About

Just the Saints lists the patronages that Catholic tradition records for each saint, and shows where each one is recorded. Nothing on this site is written by us: every sentence is either quoted word for word from a source, or one of a short list of fixed labels.

Which sources count. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), the editions of Butler's Lives of the Saints published before 1931, Drake (1916), Husenbeth (1882) and Baring-Gould (1897). Wikidata counts as the work it cites; without a reference, it counts on its own and is shown apart. For modern patronages, which no work published before 1931 records, we count the official website of a diocese or of the Holy See, or two modern reference works that agree.

When a patronage is shown. When it is recorded in at least 2 sources, or in one of the works above. Wikidata alone is not enough.

Which saints have a page. Every saint recorded as patron of something people search for, in the list we measured, and no other.

How things are ordered. Patronages on a saint's page go from A to Z. Other saints with the same patronage go from the most sources to the fewest, then from A to Z.

What else a page shows, when it exists. The feast day in the current General Roman Calendar and, if an older work gives another date, that date too. The beginning of the saint's entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia or, if it has none, in Butler, in whole sentences and up to 150 words, when it reaches at least 40 words. The first prayer to the saint in the Raccolta (1910). Up to 3 works of art in the public domain, oldest first. A quoted sentence is never longer than 60 words.