Which St. Louis? Every Saint Named Louis

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Which St. Louis? 11 saints and blesseds named Louis have full entries in this encyclopedia, counting the name in other languages (Luigi). They are listed below with their dates, feast days and a line on who each one was, arranged century by century.

A name carries a story, and many holy men and women have carried this one. Whether you are choosing a baptismal or confirmation name, looking for the saint behind a parish or a feast, or simply trying to tell one St. Louis from another, we hope this page helps you find the right one, and that you will ask that saint's prayers along the way. Among the best loved are St. Louis de Montfort, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin and St. Louis IX of France.

13th century

  • St. Louis IX of France 1214–1270 · Feast day August 25

    St. Louis IX (1214/15 to 1270) was king of France for 44 years, famous for his piety, care for the poor and justice.

  • St. Louis of Toulouse 1274–1297 · Feast day August 19

    St. Louis of Toulouse (1274–1297), also called Louis of Anjou, was a grandnephew of St. Louis IX who gave up his right to the throne of Naples, became a Franciscan friar and was made Bishop of Toulouse at 22.

16th century

  • St. Louis Bertrand 1526–1581 · Feast day October 9

    St. Louis Bertrand (1526–1581), Luis Beltrán in Spanish, was a Dominican friar from Valencia who spent seven years preaching to the Indigenous peoples of New Granada, today's Colombia, and defended them against Spanish…

18th century

  • St. Louis de Montfort 1673–1716 · Feast day April 28

    St. Louis de Montfort (1673–1716), in full Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, was a French priest who preached missions to the poor of Brittany and western France and wrote True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, the…

19th century

  • Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin 1823–1877 · Feast day July 12

    Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin were a French watchmaker and lacemaker from Alençon, the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and four other daughters who all became nuns.

20th century

  • Blessed Louis Brisson 1817–1908 · Feast day October 12

    Blessed Louis Brisson (1817–1908) was a French priest of Troyes who served the Visitation nuns as chaplain for more than forty years, opened homes for young women working in the textile mills, and founded the Oblate…

  • St. Luigi Guanella 1842–1915 · Feast day October 24

    St. Luigi Guanella (1842–1915) was an Italian priest from the Alps above Lake Como who founded the Servants of Charity and the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence to care for the poor, the elderly and people with…

  • Blessed Luigi Tezza 1841–1923 · Feast day September 26

    Blessed Luigi Tezza (1841–1923) was an Italian Camillian priest who in 1892 founded the Daughters of St. Camillus with St. Giuseppina Vannini.

  • St. Louis Versiglia 1873–1930 · Feast day February 25

    St. Louis Versiglia (1873–1930) was an Italian Salesian who led the first Salesian missionaries to China in 1906 and became the first bishop of Shiuchow (Shaoguan).

  • St. Luigi Orione 1872–1940 · Feast day May 16

    St. Luigi Orione, called Don Orione (1872–1940), was an Italian priest, a pupil of St. John Bosco, who founded the Little Work of Divine Providence: priests, brothers and sisters who serve the poor, the disabled and the…

  • Blessed Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi 1880–1951 · Feast day November 25

    Blessed Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi (1880–1951) was a Roman lawyer for the Italian state, a husband and father of four, who with his wife, Blessed Maria Corsini (1884–1965), became the first married couple ever beatified…

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