Well, that's how the week is blocked out in the syllabus -- I think it might be modern in the sense that we're talking about living saints, not martyred ones or ones that lived hundreds of years before the writing. So not necessarily modern in the sense that they were canonized in the last century or so, but modern in the sense that they were contemporary to whoever was writing about them. (We've got three obscure ones -- Christina of Stommeln, Lukardis of Oberweimar, and Douceline of Digne -- and one very well-known one, Francis of Assisi.)