JANUARY 15

St Isidore of Alexandria – monk and hospital worker

FEBRUARY 8

St Josephine Bakhita of Sudan - emancipated slave and Canossian Sister of Charity.

MARCH 7

St Perpetua of Carthage - young mother and martyr

APRIL 4

St Benedict the Moor - patron of African-Americans

MAY 3

Saints Timothy & Maura of Egypt - newlywed martyrs

JUNE 3

St Charles Langwa - martyr of Buganda (now Uganda)

JULY 17

St Speratus – one of the first recorded martyrs of Africa

AUGUST 27

St Monica of Numidia - wise wife and mother

SEPTEMBER 16

St Cyprian of Carthage - father and doctor of the Church

OCTOBER 9

Saints Athanasia & Andronicus - monastic married couple

NOVEMBER 26

St Catherine of Alexandria - lifelong mystical union with Jesus

DECEMBER

Blessed Anaurite of Congo - martyred for her virginity