| Blessed Aaron of Cracow | Blessed | September 17 | Bishop; Martyr | Cracow • Poland; Diocese of Cracow | Roman Catholic Church | Martyr's palm; Bishop's mitre |
| Blessed Abraham of Strelna | Blessed | October 20 (local calendars) or with other Novgorod saints | Monk; Hermit; Founder | Monks; Ascetics; Novgorod region; Those seeking solitude with God | Monastic life in Novgorod lands | Monk in simple habit; Staff; Hermitage |
| Blessed Adalbero of Liege | Blessed | December 09 | Bishop and abbot | Liege • Flanders • Benedictine Order | Catholic Church | Rosary • Mitre • Crosier |
| Blessed Adalbert Nierychlewski | Blessed | January 28 | Priest and missionary | Missionaries • Indigenous peoples of Brazil | Catholic Church | Rosary • Crucifix |
| Blessed Adam Bargielski | Blessed | February 04 | Roman Catholic priest | Polish Catholics • Martyrs | Catholic Church | Rosary • Crucifix |
| Blessed Adam of Loccum | Blessed | December 09 | Benedictine monk and abbot | Saxony • Germany | Catholic Church | Rosary • Benedictine habit |
| Blessed Adela Mardosewicz | Blessed | June 12 (group feast of the 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII) | Sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth; teacher; martyr of the Nazi occupation of Nowogródek | Poland; Lithuania; Belarus; religious sisters; those persecuted by totalitarian regimes; those who offer their lives for others | Catholic Church; Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth; Polish Catholic Church; 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII; Martyrs of Nowogródek | Habit of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth; palm frond of martyrdom; Nowogródek in background; cross; the group of eleven sisters |
| Blessed Adelheidis of Tennenbach | Blessed | December 09 | Benedictine nun | Poor • Sick • And marginalized | Catholic Church | Rosary • Benedictine habit |
| Blessed Adeline | Blessed | | Nun or abbess; religious life | | Catholic Church; Benedictine tradition | Nun's veil; lily |
| Blessed Adilio Daronch | Blessed | October 14 | Young Catholic layman; 16-year-old martyr of charity; defender of the innocent | Young people; those who defend the vulnerable; Brazil; Rio Grande do Sul; those who face violence while protecting others | Catholic Church; Brazilian Catholic Church; Archdiocese of Porto Alegre; 20th-century martyrs of charity | Young man's clothing; palm frond of martyrdom; Brazilian landscape; a cross; imagery of protection/defense |
| Blessed Adílio Daronch | Blessed | October 14 | Young Catholic layman; 16-year-old martyr of charity; defender of the innocent | Young people; those who defend the vulnerable; Brazil; Rio Grande do Sul; those who face violence while protecting others | Catholic Church; Brazilian Catholic Church; Archdiocese of Porto Alegre; 20th-century martyrs of charity | Young man's clothing; palm frond of martyrdom; Brazilian landscape; a cross; imagery of protection/defense |
| Blessed Adolph Kolping | Blessed | December 04 | Catholic priest; social reformer; founder | Catholic workers; craftsmen; the Kolping Society; social reformers; young people | Catholic Church | Priest's vestments; craftsman's tools; book; Kolping badge (cross with ring) |
| Blessed Adrian Fortescue | Blessed | July 09 | Knight (Order of St. John); Dominican tertiary; English nobleman | English Martyrs; Dominican tertiaries; Knights of Malta | Catholic Church; Order of St. John (Knights Hospitaller); Third Order of Saint Dominic | Knight's armor; palm branch of martyrdom; Dominican habit |
| Blessed Adrian of Dalmatia | Blessed | May 30 | Bishop and missionary | Dalmatia • Croatia | Catholic Church | |
| Blessed Aegidius of Assisi | Blessed | April 23 | Franciscan friar; third companion of Saint Francis of Assisi (joined c. 1208–1209); mystic; pilgrim; aphorist; laborer (he worked manual jobs throughout his life to support himself) | Assisi; Perugia; Umbria; Franciscan lay brothers; those who seek simple holiness; mystics; those who work with their hands | Catholic Church; Franciscan Order (Friars Minor); early Franciscan community; 13th-century Umbrian mysticism | Franciscan habit; a hand raised in ecstasy (his mystical gifts); a book of sayings (his aphorisms); the Assisi or Perugia landscape; a pilgrim's staff (his many pilgrimages) |
| Blessed Agnello of Pisa | Blessed | April 8 | Friar; preacher; spiritual master | Pisa; Franciscan friars | Catholic Church; Franciscan Order (OFM) | Franciscan habit; crucifix |
| Blessed Agnes de Jesus Galand | Blessed | February 21 | Nurse and educator | Charity workers • Nurses • Educators | Catholic Church | Roses • Crucifix |
| Blessed Agnes Galand | Blessed | October 19 | Dominican nun; prioress of the convent of Langeac; mystic; spiritual director | Auvergne; Haute-Loire; Dominican nuns; mystics; those who influence others through hidden prayer; formation of priests | Catholic Church; Dominican Order (Second Order); 17th-century French mysticism; Auvergne Catholic tradition | Dominican habit (black and white); a flame or light (her mystical gifts); the convent of Langeac; a book or scroll; Marian imagery from Le Puy tradition |
| Blessed Agnes Takea | Blessed | November 24 | Laywoman | Japan (collectively with the 188 Blessed Martyrs of Japan) | Roman Catholic; Japanese Church | Palm branch (martyr); Japanese dress; fumi-e (cross or image • Refused to trample) |
| Blessed Agnes Tsao-Kou Ying | Blessed | July 09 | Laywoman | China (collectively with the 120 Martyrs of China) | Roman Catholic; Chinese Church | Palm branch (martyr); Chinese dress |
| Blessed Agostino Novello | Blessed | May 19 | Jurist; legal scholar (University of Bologna); royal adviser to Manfred of Sicily; Secretary General of the Augustinian Order of Hermits; Augustinian hermit; penitent and contemplative | Siena; Sicily; Augustinians; lawyers and jurists who convert to religious life; children at risk; Tuscany; those who abandon worldly careers for God | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order of Hermits; 13th–14th century Italian mendicant tradition; Sienese Catholic culture | Augustinian habit (black); a law book (his former career); four children (his miracles of rescue); Siena cityscape; hermit's cell or cave |
| Blessed Aimo Taparelli | Blessed | August 15 | Dominican friar; theologian; inquisitor; papal nuncio (under multiple popes in the 15th century); preacher; defender of papal authority against Conciliarism | Savigliano; Piedmont; Dominican friars; theologians; papal nuncios; defenders of Church authority; Marian devotion | Catholic Church; Dominican Order (Order of Preachers); 15th-century Italian Dominicanism; Piedmontese Catholic tradition | Dominican habit (black and white); a papal document or seal (his diplomatic missions); a book of theology; Marian imagery (died on Assumption Day); Piedmontese landscape |
| Blessed Alacrinus of Casamari | Blessed | February 19 | Cistercian monk; member of the early Cistercian community at Casamari Abbey; contemplative | Casamari; Veroli; Ciociaria; Cistercian monks; Lazio | Catholic Church; Cistercian Order; Abbey of Casamari; 12th–13th century Italian Cistercian monasticism | Cistercian white habit; the Abbey of Casamari church; a lily or rose (Cistercian purity); cross; Lazio landscape |
| Blessed Alain de Solminihac | Blessed | December 31 | Augustinian Canon Regular; Abbot; Bishop | | Canons Regular of Chancelade; Diocese of Cahors | Bishop's vestments; Augustinian habit; book |
| Blessed Alan De La Roche | Blessed | September 08 | Dominican Friar; Theologian; Preacher | Confraternities of the Rosary | Order of Preachers (Dominicans) | Dominican habit; Rosary; book; Our Lady of the Rosary |
| Blessed Alan De Solminihac | Blessed | December 31 | Augustinian Canon Regular; Abbot; Bishop | | Canons Regular of Chancelade; Diocese of Cahors | Bishop's vestments; Augustinian habit; book |
| Blessed Albaro of Cordova | Blessed | February 19 | Dominican friar (Order of Preachers); preacher; mystic; founder of Escalaceli friary; pilgrim (Jerusalem); pioneer of the Way of the Cross in Spain | Córdoba; Andalusia; Dominican preachers; pilgrims to Jerusalem; the Way of the Cross; those who make the Stations of the Cross; penitents | Catholic Church; Dominican Order; 15th-century Spanish Dominicanism; Andalusian Catholic tradition; Observant reform movement | Dominican habit (black and white); a cross (Via Crucis); pilgrim's staff and Jerusalem pilgrim's badge; Córdoba or Escalaceli hillside landscape; stations/chapels |
| Blessed Alberic of Gladbach | Blessed | January 26 | Benedictine monk; contemplative; member of the early community of Gladbach Abbey | Mönchengladbach; Rhineland; Benedictine monks | Catholic Church; Benedictine Order; 10th–11th century Rhineland monasticism; Ottonian monastic renaissance | Benedictine black habit; the Gladbach (Mönchengladbach) abbey church; a book of the Rule of Saint Benedict; cross; Rhineland landscape |
| Blessed Albert of Bergamo | Blessed | December 07 | Laborer; Pilgrim | Bergamo; laborers; pilgrims; truck drivers | Secular Franciscans | Pilgrim's habit and staff; dog |
| Blessed Albert of Bologna | Blessed | April 14 | Augustinian hermit friar (Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine); Prior Provincial of Sicily; preacher; contemplative; charitable servant of the poor and sick | Messina; Sicily; Bologna; Augustinian friars; the poor and sick; Prior Provincials | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order of Hermits; 13th–14th century Italian mendicant tradition; Sicilian Catholic Church | Augustinian habit (black); a book (Augustine's tradition of learning); charity to the poor (distributing alms); Messina or Sicilian landscape; cross |
| Blessed Albert of Haigerloch | Blessed | July 4 | Nobleman turned hermit; penitent; contemplative; voluntary poor | Haigerloch; Württemberg; Swabia; those who renounce wealth; hermits and penitents | Catholic Church; 12th-century Swabian eremitical tradition; local Württemberg Catholic devotion | Hermit's rough clothing or tunic; Haigerloch rocky landscape; cross; a broken sword or signet ring (renounced nobility) |
| Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock | Blessed | June 15 | Catholic laywoman; child martyr; domestic servant (she worked in a local farm household); martyr of chastity | Santa Catarina; Brazil; young girls; victims of sexual assault; those who defend chastity; Imaruí; German-Brazilian Catholics | Catholic Church; Brazilian Catholic Church; Archdiocese of Florianópolis; 20th-century Brazilian martyrs; martyrs of chastity | Young girl's clothes; palm frond of martyrdom; lily (chastity); Eucharist imagery (her Eucharistic devotion); Brazilian landscape; Maria Goretti iconographic parallels |
| Blessed Albertinus | Blessed | August 31 | Camaldolese hermit monk; contemplative; member of the Fonte Avellana eremitical tradition | Fonte Avellana; Marche; Camaldolese hermits; contemplatives and hermits; the Apennine tradition of eremitism | Catholic Church; Camaldolese Order; Fonte Avellana hermitage; 13th-century Italian eremitism; tradition of Saint Peter Damian | Camaldolese white habit; the hermitage of Fonte Avellana; cross; forest/Apennine landscape; hermit's cell |
| Blessed Alberto Marvelli | Blessed | October 5 | Mechanical engineer (graduate); Catholic Action youth leader; civic leader and post-war relief organizer; wartime humanitarian | Rimini; youth; engineers; Catholic Action; lay Catholics; wartime humanitarian workers; the poor and prisoners | Catholic Church; Italian Catholic Action; FUCI (Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana); Diocese of Rimini; 20th-century Italian lay Catholicism | Young man in civilian clothes; engineering drawings or tools; bicycle (he rode his bicycle throughout Rimini during the war and died on one); Rimini cityscape; Marian imagery |
| Blessed Alcuin | Blessed | May 19 | Scholar; theologian; educator; Abbot of Saint-Martin of Tours (796–804); head of the Palace School at Aachen (782–796); head of the Cathedral School at York (778–782); liturgical reformer | Teachers and educators; scholars and librarians; England; France; Tours; the Carolingian tradition; calligraphers and scribes; those who reform education; Charlemagne's legacy | Catholic Church; Benedictine tradition (he was a monk of the cathedral tradition of Northumbria); Carolingian Renaissance; Abbey of Saint-Martin of Tours; 8th–9th century Frankish Church | A book and pen (the scholar); the abbey of Tours; Carolingian script; a map of Europe (his intellectual scope); English landscape of Northumbria; Charlemagne at his court |
| Blessed Alda | Blessed | April 26 | Laywoman; married woman (widowed); Franciscan tertiary; contemplative mystic; charitable servant of the poor and sick | Siena; Tuscany; widows; Franciscan tertiaries; the poor and sick; mystics | Catholic Church; Franciscan Third Order (Secular Franciscans); 13th–14th century Sienese lay holiness; Diocese of Siena | Franciscan tertiary habit (simple grey or brown); lily or rose (purity); Sienese city landscape; a beggar or sick person (her charity); a flame or light (her mystical gifts) |
| Blessed Alda of Siena | Blessed | April 26 | Laywoman; married woman (widowed); Franciscan tertiary; contemplative mystic; charitable servant of the poor and sick | Siena; Tuscany; widows; Franciscan tertiaries; the poor and sick; mystics | Catholic Church; Franciscan Third Order (Secular Franciscans); 13th–14th century Sienese lay holiness; Diocese of Siena | Franciscan tertiary habit (simple grey or brown); lily or rose (purity); Sienese city landscape; a beggar or sick person (her charity); a flame or light (her mystical gifts) |
| Blessed Aleksy Sobaszek | Blessed | June 12 (group feast of the 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII) | Salesian priest (Society of Saint Francis de Sales); educator; martyr of the Nazi occupation; Polish Catholic priest | Poland; Salesian Order; Polish clergy; prisoners in concentration camps; those persecuted for faith under totalitarianism; Greater Poland | Catholic Church; Salesian Order (SDB); 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII; Polish Catholic Church; Priesterblock at Dachau | Salesian habit or priest's cassock; palm frond of martyrdom; Dachau in background; barbed wire (the camp); cross; the 108 Polish Martyrs group |
| Blessed Alericus | Blessed | October 8 | Benedictine monk; contemplative; member of the Ottonian-era monastic tradition at Trier | Trier; Rhineland; Benedictine monks | Catholic Church; Benedictine Order; 10th–11th century Rhineland monasticism; Archdiocese of Trier | Benedictine black habit; the Cathedral of Trier or the Porta Nigra; cross; Rhineland landscape |
| Blessed Alexander Baldrati | Blessed | November 1 | Young Catholic layman; Franciscan tertiary; adolescent mystic; model of Eucharistic piety | Lugo di Romagna; young people; Franciscan tertiaries; Eucharistic devotion; Emilia-Romagna | Catholic Church; Franciscan Third Order; Diocese of Imola-Faenza (historically); 17th-century Italian lay holiness | Young man in lay clothes; Eucharist (his devotion); Franciscan tertiary cord; lily (purity of a young saint); Lugo di Romagna landscape |
| Blessed Alexander of Foigny | Blessed | April 27 | Cistercian monk; second Abbot of Foigny; contemplative and monastic leader | Foigny; Aisne; Cistercian monks; abbots | Catholic Church; Cistercian Order; Abbey of Foigny; daughter-house of Clairvaux; 12th–13th century French Cistercian monasticism | Cistercian white habit; abbot's crozier; the Abbey of Foigny in background; cross; northern French landscape |
| Blessed Alexander Vincioli | Blessed | May 3 | Franciscan friar; Bishop of Nocera Umbra; Umbrian bishop; model of Franciscan episcopal poverty | Perugia; Umbria; Nocera Umbra; Franciscan bishops; those who combine leadership with personal poverty | Catholic Church; Franciscan Order (Friars Minor); Diocese of Nocera Umbra; 14th-century Umbrian Catholicism | Franciscan habit under bishop's vestments; crozier; lily (Franciscan purity); Perugia or Nocera Umbra landscape; alms distributed to the poor |
| Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa | Blessed | October 13 | Catholic laywoman; victim soul; mystic; eucharistic faster; paralyzed from age 14; member of the Salesian Cooperators | Portugal; the sick and paralyzed; victim souls; Eucharistic devotion; those who defend chastity; victims of assault; Balasar; Póvoa de Varzim | Catholic Church; Diocese of Porto; 20th-century Portuguese Catholic mysticism; Fátima Marian tradition; Eucharistic mysticism | A bedridden woman; Eucharistic host (her only nourishment); a cross or crucifix (her participation in the Passion); the Fátima connection; the Portuguese flag or landscape; a paralyzed figure in prayer |
| Blessed Alexius Sanbashi Saburo | Blessed | September 10 | Japanese Catholic layman; martyr of the Tokugawa persecution | Japan; Nagasaki; Japanese Catholics; laypeople who die for their faith; the hidden Christians (kakure kirishitan) | Catholic Church; Japanese Catholic Church; Diocese of Nagasaki; 17th-century Japanese Catholic martyr tradition; 205 Martyrs of Japan | Japanese civilian clothing of the 17th century; palm frond of martyrdom; cross; Nagasaki harbor landscape; Japanese Martyrs group imagery |
| Blessed Alfons Maria Mazurek | Blessed | June 12 (group feast of the 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII) | Benedictine monk; Prior of Święty Krzyż Abbey (Holy Cross Abbey); martyr of the Nazi occupation of Poland | Poland; Benedictine monks; Świętokrzyskie region; priors and abbots; those killed in the first days of occupation; Volhynia | Catholic Church; Benedictine Order; Święty Krzyż Abbey; 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII; Polish Catholic Church | Benedictine black habit; palm frond of martyrdom; Święty Krzyż Abbey in background; relic of the True Cross (the abbey's treasure); cross; the 108 Polish Martyrs group |
| Blessed Alfonso Lopez | Blessed | September 10 | Augustinian Recollect friar; missionary to the Philippines and Japan; martyr of the Tokugawa persecution | Japan; Zamora (Spain); Augustinian Recollects; missionaries; those who minister clandestinely under persecution | Catholic Church; Augustinian Recollects (Order of Augustinian Recollects); 205 Martyrs of Japan; Japanese Catholic martyrs tradition | Augustinian Recollect habit; palm frond of martyrdom; flames (burned at the stake); Japanese landscape; missionary cross |
| Blessed Alfonso López | Blessed | September 10 | Augustinian Recollect friar; missionary to the Philippines and Japan; martyr of the Tokugawa persecution | Japan; Zamora (Spain); Augustinian Recollects; missionaries; those who minister clandestinely under persecution | Catholic Church; Augustinian Recollects (Order of Augustinian Recollects); 205 Martyrs of Japan; Japanese Catholic martyrs tradition | Augustinian Recollect habit; palm frond of martyrdom; flames (burned at the stake); Japanese landscape; missionary cross |
| Blessed Alfonso Navarrete Benito | Blessed | September 10 | Dominican friar (Order of Preachers); missionary to Philippines and Japan; martyr of the Tokugawa persecution | Japan; La Rioja (Spain); Dominican missionaries; those who preach in hostile territories; Nagasaki | Catholic Church; Dominican Order; 205 Martyrs of Japan; Japanese Catholic martyrs tradition; La Rioja Catholic tradition | Dominican habit (black and white); palm frond of martyrdom; flames (burned at the stake); Japanese landscape; missionary cross |
| Blessed Alfonso Pacheco | Blessed | July 25 | Jesuit priest; missionary to India (Goa and Salcete); martyr of the Cuncolim Revolt | Goa; India; Jesuit missionaries; those who die in mission territories; Minaya (Spain); Albacete | Catholic Church; Society of Jesus (Jesuits); Goa and Salcete mission; Portuguese Estado da India; 16th-century Asian Jesuit missions | Jesuit black cassock; palm frond of martyrdom; Indian landscape of Goa; a cross (being planted at Cuncolim); missionary chalice |
| Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster | Blessed | August 30 | Benedictine monk and abbot; Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan (1929–1954); liturgical scholar; author of the ''Liber Sacramentorum'' | Milan; Lombardy; Benedictine monks; liturgical scholars; bishops; seminarians; those who govern large institutions | Catholic Church; Benedictine Order; Archdiocese of Milan; 20th-century Italian Catholic Church; Milanese liturgical tradition | Cardinal's red hat and vestments over Benedictine habit; crozier; the Milan Cathedral (Duomo); a liturgical book (his ''Liber Sacramentorum''); cross |
| Blessed Aloisius Maria Monti | Blessed | November 1 | Piarist lay brother; tailor (before entering religious life); nurse of the sick (particularly contagious diseases); founder of the Congregation of the Brothers of Saint Joseph; prison visitor | Milan; Lombardy; nurses; those who care for the contagiously ill; prisoners; lay brothers; hospital workers | Catholic Church; Piarists (Clerks Regular of the Poor Schools); Congregation of the Brothers of Saint Joseph (founded by him); Milanese Catholic charitable tradition | Lay brother's habit; nurse's basin or medical instruments; a patient in a hospital bed; prison bars (he ministered to prisoners); Milanese city landscape; lily or white flower (purity of service) |
| Blessed Alojzije Stepinac | Blessed | February 10 | Cardinal; Archbishop of Zagreb (1937–1960); prisoner of the Communist regime; confessor of the faith | Croatia; Croatian Catholics worldwide; bishops and cardinals who face political persecution; confessors of the faith under Communism; prisoners of conscience | Catholic Church; Archdiocese of Zagreb; Croatian Catholic Church; 20th-century Catholic martyrs of Communism | Cardinal's red hat and vestments; crozier; chains or prison bars (his imprisonment); Zagreb Cathedral; Croatian national colors |
| Blessed Alojzy Liguda | Blessed | June 12 (group feast of the 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII) | SVD (Society of the Divine Word) priest; missionary; martyr of the Nazi occupation; Polish Catholic priest from Silesia | Poland; Silesia; SVD missionaries; those imprisoned in concentration camps; those who die on Marian feasts; Marian devotion in adversity | Catholic Church; Society of the Divine Word (SVD/Verbites); 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII; Polish Catholic Church; Dachau Priesterblock tradition | SVD missionary habit or priest's cassock; palm frond of martyrdom; Dachau in background; Marian imagery (died on Feast of Immaculate Conception); cross; the 108 Polish Martyrs group |
| Blessed Aloysius Bellesini | Blessed | February 3 | Augustinian Recollect friar; parish priest in Rome; catechist of children; nurse of the typhus sick; teacher | Rome; Trento; Trentino; Augustinian Recollects; catechists; nurses; those who die serving the sick; children's religious education; those who die of contagious disease | Catholic Church; Augustinian Recollects (Order of Augustinian Recollects); Parish ministry in Rome; 19th-century Roman Catholic charitable tradition | Augustinian Recollect habit; children gathered for catechism; a sick person (the typhus victim he nursed); a palm frond or lily (martyrdom of charity); Rome cityscape |
| Blessed Aloysius Luis Rabata | Blessed | May 11 | Carmelite friar; contemplative; model of forgiveness and charity | Randazzo; Sicily; Carmelites; those who forgive injuries; victims of assault; those who practice heroic forgiveness | Catholic Church; Carmelite Order; 15th-century Sicilian Carmelite tradition; Diocese of Catania | Carmelite white mantle and brown habit; a stone (the instrument of his injury); a hand extended in forgiveness; Mount Etna or Sicilian landscape; lily (purity and forgiveness) |
| Blessed Aloysius Tezza | Blessed | September 26 | Camillian priest (Order of the Ministers of the Sick); missionary to Peru; co-founder of the Daughters of Saint Camillus; nurse of the sick | Peru; Lima; the sick; nurses; Camillians; Daughters of Saint Camillus; Conegliano; Veneto | Catholic Church; Order of the Ministers of the Sick (Camillians); Daughters of Saint Camillus (co-founded); Archdiocese of Lima | Camillian habit with red cross; a sick person being nursed; Peru or Lima landscape; cross; co-founder's imagery with Giuseppina Vannini |
| Blessed Alpais of Cudot | Blessed | November 3 | Catholic laywoman; peasant; mystic; eucharistic faster; spiritual counselor | Cudot; Yonne; Burgundy; the sick and disabled; lepers; those nourished by the Eucharist; peasants and common people; those who suffer from disfiguring illness | Catholic Church; Diocese of Sens; 12th–13th century French lay mysticism; eucharistic mystics tradition | A bedridden peasant woman; Eucharistic host (her only nourishment); signs of leprosy or illness; a lily (purity); French countryside landscape; pilgrims approaching her bedside |
| Blessed Alvarez of Cordova | Blessed | January 19 | | | Order of Preachers (Dominicans) | |
| Blessed Álvaro of Córdoba | Blessed | February 19 | Dominican friar (Order of Preachers); preacher; mystic; founder of Escalaceli friary; pilgrim (Jerusalem); pioneer of the Way of the Cross in Spain | Córdoba; Andalusia; Dominican preachers; pilgrims to Jerusalem; the Way of the Cross; those who make the Stations of the Cross; penitents | Catholic Church; Dominican Order; 15th-century Spanish Dominicanism; Andalusian Catholic tradition; Observant reform movement | Dominican habit (black and white); a cross (Via Crucis); pilgrim's staff and Jerusalem pilgrim's badge; Córdoba or Escalaceli hillside landscape; stations/chapels |
| Blessed Amadeus of Clermont | Blessed | January 28 | Cistercian monk (formed under Saint Bernard at Clairvaux); Bishop of Lausanne (1144–1159); Marian theologian; author of eight homilies on the Virgin Mary | Lausanne; Switzerland; Cistercian monks; Marian theology; bishops formed in monastic life | Catholic Church; Cistercian Order; Diocese of Lausanne; 12th-century Cistercian theology and spirituality | Cistercian white habit with bishop's vestments; crozier; Marian imagery (his homilies); Lake Geneva landscape; Clairvaux in background; a book (his homilies) |
| Blessed Amadeus of Lausanne | Blessed | January 28 | Cistercian monk; Bishop of Lausanne (1144–1159); Marian theologian; author of eight Marian homilies | Lausanne; Switzerland; Cistercian monks; Marian devotees; bishops; theologians | Catholic Church; Cistercian Order; Diocese of Lausanne; 12th-century Cistercian Marian theology | Cistercian white habit with bishop's vestments; crozier; a book of Marian homilies; Lake Geneva landscape; Marian imagery |
| Blessed Amata of San Sisto | Blessed | June 10 | Dominican nun; member of the first community of Dominican nuns at San Sisto Vecchio • Rome; possible niece of Saint Dominic; witness to Dominic's miracles | Rome; Dominican nuns; witnesses to the holiness of founders; those who preserve early community traditions | Catholic Church; Dominican Order (Second Order • Dominican nuns); Convent of San Sisto Vecchio • Rome; early Dominican women's tradition | Dominican habit (black and white); Convent of San Sisto in background; cross; Roman landscape; imagery of Saint Dominic (her founder and possible uncle) |
| Blessed Ambrose Fernandez | Blessed | March 14 | Jesuit lay brother; missionary to Japan; martyred by imprisonment | Japan; Portugal; Jesuit lay brothers; those who die slowly from mistreatment in prison; missionaries in hostile territories | Catholic Church; Society of Jesus (Jesuits); Japanese Catholic martyrs tradition; 205 Martyrs of Japan; Portuguese Catholic mission | Jesuit lay brother's dress; palm frond of martyrdom; Japanese landscape; missionary cross; Portuguese imagery |
| Blessed Ambrose Sansedoni of Siena | Blessed | March 20 | Dominican friar (Order of Preachers); theologian (student of Albert the Great); preacher; papal legate; peacemaker among Italian city-states | Siena; Tuscany; Dominican preachers; peacemakers; those who work for reconciliation among factions; papal legates; theologians | Catholic Church; Dominican Order; 13th-century Italian Dominican tradition; Diocese of Siena; San Domenico basilica • Siena | Dominican habit (black and white); a dove or olive branch (peacemaker); the city of Siena in background; a book of sermons; the San Domenico basilica |
| Blessed Ana de los Ángeles Monteagudo | Blessed | January 11 | Noblewoman | Arequipa; mystics | Discalced Carmelites | Depicted in ecstasy; Carmelite habit |
| Blessed Anacleto Gonzalez Flores | Blessed | April 1 | Catholic layman; lawyer; Catholic Action leader (ACJM • Catholic Youth of Mexico); newspaper editor; organizer of peaceful resistance; martyr of the Cristero War | Mexico; Guadalajara; Jalisco; Catholic Action; lawyers; lay Catholic leaders; peaceful resistance; those who die for Christ the King | Catholic Church; Mexican Catholic Church; Catholic Action; Archdiocese of Guadalajara; Cristero War martyrs | Civilian suit (layman's clothing); palm frond of martyrdom; Mexican flag or landscape; newspaper or pen (his journalism); crucifix; Mexican Catholic Action imagery |
| Blessed Anacleto González Flores | Blessed | April 1 | Catholic layman; lawyer; Catholic Action leader (ACJM • Catholic Youth of Mexico); newspaper editor; organizer of peaceful resistance; martyr of the Cristero War | Mexico; Guadalajara; Jalisco; Catholic Action; lawyers; lay Catholic leaders; peaceful resistance; those who die for Christ the King | Catholic Church; Mexican Catholic Church; Catholic Action; Archdiocese of Guadalajara; Cristero War martyrs | Civilian suit (layman's clothing); palm frond of martyrdom; Mexican flag or landscape; newspaper or pen (his journalism); crucifix; Mexican Catholic Action imagery |
| Blessed Anastazy Jakub Pankiewicz | Blessed | June 12 (group feast of the 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII) | Capuchin friar-priest (Order of Friars Minor Capuchin); Polish Catholic priest; martyr of the Nazi occupation | Poland; Greater Poland; Capuchin friars; Polish clergy; prisoners in concentration camps; those who die on May 1 | Catholic Church; Capuchin Order; 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII; Polish Catholic Church; Dachau Priesterblock tradition | Capuchin habit (brown with pointed hood); palm frond of martyrdom; Dachau in background; barbed wire; cross; the 108 Polish Martyrs group |
| Blessed Andrea Carlo Ferrari | Blessed | February 2 | Cardinal; Archbishop of Milan (1894–1921); diocesan priest (Parma); Bishop of Guastalla (1890–1894); social Catholic leader; promoter of Catholic education | Milan; Lombardy; Parma; archbishops; those unjustly accused; Catholic social organizations; workers and their families; Catholic schools | Catholic Church; Archdiocese of Milan; 20th-century Italian Social Catholicism; Milanese Catholic tradition | Cardinal's red hat and vestments; crozier; Milanese Cathedral (Duomo) in background; a book of social Catholic teaching; cross; workers' imagery (his social apostolate) |
| Blessed Andrea Gallerani | Blessed | March 19 | Sienese nobleman turned servant of the poor; founder of the Compagnia della Misericordia di Siena; lay Catholic charitable leader | Siena; Tuscany; the poor and sick; lay charitable organizations; those who give up wealth to serve others; confraternities of mercy | Catholic Church; Sienese lay charitable tradition; Diocese of Siena; 13th-century Italian lay holiness | Noble Sienese dress renounced for simple clothing; a sick or poor person (those he served); the city of Siena in background; cross; a coin or alms distributed |
| Blessed Andrea Giacinto Longhin | Blessed | June 26 | Capuchin friar-bishop; Bishop of Treviso (1904–1936); World War I pastoral shepherd; model of episcopal poverty | Treviso; Veneto; Capuchin bishops; those who stay with their people in wartime; bishops who live in poverty; those in war zones | Catholic Church; Capuchin Order; Diocese of Treviso; Venetian Catholic tradition; 20th-century Italian Catholic Church | Capuchin habit with bishop's vestments; crozier; Treviso cityscape; bomb or damaged church (World War I); cross; the poor people of his diocese |
| Blessed Andreas Iscak | Blessed | February 22 | Franciscan friar; Croatian Catholic priest; minister to the Croatian people in a period of Ottoman and Protestant challenge | Croatia; Croatian Franciscans; those who maintain the faith under persecution; Dalmatia or Slavonia | Catholic Church; Franciscan Order; Croatian Franciscan Province; 16th-century Croatian Catholic tradition | Franciscan habit; Croatian landscape; cross; a church or chapel (maintaining the faith); palm frond or lily |
| Blessed Andres Sola Molist | Blessed | August 2 (group feast of the Martyrs of Barbastro) | Claretian Missionary priest (Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary • CMF); martyr of the Spanish Civil War | Barbastro; Aragon; Cardona; Claretian Missionaries; Spanish Civil War martyrs; priests who face anticlerical violence | Catholic Church; Claretian Missionaries (CMF); Martyrs of Barbastro; Spanish Catholic Church; 20th-century Catholic martyrs of Spain | Claretian habit or priest's cassock; palm frond of martyrdom; Barbastro in background; cross; the group of Barbastro martyrs |
| Blessed Andrés Solá Molist | Blessed | August 2 (group feast of the Martyrs of Barbastro) | Claretian Missionary priest (Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary • CMF); martyr of the Spanish Civil War | Barbastro; Aragon; Cardona; Claretian Missionaries; Spanish Civil War martyrs; priests who face anticlerical violence | Catholic Church; Claretian Missionaries (CMF); Martyrs of Barbastro; Spanish Catholic Church; 20th-century Catholic martyrs of Spain | Claretian habit or priest's cassock; palm frond of martyrdom; Barbastro in background; cross; the group of Barbastro martyrs |
| Blessed Andrew Abellon | Blessed | May 15 | Dominican friar (Order of Preachers); prior of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume; preacher; religious painter | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume; Provence; Dominican friars; religious painters and artists; pilgrims to Saint Mary Magdalene's shrine | Catholic Church; Dominican Order; Dominican priory of Saint-Maximin; 15th-century Provençal Catholic culture; Magdalene pilgrimage tradition | Dominican habit (black and white); a paintbrush and panel (his artistic work); the Magdalene basilica of Saint-Maximin; cross; Provençal landscape |
| Blessed Andrew Dotti | Blessed | August 31 | Servite friar (Order of the Servants of Mary); companion of Blessed Philip Benizi; contemplative; preacher | Sansepolcro (Borgo San Sepolcro); Tuscany; Servite friars; companions of holy founders; the Casentino valley | Catholic Church; Servite Order (Order of Servants of Mary); 13th–14th century Tuscan Servite tradition; Tuscany Catholic culture | Servite habit (black); a lily (Marian devotion of the Servites); the Tuscan countryside; cross; imagery of Blessed Philip Benizi (his companion) |
| Blessed Andrew Grego | Blessed | February 22 | Franciscan friar (Province of Lecce); contemplative; model of Franciscan observance in 18th-century Apulia | Manduria; Apulia; Salento; Franciscan friars; those of Greek-Italian heritage | Catholic Church; Franciscan Order (Province of Lecce); 18th-century Apulian Catholic tradition; Salento region | Franciscan habit; cross; Apulian or Salento landscape; lily (Franciscan purity); Manduria town in background |
| Blessed Andrew Oexner of Riun | Blessed | November 12 | Cistercian monk; member of the community of Stift Rein • The oldest existing Cistercian monastery; contemplative | Stift Rein; Styria; Graz area; Cistercian monks; the oldest Cistercian traditions | Catholic Church; Cistercian Order; Stift Rein (Abbey of Rein); 14th-century Austrian Cistercian monasticism | Cistercian white habit; the Stift Rein abbey church; cross; Styrian Alpine landscape; a book of the Rule of Saint Benedict |
| Blessed Andrew of Antioch | Blessed | November 30 | Augustinian hermit friar; Crusader nobleman of Antioch (Norman-Antiochene origin); pilgrim; preacher; wandering contemplative | Antioch; Antakya (modern Turkey); pilgrims; those of Crusader heritage; the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East; wanderers who seek God | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order of Hermits; Crusader-era Christian community of Antioch; 13th–14th century pilgrimage tradition | Augustinian habit with pilgrim's staff and scrip; Antioch cityscape (ancient); Holy Land Jerusalem in background; cross; a map showing his pilgrimage routes |
| Blessed Andrew of Phu Yen | Blessed | July 26 | Vietnamese Catholic catechist; lay minister of the Jesuit mission in Vietnam; first Vietnamese martyr | Vietnam; Vietnamese Catholics; catechists; youth; the first Vietnamese martyrs; those who serve the Church as lay ministers | Catholic Church; Jesuit mission in Vietnam; Vietnamese Catholic Church; 17th-century Vietnamese Catholicism; protomartyr of Vietnam | Vietnamese clothing of the 17th century; palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; Vietnamese landscape or rice fields; a catechism book (his role as catechist) |
| Blessed Andrew of Phuù Yeân | Blessed | July 26 | Catechist; layman; disciple of the Jesuit mission in Cochinchina | Catechists; Vietnamese Catholics; Vietnamese youth; Catholic youth | Catholic Church; early Vietnamese Church; Jesuit mission in Cochinchina | Palm of martyrdom; youth in Vietnamese dress; sword; catechist's book |
| Blessed Andrew Sushinda | Blessed | September 10 | Japanese Catholic layman; martyr of the Tokugawa persecution; member of the 205 Martyrs of Japan (beatified 2008) | Japan; Japanese Catholics; laypeople; those persecuted for their faith; the hidden Christians of Japan | Catholic Church; Japanese Catholic Church; 17th-century Japanese Catholicism; Tokugawa-era martyrs; 205 Martyrs of Japan | Japanese clothing; palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; Nagasaki landscape; flame (burned for the faith) |
| Blessed Andrew Tokuan | Blessed | September 10 | Japanese Catholic layman; martyr; member of the 205 Martyrs of Japan (beatified 2008) | Japan; Japanese Catholics; laypeople; those who witness to the faith under persecution; the Catholic Church in Asia | Catholic Church; Japanese Catholic Church; 17th-century Japanese Catholicism; Tokugawa-era martyrs; 205 Martyrs of Japan | Japanese clothing; palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; flame (martyrdom by fire or burning); Nagasaki landscape |
| Blessed Angel of Good Counsel | Blessed | April 6 | Italian Augustinian friar or hermit; spiritual director; confessor; holy man known for wisdom and counsel | Those seeking spiritual counsel; the Augustinian Order; Our Lady of Good Counsel shrine at Genazzano; spiritual directors; confessors | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order; Italian Augustinian tradition; devotion to Our Lady of Good Counsel (Genazzano shrine) | Augustinian habit; an image of Our Lady of Good Counsel; a book of spiritual wisdom; cross; pilgrim's staff |
| Blessed Angel of Mexico | Blessed | September 10 | Franciscan tertiary lay brother; Mexican-born Catholic missionary to Japan; martyr of the Tokugawa persecution | Mexico; Japan; Franciscan tertiaries; the Pacific missionary route (Mexico–Manila–Japan); lay missionaries; those who cross cultures for the faith | Catholic Church; Franciscan family (Tertiary); 17th-century Japanese Catholicism; Mexican Catholic missionary tradition; 205 Martyrs of Japan | Franciscan tertiary habit; palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; Mexican sombrero or New Spain colonial dress (his origin); Japanese landscape; flame (martyrdom) |
| Blessed Angela de San Jose Lloret Marti | Blessed | August 2 | Franciscan Tertiary Regular nun; member of the Franciscan Tertiary Sisters; Spanish Civil War martyr | Alicante; Spain; Franciscan religious women; those persecuted for their faith; the Spanish Civil War victims; religious women martyred in the 20th century | Catholic Church; Franciscan family; Franciscan Tertiary Sisters; 20th-century Spanish Catholicism; Spanish Civil War martyrs | Franciscan habit; palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; Spanish landscape; lily (religious purity and Franciscan tradition) |
| Blessed Angela Truszkowska | Blessed | October 10 | Foundress of the Felician Sisters (Sisters of Saint Felix of Cantalice); Polish noblewoman turned servant of the poor; contemplative; mystic; religious founder | Poland; the Felician Sisters; foundresses; the poor; orphans; the sick; Polish immigrants; those who serve the poor through religious life | Catholic Church; Felician Sisters (Congregation of Sisters of Saint Felix of Cantalice); Polish Catholic Church; 19th-century Polish religious life; charity to the poor | Felician Sisters habit; children (orphans she served); a cross; Polish landscape (Kraków); an image of Saint Felix of Cantalice (her congregation's patron) |
| Blessed Angelella Guardagnoli | Blessed | January 2 | Augustinian hermit nun (or tertiary); contemplative; mystic; holy woman of Monte San Savino | Monte San Savino; Arezzo; Augustinian nuns; Tuscan contemplatives; those seeking mystical union with God | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order; 15th-century Tuscan Augustinian tradition; Val di Chiana Catholic culture | Augustinian habit; cross; Tuscan hill town landscape; lily (virginal purity); devotional book |
| Blessed Angelico | Blessed | February 18 | Dominican friar (Order of Preachers); painter; theologian in paint; Prior of San Marco Florence; Patron of Catholic Artists | Catholic artists; painters; illuminators; embroiderers; weavers of liturgical textiles; Florence; the Dominican Order; all who make art in service of the Church | Catholic Church; Dominican Order; Florentine school of painting; Early Renaissance; 15th-century Italian Catholicism; Dominican intellectual tradition | Dominican habit; painter's palette and brushes; images of the Annunciation or Crucifixion (his most celebrated works); halo; a small angel (Angelico — "the angelic one"); the Annunciation scene |
| Blessed Angelina DI Marsciano | Blessed | July 14 | Franciscan Third Order Regular sister; foundress of the Franciscan Third Order Regular female branch in Italy; noblewoman of Umbria; widowed religious founder | Foligno; Umbria; Franciscan Third Order sisters; foundresses; widows who enter religious life; Italy; women who serve the poor | Catholic Church; Franciscan Third Order Regular; Franciscan family; 15th-century Umbrian Catholicism; Italian women's religious life | Franciscan tertiary habit; a cross; the Umbrian landscape (hills of Foligno); lily (Franciscan purity); a foundation document or papal bull; children or poor (her service) |
| Blessed Angelo Carletti | Blessed | April 11 | Lawyer; judge; moral theologian | Confessors; moral theologians; Piedmont | Friars Minor | Franciscan habit; book (representing Summa Angelica) |
| Blessed Angelo Carletti DI Chivasso | Blessed | April 12 | Franciscan Observant friar; moral theologian; author of the Summa Angelica; Vicar General of the Franciscan Observants in Italy; papal legate and Crusade preacher; confessor and spiritual director | Chivasso; Cuneo; Piedmont; moral theologians; confessors; Franciscan Observants; those who seek clear moral guidance; scholars of conscience | Catholic Church; Franciscan Order (Observant branch); 15th-century Italian Franciscan tradition; Italian moral theology; Piedmontese Catholic culture | Franciscan habit; a book (the Summa Angelica); a papal bull (legate); a cross; Piedmontese landscape; armor (Crusade preaching) |
| Blessed Angelus Agostini Mazzinghi | Blessed | August 16 | Carmelite friar; theologian; preacher; prior of Carmelite houses; scholar (studied at Paris); Florentine contemplative mystic | Florence; Tuscany; Carmelite friars; scholars; theologians; those who combine scholarship with contemplative holiness | Catholic Church; Carmelite Order; 15th-century Florentine Carmelite tradition; Italian scholastic theology | Carmelite habit (white cloak over brown); a book (theology); Florence cityscape; cross; lily (purity) |
| Blessed Angelus de Scarpetti | Blessed | February 3 | Augustinian hermit friar; contemplative; member of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine in the upper Tiber valley | Sansepolcro; upper Tiber valley (Valtiberina); Augustinian friars; contemplatives; those who seek God in solitude | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order (Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine); 13th–14th century Tuscan Augustinian tradition | Augustinian habit; cross; Tuscan landscape; book of the Rule of Saint Augustine; lily (purity and Augustinian contemplation) |
| Blessed Angelus of Furci | Blessed | February 6 | Augustinian hermit friar; contemplative; preacher; pioneer of Augustinian life in Abruzzo | Furci; Vasto; Abruzzo; Augustinian friars; those who seek God in the mountains; contemplatives of the Apennines | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order (Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine); 13th–14th century Abruzzo Augustinian tradition | Augustinian habit; cross; Abruzzo mountain landscape; Adriatic Sea (Vasto); book of the Rule of Saint Augustine |
| Blessed Angelus of Gualdo Tadini | Blessed | January 25 | Augustinian hermit friar; contemplative; apostolic preacher; servant of the poor of Gualdo Tadino | Gualdo Tadino; Umbria; Augustinian friars; contemplatives; those from mountain communities; those who serve the poor | Catholic Church; Augustinian Order; 14th-century Umbrian Augustinian tradition; Umbrian Catholic culture | Augustinian habit; cross; Umbrian mountain landscape; book of the Rule of Saint Augustine; lily (contemplative purity) |
| Blessed Anicet Hryciuk | Blessed | June 12 | Capuchin Franciscan priest; martyr of Nazi German occupation; Polish Catholic priest; prisoner of Auschwitz | Poland; Capuchin Franciscans; priests imprisoned for their faith; prisoners; victims of Nazi persecution; those who die in concentration camps | Catholic Church; Capuchin Franciscan Order (Order of Friars Minor Capuchin); Polish Catholic Church; 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII | Capuchin habit (brown with pointed hood); palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; the Auschwitz camp (place of martyrdom); rosary (Franciscan-Marian devotion) |
| Blessed Anicet Koplinski | Blessed | June 12 | Capuchin Franciscan priest; martyr of Nazi German occupation; Polish Catholic priest; prisoner of Auschwitz | Poland; Capuchin Franciscans; priests imprisoned for their faith; the Poznań region; victims of Auschwitz; those who die under totalitarian persecution | Catholic Church; Capuchin Franciscan Order; Polish Catholic Church; 108 Polish Martyrs of WWII; Greater Poland (Poznań) Catholic tradition | Capuchin habit (brown with pointed hood); palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; rosary; the Auschwitz camp (place of martyrdom) |
| Blessed Ann Joseph Leroux | Blessed | January 19 | Franciscan Sister; martyr of the French Revolution; member of the 19 Martyrs of Laval | Laval; Mayenne; Franciscan sisters; those persecuted for their religious life; France; the French Revolution martyrs | Catholic Church; Franciscan Order (Sisters); Martyrs of Laval (beatified 1955); French Revolution martyrs tradition; western France Catholic culture | Franciscan habit; palm frond of martyrdom; a cross; the guillotine (Revolutionary martyrdom); Laval cityscape; lily (Franciscan purity) |
| Blessed Ann-Joseph Leroux | Blessed | | Catholic martyr of the French Revolution | Those persecuted for the faith; France | Catholic Church; French Revolution martyrs | Palm of martyrdom |
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