Patron Saint of Converts

Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions is invoked as patron of converts. Saint Charles Lwanga was born about 1860 of the Ngabi clan in the kingdom of Buganda, in present-day Uganda. He served as a page at the royal court of Kabaka (king) Mwanga II at Mengo. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/homilies/1964/documents/hf_p-vi_hom_19641018.html.

Saint Mary Magdalene is invoked as patron of converts. Saint Mary Magdalene (Mary of Magdala) is presented in the Gospels as the woman from whom Jesus had cast out seven demons (Luke 8:2; Mark 16:9), who followed him from Galilee with a number of women providing for him and his disciples out of their resources (Luke 8:1-3). She stood beneath the Cross with the Mother of Jesus and the beloved disciple (John 19:25, Matthew 27:56, Mark 15:40), watched the burial of the Lord (Matthew 27:61, Mark 15:47), and on Easter morning was the first witness of the empty tomb and of the risen Christ.The Gospel of John (20:1-18) records the most personal of these encounters: weeping at the tomb she sees Jesus, mistakes him for the gardener, and recognizes him only when he calls her by name, Mary. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20160603_decreto-santa-maria-maddalena_en.html.

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) is invoked as patron of converts. Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born Edith Stein at Breslau in Silesia on October 12, 1891, the youngest of eleven children of an observant Jewish family of timber merchants. Her father died when she was two, and she was raised by her devout mother. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1998/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_11101998_stein.html.

The Passion of Saint John the Baptist is invoked as patron of converts. The Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist commemorates the martyrdom of John, son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, forerunner and precursor of Jesus Christ. The principal accounts are in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:7-9), supplemented by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (Antiquities 18.5.2), who locates the execution at the fortress of Machaerus, southeast of the Dead Sea, and confirms its political background.According to the Gospel of Mark, the most detailed account, John had publicly rebuked the tetrarch Herod Antipas (son of Herod the Great) for his unlawful marriage to Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/angelus/2004/documents/hf_jp-ii_ang_20040829.html.

Saint John Henry Newman is invoked as patron of converts. John Henry Newman was born in the City of London on 21 February 1801, the eldest of six children of a banker. Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and elected a Fellow of Oriel in 1822, he was ordained an Anglican priest in 1825. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20191013_omelia-canonizzazione.html.