80 free Saint trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
71 free Saint trivia questions with answers. Saints turn up everywhere: on calendars, in city names, on medals in glove compartments and in the reasons we give chocolates in February. This quiz covers the famous ones (Patrick, Nicholas, Valentine, Francis, Joan of Arc, George, Peter and Andrew), the patrons of lost things, throats, firefighters, musicians, the internet and lost causes, and the modern saints from Mother Teresa and Padre Pio to the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis. It also covers how canonisation actually works and which pope made more saints than the previous five centuries put together. The easy questions ask which country St Patrick is patron of and which saint's gift-giving legend became Santa Claus. The hard ones want St Anthony's birthplace, the river where St Florian was drowned, the age at which Thérèse of Lisieux died and the first person born in what became the United States to be canonised. Good for church quiz nights, Catholic school classrooms and pub quizzes with a religion round. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the saints and their feasts, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which country is Saint Patrick the primary patron saint of?
Ireland
Brigid of Kildare and Columba are the island's other two patrons.
Q 02By his own account, how did the teenage Patrick first arrive on the island he evangelised?
As a slave taken by pirates
He was sixteen when Irish raiders seized him from his home in Britain.
Q 03Legend says Patrick used which plant to explain the Trinity?
The shamrock
The snake-banishing story is a legend too; Ireland never had snakes.
Q 04Saint Nicholas, whose gift-giving legend became Santa Claus, was bishop of which city?
Myra
It lies in modern Turkey; his relics were later carried off to Bari in Italy.
Q 05What did Saint Nicholas famously drop through a poor man's window on three nights?
Sacks of gold coins
The gifts provided dowries so the three daughters would not be forced into prostitution.
Q 06Saint Valentine's feast day has been observed on 14 February since at least which century?
The eighth
The Roman martyrology now lists just one Valentine for that day, a martyr buried on the Via Flaminia.
Q 07Besides lovers, Saint Valentine is patron of epilepsy sufferers and which trade?
Beekeepers
His flower-crowned skull is on display in a Rome basilica.
Q 08Which religious order did Francis of Assisi found?
The Franciscans
He was canonised in 1228, less than two years after his death.
Q 09Francis of Assisi is credited with staging the first what, in 1223?
Live nativity scene
It took place in the village of Greccio.
Q 10Francis of Assisi's feast day, 4 October, is also observed as what?
World Animal Day
Churches bless pets on the day because of his patronage of animals and the environment.
Q 11Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431 at roughly what age?
Nineteen
The charges included heresy and wearing men's clothes; she was canonised in 1920.
Q 12Which pope canonised Joan of Arc?
Benedict XV
It happened in 1920, almost 500 years after her death, and she was named a patron of France two years later.
Q 13Saint George is said to have been a soldier in which emperor's guard?
Diocletian's
He was executed in 303 for refusing to renounce his faith; the dragon came much later.
Q 14Saint George's Day falls on which date?
Q 21In what year was Mother Teresa canonised?
2016
She had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Q 22Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170 in which building?
Canterbury Cathedral
Four knights loyal to Henry II did the deed on 29 December.
Q 23Saint Lucy, whose feast falls on 13 December, is patron of people with what?
Eye problems
Medieval accounts say her eyes were gouged out before her execution in Syracuse in 304.
Q 24Saint Andrew is traditionally shown on what shape of cross?
23 April
England, Portugal, Georgia, Ethiopia and the city of Moscow all claim him.
Q 15Saint Christopher, patron of travellers, legendarily carried whom across a river?
The child Jesus
The boy grew impossibly heavy because he bore the weight of the world; the saint was dropped from the general calendar in 1970.
Q 16Anthony of Padua, invoked for lost objects, was born in which city?
Lisbon
His reputation for finding lost things traces to a stolen book returned to him in Bologna.
Q 17What was Saint Peter's original name?
Simon
Jesus gave him the name Cephas, Aramaic for rock.
Q 18Under which emperor was Saint Peter crucified in Rome?
Nero
Tradition places the martyrdom on Vatican Hill.
Q 19Mother Teresa founded which religious congregation in 1950?
The Missionaries of Charity
It began serving the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.
Q 20Where was Mother Teresa born?
Skopje
The city was then part of the Ottoman Empire; she was ethnically Albanian.
X-shaped
The saltire became Scotland's flag; early texts say he was tied, not nailed, to an ordinary Latin cross.
Q 25Saint David is the patron saint of which country?
Wales
His famous miracle raised a hill under his feet so a crowd could hear him preach.
Q 26Catherine of Siena helped persuade which pope to move the papacy back from Avignon to Rome?
Gregory XI
She was made a Doctor of the Church for her writings.
Q 27Thomas Aquinas's best-known work, left unfinished at his death in 1274, is called what?
Summa Theologica
The Dominican friar tried to reconcile Aristotle with Christian teaching.
Q 28Augustine of Hippo was baptised in 386 by which saint?
Ambrose
Hippo Regius is in modern Algeria; his mother Monica is a saint too.
Q 29Saint Jude is the Catholic patron of what?
Lost causes
He is usually shown holding a club.
Q 30Saint Cecilia, whose feast is 22 November, is the patron of whom?
Musicians
The story goes that she sang in her heart to the Lord while musicians played at her wedding.