This is the Saint of the Day list of Saints and Blesseds whose feast day falls on June 20 every year.
Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg
Saint John of Pulsano
Blessed Margareta Ebner
Blessed Dermot O’Hurley
Blessed William Harcourt
Blessed John Gavan
Blessed Francisco Pacheco
Blessed John Fenwick
Blessed Margaret Ball
Blessed Michelina of Pesaro
Blessed Giovanni Battista Zola
Saint Methodius of Olympus
Blessed Anthony Turner
Blessed Thomas Whitbread
Blessed Ioannes Kisaku
Blessed Gaspar Sadamatsu
Blessed Paulus Shinsuke
Blessed Baltasar de Torres Arias
Saint Macarius of Petra
Blessed Petrus Rinsei
Saint Bagne of Terouanne
Blessed Vincentius Kaun
Saint Edburga of Caistor
Blessed Michaël Tozo
Saint Goban
Irish Martyrs
Irish Martyrs is a collective title given to the 260 or more persons who are credited with dying for the faith in Ireland between 1537 and 1714. Seventeen of them were beatified together on 27 September 1992 by Pope John Paul II. Their names are Blessed Conn O’Rourke ,Blessed Conor O’Devany ,Blessed Dermot O’Hurley ,Blessed Dominic Collins ,Blessed Edward Cheevers ,Blessed Francis Taylor ,Blessed George Halley ,Blessed John Kearney ,Blessed Matthew Lambert ,Blessed Maurice Eustace ,Blessed Patrick Cavanagh ,Blessed Patrick O’Healy ,Blessed Patrick O’Loughran ,Blessed Peter Higgins ,Blessed Robert Meyler ,Blessed Terrence Albert O’Brien and Blessed William Tirry.
Blessed Donough MacCready
Blessed Donough MacCready born Irish was a priest in the diocese of Down and Connor, Ireland. He is ne of the Irish Martyrs. He died in 1608 in Coleraine, Ireland and was beatified on 27th September 1992 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy.
Saint Gemma of Saintonge
Saint Gemma of Saintonge was a Christian daughter of a pagan noble who beat her to death when she refused an arranged marriage to a young pagan man. She died a martyr from injuries received from a beating while in prison in Saintoge, France.
Blessed Benignus of Breslau
Blessed Benignus of Breslau was a thirteenth-century Cistercian monk at Breslau, Silesia, Poland. He was martyred with many of his brother monks for protecting litugical vessels from invading Tartars.
Saint Guibsech of Cluain-Bairenn
Saint Guibsech of Cluain-Bairenn founded a community of nuns in Cluain-Bairenn, Ireland. He is patron of Cluain-Bairenn (Clonburren, Roscommon County), Ireland.
Saint Helen of Oehren
Saint Helen of Oehren also known as Elia, Eliada, Heliada or Helia was a benedictine nun and abbess of the convent of Oehren in Trier, Germany. She died in 750 of natural causes.
Saint Cyriacus of Lower Moesia
Saint Cyriacus of Lower Moesia was a martyr who died on the Black Sea at Lower Moesia now modern Bulgaria at an unknown date.
Saint Paul of Lower Moesia
Saint Paul of Lower Moesia was a martyr who died on the Black Sea at Lower Moesia, date unknown now modern Bulgaria.
Saint Novatus of Rome
Saint Novatus of Rome was son of Pudens, imperial Roman senator and brother of Saint Praxedes and Saint Pudentiana. He died in 151.
Saint Hector
Saint Hector also known as Ettore was martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian, possibly in Greece. No other information has survived.
Saint Cassán of Cluain-Ratha
Saint Cassán of Cluain-Ratha has no information that survived.
Other Saints Celebrated Today
- Our Lady of Consolation
- Meinrich of Lübeck
- Martyrs of Salamis
- Martin de Agreda
- Lucano of Saben
- Louis Matienzo
- Latuinus of Seez
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