Patronage
3 saints are venerated as patrons of converts, led by Mary Magdalene (feast day July 22).
Approx. 1 AD — Approx. 63 AD · Feast day: July 22
Mary Magdalene — 'Apostle to the Apostles' — was healed by Jesus when He cast out seven demons, and she followed Him from Galilee to Jerusalem. While most male disciples fled the Crucifixion, she stood at the foot of the Cross, and on Easter morning the Risen Christ called her by name and sent her to tell the others He had risen.
c. 890–925 — 969 · Feast day: July 11
The first Christian ruler of Kievan Rus, Olga governed as regent after the Drevlians killed her husband Igor in 945, then exacted systematic revenge on the tribe. Her baptism in Constantinople (c. 955–957) made her the first of Kiev's ruling dynasty to embrace Christianity. Her grandson Vladimir baptized all of Kievan Rus in 988, fulfilling what she had begun.
Unknown, c. AD 300 — c. 305 AD · Feast day: June 22
Saint Alban was a pagan Roman citizen of Verulamium who sheltered a fugitive Christian priest, converted to his faith within days, then dressed in the priest's robes to face arrest in his place. He was beheaded on Holywell Hill around 305 AD — Britain's first recorded Christian martyr, whose cult gave rise to St Albans Abbey and inspired Bede's most vivid account of Christian heroism.