This is the Saint of the Day list of Saints and Blesseds whose feast day is August 18 2024.
👉 Saint Helena of Constantinople
👉 Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga
Blessed MartÃn MartÃnez Pascual
Saint Agapitus the Martyr
Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker
Blessed Leonard of Cava
Blessed Francus of Francavilla
Blessed Antoine Bannassat
Blessed Raynald of Ravenna
Saint Daig MacCairaill
Saint Evan of Ayrshire
Saint Ernan
Saint Florus of Illyria
Saint Florus of Illyria was also known as Floro. He was a twin brother of Saint Laurus of Illyria. He was a stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches.
He was drowned in a well and died as a martyr.
Blessed Domenico de Molinar
Blessed Domenico de Molinar was a travelling preacher and a Mercedarian friar.
He helped to free 293 Christians from slavery in 1419 AD in Muslim Granada.
Blessed Gaspar di Salamanca
Blessed Gaspar di Salamanca was a travelling preacher and a Mercedarian friar.
He helped to free 293 Christians from slavery in 1419 AD in Muslim Granada.
Saint Laurus of Illyria
St Laurus of Illyria was a twin brother of Saint Florus of Illyria. He was a stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches.
He was drowned in a well and died as a martyr.
Blessed Milo of Fontenelle
Blessed Milo of Fontenelle was born to the Frankish nobility. He and his father both gave up secular life and became Benedictine monks at Fontenelle Abbey.
Later on, Milo left the monastery to live as a hermit and died in 735 AD.
Saint John of Rome
Saint John of Rome was a Miracle worker and a Benedictine monk at Saint Andrew’s monastery on the Coelian Hill, Rome, Italy. He worked under abbot Saint Gregory the Great who later wrote about him.Â
He died of natural causes in 590 AD.
Saint Eonus of Arles
St Eonus of Arles was also known as Eonio. In the late 5th and early 6th century, he was the Archbishop of Arles, France. He fought the Pelagian heresy and ordained Saint Cesareo of Arles. He died in 502 AD.
Saint Ronan of Iona
Saint Ronan was a Confessor of the faith and a monk at Iona Abbey. He was involved in the controversy with Saint Finan of Iona concerning the celebration of Easter. He died of natural causes in 660 AD.
Saint Crispus of Rome
St Crispus was a priest in the early days of the Church in Rome, Italy. Together with Saint John of Rome, he recovered and properly buried the bodies of martyrs. For this reason, he was martyred for it.
Saint Proculus of Illyria
St Proculus of Illyria was also known as Prochus. He was a sculptor and a stone cutter who worked to build Christian churches. He was drowned in a well and died as a martyr.
Saint Hermas of Rome
St Hermas of Rome was also known as Hermes. He was dragged by a pagan mob by the heels over the rough ground until he died as a martyr in Rome, Italy.
Saint Maximus of Illyria
St Maximus of Illyria was a sculptor and a stone-cutter who worked to build Christian churches. He was drowned in a well and died as a martyr.
Saint Polyaenus of Rome
Saint Polyaenus of Rome was dragged by a pagan mob by the heels over the rough ground until he died as a martyr in Rome, Italy.
Saint Serapion of Rome
St Serapion of Rome was dragged by a pagan mob by the heels over the rough ground until he died as a martyr in Rome, Italy.
Saint Firminus of Metz
St Firminus of Metz was also known as Fermin. He was the Bishop of Metz, France for eight years. He died in 496 AD.
Saint Leo of Myra
St Leo of Myra was also known as León. He died as a martyr at Myra, Lycia.
Saint Juliana of Stobylum
St Juliana of Stobylum died as a martyr in Strobylum, Asia Minor.
Saint Juliana of Myra
Saint Juliana died as a martyr at Myra, Lycia.
Massa Candida
Massa Candida are also known as Martyrs of Utica or the White Company.
They are a group of three hundred Christians at Carthage in the 3rd century AD, who were ordered to burn incense to Jupiter or face death by fire.
They refused and instead jumped into a pit of burning lime and died as martyrs at Carthage, North Africa in 253 AD.
Prudentius the poet and Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote about them.
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
These are the names of some of the thousands of people who were murdered from 1934 to 1939, during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Spanish Civil War.Â
Their names are;
- Blessed Vicente MarÃa Izquierdo Alcón
- Blessed Silvano Villanueva González
- Blessed Santiago Franco Mayo
- Blessed Rosario Ciércoles Gascón
- Blessed Patricio Gellida Llorach
- Blessed Nicomedes Andrés Vecilla
- Blessed Micaela Hernán MartÃnez
- Blessed MarÃa Luisa Bermúdez Ruiz
- Blessed Liberio González Nombela
- Blessed Joseph Chamayoux Auclés
- Blessed José Sánchez RodrÃguez
- Blessed José MarÃa Ruiz Cardeñosa
- Blessed Jaume Falgarona Vilanova
- Blessed Gregorio DÃez Pérez
- Blessed Francisco Pérez y Pérez
- Blessed Francisco Arias MartÃn
- Blessed FermÃn Gellida Cornelles
- Blessed Eudald Rodas Saurina
- Blessed Eliseo MarÃa Camargo Montes
- Blessed Daniel GarcÃa Antón
- Blessed Celestino José Alonso Villar
- Blessed Aurelio GarcÃa Anton
- Blessed Atanasio Vidaurreta Labra
- Blessed Angelo Reguilón Lobato
- Blessed AgustÃn Pedro Calvo
- Blessed Adalberto Vicente y Vicente
Other Saints of the Day for August 18 2024
- Paola Montaldi
- Ivan Rilski
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