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St. Romuald
St. Romuald was an Italian Christian monk, hermit, and reformer who lived from about 951 to 1027. He is best known as the founder of the Camaldolese tradition, a branch of Benedictine monasticism that combines communal r…
St. Ronan Of Iona
St. Ronan of Iona is a little-known Christian figure associated with the monastery of Iona and with the early medieval controversy over the date of Easter. His identity is not entirely secure. The surviving evidence most…
St. Rose Of Lima
St. Rose of Lima is a revered Catholic saint of the early modern period and the first person born in the Americas to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. She is associated with asceticism, chastity, prayer, charity…
St. Rose Of Viterbo
St. Rose of Viterbo is a young Italian Christian saint remembered for her intense piety, public preaching, and defiance of political power in the thirteenth century. In Catholic tradition she stands as a teenage lay peni…
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne was a French Catholic religious sister and missionary whose life is remembered in the tradition of the Church rather than in myth or folklore. She is venerated as a saint in Roman Catholicism…
St. Rumon Of Tavistock
St. Rumon of Tavistock is a saintly figure associated with medieval Devon and Cornwall, especially the town of Tavistock in Devon. He belongs to the broad tradition of early British and Celtic saints remembered in local …
St. Rufina
St. Rufina is remembered in Christian tradition as a martyr of early Christianity, usually associated with Rome and most often commemorated together with St. Secunda. Their story belongs to the broad tradition of virgin …
St. Rupert Mayer
St. Rupert Mayer (1876–1945) was a German Jesuit priest, preacher, and anti-Nazi resister who was venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic tradition and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1987. He does not belong to myt…