Saint John

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Saint John or St. John usually refers to either John the Baptist or John the Apostle.

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Saint John or St. John may also refer to:

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Eastern Orthodox

Oriental Orthodox

Roman Catholic

  • John Gualbert (died 1073), founder of the Vallumbrosan Order
  • John of Pulsano (1070–1139), a.k.a. Giovanni di Matera, Italian abbot
  • John of Meda (1100–1159), Italian priest
  • John of the Grating (1098–1168), Bishop of Aleth
  • John of Tufara (1084–1170), Italian monastery founder
  • John of Matha (1160–1213), French priest and founder of the Trinitarian Order
  • John of Nepomuk (1340–1393), Bohemian vicar general of Jan of Jenštejn
  • John of Capistrano (1386–1456), Italian friar, summoner of European troops for the 1456 siege of Belgrade
  • John Cantius (1390–1473), Polish priest and theologian
  • John of Sahagún (1419–1479), Spanish priest
  • John Fisher (c.1469 – 1535), English cardinal and martyr
  • Juan Diego (1474–1548), Nahua peasant who is said to have witnessed apparitions of Our Lady of Guadelupe
  • John of God (1495–1550), Portuguese friar; founder of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God
  • John of Ávila (1500–1569), Spanish Jewish converso priest, missionary and mystic
  • John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish Jewish converso friar, priest and mystic; joint founder of the Discalced Carmelites
  • John Leonardi (1541–1609), Italian priest; founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca
  • John de Ribera (1532–1611), a.k.a. Juan de Ribera, Bishop of Valencia
  • John Ogilvie (saint) (1579–1615), Scottish priest and martyr
  • John Sarkander (1576–1620), Polish priest and martyr
  • John Berchmans (1599–1621), Flemish seminarian
  • John Francis Regis (1597–1640), French priest
  • John Macias (1585–1645), Spanish missionary
  • John Eudes (1601–1680), a.k.a. Jean Eudes, French priest and founder of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary
  • John de Britto (1647–1693), Portuguese missionary and martyr
  • Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719), French priest; founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
  • John Joseph of the Cross (1654–1739), Ischian friar, priest and Vicar Provincial of the Alcantarine Reform in Italy
  • Jean Vianney (1786–1859), French priest and confessor
  • John Neumann (1811–1860), Bohemian missionary, Bishop of Philadelphia and founder of the first American Catholic diocesan school system
  • John Hoan Trinh Doan (c.1789/1798–1861), Vietnamese priest and martyr
  • John Bosco (1815–1888), Italian priest and educator; founder of the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Salesian Cooperators
  • John Henry Newman (1801–1890), English Oratorian priest and convert from Anglicanism
  • Pope John XXIII (1881–1963), Italian pope from 1958 to 1963
  • Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), Polish pope from 1978 to 2005
Groups of martyrs
Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
North American Martyrs
Vietnamese Martyrs
Korean Martyrs

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