Medieval
The 12th century
49 saints, in the order they died
1030 — 1101
St. Bruno the Carthusian
Founder of the Carthusian Order — Patriarch of the Desert in the West
La Grande Chartreuse, French Alps, France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1033 — 1109✠ Doctor
St. Anselm of Canterbury
Father of Scholasticism — Doctor of the Church
Canterbury Cathedral, England
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1024 — 1109
St. Hugh of Cluny
Hugh the Great — Sixth Abbot of Cluny
Cluny Abbey, France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1019 — 1109
St. Dominic de la Calzada
Spanish hermit; Catholic hospitaller-engineer of the Way of St. James
Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain — built over his tomb; in continuous Catholic liturgical use to the present day; UNESCO World Heritage Site (Way of St. James routes, inscribed 1993), Spain
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1029 — 1111
St. Robert of Molesme
Founder of Cîteaux — Father of the Cistercian Order
Cîteaux Abbey, Burgundy, France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1075 — 1117
St. Magnus Erlendsson of Orkney
Earl of Orkney — Martyr of Egilsay
St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1046 — 1117
St. Bernard of Tiron (Bernard of Abbeville)
founder of the Tironensian Order; French monastic reformer
Abbey of Tiron (Abbaye de Tiron), Thiron-Gardais, Perche, France — his foundation; the mother-house of the Tironensian Order that spread across the Anglo-Norman world, France
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1040 — 1120
Bl. Gerard Thom of Jerusalem
founder of the Knights Hospitaller; first Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Sovereign Military Order of Malta (continuing Catholic religious-and-chivalric order; headquartered in Rome at the Magistral Palace and Magistral Villa) — the continuing Catholic institutional descendant of Bl. Gerard's 11th-century Jerusalem hospital, Italy
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1096 — 1131
St. Knud Lavard
Duke of Schleswig — Martyr of Haraldsted
St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted, Zealand, Denmark
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1052 — 1132
St. Hugh of Grenoble
Bishop of Grenoble 1080–1132; benefactor of the Carthusian Order; Gregorian-Reform French episcopal exemplar
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Grenoble, France — his episcopal cathedral; Grande Chartreuse (Voiron, Isère, France) — the Carthusian mother-house that he established with Bruno, France
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1060 — 1134
St. Stephen Harding
Third Abbot of Cîteaux — Author of the Carta Caritatis
Cîteaux Abbey, Burgundy, France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1080 — 1134
St. Norbert of Xanten
Founder of the Premonstratensian Order — Apostle of the Eucharist
Strahov Monastery, Prague (relics from 1627), Czech Republic
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1070 — 1136
Bl. Hugh of Payens
founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar (1119–1136)
Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque / former Temple of Solomon), Jerusalem — the original Templar headquarters (1119–1187); the name 'Templar' is derived from the Order's residence on the Temple Mount, Israel
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1060 — 1137
St. Olegarius (Olegario) of Barcelona
Archbishop of Tarragona 1118–1137; restorer of the Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy of Reconquista-era Catalonia
Cathedral of Santa Eulalia, Barcelona, Spain — his episcopal cathedral; the shrine in the nave; UNESCO-area Catholic cathedral, Spain
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1060 — 1139
St. Otto of Bamberg
Bishop of Bamberg — Apostle of Pomerania
Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1070 — 1139
St. John of Matera (John of Pulsano)
Italian abbot; founder of the Pulsanian Congregation
Abbey of Santa Maria di Pulsano (Abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano), near Monte Sant'Angelo, Apulia, Italy — his personal foundation of 1129; survives in Catholic liturgical use as a pilgrim destination, Italy
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1096 — 1141
Hugh of Saint-Victor
The 'Second Augustine' — Master of the Victorine School
Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (suppressed 1790), France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1085 — 1142
St. William of Vercelli (William of Montevergine)
founder of the Abbey of Monte Vergine; Apostle of the Hirpini
Sanctuary of Montevergine (Santuario di Montevergine), Mercogliano, Avellino, Campania, Italy — his mountain-shrine foundation of 1124; principal Catholic Marian pilgrim destination of southern Italy, Italy
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1094 — 1148
St. Malachy of Armagh
Archbishop of Armagh — Reformer of the Irish Church
Armagh Cathedral, County Armagh, United Kingdom
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1085 — 1148
Bl. William of Saint-Thierry
Cistercian abbot-theologian; mystical-spiritual writer; intimate friend of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Abbey of Saint-Thierry (Abbaye Saint-Thierry), near Reims, Champagne, France — his Benedictine abbacy 1119–1135; the abbey was destroyed in the French Revolution, the site preserved, France
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1090 — 1153✠ Doctor
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Doctor Mellifluus — the Honey-Sweet Doctor
Cathedral of Troyes, France
3 miracles · 2 relics→
1080 — 1153♕ Pope #167
Bl. Eugene III
Pope (1145–1153) — First Cistercian Pope — Disciple of Bernard
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Vatican City
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1090 — 1154
St. William of York
Archbishop of York — The Saint of the Ouse Bridge Miracle
York Minster, United Kingdom
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1080 — 1154
St. Wulfric of Haselbury
English anchorite; 12th-century English mystic-recluse
Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset, England — his anchorite cell attached to the parish church; the anchorite cell-window survives in the church wall, United Kingdom
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1097 — 1155
St. Christina of Markyate (Theodora the Recluse)
English anchorite-prioress; author of the St. Albans Psalter circle
Markyate Priory, Hertfordshire, England — her personal foundation; ruins survive; the St. Albans Psalter (c. 1130, one of the greatest medieval English illuminated manuscripts) produced for her personal devotional use, United Kingdom
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1092 — 1156
Bl. Peter the Venerable
Ninth Abbot of Cluny — The Reformer Who Met Islam
Cluny Abbey, France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1075 — 1157
Bl. Guerric of Igny
Cistercian abbot of Igny 1138–1157; Cistercian preacher and homiletic-theological writer
Abbey of Igny (Abbaye d'Igny), Champagne, France — his Cistercian abbacy; the Trappist abbey survives in modern restored Catholic use, France
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1085 — 1159
St. Stephen of Obazine
Founder of Obazine and Coyroux — Cistercian Father of the Limousin
Obazine Abbey, Corrèze, France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1100 — 1159
St. Robert of Newminster
Cistercian abbot of Newminster; disciple-companion of St. Aelred of Rievaulx; English Cistercian father
Newminster Abbey, near Morpeth, Northumberland, England — his foundation of 1138; ruined Cistercian abbey, United Kingdom
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1120 — 1160
St. Eric IX of Sweden
King and Martyr — Patron Saint of Sweden
Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1100 — 1156
St. Henry of Uppsala
Bishop and Martyr — Patron Saint of Finland
Nousiainen Church, Finland (medieval cathedra; relics translated to Turku 1300), Finland
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1100 — 1160
Peter Lombard
Master of the Sentences — Father of Scholastic Theology
Saint-Marcel, Paris (church destroyed at the Revolution), France
0 miracles · 0 relics→
1083 — 1160
Bl. Raymond du Puy
Second Master of the Knights Hospitaller (1120–1160); militarizer of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Rome (Magistral Palace and Magistral Villa) — the continuing Catholic institutional descendant of the Hospitaller Order that Raymond du Puy militarized, Italy
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1125 — 1160
Bl. Mechthild of Diessen (Mathilda of Andechs)
Benedictine abbess; Bavarian Andechs-Meranien royal-monastic saint
Abbey of Diessen (Stift Dießen am Ammersee), Bavaria, Germany — her principal abbacy; the Bavarian Catholic women's-monastic tradition, Germany
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1110 — 1163
Bl. Raymond of Fitero
Cistercian abbot; founder of the Order of Calatrava (1158); principal architect of the Spanish military-religious order tradition
Calatrava la Vieja (Calatrava the Old), Ciudad Real, Castile, Spain — the fortress that became the mother-house of the Order of Calatrava; UNESCO-area Catholic historical site, Spain
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1129 — 1164
St. Elisabeth of Schönau
German Benedictine visionary; Rhineland mystic; younger contemporary and correspondent of St. Hildegard of Bingen
Schönau Abbey (Kloster Schönau im Taunus), near St. Goarshausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany — her monastic home; the pilgrim destination preserving her shrine, Germany
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1093 — 1164
Bl. Hugh of Fosses
first Abbot of Prémontré (1128–1164); organizational father of the Premonstratensian Order
Abbey of Prémontré (Abbaye de Prémontré), near Laon, Picardy, France — the mother-house of the Premonstratensian Order founded by St. Norbert in 1120; Hugh's successor-and-institutional-organizer abbacy 1128–1164, France
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1110 — 1167
St. Aelred of Rievaulx
Cistercian Abbot — 'The Bernard of the North' — Theologian of Friendship
Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1119 — 1170
St. Thomas Becket
Archbishop of Canterbury — Martyr of the Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral, United Kingdom
2 miracles · 2 relics→
1065 — 1170
St. Godric of Finchale
Hermit of the Wear — England's First Lyric Poet
Finchale Priory, County Durham, United Kingdom
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1110 — 1173
Richard of Saint-Victor
Mystical Theologian — Master of the Victorine Contemplative Tradition
Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris (suppressed 1790), France
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1111 — 1174
St. Andrew Bogolyubsky
Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (1157–1174); establisher of the Pokrov-icon devotion; father of the Vladimir-Suzdalian Russian Catholic-Orthodox tradition
Cathedral of the Dormition (Uspensky Sobor), Vladimir, Russia — his principal cathedral foundation, built 1158–1160 to house the Vladimir Theotokos icon; UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1992, with the White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal), Russia
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1107 — 1178
St. Anthelm of Chignin
Bishop of Belley 1163–1178; seventh Prior of the Grande Chartreuse; organizational father of the Carthusian Order
Cathedral of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Belley, France — his episcopal cathedral; Grande Chartreuse — his principal Carthusian foundation, France
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1098 — 1179✠ Doctor
St. Hildegard of Bingen
Sibyl of the Rhine — Doctor of the Church
Pfarrkirche St. Hildegard, Eibingen, Germany
3 miracles · 1 relics→
1130 — 1182
St. Cyril of Turov
Bishop of Turov — The Slavic Chrysostom
Turov, Belarus, Belarus
0 miracles · 1 relics→
1083 — 1189
St. Gilbert of Sempringham
Founder of the Gilbertines — Only Medieval English Religious Order
Sempringham, Lincolnshire (priory destroyed at the dissolution), United Kingdom
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1166 — 1192
St. Albert of Louvain
Cardinal-Bishop of Liège 1192; martyr at Reims (1192) under Emperor Henry VI
Cathedral of Saint-Lambert, Liège, Belgium — his episcopal cathedral (destroyed in 1794 by the French Revolutionary occupation, the principal Saint-Lambert Cathedral being subsequently replaced as cathedral by the Saint-Paul collegiate church), Belgium
1 miracles · 1 relics→
1090 — 1195
St. Berthold of Carmel
organizational father of the Carmelite Order on Mount Carmel (c. 1185); link between the eremitic hermit-community and the Carmelite Order
Stella Maris Monastery (Monastero del Carmelo, Stella Maris), Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel — the mother-house of the Discalced Carmelite Order; the original Mount Carmel cave-hermitage of Berthold's eremitic community; in continuous Catholic Carmelite liturgical use 1209 to present, Israel
2 miracles · 1 relics→
1135 — 1200
St. Hugh of Lincoln
Carthusian Bishop — The Swan Saint of England
Lincoln Cathedral, United Kingdom
1 miracles · 1 relics→