Which St. Mary? Every Saint Named Mary

The Blessed Virgin Mary 1st century · Feast day January 1

The Blessed Virgin Mary was a young Jewish woman of Nazareth, betrothed to Joseph, who became the mother of Jesus.

St. Mary Magdalene 1st century · Feast day July 22

St. Mary Magdalene was the woman of Magdala whom Jesus freed from seven demons.

St. Mary of Bethany 1st century · Feast day July 29

St. Mary of Bethany was the sister of St. Martha and St. Lazarus and a disciple of Jesus.

St. Mary of Clopas 1st century · Feast day April 24

St. Mary of Clopas is one of the women who stood by the cross with the mother of Jesus; St. John's Gospel calls her "Mary the wife of Clopas." Tradition makes her the mother of St. James the Less and Joses.

St. Mary of Egypt c. 344–c. 421 · Feast day April 1

St. Mary of Egypt was a desert hermit whose Life tells how she turned from a life of sin at the door of the Holy Sepulchre and spent some forty-seven years alone beyond the Jordan.

Blessed Marie of the Incarnation 1566–1618 · Feast day April 18

Blessed Marie of the Incarnation (1566–1618), better known as Madame Acarie, was a Paris wife and mother of six who brought the Discalced Carmelite nuns to France in 1604.

Blessed Maria Angela Astorch 1592–1665 · Feast day December 2

Blessed Maria Angela Astorch (1592–1665) was a Spanish Capuchin Poor Clare, novice mistress and abbess in Barcelona, Zaragoza and Murcia.

Blessed Maria Maddalena Martinengo 1687–1737 · Feast day July 27

Blessed Maria Maddalena Martinengo (1687–1737) was a countess of Brescia who gave up a noble marriage to become a Capuchin Poor Clare in her city's monastery of Santa Maria della Neve.

St. Maria Crescentia Höss 1682–1744 · Feast day April 5

St. Maria Crescentia Höss (1682–1744) was a weaver's daughter from Kaufbeuren in Bavaria who entered the town's Franciscan convent without a dowry, was scorned there for years, and became its novice mistress, its abbess…

Blessed Marie Poussepin 1653–1744 · Feast day January 24

Blessed Marie Poussepin (1653–1744) was a businesswoman of Dourdan, near Paris, and a Dominican tertiary who served the poor.

St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus 1715–1791 · Feast day October 6

St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus (1715–1791), born Anna Maria Gallo, was a Franciscan tertiary of Naples who lived a hidden life of prayer and suffering and is said to have shared in the pains of Christ's…

St. Marie Rivier 1768–1838 · Feast day February 3

St. Anne-Marie Rivier (1768–1838), usually called St. Marie Rivier, was a French foundress.

St. Maria Crocifissa di Rosa 1813–1855 · Feast day December 15

St. Maria Crocifissa di Rosa (1813–1855) was a noblewoman of Brescia, in northern Italy, who nursed the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1836 and went on to found the Handmaids of Charity, a congregation of sisters…

Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani 1806–1855 · Feast day February 25

Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani (1806–1855) was born in Naples to a Maltese baron, came to Malta at nineteen and spent her whole religious life as a Benedictine nun in St. Peter's Monastery at Mdina, serving as sacristan,…

St. Maria Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament 1809–1865 · Feast day August 24

St. Maria Micaela Desmaisières (1809–1865), known as Mother Sacramento, was a Spanish noblewoman, Viscountess of Jorbalán, who gave up a life at court to shelter women caught in prostitution and founded the Adorers,…

St. Maria De Mattias 1805–1866 · Feast day August 20

St. Maria De Mattias (1805–1866) was an Italian religious who founded the Adorers of the Blood of Christ at Acuto in 1834, after hearing St. Gaspar del Bufalo preach.

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier 1796–1868 · Feast day April 24

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (1796–1868) founded the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd at Angers, France, to care for women and girls who had fallen into trouble.

Blessed Mary Frances Schervier 1819–1876 · Feast day December 14

Blessed Mary Frances Schervier (1819–1876) was the daughter of an Aachen needle manufacturer who gave her life to the poor and sick and founded the Poor Sisters of St. Francis in 1845.

St. Maria Mazzarello 1837–1881 · Feast day May 13

St. Maria Mazzarello (Maria Domenica Mazzarello, 1837–1881) was a farm girl from Mornese in Piedmont who, with St. John Bosco, founded the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, the Salesian Sisters, in 1872, and became…

Blessed Maria Theresia Scherer 1825–1888 · Feast day June 16

Blessed Maria Theresia Scherer (1825–1888) was a Swiss sister who co-founded, with the Capuchin Theodosius Florentini, the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross of Ingenbohl and led them as first superior general for 31…

Blessed Maria Teresa Scrilli 1825–1889 · Feast day November 13

Blessed Maria Teresa Scrilli (1825–1889) was a Tuscan educator from Montevarchi who founded the Carmelite congregation now called the Sisters of Our Lady of Carmel to give poor girls a Christian education.

Blessed Maria Repetto 1809–1890 · Feast day January 5

Blessed Maria Repetto (1809–1890) was a Genoese sister of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary, the "Brignoline," who nursed cholera victims and for decades kept her convent's door, where the city came to the "holy nun"…

St. Maria Katharina Kasper 1820–1898 · Feast day February 2

St. Maria Katharina Kasper (1820–1898) was a peasant woman of Dernbach, Germany, who broke stones on the roads, nursed her neighbors, and in 1851 founded the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, who spread to the…

Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart 1863–1899 · Feast day June 8

Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Maria Droste zu Vischering, 1863–1899) was a German countess who served as a Good Shepherd superior in Porto, Portugal.

St. Maria Goretti 1890–1902 · Feast day July 6

St. Maria Goretti was an Italian farm girl who died in 1902 at eleven after Alessandro Serenelli attacked her for refusing his advances.

Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta 1878–1905 · Feast day November 7

Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta (1878–1905) was a peasant girl from the Marche in Italy who became a Franciscan Missionary of Mary and died of typhus in a mission in Shanxi, China, at twenty-six.

St. Mary MacKillop 1842–1909 · Feast day August 8

St. Mary MacKillop (1842–1909), known in religion as St. Mary of the Cross, was Australia's first canonized saint.

Blessed Maria Schininà 1844–1910 · Feast day June 11

Blessed Maria Schininà (1844–1910), in religion Maria of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was the daughter of a Sicilian marquis who left the luxury of her family's palace in Ragusa to serve the poor, the sick, miners and…

Blessed María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña 1848–1918 · Feast day January 10

Blessed María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña (1848–1918), known as Dolores Sopeña, was a Spanish laywoman and foundress who spent her life bringing the faith and basic education to the poor and to workers far from the Church,…

St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin 1888–1922 · Feast day October 20

St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin (1888–1922) was an Italian nun of the Teaching Sisters of St. Dorothy who, mocked as a slow-witted girl, became a tireless nurse in the hospital of Treviso, caring for children with…

Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti 1827–1922 · Feast day November 20

Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti (1827–1922) was an Italian Benedictine lay sister who never learned to read and spent seventy-one years sewing, mending and praying in the cloistered monastery of Santa Maria dei Franconi in…

St. Maria Bernarda Bütler 1848–1924 · Feast day May 19

St. Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848–1924) was a Swiss Capuchin nun who left her convent at forty to become a missionary in Ecuador and, after being driven out in 1895, in Cartagena, Colombia.

St. Maria of Gatchina 1874–1932 · Feast day April 17

St. Maria of Gatchina (Lydia Lelyanova, 1874–1932) was a St. Petersburg merchant's daughter who lay paralyzed for some twenty years in Gatchina and became a nun in 1922.

Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu 1914–1939 · Feast day April 22

Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu (1914–1939), called Maria Gabriella of Unity, was a young Trappist nun from Dorgali in Sardinia who offered her life to God for the unity of Christians in 1938 and died of tuberculosis…

Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka 1894–1943 · Feast day October 29

Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka (1894–1943) was a Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity and head surgical nurse in Mödling.

Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli 1890–1945 · Feast day July 26

Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli (1890–1945), a Milan-born sister of the Daughters of the Immaculate Conception of Buenos Aires, spread devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and the Holy Face medal, which bears the face…

Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti 1861–1945 · Feast day June 23

Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti (1861–1945) was an Italian Hospitaller Sister of Mercy who spent most of her life nursing the sick and running the hospital pharmacy in Alatri and Frosinone, south of Rome.

St. Maria Skobtsova 1891–1945 · Feast day July 20

St. Maria Skobtsova, known as Mother Maria of Paris (1891–1945), was a Russian émigré poet who became an Orthodox nun, opened her house to the homeless, and with her son and Fr. Dimitri Klepinin helped Jews escape the…

Blessed María Pilar Izquierdo Albero 1906–1945 · Feast day August 27

Blessed María Pilar Izquierdo Albero (1906–1945) was a poor working woman of Zaragoza who spent more than ten years paralyzed and blind, was suddenly healed on December 8, 1939, and founded what became the Missionary…

Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist 1884–1949 · Feast day June 12

Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist (1884–1949), born Maria Barba, waited almost twenty years for her family's consent before entering the Discalced Carmelites of Ragusa in Sicily, where she was prioress for most of…

Blessed Maria Tuci 1928–1950 · Feast day October 24

Blessed Maria Tuci (1928–1950) was a young Albanian teacher and catechist, educated by the Stigmatine Sisters and hoping to join them, who was arrested by the communist secret police in 1949 and died after torture in…

Blessed Maria Crocifissa Curcio 1877–1957 · Feast day July 4

Blessed Maria Crocifissa Curcio (1877–1957) was a Sicilian woman from Ispica who founded the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of St. Therese of the Child Jesus at Santa Marinella, on the coast north of Rome, to care for…

St. María Guadalupe García Zavala 1878–1963 · Feast day June 24

St. María Guadalupe García Zavala (1878 to 1963), known as Mother Lupita, was a Mexican nun who founded the Handmaids of St. Margaret Mary and the Poor and spent her life nursing the sick poor.

Blessed Maria Corsini 1884–1965 · Feast day November 25

Blessed Maria Corsini (1884–1965) was a Roman wife, mother of four, writer on education and volunteer Red Cross nurse.

St. Maria Troncatti 1883–1969 · Feast day August 25

St. Maria Troncatti (1883–1969) was an Italian Salesian sister who spent 44 years among the Shuar of Ecuador's Amazon as a nurse, surgeon, catechist and peacemaker.

Blessed María Romero Meneses 1902–1977 · Feast day July 7

Blessed María Romero Meneses (1902–1977), known as Sor María Romero, was a Salesian sister born in Granada, Nicaragua, who spent most of her life in Costa Rica serving the poor: catechism, job training, a free clinic…

Blessed Maria Bolognesi 1924–1980 · Feast day January 30

Blessed Maria Bolognesi (1924–1980) was a poor farm laborer and lay mystic from Bosaro, near Rovigo in northern Italy.

Blessed María Agustina Rivas López 1920–1990 · Feast day September 26

Blessed María Agustina Rivas López (1920–1990), called Aguchita, was a Peruvian Good Shepherd sister.

Blessed Maria Laura Mainetti 1939–2000 · Feast day June 6

Blessed Maria Laura Mainetti (1939–2000) was a Daughter of the Cross who cared for troubled young people in Chiavenna.