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St. Quadratus Of Athens
St. Quadratus of Athens was a second-century Christian leader, bishop and apologist associated with the church of Athens. He is chiefly remembered for an apology, or reasoned defence of Christianity, that he reportedly p…
St. Radegund
St. Radegund was a sixth-century Christian queen, ascetic, patron of learning and founder of a women’s religious community at Poitiers in Gaul, in what is now western France. Born into the royal family of Thuringia aroun…
St. Raymond Of Capua
Raymond of Capua was a fourteenth-century Dominican friar, spiritual adviser, church reformer and author best known as the confessor and first major biographer of St. Catherine of Siena. He played an important part in th…
St. Raymond Of Penafort
St. Raymond of Peñafort was a thirteenth-century Catalan Dominican friar, canon lawyer, confessor, and church administrator. He is remembered especially for organizing a major collection of medieval canon law and for hel…
St. Regulus
St. Regulus, also known as St. Rule, is a figure in the medieval Christian traditions associated with St Andrews in Scotland. According to the best-known legend, he was a monk or cleric who brought relics of St Andrew fr…
St. Remigius
St. Remigius, also known as Saint Rémi or Remy, was a fifth- and sixth-century bishop of Reims whose episcopate became closely associated with the conversion of the Frankish king Clovis I to Nicene Christianity. In Chris…
St. Richard Of Chichester
St. Richard of Chichester, also known as Richard de Wych or Richard of Wyche, was a thirteenth-century English bishop, administrator and saint of the Christian Church. He served as bishop of Chichester from 1244 until hi…
St. Rita Of Cascia
St. Rita of Cascia is a fifteenth-century Italian Christian saint associated with marriage, widowhood, religious life, forgiveness and apparently impossible causes. Known in Italian as Santa Rita da Cascia, she belonged …
St. Robert Bellarmine
St. Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit, cardinal, theologian, bishop, and Catholic saint of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His life unfolded during the Catholic Reformation, a period of intense …
St. Roch
St. Roch, also known as Roch of Montpellier, Saint Rocco, San Roque, or Rochus, is a Christian saint traditionally associated with the care of people suffering from plague and other epidemic diseases. His cult developed …
St. Ronan Of Kilmaronen
St. Ronan of Kilmaronen is an obscure Scottish saint associated with an early Christian settlement whose name survives in the place-name Kilmaronock, in the historic parish of Kilmaronock near Loch Lomond. The saint belo…