Patron Saint of Catholic education
3 saints found
Joseph Calasanz
Feast Day: August 25
Patron of: Catholic education, schools, teachers, poor schoolchildren, Christian education
Founder of free schools for the poor, pioneering Catholic education for society's most vulnerable.
Mary MacKillop
Feast Day: August 8
Patron of: Australia, Catholic education, social justice, poor and marginalized, religious sisters
Australia's first saint pioneered education and justice for the marginalized.
Peter Canisius
Feast Day: December 21
Patron of: Catechists, Catholic education, Germany, religious instruction
Jesuit educator whose catechism and schools renewed Catholic faith in Counter-Reformation Europe.