Which St. Paul? Every Saint Named Paul

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Which St. Paul? 16 saints and blesseds named Paul have full entries in this encyclopedia, counting the name in other languages (Paolo). They are listed below with their dates, feast days and a line on who each one was, beginning with the first century and then 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. Paul 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. Paul the Apostle, St. Paul of the Cross and St. Paul VI.

The apostles and the first century

  • St. Paul the Apostle c. 8–c. 64 · Feast day June 29

    St. Paul was Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee who persecuted Christians until the risen Jesus appeared to him on the road to Damascus.

4th century

  • St. Paul the Simple died c. 339 · Feast day March 7

    St. Paul the Simple was an Egyptian farmer who, at about sixty, left his unfaithful wife and begged St. Anthony the Great to make him a monk.

  • St. Paul of Thebes c. 228–c. 341 · Feast day January 15

    St. Paul of Thebes (about 228–341), also called St. Paul the First Hermit, fled to the Egyptian desert during the persecution of Decius and lived alone in a cave for about ninety years.

5th century

  • St. Paul of Tammah 5th century · Feast day October 17

    St. Paul of Tammah (Anba Paula el-Tammuhi) was an Egyptian hermit who lived in fasting and prayer on Mount Ansena.

6th century

  • St. Paul Aurelian c. 480–c. 573 · Feast day March 12

    St. Paul Aurelian, called St. Pol de Léon in Brittany, was a sixth-century Welsh monk and pupil of St. Illtud who crossed to Armorica, founded monasteries and became the first bishop of Léon.

10th century

  • St. Paul of Latros died 955 · Feast day December 15

    St. Paul of Latros was a tenth-century Byzantine monk and hermit who lived for decades in caves on Mount Latmus, near Miletus in western Turkey.

15th century

  • St. Paul of Obnora 1317–1429 · Feast day January 10

    St. Paul of Obnora (1317–1429) was a Russian monk and disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh who lived three years in a hollow linden tree and long years as a hermit in the forests near Vologda, where he founded the…

16th century

  • St. Paul Ibaraki died 1597 · Feast day February 6

    St. Paul Ibaraki was a Japanese layman from a samurai family who ran a small sake brewery in Kyoto and helped the Franciscan friars as a preacher.

  • St. Paul Miki and Companions 1560–1597 · Feast day February 6

    St. Paul Miki was a Japanese Jesuit and gifted preacher who was crucified with twenty-five other Catholics on a hill above Nagasaki on February 5, 1597.

  • St. Paul Suzuki c. 1548–1597 · Feast day February 6

    St. Paul Suzuki was a Japanese catechist from Owari who worked with the Franciscan friars in Kyoto and ran their St. Joseph's Hospital there.

18th century

  • St. Paul of the Cross 1694–1775 · Feast day October 19

    St. Paul of the Cross (1694–1775) was an Italian priest, preacher and mystic who founded the Passionists, the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, to keep alive the memory of Christ's suffering and death.

19th century

  • St. Paul Chong Hasang 1795–1839 · Feast day September 20

    St. Paul Chong Hasang (1795–1839) was a Korean layman, son of a martyr, who traveled to Beijing nine times to beg for priests for Korea's hidden Church and wrote the first Korean defense of the faith.

  • St. Paul Lê Bảo Tịnh 1793–1857 · Feast day November 24

    St. Paul Le Bao Tinh (1793–1857) was a Vietnamese priest who spent more than seven years in prison as a seminarian and wrote a famous letter from his cell in 1843, now read in the Liturgy of the Hours.

  • St. Paul Tchen 1838–1861 · Feast day July 9

    St. Paul Tchen (Chen Changpin, 1838–1861) was a Chinese seminarian from a poor, non-Christian family in Guizhou, baptized at fifteen and beheaded for the faith at Qingyan on July 29, 1861.

20th century

  • Blessed Paolo Manna 1872–1952 · Feast day September 15

    Blessed Paolo Manna (1872–1952) was an Italian priest of the Foreign Missions Institute of Milan (later PIME) who worked in Burma until illness sent him home, then spent forty years rousing the Church to the missions.

  • St. Paul VI 1897–1978 · Feast day May 29

    St. Paul VI (1897–1978), born Giovanni Battista Montini near Brescia, was a Vatican diplomat and archbishop of Milan who was elected pope in 1963.

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