Which St. Francis? Every Saint Named Francis

St. Francis of Assisi 1181–1226 · Feast day October 4

St. Francis of Assisi (about 1181–1226) was a rich cloth merchant's son who gave up everything to live in poverty and preach the Gospel.

St. Francis of Paola 1416–1507 · Feast day April 2

St. Francis of Paola (1416–1507) was a hermit from Calabria, in southern Italy, who founded the Order of Minims, friars vowed to humility and a lifelong Lenten fast.

St. Francis Xavier 1506–1552 · Feast day December 3

St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552) was a Basque nobleman who, with St. Ignatius of Loyola, founded the Society of Jesus, then spent his last ten years as a missionary in India, Southeast Asia and Japan.

St. Francis Borgia 1510–1572 · Feast day October 10

St. Francis Borgia (1510–1572) was the fourth Duke of Gandía, who gave up his titles to become a Jesuit priest.

Blessed Francis Page died 1602 · Feast day April 20

Blessed Francis Page was an Elizabethan law clerk who became a Catholic, studied for the priesthood at Douai, and came back to London as a priest in 1600.

St. Francis Caracciolo 1563–1608 · Feast day June 4

St. Francis Caracciolo (1563-1608) was a Neapolitan priest who co-founded the Minor Clerks Regular, an order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and works of mercy.

St. Francis Solanus 1549–1610 · Feast day July 14

St. Francis Solanus (1549–1610) was a Spanish Franciscan from Montilla who spent twenty years as a missionary in Tucumán (now northern Argentina) and Paraguay and died in Lima, Peru.

Blessed Francis Taylor c. 1550–1621 · Feast day January 30

Blessed Francis Taylor (about 1550–1621) was a merchant of Swords who served as mayor of Dublin.

St. Francis de Sales 1567–1622 · Feast day January 24

St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622) was the bishop of Geneva who wrote Introduction to the Devout Life.

St. François de Laval 1623–1708 · Feast day May 6

St. François de Laval (1623–1708) was the first bishop of Quebec and the founder of the Church in Canada as an organized diocese.

St. Francis de Geronimo 1642–1716 · Feast day May 11

St. Francis de Geronimo (1642–1716) was an Italian Jesuit who preached in the streets, squares, prisons and galleys of Naples for forty years and led missions across southern Italy, earning the name Apostle of Naples.

St. Francis Antony Fasani 1681–1742 · Feast day November 29

St. Francis Antony Fasani (1681–1742) was a Conventual Franciscan friar of Lucera in southern Italy, a doctor of theology the people called the Padre Maestro, who spent thirty-five years preaching, hearing confessions…

St. Francis Mary of Camporosso 1804–1866 · Feast day September 17

St. Francis Mary of Camporosso (1804–1866) was a Capuchin lay brother who spent some forty years begging alms in Genoa and giving them to the poor, so the city called him the Padre Santo.

Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos 1819–1867 · Feast day October 5

Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (1819–1867) was a Bavarian-born Redemptorist priest who served German and English-speaking immigrants across the United States, worked beside St. John Neumann in Pittsburgh, and died of…

Blessed Francisco Palau 1811–1872 · Feast day November 7

Blessed Francisco Palau y Quer (1811–1872) was a Discalced Carmelite friar from Catalonia.

Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno 1825–1888 · Feast day March 27

Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825–1888) was a Sardinian army officer who became a mathematician, a Turin professor and, at fifty-one, a priest.

St. Francesco Spinelli 1853–1913 · Feast day February 6

St. Francesco Spinelli (1853–1913) was an Italian diocesan priest who founded the Sisters Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament, women who adore Christ in the Eucharist and serve the poor that no one else wants.

St. Francisco Marto 1908–1919 · Feast day February 20

St. Francisco Marto (1908–1919) was one of the three shepherd children who saw Our Lady at Fátima, Portugal, in 1917.

Blessed Francisco Gárate 1857–1929 · Feast day September 9

Blessed Francisco Gárate (1857–1929) was a Basque Jesuit lay brother, born a few steps from the birthplace of St. Ignatius at Loyola, who spent forty-one years as porter of the University of Deusto.

Blessed Francisco Castelló 1914–1936 · Feast day September 28

Blessed Francisco Castelló Aleu (1914–1936) was a chemical engineer and Catholic Action member in Lleida, Catalonia.

Blessed Francesco Mottola 1901–1969 · Feast day June 30

Blessed Francesco Mottola (1901–1969) was a priest of Tropea in Calabria who joined contemplation and charity, founding the Houses of Charity for the poor and disabled and the Oblates of the Sacred Heart.