What is the oldest surviving photograph of someone who was later canonized as a saint? Photography is a relatively recent invention, and as such, the appearances of the majority of saints have only been captured in portraits, icons, and other constructed media.

What is the oldest surviving photograph of someone who was later canonized as a saint?
St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879), the Lourdes visionary, is the first saint of Ann Ball's Modern Saints: Their Lives and Faces to feature a photograph:




  Bernadette was photographed often and her pictures were sold everywhere; she joked, "I am on sale for [ten cents] at every street corner!"


The photograph above was taken at some point in the 1860s.