Saints of October - List of Saint Feast Days for the Month of October - Inspirational Saint Stories to SHARE!

Here is a list of inspiring Saint stories for the month of October. Click each link to find out more about these Holy heroes of the Faith!

Did You Know that October is Dedicated to the Rosary? PRAY the Rosary During October and Come Closer to Jesus and Mary!

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Saint October 1 : St. Therese of Lisieux, Little Flower, the Patron of AIDS, Illness, and Missionaries - Famous for Sending Roses from Heaven!

Saint October 2 : Guardian Angels Feast - Every human has their very own Guardian Angel and Today is their Day!

Saint October 3 : St. Mother Theodore Guérin the Founder of the Sisters of Providence

Saint October 3 : St. Gerard of Brogne, in Belgium, who restored the Order of St. Benedict

Saint October 4 : St. Francis of Assisi the Patron of Animals, Ecology, Environment, and Peace - Founder of the Franciscans

Saint October 5 : St. Faustina Kowalska the Apostle of Divine Mercy and Patron of World Youth Day

Saint October 5 : Blessed Bartolo Longo a Former Satanist who became an Apostle of the Rosary

Saint October 6 : St. Bruno the Founder of the Carthusians and Patron of Possessed People

Saint October 7 : Our Lady of the Rosary who helped defeat an army at the Battle of Lepanto

Saint October 8 : St. Pelagia a Virgin who Died in 311 at the age of 15 while Trying to Escape from Soldiers

Saint October 9 : St. Denis the Patron of Headaches, Rabies, and Possessed People with Novena Prayer

Saint October 9 : St. John Leonardi who formed the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine - Patron of Pharmacists

Saint October 10 : St. Francis Borgia a Jesuit and Patron of Earthquakes and Portugal

Saint October 11 : Saint John XXIII the Pope who started Vatican Council II and Patron of Christian Unity

Saint October 11 : Saint María Soledad Torres Acosta the Foundress and Mother of the Servants of Mary

Saint October 12 : St. Wilfrid, a Bishop Confessor and the Patron of England - A great defender of the rights of the Holy See

Saint October 12 : Blessed Carlo Acutis - Millennial Gamer Teen who said the Eucharist was his Highway to Heaven! Patron of Internet, Gamers, Youth

October 13 : Anniversary of Fatima Miracle of the Sun - #Fatima Witnessed by 70,000 in 1917- True Story to Share!

Saint October 13 : St. Edward the Confessor a King of England and the Patron of Difficult Marriages

Saint October 13 : Blessed Maddalena Panattieri, O.P. who spent mornings in Eucharistic Adoration and afternoons Helping the Sick and Poor

Saint October 14 : St. Callistus I - a Pope who Taught that Repentant Serious Sinners Could Return to Communion the Patron of Cemetery Workers

Saint October 15 : St. Teresa of Avila - a Carmelite and the Patron of loss of Parents, Religious, Sickness and Spain

Saint October 16 : St. Gerard Majella - Patron of Childbirth, Children, Pregnant women, Mothers, Lay brothers, the Pro-Life movement, and Unborn

Saint October 16 : St. Hedwig - a Duchess and Patron of Brides, Death of Children and Germany

Saint October 16 : St. Margaret Mary Alacoque - an Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Patron of Polio and Loss of Parents

Saint October 16 : St. Marguerite d'Youville the Patron of difficult Marriages, Widows and Victims of Adultery

Saint October 17 : St. Ignatius of Antioch - a Bishop and Martyr who is the Patron of Throat diseases

Saint October 18 : St. Luke - a Physician and Evangelist and Patron of Artists, Physicians - who Painted Our Lady

Saint October 19 : Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko - Polish Priest and Martyr during the Communist Time

Saint October 19 : North American Martyrs : St. John Brebeuf and Companions who Preached the Gospel to Natives - (USA)

Saint October 19 : St. Peter Alcantara - a Franciscan who Founded 1st Convent of the "Strict Observance"

Saint October 20 : St. Paul of the Cross - the Founder of the Passionists, who called the Crucifix his Book during his Youth

Saint October 21 : St. Ursula and Companions - who with 11,000 Virgins were Martyred by the Huns for their Faith

Saint October 21 : Blessed Charles I of Austria : Emperor and King who Developed a Deep Devotion to the Holy Eucharist and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Saint October 22 : St. Pope John Paul II - Born as Karol Jozef Wojtyla the 1st non-Italian Pope in 400 years - #JPII

Saint October 23 : St. John of Capistrano - a Papal Legate and Patron of Judges who Died in 1456 in modern Croatia

Saint October 24 : St. Anthony Mary Claret - Founder of the Claretians and Patron of Weavers, Savings, and Publishers

Saint October 25 : St. Gaudentius of Brescia, Italy : a Bishop who said "Let the word of God, and the sign of Jesus Christ (the cross) be in your hearts, in your mouths, on your countenance..."

Saint October 25 : St. Boniface I : Pope

Saint October 25 : St. Crispin and St. Crispianus who were Brothers and Martyrs - the Patrons of Shoemakers

Saint October 25 : St. Antônio de Sant’Anna Galvão (1739-1822) a Franciscan Friar and Founder

Saint October 26 : St. Evaristus a Pope who Died 107

Saint October 27 : St. Frumentius - Known as Abuna - a Bishop and the Patron of Ethiopia

Saint October 28 : St. Simon the Apostle - Known as the Zealot and Patron of Curriers and Sawyers

Saint October 28 : St. Jude Apostle the Patron of the Impossible and Hospitals

Saint October 29 : Blessed Chiara Badano of the Focolare

Saint October 29 : St. Narcissus of Jerusalem a Bishop who Blessed Miraculous Oil and Died 215 AD

Saint October 30 : St. Alphonsus Rodriguez a Jesuit Confessor and Lay-Brother who Died in 1617

Saint October 31 : St. Wolfgang a Bishop and Patron of Apoplexy, Carpenters, and Strokes