Saint symbolism has been used from the very beginnings of the religion.[1] Each saint is said to have led an exemplary life and symbols have been used to tell these stories throughout the history of the Church.[2] A number of Christian saints are traditionally represented by a symbol or iconic motif associated with their life, termed an attribute or emblem, in order to identify them. The study of these forms part of iconography in art history.[3] They were particularly used so that the illiterate could recognize a scene, and to give each of the Saints something of a personality in art.[2] They are often carried in the hand by the Saint.
Attributes often vary with either time or geography, especially between Eastern Christianity and the West. Orthodox images more often contained inscriptions with the names of saints, so the Eastern repertoire of attributes is generally smaller than the Western.[c] Many of the most prominent saints, like Saint Peter and Saint John the Evangelist can also be recognised by a distinctive facial type. Some attributes are general, such as the martyr's palm.[4] The use of a symbol in a work of art depicting a Saint reminds people who is being shown and of their story. The following is a list of some of these attributes.
Saints listed by name
Saints (I–P)
Saints (Q–Z)
A
| Saint | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Abanoub | kneeling in prayer while angels bring wreaths of flowers[5] |
| Abdon and Sennen | in fur tunics[6] |
| Abercius of Hieropolis | crosier brought to him by an angel[6] |
| Abraham of Arbela | sword near him[d] |
| Abraham the Poor | an old hermit clothed in skins and sporting a blowing beard; in his cell with his niece Mary in an adjoining cell[7] |
| Abundius | bishop with a stag, raising a dead child to life[8] |
| Acathius of Melitene | crown of thorns[a] |
| Acisclus | with Saint Victoria, his sister,[9] crowned with roses |
| Accursius | Franciscan with a sword in his breast[d] |
| Adalard of Corbie | Bishop giving alms[d] |
| Adalbero of Würzburg | Holding a church in his hand[6] |
| Adalbert | spears, bishop clothes, book, paddle, Rarely even scales or Paladium of Bohemia[10] |
| Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon | Religious habit of the Marianist Sisters |
| Adjutor | throwing his chains into whirlpool[d] |
| Adolph Kolping | cassock with black zucchetto |
| Adrian of Batanea | lion by his side[d] |
| Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia | in armor, holding a hammer and anvil[6] |
| Ælfheah of Canterbury | axe[a] |
| Aelred of Rievaulx | crozier of an abbot, holding a book |
| Aemilian of Cogolla | habit of a monk, on horseback |
| Æthelred and Æthelberht | in royal attire, sometimes with swords[11] |
| Æthelthryth | holding a model of Ely Cathedral |
| Afra | being burned at the stake[6] |
| Agatha of Sicily | tongs or shears, veil, bells, two breasts on a plate[a][12] |
| Agathius | martyr's palm, soldier's attire with a bunch of thorns, in armor with standard and shield, with Theodore of Amasea |
| Agnello of Naples | Habit of a Basilian monk |
| Agnes of Montepulciano | Lily and a lamb[13] |
| Agnes of Rome | lamb[a], martyr's palm, sword |
| Agostina Livia Pietrantoni | Religious habit of a Sister of Divine Charity |
| Agricola of Avignon | stork |
| Agrippina of Mineo | martyr's palm |
| Aichardus | Angel touching monks with a staff |
| Aidan of Lindisfarne | giving his horse to a poor man[d][14] |
| Aignan of Orleans | praying on the top of the walls of Orléans |
| Aimée-Adèle Le Bouteiller | Religious habit of the Sisters of Marie Madeleine Postel |
| Aimone Taparelli | Dominican habit |
| Alban | tall cross and a sword[d] |
| Alban of Mainz | holding his own head in his hands[d] |
| Albert Chmielowski | priest's attire |
| Albert of Louvain | Cardinal seated with three swords on the ground before him[d] |
| Albert of Trapani | Carmelite habit, lily, book, devil, with Angelus of Jerusalem, |
| Alberto da Bergamo | Dominican habit, dove |
| Alberto Hurtado | Jesuit habit, an old green van |
| Albertus Magnus | Dominican habit, books and scrolls, writing with a quill |
| Alcide-Vital Lataste | Dominican habit |
| Aldebrandus | episcopal robes, holding a cathedral |
| Alexander of Bergamo | soldier, military standard, bearing white lily |
| Alexandra of Rome | crown |
| Alexius of Rome | man lying beneath a staircase[14] |
| Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev | Vested wearing bishop's omophorion and patriarch's koukoulion. Sometimes holding a Gospel Book with his right hand raised in blessing |
| Alfie Lambe | rosary, vexillium legionis |
| Alfonsa Clerici | Religious habit of a Sister of the Most Precious Blood |
| Alfonso Maria Fusco | cassock |
| Alfred the Great | codex, crown, orb/scepter[a] |
| Alojs Andritzki | cassock |
| Alonso de Orozco Mena | Augustinian habit, crucifix |
| Aloysius Gonzaga | crucifix, lily[14] |
| Aloysius Schwartz | cassock, rosary |
| Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception | rosary, bible in hands |
| Álvaro of Córdoba (Dominican) | Dominican habit |
| Alypius the Stylite | clothed in his monastic habit, standing atop a pillar |
| Amabilis of Riom | bishop listening to an angel playing music[15] |
| Amalberga of Maubeuge | holding an open book and with a crown on her head |
| Amalberga of Temse | sturgeon |
| Amandus | holding a church building[14] |
| Amaro | pilgrim's staff |
| Amato Ronconi | Franciscan habit, staff |
| Amator | bishop with axe and tree |
| Ambrose of Optina | clothed as a monk, sometimes holding a scroll |
| Ambrose | bees, beehive, dove, ox, pen[a] |
| Amphibalus | cloak |
| Maria Berenice Hencker | Religious habit of the Little Sisters of the Annunciation, crucifix |
| Ana Monteagudo Ponce de Leon | Dominican habit |
| Ana Petra Pérez Florido | Religious habit |
| Anastasia of Sirmium | palm branch, martyr's cross, medicine pot |
| Anatolius of Constantinople | Vested as a bishop with omophorion, holding a Gospel Book |
| Andeolus | holding a book and palm of martyrdom, head pierced by a wooden knife |
| André Abellon | Dominican habit |
| Andrea Bertoni | Servite habit |
| Andrea Caccioli | Franciscan habit |
| Andrea dei Conti | Franciscan habit, purple stole |
| André-Hubert Fournet | priest's attire |
| Andrei Rublev | clothed as an Orthodox monk, often shown holding an icon |
| Andrés Hibernón Real | Franciscan habit |
| Andrés Manjón | priest's cassock |
| Andrew of Crete | as a bishop, holding a gospel book or scroll, with his right hand raised in blessing, with a full head of grey hair and a long, tapering grey beard |
| Andrew of Montereale | Augustinian habit, bible, stole |
| Andrew Stratelates | soldier holding a pilum |
| Andrew the Apostle | a saltire[16] |
| Andrew the Scot | curing a paralytic girl; sometimes shown appearing to a sleeping priest; Irish Wolfhound |
| Andrew Zorard | walnuts, eagle, chain, axe, rocks |
| Andrey Bogolyubsky | clothed as a Russian Grand Prince, holding a three-bar cross in his right hand |
| Andronicus of Pannonia | laurel wreath as a symbol of martyrdom |
| Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus | Andronicus elderly, in the robes of a Roman citizen, with a spear, the companions with martyrs' crosses or spears |
| Angadrisma | her face scarred by leprosy[17] |
| Angel of Portugal | Archangel carrying the Portuguese Shield |
| Ángela Ginard Martí | Religious habit, martyr's palm |
| Angela Merici | cloak, ladder |
| Angela of Foligno | Religious habit |
| Angelo Agostini Mazzinghi | flowers, wreath, rosary, crucifix, Carmelite habit |
| Angelo Carletti di Chivasso | Franciscan habit |
| Angelo da Foligno | Augustinian habit |
| Angelo da Furci | Augustinian habit, crucifix |
| Angelo Paoli | Carmelite habit |
| Angelus of Jerusalem | Carmelite habit, sword through chest, book, palm, three crowns, lilies, roses |
| Anna Kolesárová | Martyr's palm, Lily flower, Rosary |
| Anna Maria Adorni Botti | Religious habit, crucifix |
| Anna Maria Janer Anglarill | Religious habit |
| Anna Maria Rubatto | Religious habit |
| Anna Maria Taigi | sun, bright globe, Triniatrian scapular |
| Anne, grandmother of Jesus | door, book[a], with the Virgin Mary reading, red robe and green mantle[18] |
| Anne Catherine Emmerich | bedridden with bandaged head and holding a crucifix |
| Anne de Guigné | lily flower, rosary |
| Anne of Saint Bartholomew | Religious habit |
| Anne-Marie Rivier | Religious habit |
| Annibale Maria di Francia | Religious habit of the Rogationist Fathers[19] |
| Annunciata Astoria Cocchetti | Religious habit of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy of Cemmo |
| Ansanus | holding a cluster of dates, a heart with IHS or liver, martyr's palm, being boiled in oil or beheaded; banner bearing the arms of Siena;[20] baptismal cup; fountain |
| Ansovinus | bishop with a barn near him; fruit and garden produce |
| Anthelm of Belley | holding a lamp lit by a divine hand |
| Anthony Baldinucci | with a miraculous Refugium Peccatorum image of the Virgin Mary |
| Anthony Mary Claret | bishop's robe, crozier, an open book, catechism, 2 students beside him at his side and having his bent arm pointing to the sky |
| Anthony of Kiev | Religious habit, abbot's paterissa |
| Anthony of Padua | Christ Child, bread, book, white lily[a] |
| Anthony the Great | bell, pig, T-shaped cross[a];[21][22] Tau cross with bell pendant[23] |
| Anthony Zaccaria | cassock, lily, cross, chalice, Eucharist |
| Antiochus of Sulcis | martyr's palm |
| Antipas of Pergamum | martyr's palm |
| Antoine Chevrier | cassock, crucifix |
| Anton Maria Schwartz | cassock |
| Antonia Luzmila Rivas López | religious habit of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, martyr's palm |
| Antonia Maria Verna | religious habit of the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception, |
| Antonia Mesina | martyr's palm, lily, rosary |
| Maria Ludovica De Angelis | religious habit of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy |
| Antoninus of Sorrento | Benedictine habit, holding a standard and the city wall |
| Antonio da Stroncone | Habit of the Order of Friars Minor |
| Antonio della Chiesa | Dominican habit |
| Antonio Franco (blessed) | bishop's attire and insignia |
| Antonio Grassi | cassock, rosary |
| Antonio Maria Pucci | cassock |
| Antonio Patrizi | Augustinian habit |
| Antonio Pavoni | Dominican habit, martyr's palm |
| Antonio Pietro Cortinovis | Franciscan habit |
| Antonio Provolo | cassock |
| Anysia of Salonika | veil, martyr's cross |
| Aphrodisius | holding his own head |
| Apollinaris of Ravenna | sword |
| Apollonia | tongs (sometimes with a tooth in them), holding a martyr's cross or martyr's palm or crown |
| Aquilinus of Milan | sword through his neck |
| Arcadius of Mauretania | club in his hand, lighted taper or on a rack, limbs chopped off[24] |
| Arcangelo Tadini | book of hours, cassock |
| Archangela Girlani | Religious habit |
| Arialdo | deacon's vestments, holding the palm of martyrdom |
| Arnold of Arnoldsweiler | harp |
| Arnold of Soissons | bishop's attire, with a mash rake |
| Arnulf of Metz | rake in his hand |
| Asaph | as a bishop with the gospel, or a monk carrying hot coals |
| Arsenio da Trigolo | Franciscan habit |
| Artémides Zatti | Pharmacist's lab coat |
| Assunta Marchetti | Religious habit |
| Athanasios Parios | long white beard, vested as a priest, holding the gospel book. |
| Athanasius of Alexandria | bishop arguing with a pagan, bishop holding an open book, bishop standing over a defeated heretic[a] |
| Auditus of Braga | episcopal vestments or as a hermit |
| Augusta of Treviso | sword, funeral pyre, wheel[25] in the act of her father killing her[26] |
| Augustine of Hippo | dove, child, shell, pen, book[a], heart with a flame[27] |
| Aurea of Ostia | thrown into the sea with a millstone around her neck[28] |
| Austrebertha | Religious habit, wolf |
| Austregisilus | knight on horseback, sometimes with religious habit over his armor; with a man falling from a horse in front of him |
| Avvakum | cassock, holding the two-fingered sign of the cross |
| Awtel | monk's or hermit's habit |
B
| Saint | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Babylas of Antioch | bishop with three small boys[6] |
| Balthazar | bearded black magus offering a covered cup to the Infant Jesus[6] |
| Barachiel | a white rose[29] |
| Barbara | tower (often with three windows), chalice, ciborium, cannon[a] |
| Barbatus of Benevento | ordering a tree cut down[6] |
| Barnabas | pilgrim's staff, olive branch[a] |
| Basil of Ancyra | with a lioness at his side[6] |
| Basil of Caesarea (Basil the Great) | dove perched on his arm[14] |
| Baudolino | bishop preaching to geese, deer, and other animals[30] |
| Bavo of Ghent | sword, sceptre, hooded hawk[14] |
| Béchara Abou Mrad | prayer rope |
| Bede | a monk holding a pen[6] |
| Bega | bracelet |
| Belina (virgin) | sword |
| Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello | Religious habit |
| Benedict | broken cup, raven, bell, crosier, bush, a bound bundle of sticks[31] |
| Benedict XI | Papal vestments, Papal tiara, Dominican habit |
| Benedict XIII | Papal vestments, Papal tiara, Dominican habit |
| Benedict Biscop | bishop holding crosier in one hand and open book in the other[6] |
| Benedict Joseph Labre | beggar sharing alms with other poor[6] |
| Benedict Menni | Priest's cassock, Crucifix |
| Benvenuta Bojani | Dominican habit, rope |
| Bénézet | portrayed as a boy carrying a large stone on his shoulder |
| Beniamino Filon | Franciscan habit |
| Benigna Cardoso da Silva | Martyr's palm, lily flower, rosary, book, pot jar, (occasionally) a knife |
| Benignus of Dijon | dog, key[6] |
| Benildus Romançon | Man of Sacrifice to God |
| Benincasa da Montepulciano | Servite habit |
| Benno of Meissen | fish with keys in its mouth, book[a] |
| Berlinda of Meerbeke | nun's habit, with a cow and either a pruning hook or branch, sometimes portrayed with Saints Nona and Celsa[32] |
| Bernard Łubieński | Priest's cassock |
| Bernard Mary of Jesus | Passionist habit |
| Bernard of Clairvaux | pen, bees, instruments of the Passion[a] |
| Bernard of Corleone | Franciscan habit |
| Bernard of Menthon | with the devil in chains at or under his feet[14] |
| Bernard of Offida | Franciscan habit, skull |
| Bernarda Heimgartner | Religious habit |
| Bernardine of Feltre | Holding three green hills symbolic of monti di pietà[33] |
| Bernardino of Siena | tablet or sun inscribed with IHS, three mitres[a] |
| Bernardino Realino | Priest's cassock |
| Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos de Seña | Priest's cassock |
| Bernardo Scammacca | Dominican habit |
| Bernardo Tolomei | Benedictine habit |
| Bernardyna Maria Jabłońska | Religious habit |
| Bernward of Hildesheim | Bishop vestments, small cross, hammer, chalice |
| Bertha of Artois | a nun kneeling before an altar with her daughter |
| Bertharius of Monte Cassino | palm of martyrdom[34] |
| Berthold of Garsten | in a monk's habit with a fish.[35] |
| Bessus | an ostrich feather[36] |
| Beuno | Monastic habit, insignia of an abbot |
| Bibiana | bound to a pillar; dagger and palm[6] |
| Billfrith | Goldsmith |
| Blaise | two crossed and lit candles, iron comb[a] |
| Blandina | bull, tied to a pillar with a lion and bear near her[37] |
| Blessed Martyrs of Drina | Dove, Martyr's palm, Religious habit |
| Bogumilus | Bishop holding a fish |
| Boisil | Abbot |
| Bolesława Lament | Religious habit |
| Bonaventura Tornielli | Servite habit, Banner, cross |
| Bonaventure | communion, ciborium, cardinal's hat[a] |
| Boniface | oak, axe, book, fox, scourge, fountain, raven, sword[a] |
| Boniface of Tarsus | in a cauldron of boiling oil[6] |
| Bonifacia Rodríguez y Castro | Co-foundress of the Servants of St. Joseph |
| Bononio | monastic habit, insignia of an abbot |
| Boris and Gleb | garments of a prince, holding swords or spears, or martyrs' crosses |
| Brendan the Navigator | whale; priest celebrating Mass on board a ship while fish gather to listen; one of a group of monks in a small boat [a] |
| Bridget of Sweden | book, pilgrim's staff, habit of the Bridgettines [a] |
| Brigid of Kildare | cow, crosier, Brigid's cross[a] |
| Brigida Morello Zancano | Religious habit, crucifix |
| Bronisław Markiewicz | Priest's cassock |
| Bruna Pellesi | Religious habit |
| Bruno Marchesini | Priest's cassock |
| Bruno of Cologne | seated with mitre and crosier at his feet, an olive branch in his hand[6] |
| Brynach | Monk or abbot with cuckoo and/or the Nevern Cross |
| Bystrík | sword, boat, episcopal attributes |
C
| Saint | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Cadoc | Bishop throwing a spear, crown at feet, sometimes accompanied by a stag, a pig or a mouse |
| Cajetan | Priest's cassock[b] |
| Camillus de Lellis | ministering to the sick[14] |
| Candidus | Military attire |
| Cantius, Cantianus, and Cantianilla | Cantius and Cantianus are depicted as two youths; Cantianilla as a girl; Protus as a tutor with a staff and faggot; sword; the group fleeing in a chariot; beheaded before an idol; palms and sword; Protus is sometimes depicted as a bishop |
| Canute Lavard | knight with a wreath, lance, and ciborium |
| Caradoc | in chain mail, church in one hand, spear in the other[14] |
| Caraunus | Priest carrying his head[14] |
| Carmen Salles y Barangueras | Religious habit |
| Carolina Santocanale | Religious habit |
| Carpophorus, Exanthus, Cassius, Severinus, Secundus, and Licinius | Military attire |
| Casilda of Toledo | Roses in her basket or dress[14] |
| Castulus | spade |
| Casimir of Poland and Lithuania | royal attire of crown and red robe lined with ermine, white lily, cross, rosary; sometimes two right hands[a] |
| Caterina Dominici | Nun's habit, Book, Crucifix |
| Caterina Moriggi | crucifix, rosary, Religious habit |
| Caterina Sordini | Religious habit, Heart, With the Blessed Sacrament |
| Caterina Volpicelli | Rosary |
| Catherine Aurelia Caouette | Religious habit |
| Catherine Labouré | Daughters of Charity habit, Miraculous Medal |
| Catherine of Alexandria | breaking wheel; sword; with a crown at her feet; hailstones; bridal veil and ring; dove; surrounded by angels, scourge; book; woman arguing with pagan philosophers[38][a] |
| Catherine of Bologna | carrying the Infant Jesus[14] |
| Catherine of Genoa | Widow |
| Catherine of Palma | habit and rochet as used by Augustinian Canonesses |
| Catherine of Racconigi | Religious habit |
| Catherine of Ricci | ring, crown, crucifix[a] |
| Catherine of Siena | stigmata, cross, ring, lily, habit of the Dominican order[a] |
| Catherine of Vadstena | A hind at her side |
| Cecilia | organ or other musical instrument, martyr's palm, roses, sword[a] |
| Cecília Schelingová | Religious habit |
| Celine Borzecka | Religious habit |
| Cerbonius | geese, bear licking his feet[39][a] |
| Charalambos | Vested as either a priest or bishop, holding a Gospel Book, with right hand raised in blessing. |
| Charbel Makhlouf | Religious habit, prayer rope |
| Charles Borromeo | cardinal's robes, the Eucharist[a] |
| Charles de Foucauld | White religious habit with a heart, crowned with a cross |
| Charles I of Austria | Imperial attire, Medals |
| Charles of Mount Argus | Passionist habit, Crucifix, Breviary, Biretta |
| Charles of Sezze | Franciscan habit |
| Charles Steeb | Medal, Book, Priest's cassock |
| Christopher | giant crudely dressed, torrent, tree, branch or large staff, carrying the Christ Child on shoulder[a] |
| Chiaffredo | military attire; sword; standard of red Mauritian cross on white field; elm tree; horse |
| Chiara Corbella Petrillo | Wedding gown, Tau cross, Rosary |
| Chiara Gambacorti | Dominican habit, Crucifix |
| Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala | Palm, Cross |
| Christina of Bolsena | pierced by three arrows[14] |
| Christina of Persia | Martyr's palm, martyr's cross |
| Christina von Stommeln | Religious habit |
| Christopher | tree, branch, as a giant or ogre, carrying the Christ child, spear, shield, as a dog-headed man |
| Chrysanthus and Daria | martyrs' crosses |
| Chrysogonus | Bearded young man dressed as a Roman military officer |
| Chrysostomos of Smyrna | Episcopal vestments, usually holding a staff or a Gospel. |
| Clara Fey | Religious habit |
| Clare of Assisi | monstrance or ciborium, habit of the Poor Clares[a], crozier of an abbess |
| Clare of Montefalco | cross[a] |
| Claudine Thévenet | Religious habit |
| Claudio Granzotto | Franciscan habit |
| Clelia Merloni | Religious habit |
| Clement of Ohrid | Glagolitic alphabet, Cyrillic script |
| Clemente da Osimo | Augustinian habit |
| Clemente Marchisio | Sun, Stole, Cassock |
| Clement | anchor, fish,[a] Mariner's Cross[b] |
| Clodoald | A Benedictine abbot giving his hood to a poor man as a halo emanates from his head; with royal insignia at his feet, or instructing the poor |
| Clotilde Micheli | Religious habit |
| Clotilde of France | Crown, Rosary, Imperial attire |
| Clotilde | as a praying queen and as a nun, with a crown on her head or beside her.[40] |
| Clovis I | suit-of-armour; upright sword; fleur-de-lis; three frogs (his attributed arms) |
| Coloman of Stockerau | pilgrim monk with a rope in his hand, being hanged on a gibbet, tongs and rod, with a book and maniple. |
| Colomba Gabriel | Religious habit |
| Columba of Cornwall | Female carrying a palm branch and a sword, a dove hovering above |
| Columba of Rieti | Dominican tertiary receiving the Eucharist from a hand reaching down from heaven; Dominican tertiary with a dove, lily, and book, or a wreath of roses, cross, lily, and a rosary |
| Columba of Sens | she-bear, crowned maiden in chains, with a dog or bear on a chain, holding a book and a peacock's feather, with an angel on a funeral pyre, or beheaded |
| Columba | Monk's robes, Celtic tonsure and crosier |
| Conrad of Constance | represented as a bishop holding a chalice with a spider in it or over it. |
| Constantin Brâncoveanu | with other Wallachian saints, all of them wearing golden cloaks |
| Constantine IV | Imperial attire |
| Constantine of Murom | Clothed as Grand Prince, holding a three-bar cross in his right hand |
| Constantius (Theban Legion) | soldier's attire, bearing a banner with the Mauritian Cross and the palm of martyrdom; spade |
| Constantius of Perugia | episcopal attire |
| Contardo of Este | clothed as a pilgrim heading to Santiago of Compostella, sometimes with a scepter and crown at his feet. |
| Corbinian | Bear; bishop making a bear carry his luggage because it has eaten his mule; bishop with a bear and mule in the background; bishop with Duke Grimoald at his feet,[41] bear with a packsaddle [42] |
| Corentin of Quimper | fish; episcopal attire |
| Cornelius the Centurion | Roman military garb |
| Cosma Spessotto | Franciscan habit |
| Cosmas of Maiuma | Vested as a bishop, or as a monk, holding a scroll with the words of one of his hymns |
| Cosmas and Damian | beheaded,, or with medical emblems (phials, box of ointment[a]) |
| Costanza Starace | Nun's habit, Heart |
| Crescentinus | Military attire, slaying a dragon |
| Saints Crispin and Crispinian | holding shoes, millstones[a] |
| Crispin of Viterbo | Franciscan habit |
| Cristóbal Magallanes Jara | Cassock, sacerdotal vestments, Bible, rosary, and palm of martyrdom |
| Cucuphas | being beheaded or having his throat cut |
| Cunigunde of Luxembourg | An empress in imperial robes, sometimes holding a church. |
| Cuthbert | Bishop holding a second crowned head in his hands; sometimes accompanied by seabirds and animals |
| Cuthmann of Steyning | wheelbarrow |
| Cyriacus | deacon's vestments, book of exorcism, with Artemia |
| Cyricus and Julitta | as a naked child riding on a wild boar |
| Cyril and Methodius | bishops' vestments, holding a church model, holding an icon of the Last Judgment.[43] Often, Cyril is depicted wearing a monastic habit and Methodius vested as a bishop with omophorion. |
| Cyril Lucaris | Eastern episcopal vestments, holding a Gospel Book or a crosier, big white beard |
| Cyril of Constantinople | Carmelite habit |
| Cyrus and John | monastic habit, John is wearing court robes, holding martyrs' crosses or medicine boxes and medicine spoons which terminate in crosses |
D
| Article title | Attributes |
|---|---|
| Dagobert II | King with a nail in his hand[44] |
| Daniel | Often in the lions' den[a] |
| Daniel of Padua | deacon's vestments, holding a towel and laver[45] |
| Dathus | Dove[46] |
| David | Psalms, Harp, Head of Goliath |
| David/Dewi | Bishop with a dove,[a] usually on his shoulder, sometimes standing, on a raised hillock[14] |
| David of Scotland | king with sword or sceptre[a] |
| David of Munktorp | Abbot's staff, book, biretta |
| Defendens | military attire |
| Deicolus | as a hermit, a wild boar hunted by King Clothaire takes refuge at his feet |
| Demetrius of Sirmium | deacon's vestments, martyr's palm, crucifix, with a scorpion next to him |
| Demetrius of Thessaloniki | armour of a Roman soldier, spear, seated on a red horse[a] |
| Demiana | garments of a Christian virgin, martyr's palm, martyr's cross, with 40 other virgins |
| Denis of the Nativity | Discalced Carmelite habit |
| Denis of Paris | Christian Martyrdom, carrying his severed head in his hands; a bishop's mitre; city[47] |
| Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus | Martyr's palm, Crown of martyrdom |
| Deodatus of Nevers | with hand stretching to thunder clouds or exorcising a woman[48] |
| Devasahayam Pillai | Tied up in chains Praying on knees before execution |
| Devota | crown of roses, dove, boat, coat-of-arms of the Principality of Monaco; dead maiden in a boat on the sea with a dove flying ahead of it |
| Didacus of Alcalá | tunic full of roses[14] |
| Dimitry of Rostov | Vested as a bishop, right hand raised in blessing |
| Dina Bosatta | Crucifix |
| Dionysius the Areopagite | Vested as a bishop, holding a Gospel Book |
| Dmitry Donskoy | sword and helmet |
| Dom Justo Takayama | Sword|Crucifix, Samurai robes, Martyr's palm |
| Domenico Lentini | Crucifix, Book of Hours, Priest's attire |
| Domenico Mazzarella | Franciscan habit |
| Domenico Spadafora | Dominican habit |
| Domingo Iturrate Zubero | Trinitarian habit |
| Dominic | rosary,[a] lily in his hand, star over his head[14] |
| Dominic Barberi | Passionist Habit and Sign |
| Dominic de la Calzada | hen and rooster, habit of a hermit, prayer beads, shepherd's crook[b][49] |
| Dominic Loricatus | his coat of mail lying on the ground[14] |
| Dominic of Silos | abbot surrounded by the Seven Virtues; mitred abbot enthroned with a book, a veil tied to his crozier, as proper to an abbot |
| Domitian of Carantania | with: sword, crown, idol in hands |
| Domnius | bishop holding the city of Split or the Cathedral of Saint Domnius |
| Domninus of Fidenza | dog, cup, martyr's palm; soldier's attire |
| Donatus of Arezzo | episcopal dress, chalice, sword, fighting a dragon |
| Donatus of Fiesole | bishop's attire with an Irish wolfhound at his feet, pointing out a church to his deacon Andrew the Scot |
| Donatus of Muenstereifel | Roman armor; lightning bolt; martyr's palm; grapevine |
| Donizetti Tavares de Lima | Priest's cassock |
| Đorđe Bogić | Vested as a protopresbyter |
| Doroteo Hernández Vera | Priest's cassock |
| Dorothea of Caesarea | basket with flowers or fruits[50] |
| Dorotheus of Tyre | traditionally credited with an Acts of the Seventy Apostles |
| Drogo | Benedictine habit, sheep, shepherd |
| Dubricius | holding two crosiers and an archiepiscopal cross[51] |
| Dulce de Souza Lopes Pontes | Religious habit of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God |
| Duns Scotus | Books, a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the moon on the chest of a Franciscan friar |
| Dunstan | hammer, tongs[a] |
| Dymphna | crown, sword, lily, lamp, princess with a fettered devil at her feet[a] |
E
| Saint | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Eanswith | crown, staff, book and sometimes a fish |
| Earconwald | bishop travelling in a chariot[a] |
| Edmund Campion | Knife in chest, noose around neck |
| Edmund Ignatius Rice | Irish Christian Brothers' Black Habit |
| Edmund the Martyr | quiver of arrows[a] |
| Edward the Confessor | king crowned with a nimbus and holding a sceptre[a] |
| Egwin of Evesham | bishop holding a fish and a key[52] |
| Elena Guerra | Religious habit, Crucifix |
| Elena Spirgevičiūtė | Martyr's palm, Lily flower, Rosary |
| Elena Valentinis | Augustinian habit |
| Eleutherius and Antia | Martyr's palm |
| Eligius | bishop portrayed with a crosier in his right hand, on the open palm of his left a miniature church of chased gold; with a hammer, anvil, and horseshoe; or with a horse[a] |
| Elijah | habit and mantle of the Carmelites, cave, scroll, chariot of fire[a] |
| Eliphius | Bishop's attire, with his head in his hands |
| Elisa Angela Meneguzzi | Religious habit |
| Élisabeth Bruyère | Religious habit |
| Élisabeth Eppinger | Religious habit |
| Élisabeth Leseur | Rosary |
| Elisabetta Maria Satellico | Poor Clare habit |
| Elisabetta Picenardi | Servite habit, Lilies |
| Elisabetta Sanna | Rosary |
| Elisabetta Vendramini | Religious habit |
| Eliswa Vakayil | Carmelite habit, hands folded in prayer |
| Elisabeth of Hungary | alms, flowers, bread, poor people, pitcher[a] |
| Elisabeth of Portugal | crowns, roses, habit of a Third order Franciscan sister, crucifix[a] |
| Elizabeth of the Trinity | Religious habit |
| Elpidius the Cappadocian | vine in leaf in winter[14] |
| Elvira Moragas Cantarero | Discalced Carmelite habit, Crucifix, Palm, Mortar and pestle |
| Elzéar of Sabran | knotted cord and lily; coronet at his feet[14] |
| Emerentiana | young woman with stones in her lap and lilies in her hand; young lady being stoned to death |
| Emeric | Boar, Lily Stem, Sword[10] |
| Emeterius and Celedonius | soldier's attire |
| Emil Kapaun | Chaplain cross, combat boots, Mass vestments Rosary |
| Emil Szramek | martyr's palm, rosary |
| Emilia Bicchieri | Dominican habit |
| Émilie de Villeneuve | Religious habit |
| Émilie d'Oultremont | Religious habit |
| Emilianus | riding into battle in the robe of a hermit[a] |
| Eurythimia Üffing (blessed) | Religious habit of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin and Our Lady of Sorrows |
| Emmelia of Caesarea | Mother of Saints |
| Emmeram of Regensburg | a ladder[14] |
| Emygdius | episcopal robes; palm; supporting a crumbling wall or building |
| Engelbert II of Berg | a crosier in one hand, with an upraised sword, in the other, piercing a crescent moon |
| Engelmar Unzeitig | Cassock |
| Engelmund of Velsen | a pilgrim abbot with a fountain springing under his staff.[53] |
| Engratia | martyr's palm, crown; noble attire being flagellated |
| Enrichetta Alfieri | Religious habit |
| Enrico Rebuschini | Priest's cassock |
| Enrique de Ossó i Cervelló | Priest's cassock |
| Enzo Boschetti | Priest's cassock |
| Epaphras | Christian Martyrdom |
| Epiphanius of Salamis | Vested as a bishop in omophorion, sometimes holding a scroll |
| Ephrem the Syriac | Vine and scroll, deacon's vestments and thurible; with Saint Basil the Great; composing hymns with a lyre |
| Equitius | holds the model of a monastery |
| Erasmus of Formia | represented with his entrails wound on a windlass, or as a vested bishop holding a winch or windlass[54][55][a] |
| Eric of Sweden | king being martyred at Mass[a] |
| Escrava Anastacia | African woman, blue eyes, facemask |
| Eskil | episcopal attire; three stones |
| Etchen | farming |
| Eugenia Maria Ravasco | Religious habit |
| Eugénie Joubert | Religious habit |
| Eugenio Reffo | Priest's cassock |
| Eulalia of Barcelona | X-shaped cross[56] |
| Eulalia of Mérida | martyr's cross, stake, and dove |
| Euphemia | Clothed as a pious woman with her head covered, surrounded by one or a few lions, often holding a wheel or a martyr's cross |
| Euphrasia Eluvathingal | Religious habit |
| Euphrasius of Illiturgis | episcopal attire |
| Eusebia Palomino Yenes | Religious habit |
| Eusebius of Esztergom | Priest's attire |
| Eustace | hunting clothes, shining cross or crucifix between the antlers of a stag, bull, horn, oven[a] |
| Eustochia Smeralda Calafato | Poor Clare nun holding a cross |
| Evasius | Crozier and Mitre |
| Expeditus | attire of a Roman centurion, martyr's palm, raising a cross with the word hodie ("today") on it in his right hand, with his left foot stepping on a crow, which is speaking the word cras ("tomorrow").[57] |
| Exuperantius of Cingoli | banner, book |
| Exuperius (Theban Legion) | military attire |
F
| Saint | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Faith | martyr's cross, gridiron, rods, sword[a][58] |
| Faustinus and Jovita | an angel saving them from drowning[14] |
| Febronia of Nisibis | martyr's palm and the shears used to cut off her breasts[59] |
| Felician of Foligno | old bishop with holes bored through his feet and hands[14] |
| Felicitas of Rome | sword and seven sons[14] |
| Felix of Burgundy | anchor[a] |
| Felix of Cantalice | Capuchin holding the Baby Jesus[60] |
| Felix of Valois | white stag with cross between its horns[14] |
| Fiacre | spade, basket of vegetables[a][61] |
| Fidelis of Como | Military attire |
| Fidelis of Sigmaringen | sword; palm of martyrdom; heretics; the Morning Star; trampling on the word "heresy"; with a club set with spikes; with a whirlbat; with an angel carrying a palm of martyrdom; with Saint Joseph of Leonessa |
| Filippo Rinaldi | Priest's attire |
| Filippo Smaldone | cassock |
| Fina | violets[62] |
| Fiorina Cecchin | Religious habit |
| Firmina | martyr's palm |
| Florian | Cross of Saint Florian; Armour of a Roman soldier; pitcher of water; pouring water over fire[63] |
| Florinus of Remüs | bottle, glass of wine[a][64] |
| Foillan | Represented with a crown at his feet to show that he despised the honors of the world |
| Fortunatus of Casei | Military attire, bishop's vestments |
| Fourteen Holy Helpers | Saints Acacius, Barbara, Blaise, Christopher, Cyriacus, Catherine of Alexandria, Denis, Erasmus of Formiae, Eustace, George, Giles, Margaret of Antioch, Pantaleon, and Vitus, shown as a group.[b] |
| Francesco Convertini | Priest's cassock |
| Francesco Gattola | Priest's cassockZucchetto |
| Francesco Lippi | Carmelite habit, Rosary, Ball and Chain |
| Francesco Maria da Camporosso | Capuchin habit |
| Francesco Maria di Francia | Priest's cassock |
| Francesco Maria Greco | Cassock |
| Francesco Marinoni | Priest's cassock, Crucifix, Theatine habit |
| Francesco Mottola | Priest's cassock, Crucifix |
| Francesco Paleari | Priest's cassock |
| Francesco Pianzola | Priest's cassock |
| Francesco Spinelli | Priest's cassock |
| Francesco Zirano | Franciscan habit |
| Francinaina Cirer Carbonell | Religious habit, Crucifix |
| Francis Borgia | Skull crowned with an emperor's diadem |
| Francis de Sales | Heart of Jesus, Crown of Thorns |
| Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan | Priest's cassock |
| Francis of Assisi | habit of the Franciscans, wolf, birds, fish, skull, stigmata[a] |
| Francis of Fabriano | Franciscan habit |
| Francis Regis Clet | Priest's cassock Crucifix Palm branch |
| Francis Solanus | Franciscan habit |
| Francis Xavier | crucifix, bell, vessel, crab with a crucifix[a] |
| Francisco Blanco (martyr) | Franciscan habit, crossed spears |
| Francisco Coll Guitart | Dominican habit |
| Francisco de Paula Victor | Priest's cassock |
| Francisco Gárate Aranguren | Rosary |
| Francisco Martín Fernández de Posadas | Dominican habit |
| Franciszka Siedliska | Religious habit |
| Françoise d'Amboise | Carmelite habit, Crucifix, Crown |
| François-Léon Clergue | Franciscan habit |
| Frank Duff | Rosary, Vexillium Legionis |
| Franz Alexander Kern | Premonstratensian habit |
| Fridianus | rake, hoe |
| Frithuswith | pastoral staff; a fountain; the ox |
| Fructuosus of Braga | Monk with a stag |
| Fulton J. Sheen | Ferraiolo, zucchetto, bishop's cassock |
| Fursey | with two oxen at his feet, beholding a vision of angels, gazing at the flames of purgatory and hell |
| Fyodor Ushakov | Admiral attire, telescope, scroll, medals |
G
| Saint | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Gabriel | Archangel;[65] Clothed in blue or white garments, carrying a white lily,[66] a trumpet, a shining lantern, a branch from Paradise, a scroll,[66] and a scepter[66] scroll stating "Ave Maria Gratia Plena"[a] |
| Gall | Portrayed as an abbot blessing a bear that brings him a log of wood; may be shown holding a hermit's tau staff with the bear or carrying a loaf and a pilgrim's staff.[67] |
| Gallicanus | hanging his armor on a cross[6] |
| Gangulphus | Pictured as a Burgundian knight with a fountain springing under his sword. He holds a shield with a cross. He may also hold the spear with which he was murdered[6] |
| Gauchito Gil | Gaucho standing in front of a red cross, holding a bola or a red cross, red bandana, blue poncho, Prosopis caldenia |
| Gaudentius of Novara | Bishop holding a model of a church[6] |
| Gaugericus | bishop, mitre on head, without his crosier, right hand lifted in a gesture of benediction and left folded upon his breast. |
| Gebhard of Constance | bishop giving his staff to a lame man[6] |
| Geltrude Comensoli | holding a Monstrance, Genuflecting or Kneeling to the Blessed Sacrament |
| Geminianus | a bishop holding a model of the town of Modena[6] |
| Gemma Galgani | Passionist robe, flowers (lilies and roses), crucifix, stigmata, heavenward gaze, passionist sign |
| Genesius of Arles | a secretary throwing down his tablets[6] |
| Genesius | theatre mask[a] |
| Genevieve | lit candle, bread, keys, herd, cattle[a] |
| Gennaro Maria Sarnelli | Priest's cassock, crucifix |
| Genoveva Torres Morales | Religious habit, Scapular |
| George | Clothed as a crusader in plate armour or mail, often bearing a lance tipped by a cross, riding a white horse, often slaying a dragon. In the Greek East and Latin West he is shown with St George's Cross emblazoned on his armour, or shield or banner.[a] |
| George Preca | Priest's attire |
| Georgia of Clermont | a flock of doves accompanying her corpse[6] |
| Gerard Majella | Young man in a Redemptorist habit, skull |
| Gerard of Csanád | Bishop being killed by a spear[a] |
| Gerard of Villamagna | Franciscan habit, Habit of the Order of St. John, Maltese cross, staff, rosary, cherries |
| Gerardo Cagnoli | Franciscan habit |
| Gerardo dei Tintori | Stick with cherries, bowl with spoon |
| Gerebern | Palm and lance |
| Gereon | attire of a knight or Roman legionary |
| Gerhard Hirschfelder | Priest's attire |
| Gerlach | garments of a hermit, praying near his hermitage in a tree, with a donkey near him, thorn in his foot |
| Gertrude of Nivelles | A nun with a crosier and rats (now sometimes cats) |
| Gertrude Prosperi | Benedictine habit, Crucifix |
| Gertrude the Great | crown, lily, taper |
| Gervasius and Protasius | the scourge, the club and the sword[68][b] |
| Ghébrē-Michael | Palm branch |
| Ghislain | represented with a bear or bear's cub beside him, sometimes portrayed holding a church[69] |
| Giacomo Bianconi | Dominican habit |
| Giacomo Cusmano | Priest's cassock |
| Gilbert Nicolas | Franciscan habit, staff, Crucifix |
| Gilbert of Sempringham | cross portate[70] |
| Gildas | Monk holding a Celtic bell or writing in a book |
| Giles | arrow, crosier, hermitage, hind[a] |
| Ginepro Cocchi | Capuchin habit |
| Gioacchino La Lomia | Franciscan habit |
| Giocondo Pio Lorgna | Dominican habit |
| Giovanna da Orvieto | Dominican habit, Flowers |
| Giovanna Francesca Michelotti | Nun's habit, Heart |
| Giovanna Maria Bonomo | Religious habit |
| Giovanna Scopelli | Carmelite habit |
| Giovannangelo Porro | Servite habit |
| Giovanni Battista de' Rossi | Priest's attire, Crucifix |
| Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi | Cassock, Crucifix |
| Giovanni Battista Piamarta | Rosary, Christogram, Crucifix |
| Giovanni Battista Quilici | Priest's cassock |
| Giovanni Calabria | Priest's attire |
| Giovanni da Penna | Franciscan habit |
| Giovanni Fornasini | Priest's cassock, Palm branch |
| Giovanni Liccio | Dominican habit, crucifix |
| Giovanni Maria Boccardo | Priest's cassock, Stole |
| Giovanni Merlini | Priest's habit |
| Giovanni Pelingotto | Franciscan habit, staff, rosary |
| Giovanni Schiavo | Priest's attire |
| Giovannina Franchi | Religious habit |
| Giuditta Vannini | Religious habit |
| Giulia Crostarosa | Religious habit, Pendant of Jesus |
| Giulia della Rena | Augustinian habit, Flowers |
| Giulia Salzano | Religious habit, heart |
| Giulia Valle | Religious habit, Crucifix, Rosary |
| Giuliana Puricelli | Religious habit |
| Giuseppa Scandola | Religious habit of the Comboni Missionary Sisters |
| Giuseppe Allamano | cassock |
| Giuseppe Baldo (priest) | cassock |
| Giuseppe Beschin | Franciscan habit |
| Giuseppe Castagnetti | Sandals, sash |
| Giuseppe Giaccardo | Priest's cassock |
| Giuseppe Girotti | Dominican habit |
| Giuseppe Marchetti | Priest's cassock |
| Giuseppe Marcinò | Capuchin habit, Rosary, crucifix |
| Giuseppe Moscati | White coat, stethoscope, cross |
| Giuseppe Nascimbeni | Cassock, crucifix |
| Giuseppe Oddi | Capuchin habit |
| Giuseppina Catanea | Discalced Carmelite habit |
| Giuseppina Gabriella Bonino | Religious habit |
| Giuseppina Nicoli | Religious habit |
| Giustino Russolillo | Priest's cassock |
| Goar of Aquitaine | Hermit being given milk by three hinds; holding a pitcher; with the devil on his shoulder or under his feet; holding the church of Saint Goar am Rhein; hanging his hat on a sunbeam[71] |
| Godelieve | crown, well, being strangled[72][b] |
| Godric of Finchale | Hermit |
| Gomidas Keumurdjian | Martyr's palm, Priest attire, book |
| Gondulph of Maastricht | with Monulph, both holding miniature churches |
| Gotthard of Hildesheim | dragon; model of a church[73] |
| Govan | Celtic Rite |
| Gratus of Aosta | episcopal garb; head of Saint John the Baptist; bunch of grapes; bishop with lightning flashing near him |
| Gregorio Celli | Augustinian habit, Franciscan habit, crucifix, iron ring around the waist |
| Gregory the Great | papal tiara, crosier, dove (often portrayed at his ear)[a] |
| Gregory of Nazianzus | balding with a bushy white beard, bishop's vestments, wearing an omophorion; holding a Gospel Book or scroll |
| Gregory Palamas | long, tapering dark beard, bishop's vestments, holding a Gospel Book or scroll, right hand raised in benediction |
| Gregory Thaumaturgus | bishop's vestments, driving demons out of a temple, presenting a bishop's mitre to Saint Alexander the Charcoal Burner |
| Grimoaldo of the Purification | Passionist habit |
| Gudula | lantern, which the devil tries to blow it out |
| Gundisalvus of Amarante | Dominican habit, Holding a ball, Light shining on him |
| Guy of Anderlecht | A peasant praying with an angel plowing a nearby field; a pilgrim with a book or with a hat, staff, rosary, and an ox at his feet |
| Guy Pierre de Fontgalland | Rosary |
| Gwynllyw | crowned warrior, carrying spear sometimes accompanied by an ox |
H
| Saint | Symbol |
|---|---|
| Habakkuk | a bowl of bread and potage (Daniel 14:33-49)[b][74] |
| Hedwig of Silesia | holding a church or a pair of shoes in her hands[6] |
| Helena | wearing a royal crown while supporting the True Cross[a] |
| Helladius of Toledo | carrying straw or firewood to an oven[6] |
| Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | armor and mantle, sceptre and sword[6] |
| Hermagoras of Aquileia | bishop's vestments[b] |
| Hermann Joseph | kneeling before a statue of the Virgin and Child and offering an apple[a] |
| Hermenegild | axe, crown, sword, and martyr's cross[b][75] |
| Hermínio Pinzetta | Franciscan habit |
| Hermógenes López Coarchita | Priest's attire |
| Hermogius | Benedictine habit |
| Hervé | Blind abbot being led by a wolf[a] |
| Hilary of Poitiers | episcopal vestments, crozier, beard, usually white and often long[b][76] |
| Hilda of Whitby | with a pastoral staff and carrying an abbey church.[77] |
| Hildegard of Bingen | habit of a Benedictine nun, crozier, with flames above her head, writing in her Liber Scivias, sitting in a hermitage [b] |
| Hiltrude of Liessies | lamp, candle |
| Himelin | pilgrim's attire, with a staff, or ill in bed |
| Himerius of Bosto | pilgrim's cloak and staff, being stabbed |
| Hippolytus of Rome | papal tiara[a] |
| Hippolytus the soldier | military garb, horse's harness[a] |
| Homobonus | Bag of money, merchant's robes |
| Honorat Koźmiński | Franciscan habit |
| Honoratus | represented as a bishop over the island of Lérins with a phoenix below, or drawing water from a rock with his mitre near him [78] |
| Honoratus of Amiens | baker's peel or shovel; bishop with a large Host; bishop with three Hosts on a baker's shovel; loaves[a] |
| Honorina | palm of martyrdom |
| Hospitius | in the garb of a hermit or monk |
| Hosea | bearded, raising his hand in benediction, holding a scroll with the words "Ex Egipto vocavi filium meum" |
| Hripsime | Martyr's palm, martyr's crown, martyr's cross |
| Hubertus | knight with a banner showing the stag's head and crucifix; stag; stag with a crucifix over its head; young courtier with two hounds |
| Hugh of Châteauneuf | wearing a cowl over his episcopal vestments[79] |
| Hugh of Lincoln | episcopal vestments, crozier, swan[a] |
| Humbert of Maroilles | A star on his forehead; a bear carrying Humbert's baggage; with an angel making a cross on Humbert's brow; with an angel showing Humbert the Cross[80] |
| Humility | habit of the Vallombrosians[a] |
| Hunegund of France | Sometimes represented kneeling at the feet of the pope |
| Hyacinth of Poland | Holding a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary along with a monstrance or ciborium[81][b] |
| Hyacintha Mariscotti | Religious habit |
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