St. Francis of Assisi
St. Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (1181-1226 A.D.)
Assisi, Italy. Stigmatist & Founder of the Franciscans. Feast Day: October 4
Patron saint of the Franciscan Order; poor people; peace; ecology; animals; stowaways; merchants; San Francisco, CA
St. Clare of Assisi
St. Chiara Offreduccio (1194-1253 A.D.)
Assisi, Italy. Founder, Order of Poor Ladies - now called the Poor Clares. Feast Day: August 11
Patron saint of television, eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, bicycle messengers, good weather, needleworkers, fertility, and Santa Clara, CA
St. Anthony de Padua
St. Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195-1231 A.D.)
Lisbon, Portugal. Doctor of the Church. Franciscan Friar. Feast Day: June 13
Patron saint of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, miracles, travelers, finding one's spouse, pregnancy, harvests, animals, lost items, lost people, lost souls, limb-loss (amputees), poverty, sterility, the sick, the disabled, the oppressed, the hungry, the elderly, faith in the Blessed Sacrament, sailors, fishermen, watermen, swineherds, mail carriers, counter-revolutionaries, indigenous peoples of the Americas, and San Antonio, TX
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St. Pio of Pietrelcina
St. Francesco Forgione (1887-1968)
Pietrelcina, Italy. Capuchin Franciscan. Mystic and Stigmatist
Feast Day: September 23
Patron saint of the sick & against illness
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St. Maximilian Kolbe
St. Rajmund Kolbe (1894-1941)
Zduńska Wola, in the Kingdom of Poland. Conventual Franciscan Friar, Missionary, Founder of the Militia Immaculata, and martyr.
Feast Day: August 14
Patron Saint of prisoners, drug addicts, families, journalists, amateur radio operators, the pro-life movement, and people with eating disorders
St. John Bosco
St. Gioann Melchior Bòsch (1815-1888 A.D.)
Piedmont, Italy. Secular Franciscan. Founder, Salesian religious orders. Feast Day: January 31
Patron saint of editors, publishers, students, young children, magicians, juvenile delinquents
Bl. Maria Assunta
Bl. Assunta Maria Pallotta (1878-1905)
Force, Kingdom of Italy. Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. Missionary to China.
Feast Day: April 7
Patron saint of missionaries, and patron against typhus fever
St. Junípero Serra
St. Miguel José Serra Ferrer (1713-1784)
Petra, Majorca, Spain. Franciscan Friar. Father of California's Missions. Evangelizer.
Feast Day: July 1
Patron saint of vocations, Hispanic Americans, and of California
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