Catholic Saints & Feasts of the Liturgical Year
If a list were made of the greatest human beings who have ever lived, the Catholic saints would be at the top. Though historians often attempt to judge greatness from a subjective perspective, there must be objective criteria by which human greatness is judged. The only Being capable of establishing that criteria is God. The criteria that God has established are the virtues, as identified by Jesus and revealed by Him through the holy Gospels. The goal of this podcast is to present each saint found on the Catholic liturgical calendar in such a way so as to identify the Godly virtues that place each one on that list. The Church has already confirmed the saints’ greatness and their heroic virtues. Importantly, God chose the men and women found in these pages, not only for greatness in their lifetimes, but also as models of holiness in ours. These men and women are gifts to you, given by God through the Church. Each podecast reflection comes from the four-volume series Saints and Feasts of the Liturgical Year. These reflections can be read at our website for free: mycatholic.life. They are also available for purchase in eBook and paperback.
Episodes
March 23: Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop—Optional Memorial
1538–1606
Patron Saint of Peru, Latin American bishops, and native people’s rights
Canonized by Pope Benedict XIII on December 10, 1726
Liturgical Color: Purple (Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
Nothing gave the saint so much pleasure as the greatest labors and dangers, to procure the least spiritual advantage to one soul. Burning with the mo...
March 19: Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary—Solemnity
First Century
Patron Saint of the Universal Church, fathers, carpenters, and a happy death
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home. He had no relations with her until she bore a son, and he named him Jesus. ~Matthew 1:24–25
Prayer:
Saint ...
March 18- Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor—Optional Memorial
c. 315–c. 387
Pre-Congregation canonization
Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII in 1883
Liturgical Color: Purple (Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
God is loving to man, and loving in no small measure. For say not, I have committed fornication and adultery: I have done dreadful things, and not once only, but often: will He...
March 17: Saint Patrick, Bishop—Optional Memorial
c. 387–c. 460 or 493 (Actual dates are uncertain)
Patron Saint of Ireland
Invoked against snake bites
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Purple (Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
I, Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many…was taken captive. I was at that time about sixteen years of...
March 9: Saint Francis of Rome, Religious—Optional Memorial
1495–1550
Patron Saint of hospitals, nurses, firefighters, booksellers, alcoholics, and the sick
Canonized October 16, 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
A married woman must, when called upon, leave her devotions to God at the altar to find him in her household affairs. ~Famous quote of Saint Frances
Prayer:
Saint Fra...
March 8: Saint John of God, Religious—Optional Memorial
1495–1550
Patron Saint of hospitals, nurses, firefighters, booksellers, alcoholics, and the sick
Canonized October 16, 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: Lord be blessed for in your great kindness to me who am such a great sinner having done so many wicked things, yet you see fit to set me free from such a tremendous tem...
March 7: Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs—Memorial
Saint Perpetua: c. 182–203
Patron Saint of cattle and martyrs
Invoked against the death of childrenSaint Felicity: Unknown–203
Patron Saint of martyrs, help to have male children, and widows
Invoked against sterility and the death of children
Pre-Congregation canonizations
Liturgical Color: Red (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: Now dawned the day of their victory, and they ...
March 4: Saint Casimir—Optional Memorial
1458–1484
Patron Saint of Poland, Lithuania, and Lithuanian youth
Believed to have been canonized by Pope Leo X in 1521 or Pope Adrian VI in 1522
Canonization confirmed by Pope Clement VIII in 1602
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: Daily, daily sing to Mary; Sing, my soul, her praises due. All her glorious actions cherish, With the heart’s devotion true. Lost in ...
March 3: Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin—USA Optional Memorial
1858–1955
Patron Saint of racial justice and philanthropists
Canonized October 1, 2000 by Pope John Paul II
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if in Lent)
Quote: Like the little girl who wept when she found that her doll was stuffed with sawdust and her drum was hollow, I too have made a horrifying discovery and my discovery like hers is true. I have ripped both the d...
February 27: Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church—Optional Memorial
951–c. 1003
Widely venerated in the Armenian Church
Declared a Doctor of the Church in 2015 and inscribed on the Church Calendar as an Optional Memorial by Pope Francis in 2021
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: Speaking with God from the Depths of the Heart. The voice of a sighing heart, its sobs and mournful cries, I...
February 23: Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr—Memorial
(Optional Memorial if Lenten weekday)
c. 65–c. 155 (or 166)
Invoked against earaches and dysentery
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: I exhort you all therefore to be obedient to the word of righteousness and to practice all endurance, which also you saw with your own eyes in the blessed Ignatius and Zosimus and Rufus, ye...
February 22: Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle—Feast
Liturgical Color: White
Quote: Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bou...
February 21: Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church—Optional Memorial
1007–1072
Patron Saint of Faenza and Font-Avellano, Italy
Pre-Congregation canonization
Canonization confirmed and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XII in 1823
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: May your mind…fear the imminent day of Judgment, that you may not have to fear when it is upon you, that, as you pru...
Ash Wednesday
Quote: Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. ~Distribution of ashes
Reflection: It was a common practice within the early Church that those who were found guilty of grave public sin needed to do public penance before they were admitted back into communion with the Church and admitted to the Most Holy Eucharist. The public sinners came forward in sackcloth forty days before Easter and were ...
February 17: Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order—Optional Memorial
Thirteenth Century
Invoked to aid in the imitation of the charity and patience of Our Lady of Sorrows
Canonized January 15, 1888 by Pope Leo XIII
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
I have chosen you to be my first Servants, and under this name you are to till my Son’s Vineyard. Here, too, is the habit which you are to wear; its dark ...
February 14: Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop—Memorial
(Optional Memorial if Lenten weekday)
Saint Cyril: c. 827–869
Saint Methodius: c. 815–885
Co-Patrons of Europe, Slavic peoples, unity of Eastern and Western Churches
Pre-Congregation canonization
Quote: Hear my prayer and protect your faithful people, for you have established me as their unsuitable and unworthy servant. “Make your people known for the unity and pr...
February 11: Our Lady of Lourdes—Optional Memorial
January 11–July 16, 1858
Patron Saint of the sick, asthma sufferers
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
I went every day for a fortnight, and each day I asked her who she was, and this petition always made her smile. After the fortnight I asked her three times consecutively. She always smiled. At last I tried for the fourt...
February 10: Saint Scholastica, Virgin—Memorial
c. 480–543
Patron Saint of nuns, school, tests, reading, convulsive children
Invoked against storms and rain
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
The holy nun said to her brother: “Please do not leave me tonight; let us go on until morning talking about the delights of the spiritual life.” “Sister,”...
February 8: Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin—Optional Memorial
1869–1947
Patron Saint of Sudan and human-trafficking survivors
Canonized October 1, 2000 by Saint Pope John Paul II
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
If I was to meet those slave-traders that abducted me and those who tortured me, I’d kneel down to them to kiss their hands, because, if it had not have been for...
February 8: Saint Jerome Emiliani, Founder—Optional Memorial
1486–1537
Patron Saint of orphans and abandoned children
Canonized on July 16, 1767 by Pope Clement XIII
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
One morning, we were twenty-eight at St. Magdalene Hospital and we were praying. Since we had nothing to eat, father Jerome told us, “Do not doubt, my sons, the Lord will tak...
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