred at Pozzuoli in Diocletian’s persecution while visiting imprisoned deacons. [The life of St. Januarius](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-januarius/) ## September 20 ### [Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-andrew-kim-tae-gon-and-companions/) Martyrs of Korea · died 1846 (Memorial) 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 Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-andrew-kim-tae-gon-and-companions/) ## September 21 ### [St. Matthew](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-matthew/) Apostle and Evangelist (Feast) 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. Matthew](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-matthew/) ## September 22 ### [St. Maurice and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maurice-and-companions/) Martyrs · died c. 287 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. [Upcoming dates for St. Maurice and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maurice-and-companions/) ## September 23 ### [St. Pius of Pietrelcina](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pius-of-pietrelcina/) Priest · died 1968 (Memorial) 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 Pietrelcina](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-pius-of-pietrelcina/) ## September 24 ### [St. Gerard of Csanád](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gerard-of-csanad/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 1046 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. [Upcoming dates for St. Gerard of Csanád](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gerard-of-csanad/) ## September 25 ### [St. Cleophas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cleophas/) Disciple 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. [Upcoming dates for St. Cleophas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cleophas/) ## September 26 ### [Sts. Cosmas and Damian](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-cosmas-and-damian/) Martyrs · died c. 287 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 Damian](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-cosmas-and-damian/) ## September 27 ### [St. Vincent de Paul](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-de-paul/) Priest · died 1660 (Memorial) 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 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-vincent-de-paul/) ## September 28 ### [St. Wenceslaus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wenceslaus/) Martyr · died c. 935 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. Wenceslaus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wenceslaus/) ## September 29 ### [Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-michael-gabriel-and-raphael/) Archangels (Feast) 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 Raphael](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-michael-gabriel-and-raphael/) ## September 30 ### [St. Jerome](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-jerome/) Priest and Doctor of the Church · died c. 420 (Memorial) Patron of Scripture scholars and librarians The greatest biblical scholar of the early Church, secretary to a pope, and a hermit of legendary temper. [The life of St. Jerome, with 3 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-jerome/) [Previous month Saints of August](https://blessbible.app/saints/august/) [Next month Saints of October](https://blessbible.app/saints/october/) 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.