List of articles in "Saint" category - Page 258

María Fernández Coronel y Arana Abbess of Ágreda (2 April 1602 – 24 May 1665) was a Catholic Franciscan nun and author known for reports of bilocation between Spain and […]

Saint Prisca was a Roman young woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. Her dates are unknown. She is revered as a pre-schism Western saint and martyr by […]

Saint Maurus O.S.B. (or Maur) was the first disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia (512-584). He is mentioned in St. Gregory the Great’s biography of the latter as the first […]

Saint Sunniva (10th century) is the patron saint of the Norwegian Diocese of Bjørgvin as well as all of Western Norway.According to legend Sunniva was the heir of an Irish […]

Hazrat Khwaja Farīduddīn Mas’ūd Ganjshakar (Urdu: حضرت بابا فرید الدّین مسعود گنج شکر‎ (1173-1266) was a Sufi saint and Muslim missionary in Punjab region of South Asia belonging to the […]

Junayd (Junaid) of Baghdad (Persian: جنید بغدادی‎) was one of the most famous of the early Persian Muslim mystics or Sufis of Islam and is a central figure in the […]

Anthony of Kiev (c. 983-1073) was a monk and the founder of the monastic tradition in the Kievan Rus’. Also called Anthony of the Caves (Russian: Антоний Печерский Ukrainian: Антоній […]

Saint Felix of Nola (d. ca. 250) was a Christian presbyter at Nola near Naples in Italy. He sold off his possessions in order to give to the poor but […]

Marguerite Bourgeoys C.N.D. was the French foundress of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France now part of Canada. She lived in Fort Ville-Marie […]

For Saint Oda of Canterbury see Oda the SevereSaint Oda of Scotland (c. 680 – c. 726) was a woman supposedly of Scottish origin who became a holy woman in […]