List of Africans venerated in the Catholic Church

In the first centuries of the Catholic Church, Africa produced many of her leading lights.

Three of the early popes were either from Africa themselves or children of African immigrants to Rome.

A partial list would include: It would be difficult to say who the first saint to be associated with Africa after the Arab conquest would be.

Daniel Fasanella, Samuele, Angelo, Leone, Niccolò, Ugolino, Domno, martyrs in Morocco (1227).

Louis IX of France died in Tunisia en route from the Holy Land in 1270.