Catholic Saints of America

1549–1706 · Mission San Luis, Tallahassee, Florida

Antonio Cuipa and companions: Indigenous Catholics and missionaries killed across the Spanish Florida missions.

1779–1839 · Vincennes, Indiana

French-born first Bishop of Vincennes, called the most learned man of his day in America.

1770–1840 · Loretto, Pennsylvania

Russian prince turned Allegheny frontier priest, the Apostle of the Alleghenies.

d. 1873 · Shreveport, Louisiana

Five French priests who stayed to nurse the dying through Shreveport's 1873 yellow fever epidemic.

1819–1888 · New York, New York

Convert and founder of the Paulist Fathers, apostle to America's searchers.

c.1833–1918 · Denver, Colorado

Born into slavery, Denver's one-woman St. Vincent de Paul Society who hauled charity through the night.

1831–1896 · Champion, Wisconsin

Belgian immigrant visionary of Our Lady of Champion, the only approved Marian apparition in the United States.

1897–1920 · Richmond, Virginia

Richmond seminarian who offered his life for Virginia and died in Rome at 22.

1900–1926 · Moorhead, Minnesota

Minnesota Benedictine who bore a rare disfiguring disease with heroic faith and died at 26.

1863–1940 · Graymoor, Garrison, New York

Founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement and of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

1888–1940 · Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn priest who built parishes and an orphanage for Black Catholics against Klan arson.

1912–1944 · Ville Platte, Louisiana

Army chaplain who gave his life helping fellow POWs escape a sinking Japanese prison ship.

1888–1948 · Canton, Ohio

Canton mystic and stigmatist whose backyard shrine drew thousands; a spiritual mother to Mother Angelica.

c.1863–1950 · Pine Ridge, South Dakota

Lakota holy man and Catholic catechist who brought hundreds of his people to the faith.

1866–1955 · Washington, D.C.

Paralyzed from youth, she founded the Christ Child Society from her sickbed.

1904–1957 · Boulder Creek, California

Utah-born convert from Mormonism and mystic of the Mystical Humanity of Christ.

1947–1959 · Richard, Louisiana

Cajun twelve-year-old who offered her leukemia sufferings for others; the little Cajun saint.

1929–1967 · Staten Island, New York

The Grunt Padre: Navy chaplain killed shielding a wounded Marine in Vietnam; Medal of Honor recipient.

1888–1977 · Arnaudville, Louisiana

Barefoot apostle of the Sacred Heart who walked Louisiana's back roads for sixty years.

1897–1980 · New York, New York

Journalist, convert, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

1912–1983 · Plymouth, Massachusetts

One of the first three priests of Opus Dei, who brought the Work to the United States.

1937–1990 · Canton, Mississippi

Franciscan sister, singer, and evangelist who brought Black Catholic culture to the heart of the Church.

1905–1994 · Media, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Augustinian who served Cuba through revolution and died a missionary in Peru.

1922–2000 · Los Angeles, California

Hungarian-born foundress of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart, catechist of joy in California.

1914–2000 · Detroit, Michigan

Jesuit theologian and catechist, author of the Catholic Catechism and tireless defender of the faith.

1914–2001 · St. Paul's Abbey, Newton, New Jersey

Captain of the Ship of Miracles who rescued 14,000 refugees at Hungnam, then became a Benedictine monk.

1918–2000 · Boston, Massachusetts

Boston-born Black Franciscan brother who gave forty years to the poor of Brazil.

1928–2004 · Long Beach Island, New Jersey

Venezuelan mystic of the Betania apparitions who preached reconciliation and died in New Jersey.

1924–2006 · La Crosse, Wisconsin

Wisconsin priest who built an orphanage in Peru and answered St. John Paul II's call for missionaries.

1946–2006 · Villanova, Pennsylvania

The first quadriplegic priest, an Augustinian who taught high school from his wheelchair for 30 years.

1984–2015 · Bismarck, North Dakota

FOCUS missionary and hidden mystic of the Great Plains who offered her cancer for others.