Dominican Saints
and Blesseds

Born: 1205
Region: Verona, Italy
Feast Day: April 29

St. Peter of Verona, a compelling preacher and martyr, was appointed inquisitor of Northern Italy by Pope Gregory IX. This region was home to many who followed the heresy of Catharism.

Born: 1175
Region: Spain
Feast Day: January 7

St. Raymond, a humble and penitential man, founded the Order of Our Lady of Ransom with King James of Aragon and St. Peter Nolasco. The order was devoted to rescuing Christians captured by the Moors.

Born: 1185
Region: Opole, Poland
Feast Day: August 16

Known as The Apostle of Poland, St. Hyacinth received the habit from St. Dominic around 1217.

Saint Margaret of Hungary

Born: 1242
Region:  Hungary
Feast Day: January 18

St. Margaret was the daughter of King Bela IV. Despite her nobility, she entered the convent and labored and fasted intensely for the wretched, poor, and infirm.

Born: Circa 1268
Region:  Tuscany, Italy
Feast Day: April 20

St. Agnes is known for her visions, such as holding the Christ child in her arms while receiving communion from an angel, and miraculous cures during her lifetime.

Born: Circa 1287
Region: Metola, Italy
Feast Day: April 13

St. Margaret was born with severe birth defects. She became a Dominican tertiary, devoted to the care of the dying and imprisoned.

Born: 1306
Region: Donauworth, Bavaria
Feast Day: June 20

‍A prominent Rhineland mystic, Bl. Margaret wrote a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer and recorded her mystical experiences in her autobiography or Spiritual Journal.

Born: 1322
Region: Bologna, Italy
Feast Day: May 13

Bl. Imelda, immensely devoted to the Eucharistic presence, so strongly desired her first holy communion that she died of joy after receiving our Lord at the age of 11.

Bl. Raymond was the Spiritual Director of St. Catherine of Siena and is known as the second founder of the Order of Preachers because of his reformation of the Order.

Born: 1357
Region: Valencia, Spain
Feast Day: April 5

Known as a great preacher and miracle worker, St. Vincent Ferrer evangelized in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Flanders, England, Ireland, and Scotland.

Blessed John of Fiesole
(Fra Angelico)

Born: 1387
Region: Vicchio, Italy
Feast Day: February 18

Declared universal patron of all artists by Pope St. John Paul II in 1984, Fra Angelico’s fresco paintings are known for their simplicity and beauty.

Born: 1389
Region: Florence, Italy
Feast Day: May 10

Best known for his extraordinary gifts of counsel and knowledge, St. Antoninus wrote his Summa Theologica Moralis, which helped educate the clergy during the Renaissance.

Pope Saint Pius V

Born: 1504
Region: Bosco, Italy
Feast Day: April 30

Pope St. Pius V is best known for his Counter Reformation work which implemented the decrees of the Council of Trent. These include standardizing the liturgy, revising the Vulgate, and publishing the Catechism.

Born: 16th Century
Region: Cologne
Feast Day: July 9

St. John of Cologne was captured and ultimately martyred by the Calvinists while administering the sacraments to imprisoned priests in Gorkum, Netherlands.

Born: 1522
Region: Florence, Italy
Feast Day: February 13

St. Catherine was known during her life for her extraordinary sanctity. Many bishops, world leaders, and clergy sought her counsel, including three popes.

Known as The Apostle to South America, St. Louis Bertrand had the gift of tongues, so that as he preached in Spanish to the Indians, they heard him in their own languages, converting thousands.

Saint Martin de Porres

Born: 1579
Region: Lima, Peru
Feast Day: November 3

St. Martin de Porres, a Third Order Dominican and servant to the sick and poor, was known to have extraordinary abilities, including bilocation, aerial flights, miraculous knowledge, and instant cures, among others.

Born: 1585
Region: Location
Feast Day: MM/DD

A Third Order Dominican in Lima, Peru, St. Juan Macias is known for his work with the poor. He was good friends with St. Martin de Porres and they often served the poor together.

Saint Rose of Lima

Born: 1586
Region: Lima, Peru
Feast Day: August 23

‍St. Rose, from an early age, dedicated her life to prayer and penance. She was known to only sleep for two hours so that she could pray more.

Born: 1589
Region: Régil, Guipuskoa, Spain
Feast Day: September 28

As a missionary to Japan, St. Dominic Ibáñez was tortured and martyred by the 'hole hanging' method, Ana-tsurushi. One of his cooperator brothers, St. Frances Shoyemon, was martyred on the same day. All 16 of these martyrs were closely associated with or members of the Dominican Family.

Born: Ca. 1600
Region: Manila, Philippines
Feast Day: September 28

Martyred in Japan in 1637, St. Lawrence Ruiz told his Japanese captors, “I am a Catholic and wholeheartedly accept death for God. If I had a thousand lives, all these to Him I shall offer. Do with me as you please." St. Lawrence Ruiz belonged to the same group of martyr-companions as Saint Dominic Ibáñez and is known as the first canonized Filipino martyr.

St. Francis de Capillas was a Spanish Dominican friar who is known as the protomartyr of China, being the first Christian Missionary martyred there.

Born: 1673
Region: Montfort, France
Feast Day: April 28

A Third Order Dominican, St. Louis de Montfort is best known for promoting strong devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary, angels, and the Rosary.

Born: 1754
Region: France
Feast Day: July 4
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During the French Revolution, Bl. Catherine Jarrige helped to secure shelter, food, and supplies for the celebration of Mass for persecuted priests.

Born: Ca. 1761
Region: Villa Felice, Spain
Feast Day: July 12

Bishop St. Ignatius Delgado is one of 130,000-300,000 Christians martyred in Vietnam from the 15th century to the 20th century.

A Third Order Dominican, local magistrate, and member of the Vietnamese martyr-companions associated with St. Ignatius Delgado, St Dominic An-Kham was martyred as an elderly man for his association with and defense of local Christians.

Born: 1818
Region: Lugo, Spain
Feast Day: July 27

A missionary to Southeast Asia from Manila to Tonkin, Bishop Saint José María Díaz Sanjurjo is known for his apostolic zeal and martyrdom.

Born: 1832
Region: France
Feast Day: May 21

Bl. Hyacinthe Cormier was the 76th Master General of the Order of Preachers.

Born: 1841
Region: Italy
Feast Day: October 5

Bartolo Longo was initially an apostate to the Church, even becoming a Satanist Priest. However, a Dominican priest guided him back to the Church and he became a Dominican Tertiary, preaching against the occult to college students.

Born: 1899
Region: Poland
Feast Day: September 6

Bl. Julia was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis in the Stutthof concentration camp. She risked her life daily to care for those imprisoned with her, including those infected with typhus, which she ultimately contracted and died from shortly before the camp was liberated.