Early Church
The 9th century
44 saints, in the order they died
735 — 804
St. Alcuin of York
Master of the Carolingian Renaissance
Abbey of Saint-Martin, Tours, France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
742 — 809
St. Liudger of Münster
Frisian-Anglo-Saxon missionary; Apostle of Saxony; founder of Werden Abbey and first Bishop of Münster
Werden Abbey (Stift Werden), Essen-Werden, Germany — his foundation 799 AD; the basilica preserves his shrine and remains in active use today, Germany
2 miracles · 1 relics→
750 — 816♕ Pope #96
Pope St. Leo III
Crowner of Charlemagne — Architect of the Carolingian Empire
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Vatican City
1 miracles · 1 relics→
770 — 817
Pope Stephen IV
98th Pope (816–817); coronation of Louis the Pious
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Vatican City
1 miracles · 1 relics→
760 — 818
St. Theophanes the Confessor
Chronicler of the Iconoclast Era
Monastery of Megas Agros, Bithynia, Turkey
0 miracles · 0 relics→
747 — 821
St. Benedict of Aniane
Second Benedict — Reformer of Carolingian Monasticism
Abbey of Aniane, France
0 miracles · 0 relics→
760 — 821
St. Theodulph of Orléans
Bishop and Poet — Author of 'All Glory, Laud and Honor'
Oratory of Germigny-des-Prés (his church), France
0 miracles · 0 relics→
775 — 824♕ Pope #98
Pope St. Paschal I
Builder of Roman Mosaics — Translator of Martyrs
Basilica of Santa Prassede, Rome, Italy
1 miracles · 1 relics→
759 — 826
St. Theodore the Studite
Abbot of Stoudios — Defender of the Icons
Stoudios Monastery, Constantinople, Turkey
0 miracles · 1 relics→
753 — 827
St. Adalhard of Corbie
Abbot of Corbie and Corvey; cousin of Charlemagne; Carolingian statesman-monk
Corbie Abbey, Picardy, France — his abbacy; the daughter foundation Corvey on the Weser (Saxony) is on UNESCO World Heritage list, France
2 miracles · 1 relics→
758 — 828
St. Nicephorus I of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople 806–815; iconodule confessor
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople — his cathedral see; the eastern-Catholic and Orthodox shrine of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Turkey
2 miracles · 1 relics→
755 — 836
St. Wala of Corbie
Abbot of Corbie and Corvey; brother of Adalhard; Carolingian statesman-monk
Bobbio Abbey, Lombardy, Italy — where Wala died in exile; the great Columbanian abbey of northern Italy, Italy
1 miracles · 1 relics→
795 — 844
Pope Gregory IV
101st Pope (827–844); institutor of the universal All Saints' Day on November 1
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes; also the Basilica of San Marco, Rome (rebuilt by Gregory IV and the stational church on All Saints' Day), Vatican City
2 miracles · 1 relics→
778 — 845
St. Theophanes the Branded (Theophanes Graptos)
Iconodule confessor; branded on the face for icon veneration
Mar Saba Monastery, Judean Desert (his monastic formation centre); Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (where his hymnic works are still sung in the Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox liturgies), Turkey/Israel
2 miracles · 1 relics→
752 — 846
St. Joannicius the Great
Bithynian Mount Olympus hermit; iconodule monastic father
Mount Olympus in Bithynia (Uludağ, near Bursa, Turkey) — the Byzantine monastic-hermit centre of the 9th–11th centuries, Turkey
2 miracles · 1 relics→
790 — 847
St. Methodius I of Constantinople
Patriarch — Architect of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, Turkey
0 miracles · 1 relics→
790 — 847
Pope Sergius II
102nd Pope (844–847); the Saracen sack of Rome 846
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes; the Basilica of San Silvestro al Quirinale (rebuilt by Sergius II), Vatican City
1 miracles · 1 relics→
808 — 849
Bl. Walafrid Strabo
Abbot of Reichenau — Carolingian Poet of the Garden
Reichenau Abbey, Germany
0 miracles · 0 relics→
815 — 850
St. Perfectus of Córdoba
First martyr of the Córdoba martyr-cycle; protomartyr of the Mozarabic Catholic resistance
Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (former Visigothic Basilica of St. Vincent; appropriated as the Great Mosque under the Umayyads; reconsecrated as the Cathedral of the Assumption after the 1236 Catholic Reconquista) — the scene of his Catholic martyrdom, Spain
2 miracles · 1 relics→
790 — 855
Pope St. Leo IV
103rd Pope (847–855); builder of the Leonine Wall around the Vatican
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City — the basilica that Leo IV enclosed within the new defensive Leonine Wall (847–852); the territorial origin of modern Vatican City, Vatican City
3 miracles · 1 relics→
810 — 858
Pope Benedict III
104th Pope (855–858); the contested election of Anastasius Bibliothecarius
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Vatican City
1 miracles · 1 relics→
800 — 859
St. Eulogius of Córdoba
Martyr of the Mozarabic Resistance
Cathedral of Córdoba (originally the great Mosque-Cathedral), Spain
0 miracles · 1 relics→
841 — 859
St. Leocritia of Córdoba
Mozarabic virgin-martyr; last martyr of the Córdoba martyr-cycle
Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (former Visigothic Basilica of St. Vincent; the Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption after the 1236 Reconquista) — the scene of her Catholic martyrdom, Spain
2 miracles · 1 relics→
800 — 862
St. Swithun
Bishop of Winchester — Patron of Weather
Winchester Cathedral, United Kingdom
1 miracles · 1 relics→
785 — 865
St. Paschasius Radbertus
Theologian of the Eucharistic Real Presence
Corbie Abbey, France
0 miracles · 0 relics→
805 — 865
St. Cassia (Kassia)
Byzantine Hymnographer — First Female Composer
Convent of Kassiane, Constantinople (now lost), Turkey
0 miracles · 0 relics→
801 — 865
St. Ansgar (Anskar)
Apostle of the North — first Bishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Bremen Cathedral (St. Petri Dom), Germany
1 miracles · 1 relics→
820 — 867♕ Pope #105
Pope St. Nicholas I the Great
Nicholas the Great — Architect of Papal Authority
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Vatican City
0 miracles · 1 relics→
815 — 867
St. Theodora the Augusta
Byzantine empress-regent 842–856; restorer of the icons; 'Triumph of Orthodoxy'
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople — the scene of the 'Triumph of Orthodoxy' procession of March 11, 843; the eastern-Catholic and Orthodox cathedral, Turkey
2 miracles · 1 relics→
800 — 868
St. Ratramnus of Corbie
Carolingian theologian; Eucharistic-controversy figure
Corbie Abbey, Picardy, France — the Carolingian monastic-theological centre of the 9th century, France
1 miracles · 1 relics→
826 — 869
St. Cyril (Constantine the Philosopher)
Apostle of the Slavs — Co-Inventor of the Glagolitic Alphabet
Basilica of San Clemente, Rome, Italy
1 miracles · 1 relics→
841 — 869
St. Edmund the Martyr
King of East Anglia — Patron of England's Original Patron
Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
2 miracles · 1 relics→
792 — 872
Pope Adrian II
106th Pope (867–872); convener of the Fourth Council of Constantinople (869–870)
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Vatican City
2 miracles · 1 relics→
815 — 877
Bl. John Scotus Eriugena
Carolingian Philosopher — Translator of Pseudo-Dionysius
Palace School of Charles the Bald, Laon, France
0 miracles · 0 relics→
820 — 882
Pope John VIII
107th Pope (872–882); first pope assassinated; defender against the Saracens
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Vatican City
2 miracles · 1 relics→
830 — 884
Pope Marinus I
108th Pope (882–884); first pope to have been a bishop of another see before election
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Vatican City
2 miracles · 1 relics→
815 — 885
St. Methodius
Apostle of the Slavs — Archbishop of Moravia and Pannonia
Velehrad (Velehrad Basilica), Czech Republic
0 miracles · 1 relics→
830 — 885
Pope St. Adrian III
109th Pope (884–885); one of the few formally canonized 9th-century popes
Abbey of Nonantola (Abbazia di Nonantola), near Modena, Italy — his tomb-shrine (the only pope buried outside Rome in the early-medieval period); the abbey survives in active Catholic use, Italy
2 miracles · 1 relics→
810 — 886
St. Joseph the Hymnographer
Sicilian-Byzantine monk; canon-composer of the eastern-Catholic and Orthodox liturgy
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople — the cathedral where his liturgical hymns are still sung in the Byzantine-Catholic and Orthodox calendars, Turkey
2 miracles · 1 relics→
830 — 888
St. Rimbert
Successor of Anskar — Biographer of the Apostle of the North
Bremen Cathedral, Germany
0 miracles · 1 relics→
845 — 891
Pope Stephen V
110th Pope (885–891); suppression of Methodius's Slavonic mission
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Vatican City
1 miracles · 1 relics→
820 — 893
St. Photios the Great
Patriarch of Constantinople — Defender of Eastern Orthodoxy
Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, Turkey
0 miracles · 0 relics→
816 — 896
Pope Formosus
111th Pope (891–896); subject of the notorious Cadaver Synod of 897
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome — original tomb (897 exhumed and thrown into the Tiber; subsequently restored and re-buried in St. Peter's after the Cadaver Synod's revocation), Vatican City
2 miracles · 1 relics→
849 — 899
St. Alfred the Great
King of Wessex — Saviour of Christian England from the Vikings
Hyde Abbey, Winchester (his original tomb), United Kingdom
0 miracles · 1 relics→