Country of origin
Read the full stories of 86 saints whose birth or early family origins are associated with present-day United Kingdom.
Showing 49–60 of 86. Read each story’s origin note for traditional or disputed accounts.
Martyr · 19 July
John Plessington, also known as John Plesington, William Scarisbrick and William Pleasington, was an English Catholic priest who was executed by the English Crown for violating the ban on the presence of Catholic priests in the kingdom.
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Martyr · 21 June
John Rigby was an English Roman Catholic layman who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I. He is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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Martyr · 10 December
John Roberts, OSB was a Welsh Benedictine monk and priest, and was the first prior of St. Gregory's, Douai, France.
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Priest or Deacon · October 21
John Twenge was an English priest and Augustinian canon who served as prior of Bridlington.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Monastic or Hermit · April 21
Máel Ruba is an Irish saint of the Christian Church who was active in Scotland.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Martyr · 25 October
Margaret Clitherow was an English Catholic recusant known as The Pearl of York. She was pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.
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Martyr · 25 October
Margaret Ward, called the "pearl of Tyburn", was an English saint and martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for assisting a priest to escape from prison.
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Monastic · 13 July
Saint Mildrith, also Mildthryth, Mildryth and Mildred,, was a 7th- and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent.
United Kingdom · Early origin
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Monastic or Hermit · July 6
Moninne was an early Irish religious founder associated with Killeavy, whose life is known through later traditions.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Bishop · January 13
Mungo was a missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Martyr
Nicholas Owen, S.J., was an English Jesuit lay brother who was the principal builder of priest holes during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England.
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Bishop · 16 September
Ninian is a Christian saint, first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland.
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