This list came about as I searched for a good source for information about the saints for our family’s history studies. I could find no comprehensive book which included easy-to-read biographies of the canon of saints that also included historical and geographical information as well as a list of the saints in chronological order. I did, however, find Saint For Young Readers from the Pauline Books and Media, which fulfilled all but the chronological order. The stories in these two volumes are written for a upper elementary and middle school reading level and include information about the historical and geographical context in which each saint lived.  

The books, however, list the saints, as most do, in the calendar order by their feast days. In order to adapt the books for easier use as additions to our history studies I compiled the following list of the saints, reordered in the chronological order by the centuries in which they lived and died. 

Chronological List of Saints (PDF)

Please note: This list was originally compiled in 1995. Since then the edition I used went out of print and was later updated and re-printed.  The introduction states that Volume Two is out of print, however that is no longer the case.

Purchase:

Saints for Young Readers, Volume 1

Saints for Young Readers, Volume 2