Saints
See also: Category:Italian saints- Agatha of Sicily (fl. 3rd cent. AD), legendary Christian saint, martyred under Roman Emperor Decius. She is invoked against outbreaks of fire and is the patron saint of bell makers
- Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – c. 304), legendary Christian martyr, the patron saint of girls
- Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), theologian, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, and a principal influence in the Counter-Reformation
- Bernardine of Siena (1380–1444), preacher. He was a Franciscan of the Observant congregation and one of the most effective and most widely known preachers of his day
- Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), cardinal and archbishop. He was one of the leaders of the Counter-Reformation
- John Bosco (1815–1888), Catholic priest, pioneer in educating the poor and founder of the Salesian Order
- Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), Dominican tertiary, mystic, and patron saint of Italy who played a major role in returning the papacy from Avignon to Rome (1377)
- Saint Cecilia (2nd cent. AD), patron saint of musicians and Church music. Venerated in both East and West, she is one of the eight women commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass
- Francis of Paola (1416–1507), mendicant friar. The founder of the Minims, a religious order in the Catholic Church
- Hippolytus of Rome (170–235), Christian martyr who was also the first antipope (217/218–235)
- Januarius (... – c. 305), Bishop and martyr, sometimes called Gennaro, long popular because of the liquefaction of his blood on his feast day
- Lawrence of Brindisi (1559–1619), Capuchin friar. He was one of the leading polemicists of the Counter-Reformation in Germany
- Saint Longinus (1st cent. AD), Roman soldier who pierced Jesus's side with a spear as he hung on the cross
- Saint Lucy (283–304), Christian martyr. She is the patron saint of the city of Syracuse (Sicily)
- Philip Neri (1515–1595), priest. The founder of the Congregation of the Oratory, a congregation of secular priests and clerics
- Pio of Pietrelcina (1887–1968), Capuchin priest. He is renowned among Roman Catholics as one of the Church's modern stigmatists
- Rita of Cascia (1381–1457), Augustinian nun
- Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), hermitess, greatly venerated at Palermo and in the whole of Sicily of which she in patroness
- Roger of Cannae (1060–1129), Bishop
- Saint Valentine (3rd cent. AD), according to tradition, he is the patron saint of courtship, travelers, and young people
- Vitus (c. 290 – c. 303), Christian saint. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Catholic Church
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Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
—Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 2:19-22.