Doctor of the Church
St. Bede
Bede, OSB , also known as the Venerable Bede or Bede the Venerable, was an English Benedictine monk, author and scholar.
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Saints from United Kingdom
Read the full stories of 86 saints whose birth or early family origins are associated with present-day United Kingdom.
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Monastic / Hermit
St. Benedict Biscop
Benedict Biscop , also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory .
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Bishop · August 11
St. Blane
Blane was a bishop and confessor in Scotland, born on the Isle of Bute, date unknown; died 590.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Monastic or Hermit · July 7
St. Boisil
Boisil was a monk of Melrose Abbey, an offshoot of Lindisfarne, then in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, but now in Scotland, where he must have been one of the first generation of monks.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Bishop · 5 June
St. Boniface
Boniface was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century.
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Monastic / Hermit
St. Botolph of Thorney
Botolph of Thorney was an English abbot and saint.
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Monastic or Hermit · May 1
St. Brioc
Brioc was a 6th-century Welsh holy man who became the first abbot of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Monastic or Hermit · September 25
St. Cadoc
Cadoc was a 5th–6th-century abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the Celtic church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Lay saint · 12 October
St. Carlo Acutis
Carlo Acutis was an English-born Italian Catholic teenager known for his devotion to the Eucharist and his use of digital media to promote Catholic devotion.
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Bishop
St. Cedd
Cedd was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop from the Kingdom of Northumbria. He was an evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons in England and a significant participant in the Synod of Whitby, a meeting which resolved important differences within the Church in England.
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Bishop
St. Cuthbert
Cuthbert was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.
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Martyr · 30 November
St. Cuthbert Mayne
Cuthbert Mayne was an English Catholic priest executed under the laws of Elizabeth I. He was the first of the seminary priests trained on the Continent to be martyred.
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