For earlier forms of the General Roman Calendar, see the Tridentine Calendar

Tridentine Calendar

The Tridentine Calendar is the calendar of saints to be honoured in the course of the liturgical year in the official liturgy of the Roman Rite as reformed by Pope Pius V, implementing a decision of the Council of Trent, which entrusted the task to the Pope....

, the General Roman Calendar of 1954, the General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII

General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII

In 1955 Pope Pius XII made several changes to the General Roman Calendar of 1954, changes that remained in force only until 1960, when Pope John XXIII, on the basis of further recommendations of the commission that Pius XII had set up, decreed a further revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of...

 and the General Roman Calendar of 1962

General Roman Calendar of 1962

This article lists the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as it was in 1962, following the reforms that Pope John XXIII introduced with his motu proprio Rubricarum instructum of 23 July 1960...

.

The General Roman Calendar indicates the days of the year to which are assigned the liturgical celebrations of saint

Saint

A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

s and of the mysteries of the Lord that are to be observed wherever the Roman Rite

Roman Rite

The Roman Rite is the liturgical rite used in the Diocese of Rome in the Catholic Church. It is by far the most widespread of the Latin liturgical rites used within the Western or Latin autonomous particular Church, the particular Church that itself is also called the Latin Rite, and that is one of...

 is used. National and diocesan liturgical calendars, as well as those of religious order

Religious order

A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice. The order is composed of initiates and, in some...

s and even of continents, add other saints or transfer the celebration of a particular saint from the date assigned in the General Calendar to another date.

These liturgical calendars also indicate the degree or rank of each celebration: Optional Memorial, Obligatory Memorial, Feast or Solemnity

Solemnity

A Solemnity of the Roman Catholic Church is a principal holy day in the liturgical calendar, usually commemorating an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, or other important saints. The observance begins with the vigil on the evening before the actual date of the feast...

. Among other differences, the Gloria

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

"Gloria in excelsis Deo" is the title and beginning of a hymn known also as the Greater Doxology and the Angelic Hymn. The name is often abbreviated to Gloria in Excelsis or simply Gloria.It is an example of the psalmi idiotici "Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest")...

 is said or sung at the mass

Mass (liturgy)

"Mass" is one of the names by which the sacrament of the Eucharist is called in the Roman Catholic Church: others are "Eucharist", the "Lord's Supper", the "Breaking of Bread", the "Eucharistic assembly ", the "memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection", the "Holy Sacrifice", the "Holy and...

 of a Feast, but not at that of a Memorial, and the Creed

Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed is the creed or profession of faith that is most widely used in Christian liturgy. It is called Nicene because, in its original form, it was adopted in the city of Nicaea by the first ecumenical council, which met there in the year 325.The Nicene Creed has been normative to the...

 is added on Solemnities.

The General Calendar assigns celebrations of saints to only about half the days of the year, and contains relatively very few of the saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

, and only a fraction of those listed in the 776-page volume Roman Martyrology

Roman Martyrology

The Roman Martyrology is the official martyrology of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. It provides an extensive but not exhaustive list of the saints recognized by the Church.-History:...

, which does not contain the names of all the saints legitimately venerated. The Martyrology assigns several saints to each day of the year and gives a very brief description of each saint or group of saints.

While canonization

Canonization

Canonization is the act by which a Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints. Originally, individuals were recognized as saints without any formal process...

 involves the addition of the saint's name to the Roman Martyrology, it does not necessarily involve insertion of the saint's name also into the General Roman Calendar, which mentions only a very limited selection of canonized saints.

Many sources give calendars that mention one or more saints for each day of the year. One example is Saints by Day. These will usually mention the saints of the General Roman Calendar, but they will also give names of saints not included in the General Roman Calendar, especially on a day, known as a feria

Feria

A feria was a day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions...

, to which the General Roman Calendar assigns no celebration whatever of a saint.

"Feria

Feria

A feria was a day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged to work, and on which there were no court sessions...

" is a Latin word that, in ecclesiastical usage, means "weekday"; more precisely, it refers in the calendar to days on which no saint is celebrated. "Ferial" is an adjective formed from "feria" and is used in connection with a noun, as in the phrase "ferial Mass".

The General Calendar is printed, for instance, in the successive editions of the Roman Missal

Roman Missal

The Roman Missal is the liturgical book that contains the texts and rubrics for the celebration of the Mass in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.-Situation before the Council of Trent:...

 and the Liturgy of the Hours

Liturgy of the hours

The Liturgy of the Hours or Divine Office is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the clergy, religious orders, and laity. The Liturgy of the Hours consists primarily of psalms supplemented by hymns and readings...

. These are up to date when printed, but additional feasts may be added later. For instance, the celebration of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina

Pio of Pietrelcina

Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin priest from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name Pio when he joined the Capuchins; he was popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood. He became famous for his ...

 (Padre Pio) on 23 September does not appear in the latest editions of these two books. For that reason, if those celebrating the liturgy have not inserted into the books a note about the changes, they must consult the current annual publication, known as the "Ordo", for their country or religious congregation. These annual publications, like those that, disregarding the feasts that are obligatory in the actual church where the liturgy is celebrated, list only celebrations included in the General Calendar, are useful only for the current year, since they omit celebrations impeded because of falling on a Sunday or during periods such as Holy Week and the Octave of Easter.

General Roman Calendar

The feast days of saints celebrated in one country are not necessarily celebrated everywhere. For example, a diocese or a country may celebrate the feast day of a saint of special importance there (e.g., St. Patrick in Ireland, Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...

 in Mexico, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in the United States). Likewise, a particular religious order may celebrate its founder or members of the order, even if that saint is not listed on the universal calendar or is included in it only with a lower rank. The General Roman Calendar contains only those celebrations that are intended to be observed in the Roman Rite

Roman Rite

The Roman Rite is the liturgical rite used in the Diocese of Rome in the Catholic Church. It is by far the most widespread of the Latin liturgical rites used within the Western or Latin autonomous particular Church, the particular Church that itself is also called the Latin Rite, and that is one of...

 in every country of the world.

This distinction is in application of the decision of the Second Vatican Council

Second Vatican Council

The Second Vatican Council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed...

: "Lest the feasts of the saints should take precedence over the feasts which commemorate the very mysteries of salvation, many of them should be left to be celebrated by a particular Church

Particular Church

In Catholic canon law, a Particular Church is an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or someone recognised as the equivalent of a bishop.There are two kinds of particular Churches:# Local particular Churches ...

 or nation or family of religious; only those should be extended to the universal Church which commemorate saints who are truly of universal importance."

There is a common misconception that certain saints, e.g., Saint Christopher

Saint Christopher

.Saint Christopher is a saint venerated by Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, listed as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd century Roman Emperor Decius or alternatively under the Roman Emperor Maximinus II Dacian...

, were "unsainted" in 1969 or that veneration of them was "suppressed". In fact, Saint Christopher is recognized as a saint of the Catholic Church, being listed as a martyr in the Roman Martyrology

Roman Martyrology

The Roman Martyrology is the official martyrology of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. It provides an extensive but not exhaustive list of the saints recognized by the Church.-History:...

 under 25 July. In 1969, Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI

Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...

 issued the motu proprio

Motu proprio

A motu proprio is a document issued by the Pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him....

 Mysterii Paschalis

Mysterii Paschalis

Mysterii Paschalis is the title of an apostolic letter motu proprio issued by Pope Paul VI on February 14, 1969...

. In it, he recognized that, while the written Acts of Saint Christopher are merely legendary, attestations to veneration of the martyr date from ancient times. His change in the calendar of saints included "leaving the memorial of Saint Christopher to local calendars" because of the relatively late date of its insertion into the Roman calendar.

Variations from the following list of celebrations shall be indicated not here but, below, under the heading "National Calendars".

Moveable (General Calendar)

• Sunday after Epiphany (or, if Epiphany is celebrated on 7 or 8 January, the following Monday): Baptism of the Lord
  Baptism of the Lord
  The Baptism of the Lord is the feast day commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Originally the baptism of Christ was celebrated on Epiphany, which commemorates the coming of the Magi, the baptism of Christ, and the wedding at Cana...
  
   – Feast
• Forty-sixth day before Easter: Ash Wednesday
  Ash Wednesday
  Ash Wednesday, in the calendar of Western Christianity, is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter...
  
   – Fast
• Sunday before Easter: Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion
  Palm Sunday
  Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four Canonical Gospels. ....
  
   – Solemnity
• Thursday before Easter: Holy Thursday – Solemnity
• Friday before Easter: Good Friday
  Good Friday
  Good Friday , is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of...
  
   – Fast
• Sunday after the first full moon occurring after 20 March: Easter
  Easter
  Easter is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday...
  
   – Solemnity
• First Sunday after Easter: The Feast of Divine Mercy
  Divine Mercy Sunday
  Divine Mercy Sunday is a Roman Catholic solemnity celebrated the Sunday after Easter. It is based on the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy due to Saint Faustina Kowalska, and is associated with specific indulgences.-Background:...
  
   (also known as Divine Mercy Sunday
  Divine Mercy Sunday
  Divine Mercy Sunday is a Roman Catholic solemnity celebrated the Sunday after Easter. It is based on the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy due to Saint Faustina Kowalska, and is associated with specific indulgences.-Background:...
  
  )
• Fortieth day from Easter (Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter): Ascension of the Lord – Solemnity
• Fiftieth day from Easter: Pentecost
  Pentecost
  Pentecost is a prominent feast in the calendar of Ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the Resurrection of Jesus...
  
   – Solemnity
• First Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Trinity
  Trinity Sunday
  Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Christianity...
  
   – Solemnity
• Thursday after Holy Trinity: Body and Blood of Christ
  Corpus Christi (feast)
  Corpus Christi is a Latin Rite solemnity, now designated the solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ . It is also celebrated in some Anglican, Lutheran and Old Catholic Churches. Like Trinity Sunday and the Solemnity of Christ the King, it does not commemorate a particular event in...
  
   – Solemnity
• Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost: Sacred Heart of Jesus
  Feast of the Sacred Heart
  The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a feast in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. It falls 19 days after Pentecost, on a Friday. The earliest possible date is 29 May, as in 1818 and 2285...
  
   – Solemnity
• Saturday following the second Sunday after Pentecost: Immaculate Heart of Mary
  Immaculate Heart of Mary
  The Immaculate Heart of Mary originally The Sacred Heart of Mary is a devotional name used to refer to the interior life of Mary, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for God, her maternal love for her Son, Jesus, and her compassionate love for...
  
   – Memorial (if the date coincides with that of another Memorial, both become optional)
• Last Sunday in Ordinary Time (last Sunday before 27 November): Christ the King
  Feast of Christ the King
  The Feast of Christ the King is the last holy Sunday in the western liturgical calendar, celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church as well as many Anglicans, Lutherans, and other Mainline Protestants.-Origin and history in the Catholic Church:Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the...
  
   – Solemnity
• Sunday within the Octave of Christmas (or, if there is no such Sunday, 30 December): Holy Family – Feast

Epiphany is celebrated on the Sunday after 1 January, the Ascension of the Lord on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, and the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi (feast)

Corpus Christi is a Latin Rite solemnity, now designated the solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ . It is also celebrated in some Anglican, Lutheran and Old Catholic Churches. Like Trinity Sunday and the Solemnity of Christ the King, it does not commemorate a particular event in...

) on the Sunday after Holy Trinity in countries where the Episcopal Conference

Episcopal Conference

In the Roman Catholic Church, an Episcopal Conference, Conference of Bishops, or National Conference of Bishops is an official assembly of all the bishops of a given territory...

, with the prior approval of the Apostolic See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

, has decided that they are not treated as Holy Days of Obligation

Holy Day of Obligation

In the Catholic Church, Holy Days of Obligation or Holidays of Obligation, less commonly called Feasts of Precept, are the days on which, as of the Code of Canon Law states,-Eastern Catholic Churches:...

.

"For the pastoral advantage of the people, it is permissible to observe on the Sundays in Ordinary Time those celebrations that fall during the week and have special appeal to the devotion of the faithful, provided the celebrations take precedence over these Sundays in the Table of Liturgical Days" (General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, 58).

January (General Calendar)

• 1 January: Octave of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – Solemnity
  Solemnity
  A Solemnity of the Roman Catholic Church is a principal holy day in the liturgical calendar, usually commemorating an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, or other important saints. The observance begins with the vigil on the evening before the actual date of the feast...
  
  
• 2 January: Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors – Memorial
• 3 January: The Most Holy Name of Jesus
  Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
  The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus is celebrated by a number of Christian denominations, on varying dates.The feast has been celebrated in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, at least at local levels, since the end of the fifteenth century...
  
   – Optional Memorial
• 4 January: Feria
• 5 January: Feria
• 6 January: Epiphany
  Epiphany (Christian)
  Epiphany, or Theophany, meaning "vision of God",...
  
   (celebrated on the first Sunday after 1 January in countries where this feast is not a Holy Day of Obligation
  Holy Day of Obligation
  In the Catholic Church, Holy Days of Obligation or Holidays of Obligation, less commonly called Feasts of Precept, are the days on which, as of the Code of Canon Law states,-Eastern Catholic Churches:...
  
  )
• 7 January: Saint Raymond of Peñafort
  Raymond of Peñafort
  Saint Raymond of Penyafort, O.P. is a Dominican friar who compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canon laws that remained part of church law until the Code of Canon Law was promulgated in 1917...
  
  , priest – Optional Memorial
• 8 January: Feria
• 9 January: Feria
• 10 January: Feria
• 11 January: Feria
• 12 January: Feria
• 13 January: Saint Hilary of Poitiers
  Hilary of Poitiers
  Hilary of Poitiers was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Hammer of the Arians" and the "Athanasius of the West." His name comes from the Latin word for happy or cheerful. His optional memorial in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints is 13...
  
  , bishop and doctor – Optional Memorial
• 14 January: Feria
• 15 January: Feria
• 16 January: Feria
• 17 January: Saint Anthony of Egypt
  Anthony the Great
  Anthony the Great or Antony the Great , , also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Abba Antonius , and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers...
  
  , abbot – Memorial
• 18 January: Feria
• 19 January: Feria
• 20 January: Saint Fabian
  Pope Fabian
  Pope Fabian was Pope from January 10, 236 to January 20, 250, succeeding Pope Anterus.Eusebius of Caesarea relates how the Christians, having assembled in Rome to elect a new bishop, saw a dove alight upon the head of Fabian, a layman and stranger to the city, who was thus marked out for this...
  
  , pope and martyr; or Saint Sebastian, martyr – Optional Memorial
• 21 January: Saint Agnes
  Saint Agnes
  Agnes of Rome is a virgin–martyr, venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass...
  
  , virgin and martyr – Memorial
• 22 January: Saint Vincent
  Vincent of Saragossa
  Saint Vincent of Saragossa, also known as Vincent Martyr, Vincent of Huesca or Vincent the Deacon, is the patron saint of Lisbon. His feast day is 22 January in the Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion and 11 November in the Eastern Orthodox Churches...
  
  , deacon and martyr – Optional Memorial
• 23 January: Feria
• 24 January: Saint Francis de Sales
  Francis de Sales
  Francis de Sales was Bishop of Geneva and is a Roman Catholic saint. He worked to convert Protestants back to Catholicism, and was an accomplished preacher...
  
  , bishop and doctor – Memorial
• 25 January: The Conversion of Saint Paul
  Paul of Tarsus
  Paul the Apostle , also known as Saul of Tarsus, is described in the Christian New Testament as one of the most influential early Christian missionaries, with the writings ascribed to him by the church forming a considerable portion of the New Testament...
  
  , apostle – Feast
• 26 January: Saints Timothy and Titus
  Apostle Titus
  Titus was a companion of Saint Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline epistles. Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name occurs nowhere in the Acts of the Apostles....
  
  , bishops – Memorial
• 27 January: Saint Angela Merici
  Angela Merici
  Angela Merici, or Angela de Merici, was an Italian religious leader and saint. She founded the Order of Ursulines in 1535 in Brescia.-Life:...
  
  , virgin – Optional Memorial
• 28 January: Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor – Memorial
• 29 January: Feria
• 29 January: Feria
• 30 January: Feria
• 31 January: Saint John Bosco, priest – Memorial

Note: The feast of the Baptism of the Lord

Baptism of the Lord

The Baptism of the Lord is the feast day commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. Originally the baptism of Christ was celebrated on Epiphany, which commemorates the coming of the Magi, the baptism of Christ, and the wedding at Cana...

 is celebrated on the Sunday after 6 January. But whenever Epiphany falls on 7 or 8 January (only in countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation

Holy Day of Obligation

In the Catholic Church, Holy Days of Obligation or Holidays of Obligation, less commonly called Feasts of Precept, are the days on which, as of the Code of Canon Law states,-Eastern Catholic Churches:...

), the feast of the Baptism of the Lord is celebrated on the following Monday.

February (General Calendar)

• 1 February: Feria
• 2 February: Presentation of the Lord
  Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
  The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, which falls on 2 February, celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and some Eastern Catholic Churches, it is one of the twelve Great Feasts, and is sometimes called Hypapante...
  
   – Feast
• 3 February: Saint Blase
  Saint Blaise
  Saint Blaise was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea . According to his Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron carding combs, and beheaded...
  
  , bishop and martyr, or Saint Ansgar
  Ansgar
  Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. The see of Hamburg was designated a "Mission to bring Christianity to the North", and Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North".-Life:After his mother’s early death Ansgar was brought up in Corbie Abbey, and made rapid...
  
  , bishop – Optional Memorial
• 4 February: Feria
• 5 February: Saint Agatha
  Agatha of Sicily
  Saint Agatha of Sicily is a Christian saint. Her memorial is on 5 February. Agatha was born at Catania, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251...
  
  , virgin and martyr - Memorial
• 6 February: Saints Paul Miki and companions, martyrs - Memorial
• 7 February: Feria
• 8 February: Saint Jerome Emiliani
  Jerome Emiliani
  Gerolamo Emiliani , was an Italian humanitarian, founder of the Somaschi Fathers, and saint. He was canonized in 1767 and is the patron saint of orphans.-Biography:...
  
   or Saint Josephine Bakhita, virgin - Optional Memorial
• 9 February: Feria
• 10 February: Saint Scholastica
  Scholastica
  Scholastica is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Italy, she was the twin sister of St. Benedict of Nursia....
  
  , virgin - Memorial
• 11 February: Our Lady of Lourdes
  Our Lady of Lourdes
  Our Lady of Lourdes is the name used to refer to the Marian apparition said to have appeared before various individuals on separate occasions around Lourdes, France...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 12 February: Feria
• 13 February: Feria
• 14 February: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , monk, and Methodius, bishop - Memorial
• 15 February: Feria
• 16 February: Feria
• 17 February: Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order - Optional Memorial
• 18 February: Feria
• 19 February: Feria
• 20 February: Feria
• 21 February: Saint Peter Damian
  Peter Damian
  Saint Peter Damian, O.S.B. was a reforming monk in the circle of Pope Gregory VII and a cardinal. In 1823, he was declared a Doctor of the Church...
  
  , bishop and doctor of the Church - Optional Memorial
• 22 February: Chair of Saint Peter
  Chair of Saint Peter
  The Chair of Saint Peter is a relic conserved in St. Peter's Basilica, enclosed in a gilt bronze casing that was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and executed 1647-53....
  
  , apostle - Feast
• 23 February: Saint Polycarp
  Polycarp
  Saint Polycarp was a 2nd century Christian bishop of Smyrna. According to the Martyrdom of Polycarp, he died a martyr, bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to touch him...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Memorial
• 24 February: Feria
• 25 February: Feria
• 26 February: Feria
• 27 February: Feria
• 28 February: Feria
• 29 February, occurring only in leap year: Feria

March (General Calendar)

• 1 March: Feria
• 2 March: Feria
• 3 March: Feria
• 4 March: Saint Casimir
  Saint Casimir
  Saint Casimir Jagiellon was a royal prince of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania who became a patron saint of Lithuania, Poland, and the young.-Biography:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 5 March: Feria
• 6 March: Feria
• 7 March: Saints Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs - Memorial
• 8 March: Saint John of God
  John of God
  John of God ) was a Portuguese-born friar and saint, one of Spain's leading religious figures.John of God was born João Cidade in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, into a once-prominent family that was impoverished but had great religious faith...
  
  , religious - Optional Memorial
• 9 March: Saint Frances of Rome
  Frances of Rome
  Saint Frances of Rome, Obl.S.B., is an Italian saint who was a wife, mother, mystic, organizer of charitable services and a Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of vowed oblates.- Biography :...
  
  , religious - Optional Memorial
• 10 March: Feria
• 11 March: Feria
• 12 March: Feria
• 13 March: Feria
• 14 March: Feria
• 15 March: Feria
• 16 March: Feria
• 17 March: Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 18 March: Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
  Cyril of Jerusalem
  Cyril of Jerusalem was a distinguished theologian of the early Church . He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. In 1883, Cyril was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 19 March: Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ ....
  
   Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Solemnity
• 20 March: Feria
• 21 March: Feria
• 22 March: Feria
• 23 March: Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, bishop - Optional Memorial
• 24 March: Feria
• 25 March: Annunciation of the Lord
  Annunciation
  The Annunciation, also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary or Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to Virgin Mary, that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus the Son of God. Gabriel told Mary to name her...
  
   - Solemnity
• 26 March: Feria
• 27 March: Feria
• 28 March: Feria
• 29 March: Feria
• 30 March: Feria
• 31 March: Feria

April (General Calendar)

• 1 April: Feria
• 2 April: Saint Francis of Paola
  Francis of Paola
  Saint Francis of Paola was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of the Minims.-Biography:...
  
  , hermit - Optional Memorial
• 3 April: Feria
• 4 April: Saint Isidore
  Isidore of Seville
  Saint Isidore of Seville served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien"...
  
  , bishop and doctor of the Church- Optional Memorial
• 5 April: Saint Vincent Ferrer
  Vincent Ferrer
  Saint Vincent Ferrer was a Valencian Dominican missionary and logician.-Early life:Vincent was the fourth child of the Anglo-Scottish nobleman William Stewart Ferrer and his Spanish wife, Constantia Miguel. Legends surround his birth...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 6 April: Feria
• 7 April: Saint John Baptist de la Salle, priest - Memorial
• 8 April: Feria
• 9 April: Feria
• 10 April: Feria
• 11 April: Saint Stanislaus
  Stanislaus of Szczepanów
  Stanislaus of Szczepanów, or Stanisław Szczepanowski, was a Bishop of Kraków known chiefly for having been martyred by the Polish king Bolesław II the Bold...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Memorial
• 12 April: Feria
• 13 April: Saint Martin I
  Pope Martin I
  Pope Martin I, born near Todi, Umbria in the place now named after him , was pope from 649 to 653, succeeding Pope Theodore I in July 5, 649. The only pope during the Byzantine Papacy whose election was not approved by a iussio from Constantinople, Martin I was abducted by Constans II and died in...
  
  , pope and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 14 April: Feria
• 15 April: Feria
• 16 April: Feria
• 17 April: Feria
• 18 April: Feria
• 19 April: Feria
• 20 April: Feria
• 21 April: Saint Anselm of Canterbury
  Anselm of Canterbury
  Anselm of Canterbury , also called of Aosta for his birthplace, and of Bec for his home monastery, was a Benedictine monk, a philosopher, and a prelate of the church who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109...
  
  , bishop and doctor of the Church - Optional Memorial
• 22 April: Feria
• 23 April: Saint George
  Saint George
  Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic , Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox...
  
  , martyr, or Saint Adalbert
  Adalbert of Prague
  This article is about St Adalbert of Prague. For other uses, see Adalbert .Saint Adalbert, Czech: ; , , Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians. He evangelized Poles and Hungarians. St...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 24 April: Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
  Fidelis of Sigmaringen
  Fidelis of Sigmaringen was a Capuchin friar martyred in the Counter-Reformation at Seewis im Prättigau, Switzerland.-Early life:...
  
  , priest and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 25 April: Saint Mark the Evangelist
  Mark the Evangelist
  Mark the Evangelist is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples of Christ, and the founder of the Church of Alexandria, one of the original four main sees of Christianity....
  
   - Feast
• 26 April: Feria
• 27 April: Feria
• 28 April: Saint Peter Chanel
  Peter Chanel
  Pierre Louis Marie Chanel, known in English as Saint Peter Chanel was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr.-Early years:Chanel was born in La Potière near Cuet in the area of Belley, Ain département, France....
  
  , priest and martyr; or Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, priest - Optional Memorial
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
  , virgin and doctor of the Church - Memorial
• 30 April: Saint Pius V
  Pope Pius V
  Pope Saint Pius V , born Antonio Ghislieri , was Pope from 1566 to 1572 and is a saint of the Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardization of the Roman liturgy within the Latin Church...
  
  , pope - Optional Memorial

May (General Calendar)

• 1 May: Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ ....
  
   the Worker - Optional Memorial
• 2 May: Saint Athanasius
  Athanasius of Alexandria
  Athanasius of Alexandria [b. ca. – d. 2 May 373] is also given the titles St. Athanasius the Great, St. Athanasius I of Alexandria, St Athanasius the Confessor and St Athanasius the Apostolic. He was the 20th bishop of Alexandria. His long episcopate lasted 45 years Athanasius of Alexandria [b....
  
  , bishop and doctor - Memorial
• 3 May: Saints Philip
  Philip the Apostle
  Philip the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia....
  
   and James
  James, son of Alphaeus
  Saint James, son of Alphaeus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. He is often identified with James the Less and commonly known by that name in church tradition....
  
  , Apostles - Feast
• 4 May: Feria
• 5 May: Feria
• 6 May: Feria
• 7 May: Feria
• 8 May: Feria
• 9 May: Feria
• 10 May: Feria
• 11 May: Feria
• 12 May: Saints Nereus and Achilleus, martyrs or Saint Pancras, martyr - Optional Memorial
• 13 May: Our Lady of Fatima
  Our Lady of Fatima
  Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 14 May: Saint Matthias the Apostle
  Saint Matthias
  Matthias , according to the Acts of the Apostles, was the apostle chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following Judas' betrayal of Jesus and his suicide.-Biography:...
  
   - Feast
• 15 May: Feria
• 16 May: Feria
• 17 May: Feria
• 18 May: Saint John I
  Pope John I
  Pope Saint John I was Pope from 523 to 526. He was a native of Siena or the Castello di Serena, near Chiusdino. He is the first pope known to have visited Constantinople while in office....
  
  , pope and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 19 May: Feria
• 20 May: Saint Bernardine of Siena, priest - Optional Memorial
• 21 May: Saint Christopher Magallanes
  Cristóbal Magallanes Jara
  Saint Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, also known as Christopher Magallanes is a martyr and saint venerated in the Catholic Church who was killed without trial on the way to say Mass during the Cristero War after the trumped up charge of inciting rebellion. He was born in Totatiche, Jalisco, Mexico on...
  
   and companions, martyrs - Optional Memorial
• 22 May: Saint Rita of Cascia - Optional Memorial
• 23 May: Feria
• 24 May: Feria
• 25 May: Saint Bede the Venerable
  Bede
  Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
  
  , priest and doctor; or Saint Gregory VII
  Pope Gregory VII
  Pope St. Gregory VII , born Hildebrand of Sovana , was Pope from April 22, 1073, until his death. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the Investiture Controversy, his dispute with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor affirming the primacy of the papal...
  
  , pope or Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
  Magdalena de Pazzi
  Saint Maria Magdalene de Pazzi is an Italian saint of the Roman Catholic Church.- Life :...
  
  , virgin - Optional Memorial
• 26 May: Saint Philip Neri
  Philip Neri
  Saint Philip Romolo Neri , also known as Apostle of Rome, was an Italian priest, noted for founding a society of secular priests called the "Congregation of the Oratory".-Early life:...
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 27 May: Saint Augustine (Austin) of Canterbury
  Augustine of Canterbury
  Augustine of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597...
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 28 May: Feria
• 29 May: Feria
• 30 May: Feria
• 31 May: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Feast

June (General Calendar)

• 1 June: Saint Justin Martyr
  Justin Martyr
  Justin Martyr, also known as just Saint Justin , was an early Christian apologist. Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and a dialogue survive. He is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church....
  
   - Memorial
• 2 June: Saints Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs - Optional Memorial
• 3 June: Saints Charles Lwanga
  Carl Lwanga
  Charles Lwanga was a Ugandan Catholic catechist martyred for his faith and revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in the kingdom of Buganda in the southern part of modern Uganda, and served as a page and later major-domo in the court of King Mwanga II...
  
   and companions, martyrs - Memorial
• 4 June: Feria
• 5 June: Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr - Memorial
• 6 June: Saint Norbert
  Norbert of Xanten
  Saint Norbert of Xanten was a Christian saint and founder of the Norbertine or Premonstratensian order of canons regular.- Life and work :...
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 7 June: Feria
• 8 June: Feria
• 9 June: Saint Ephrem
  Ephrem the Syrian
  Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world, and especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church, as a saint.Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as...
  
  , deacon and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 10 June: Feria
• 11 June: Saint Barnabas the Apostle
  Barnabas
  Barnabas , born Joseph, was an Early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem. In terms of culture and background, he was a Hellenised Jew, specifically a Levite. Named an apostle in , he and Saint Paul undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts...
  
   - Memorial
• 12 June: Feria
• 13 June: Saint Anthony of Padua
  Anthony of Padua
  Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, O.F.M., was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. Though he died in Padua, Italy, he was born to a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, which is where he was raised...
  
  , priest and doctor - Memorial
• 14 June: Feria
• 15 June: Feria
• 16 June: Feria
• 17 June: Feria
• 18 June: Feria
• 19 June: Saint Romuald
  Romuald
  Saint Romuald was the founder of the Camaldolese order and a major figure in the eleventh-century "Renaissance of eremitical asceticism"....
  
  , abbot - Optional Memorial
• 20 June: Feria
• 21 June: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
  Aloysius Gonzaga
  - Early life :Aloysius Gonzaga was born at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantova in northern Italy in what was then part of the Papal States. He was a member of the illustrious House of Gonzaga...
  
  , religious - Memorial
• 22 June: Saint Paulinus of Nola
  Paulinus of Nola
  Saint Paulinus of Nola, also known as Pontificus Meropius Anicius Paulinus was a Roman senator who converted to a severe monasticism in 394...
  
  , bishop or Saints John Fisher
  John Fisher
  Saint John Fisher was an English Roman Catholic scholastic, bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July on the Church of England calendar of saints...
  
   and Thomas More
  Thomas More
  Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
  
  , martyrs - Optional Memorial
• 23 June: Feria
• 24 June: Birth of Saint John the Baptist
  Nativity of St. John the Baptist
  The Nativity of St. John the Baptist is a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of John the Baptist, a prophet who foretold the coming of the Messiah in the person of Jesus and who baptized Jesus.-Significance:Christians have long interpreted the life of John the Baptist as a preparation for...
  
   - Solemnity
• 25 June: Feria
• 26 June: Feria
• 27 June: Saint Cyril of Alexandria
  Cyril of Alexandria
  Cyril of Alexandria was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He came to power when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 28 June: Saint Irenaeus
  Irenaeus
  Saint Irenaeus , was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Memorial
• 29 June: Saints Peter and Paul
  Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
  The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, or the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, is a liturgical feast in honour of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which is observed on 29 June...
  
  , Apostles - Solemnity
• 30 June: First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
  First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
  The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome were Christians martyred in the city of Rome during Nero's persecution in 64. The event is recorded by both Tacitus and Pope Clement I, among others. They are celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church as an optional memorial on 30 June.This feast first came...
  
   - Optional Memorial

July (General Calendar)

• 1 July: Feria
• 2 July: Feria
• 3 July: Saint Thomas the Apostle - Feast
• 4 July: Saint Elizabeth of Portugal - Optional Memorial
• 5 July: Saint Anthony Zaccaria, priest - Optional Memorial
• 6 July: Saint Maria Goretti
  Maria Goretti
  Maria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused him...
  
  , virgin and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 7 July: Feria
• 8 July: Feria
• 9 July: Saint Augustine Zhao Rong
  Chinese Martyrs
  Chinese Martyrs is the name given to a number of members of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church who were killed in China during the 19th and early 20th centuries. They are celebrated as martyrs by their respective churches...
  
   and companions, martyrs - Optional Memorial
• 10 July: Feria
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
  , abbot - Memorial
• 12 July: Feria
• 13 July: Saint Henry
  Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
  Henry II , also referred to as Saint Henry, Obl.S.B., was the fifth and last Holy Roman Emperor of the Ottonian dynasty, from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later. He was crowned King of the Germans in 1002 and King of Italy in 1004...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 14 July: Saint Camillus de Lellis
  Camillus de Lellis
  Saint Camillus de Lellis, M.I., was an Italian priest who founded a religious Order dedicated to the care of the sick.-Early life:...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 15 July: Saint Bonaventure
  Bonaventure
  Saint Bonaventure, O.F.M., , born John of Fidanza , was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Memorial
• 16 July: Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  Carmelites
  The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, hence its name. However, historical records about its origin remain uncertain...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 17 July: Feria
• 18 July: Feria
• 19 July: Feria
• 20 July: Saint Apollinaris - Optional Memorial
• 21 July: Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, priest and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 22 July: Saint Mary Magdalene
  Mary Magdalene
  Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses...
  
   - Memorial
• 23 July: Saint Birgitta, religious- Optional Memorial
• 24 July: Saint Sharbel Makhluf, hermit - Optional Memorial
• 25 July: Saint James, apostle - Feast
• 26 July: Saints Joachim
  Joachim
  Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Joachim and Anne appears first in the apocryphal Gospel of James...
  
   and Anne
  Saint Anne
  Saint Hanna of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. English Anne is derived from Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah...
  
   - Memorial
• 27 July: Feria
• 28 July: Feria
• 29 July: Saint Martha
  Martha
  Martha of Bethany is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem...
  
   - Memorial
• 30 July: Saint Peter Chrysologus
  Peter Chrysologus
  Peter Chrysologus was Bishop of Ravenna from about AD 433 until his death. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729.-Life:...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 31 July: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
  Ignatius of Loyola
  Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and was its first Superior General. Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation...
  
  , priest - Memorial

August (General Calendar)

• 1 August: Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
  Alphonsus Liguori
  Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, scholastic philosopher and theologian, and founder of the Redemptorists, an influential religious congregation...
  
  , bishop and doctor of the Church - Memorial
• 2 August: Saint Eusebius of Vercelli
  Eusebius of Vercelli
  Eusebius of Vercelli was a bishop and saint in Italy. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism.-Biography:...
  
  , bishop, or Saint Peter Julian Eymard
  Peter Julian Eymard
  Saint Peter Julian Eymard was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious orders, and a canonized saint....
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 3 August: Feria
• 4 August: Saint Jean Vianney (the Curé of Ars)
  Jean Vianney
  Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney , commonly known in English as St John Vianney, was a French parish priest who in the Catholic Church is venerated as a saint and as the patron saint of all priests. He is often referred to as the "Curé d'Ars"...
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 5 August: Dedication of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
  Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
  The Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major , known also by other names, is the largest Roman Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy.There are other churches in Rome dedicated to Mary, such as Santa Maria in Trastevere, Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, but the greater size of the...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 6 August: Transfiguration of the Lord
  Transfiguration of Jesus
  The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported in the New Testament in which Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels describe it, and 2 Peter 1:16-18 refers to it....
  
   - Feast
• 7 August: Saint Sixtus II
  Pope Sixtus II
  Pope Sixtus II or Pope Saint Sixtus II was Pope from August 30, 257 to August 6, 258. He died as a martyr during the persecution by Emperor Valerian....
  
  , pope, and companions, martyrs, or Saint Cajetan
  Saint Cajetan
  Saint Cajetan , born Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene , is a Catholic Church saint and founder of the order of the Clerics Regular, better known as the Theatines...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 8 August: Saint Dominic
  Saint Dominic
  Saint Dominic , also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de Guzmán was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers , a Catholic religious order...
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
  , virgin and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 10 August: Saint Lawrence
  Saint Lawrence
  Lawrence of Rome was one of the seven deacons of ancient Rome who were martyred during the persecution of Valerian in 258.- Holy Chalice :...
  
  , deacon and martyr - Feast
• 11 August: Saint Clare
  Clare of Assisi
  Clare of Assisi , born Chiara Offreduccio, is an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi...
  
  , virgin - Memorial
• 12 August: Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, religious - Optional Memorial
• 13 August: Saints Pontian
  Pope Pontian
  Pope Pontian or Pontianus was Pope from 21 July 230 to 29 September 235.A little more is known of Pontian than his predecessors, apparently from a lost papal chronicle that was available to the compiler of the Liberian Catalogue of bishops of Rome, made in the fourth century.During his pontificate...
  
  , pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs - Optional Memorial
• 14 August: Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr - Memorial
• 15 August: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  Assumption of Mary
  According to the belief of Christians of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of the Anglican Communion and Continuing Anglicanism, the Assumption of Mary was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her life...
  
   - Solemnity
• 16 August: Saint Stephen of Hungary - Optional Memorial
• 17 August: Feria
• 18 August: Feria
• 19 August: Saint John Eudes
  Jean Eudes
  Jean Eudes was a French missionary, founder of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary and of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, and author of the Propers for Mass and Divine Office of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.-Biography:John Eudes, born at Ri, Orne, was a brother of the...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 20 August: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
  Bernard of Clairvaux
  Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val...
  
  , abbot and doctor of the Church - Memorial
• 21 August: Saint Pius X
  Pope Pius X
  Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
  
  , pope - Memorial
• 22 August: Queenship of Blessed Virgin Mary - Memorial
• 23 August: Saint Rose of Lima, virgin - Optional Memorial
• 24 August: Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
  Bartholomew
  Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and is usually identified as Nathaniel . He was introduced to Christ through St. Philip, another of the twelve apostles as per , where the name Nathaniel first appears. He is also mentioned as “Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee” in...
  
   - Feast
• 25 August: Saint Louis
  Louis IX of France
  Louis IX , commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death. He was also styled Louis II, Count of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and...
  
   or Saint Joseph of Calasanz, priest - Optional Memorial
• 26 August: Feria
• 27 August: Saint Monica
  Monica of Hippo
  Saint Monica is a Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo, who wrote extensively of her virtues and his life with her in his Confessions.-Life:...
  
   - Memorial
• 28 August: Saint Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
  
  , bishop and doctor of the Church - Memorial
• 29 August: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
  John the Baptist
  John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...
  
  , martyr - Memorial
• 30 August: Feria
• 31 August: Feria

September (General Calendar)

• 1 September: Feria
• 2 September: Feria
• 3 September: Saint Gregory the Great
  Pope Gregory I
  Pope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...
  
  , pope and doctor - Memorial
• 4 September: Feria
• 5 September: Feria
• 6 September: Feria
• 7 September: Feria
• 8 September: Birth
  Nativity of Mary
  The Nativity of Mary, or Birth of the Virgin and various permutations, is celebrated as a liturgical feast in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and in most Anglican liturgical calendars on 8 September, nine months after the solemnity of her Immaculate Conception, celebrated on 8 December...
  
   of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Feast
• 9 September: Saint Peter Claver
  Peter Claver
  Peter Claver was a Jesuit who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia and African Americans...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 10 September: Feria
• 11 September: Feria
• 12 September: Holy Name
  Holy Name of Mary
  The Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, or simply the Holy Name of Mary, is a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church celebrated on 12 September to honour the name of Mary the mother of Jesus...
  
   of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Optional Memorial
• 13 September: Saint John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom , Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Memorial
• 14 September: Triumph of the Holy Cross
  Feast of the Cross
  In the Christian liturgical calendar, there are several different Feasts of the Cross, all of which commemorate the cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus....
  
   - Feast
• 15 September: Our Lady of Sorrows
  Our Lady of Sorrows
  Our Lady of Sorrows , the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows , and Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life...
  
   - Memorial
• 16 September: Saints Cornelius
  Pope Cornelius
  Pope Saint Cornelius was pope from his election on 6 or 13 March 251 to his martyrdom in June 253.- Christian persecution :Emperor Decius, who ruled from 249 to 251 AD, persecuted Christians in the Roman Empire rather sporadically and locally, but starting January in the year 250, he ordered all...
  
  , pope, and Cyprian
  Cyprian
  Cyprian was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education...
  
  , bishop, martyrs - Memorial
• 17 September: Saint Robert Bellarmine
  Robert Bellarmine
  Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 18 September: Feria
• 19 September: Saint Januarius
  Januarius
  Januarius, Bishop of Naples, is a martyr saint of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Diocletianic Persecution, which ended with Diocletian's retirement in...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 20 September: Saint Andrew Kim Taegon
  Andrew Kim Taegon
  St. Andrew Kim Taegon aka Butterfly King was the first Korean-born Catholic priest. In the late 18th century, Roman Catholicism began to take root slowly in Korea, and was introduced by laypeople...
  
  , priest, and Paul Chong Hasang and companions
  Korean Martyrs
  The Korean Martyrs were the victims of religious persecution against the Catholic Church during the 19th century in Korea. At least 8,000 adherents to the faith were known to have been killed during this persecution, 103 of whom were canonized en masse in 1984.-History:Catholicism had entered...
  
  , martyrs - Memorial
• 21 September: Saint Matthew the Evangelist
  Matthew the Evangelist
  Matthew the Evangelist was, according to the Bible, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the four Evangelists.-Identity:...
  
  , Apostle, Evangelist - Feast
• 22 September: Feria
• 23 September: Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
  Pio of Pietrelcina
  Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was a Capuchin priest from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name Pio when he joined the Capuchins; he was popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood. He became famous for his ...
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 24 September: Feria
• 25 September: Feria
• 26 September: Saints Cosmas and Damian, martyrs - Optional Memorial
• 27 September: Saint Vincent de Paul
  Vincent de Paul
  Vincent de Paul was a priest of the Catholic Church who became dedicated to serving the poor. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He was canonized in 1737....
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 28 September: Saint Wenceslaus, martyr or Saints Lawrence Ruiz
  Lorenzo Ruiz
  Saint Lorenzo Ruiz , also known as San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, is the first Filipino saint venerated in the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   and companions, martyrs - Optional Memorial
• 29 September: Saints Michael
  Michael (archangel)
  Michael , Micha'el or Mîkhā'ēl; , Mikhaḗl; or Míchaël; , Mīkhā'īl) is an archangel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic teachings. Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans refer to him as Saint Michael the Archangel and also simply as Saint Michael...
  
  , Gabriel and Raphael, Archangel
  Archangel
  An archangel is an angel of high rank. Archangels are found in a number of religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Michael and Gabriel are recognized as archangels in Judaism and by most Christians. Michael is the only archangel specifically named in the Protestant Bible...
  
  s - Feast
• 30 September: Saint Jerome
  Jerome
  Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...
  
  , priest and doctor - Memorial

October (General Calendar)

• 1 October: Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor - Memorial
• 2 October: Guardian Angels
  Guardian angel (spirit)
  A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity...
  
   - Memorial
• 3 October: Feria
• 4 October: Saint Francis of Assisi
  Francis of Assisi
  Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...
  
   - Memorial
• 5 October: Feria
• 6 October: Saint Bruno
  Bruno of Cologne
  Saint Bruno of Cologne , the founder of the Carthusian Order, personally founded the order's first two communities...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 7 October: Our Lady of the Rosary
  Our Lady of the Rosary
  Our Lady of the Rosary is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary in relation to the rosary....
  
   - Memorial
• 8 October: Feria
• 9 October: Saint Denis
  Denis
  Saint Denis is a Christian martyr and saint. In the third century, he was Bishop of Paris. He was martyred in connection with the Decian persecution of Christians, shortly after A.D. 250...
  
   and companions, martyrs or Saint John Leonardi
  John Leonardi
  Saint John Leonardi was founder of the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca. He was born in the City-state of Lucca, Tuscany, in the year 1541. He was ordained as a priest in 1572. He first dedicated himself to the Christian formation of young people in his parish...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 10 October: Feria
• 11 October: Feria
• 12 October: Feria
• 13 October: Feria
• 14 October: Saint Callistus I, pope and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 15 October: Saint Teresa of Jesus
  Teresa of Ávila
  Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer...
  
  , virgin and doctor - Memorial
• 16 October: Saint Hedwig
  Hedwig of Andechs
  Saint Hedwig of Silesia , also Saint Hedwig of Andechs from the comital House of Andechs was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238.-Life:...
  
  , religious or Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin - Optional Memorial
• 17 October: Saint Ignatius of Antioch
  Ignatius of Antioch
  Ignatius of Antioch was among the Apostolic Fathers, was the third Bishop of Antioch, and was a student of John the Apostle. En route to his martyrdom in Rome, Ignatius wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of very early Christian theology...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Memorial
• 18 October: Saint Luke the Evangelist
  Luke the Evangelist
  Luke the Evangelist was an Early Christian writer whom Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles...
  
   - Feast
• 19 October: Saints Jean de Brébeuf
  Jean de Brébeuf
  Jean de Brébeuf was a Jesuit missionary, martyred in Canada on March 16, 1649.-Early years:Brébeuf was born in Condé-sur-Vire, Normandy, France. He was the uncle of the fur trader Georges de Brébeuf. He studied near home at Caen. He became a Jesuit in 1617, joining the Order...
  
  , Isaac Jogues
  Isaac Jogues
  Isaac Jogues was a Jesuit priest, missionary, and martyr who traveled and worked among the native populations in North America. He gave the original European name to Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement, Lake of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1646, Jogues was martyred by the Mohawks near ...
  
  , priests and martyrs; and their companions
  Canadian Martyrs
  The North American Martyrs, also known as the Canadian Martyrs or the Martyrs of New France, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were martyred in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what are now southern Ontario and upstate New York, during the warfare between the...
  
  , martyrs or Saint Paul of the Cross, priest - Optional Memorial
• 20 October: Feria
• 21 October: Feria
• 22 October: Feria
• 23 October: Saint John of Capistrano
  Giovanni da Capistrano
  Saint John of Capistrano, O.F.M., was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from Italy...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 24 October: Saint Anthony Mary Claret
  Antonio María Claret y Clará
  Anthony Mary Claret was a Catalan Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and missionary, and was confessor of Isabella II of Spain.-Biography:...
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 25 October: Feria
• 26 October: Feria
• 27 October: Feria
• 28 October: Saint Simon and Saint Jude
  Saint Jude
  Jude was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is generally identified with Thaddeus, and is also variously called Jude of James, Jude Thaddaeus, Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus...
  
  , apostles - Feast
• 29 October: Feria
• 30 October: Feria
• 31 October: Feria

November (General Calendar)

• 1 November: All Saints
  All Saints
  All Saints' Day , often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown...
  
   - Solemnity
• 2 November: All Souls - ranked with solemnities
• 3 November: Saint Martin de Porres
  Martin de Porres
  Martin de Porres was a lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people and all those seeking interracial harmony.He was noted for work on behalf of the poor, establishing an...
  
  , religious - Optional Memorial
• 4 November: Saint Charles Borromeo
  Charles Borromeo
  Charles Borromeo was the cardinal archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was a leading figure during the Counter-Reformation and was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests...
  
  , bishop - Memorial
• 5 November: Feria
• 6 November: Feria
• 7 November: Feria
• 8 November: Feria
• 9 November: Dedication of the Lateran basilica - Feast
• 10 November: Saint Leo the Great
  Pope Leo I
  Pope Leo I was pope from September 29, 440 to his death.He was an Italian aristocrat, and is the first pope of the Catholic Church to have been called "the Great". He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452, persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Italy...
  
  , pope and doctor - Memorial
• 11 November: Saint Martin of Tours
  Martin of Tours
  Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...
  
  , bishop - Memorial
• 12 November: Saint Josaphat
  Josaphat Kuncevyc
  Josaphat Kuntsevych is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church, born in Volodymyr-Volynskyi in the region of Volhynia in Ukraine, then part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1580 or 1584; he died at Vitebsk in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , 12 November 1623, killed by an Orthodox...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Memorial
• 13 November: Feria
• 14 November: Feria
• 15 November: Saint Albert the Great
  Albertus Magnus
  Albertus Magnus, O.P. , also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic saint. He was a German Dominican friar and a bishop, who achieved fame for his comprehensive knowledge of and advocacy for the peaceful coexistence of science and religion. Those such as James A. Weisheipl...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 16 November: Saint Margaret of Scotland
  Saint Margaret of Scotland
  Saint Margaret of Scotland , also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England...
  
   or Saint Gertrude the Great
  Gertrude the Great
  Gertrude the Great was a German Benedictine, mystic, and theologian.She is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and is inscribed in the General Roman Calendar, for celebration throughout the Latin Rite on November 16.Gertrude was born January 6, 1256, in Eisleben, Thuringia...
  
  , virgin - Optional Memorial
• 17 November: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
  Elisabeth of Hungary
  Elizabeth of Hungary, T.O.S.F., was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary, Countess of Thuringia, Germany and a greatly-venerated Catholic saint. Elizabeth was married at the age of 14, and widowed at 20. She then became one of the first members of the newly-founded Third Order of St. Francis,...
  
  , religious - Memorial
• 18 November: Dedication of the basilica
  Basilica
  The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a Roman public building, usually located in the forum of a Roman town. Public basilicas began to appear in Hellenistic cities in the 2nd century BC.The term was also applied to buildings used for religious purposes...
  
  s of Saints Peter
  St. Peter's Basilica
  The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian as ' and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world...
  
   and Paul
  Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
  The Papal Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls , commonly known as St Paul's Outside the Walls, is one of four churches that are the great ancient major basilicas or papal basilicas of Rome: the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Peter's and Saint Paul Outside the Walls...
  
  , Apostles - Optional Memorial
• 19 November: Feria
• 20 November: Feria
• 21 November: Presentation
  Presentation of Mary
  The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary , or The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple , is a liturgical feast celebrated by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Orthodox Churches....
  
   of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Memorial
• 22 November: Saint Cecilia
  Saint Cecilia
  Saint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians and Church music because as she was dying she sang to God. It is also written that as the musicians played at her wedding she "sang in her heart to the Lord". St. Cecilia was an only child. Her feast day is celebrated in the Roman Catholic, Anglican,...
  
   - Memorial
• 23 November: Saint Clement I
  Pope Clement I
  Starting in the 3rd and 4th century, tradition has identified him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in Philippians as a fellow laborer in Christ.While in the mid-19th century it was customary to identify him as a freedman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor...
  
  , pope and martyr or Saint Columban, religious - Optional Memorial
• 24 November: Saint Andrew Dung Lac
  Andrew Dung-Lac
  Andrew Dũng-Lạc is a saint and martyr of the Catholic Church, executed by beheading. He was born Trần An Dũng in 1795, taking the name Andrew at his baptism and was ordained a priest on 15 March 1823...
  
   and his companions, martyrs - Memorial
• 25 November: Saint Catherine of Alexandria
  Catherine of Alexandria
  Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 26 November: Feria
• 27 November: Feria
• 28 November: Feria
• 29 November: Feria
• 30 November: Saint Andrew
  Saint Andrew
  Saint Andrew , called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name "Andrew" , like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him...
  
   the Apostle - Feast

December (General Calendar)

• 1 December: Feria
• 2 December: Feria
• 3 December: Saint Francis Xavier, priest - Memorial
• 4 December: Saint John Damascene, priest and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 5 December: Feria
• 6 December: Saint Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 7 December: Saint Ambrose
  Ambrose
  Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose , was a bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. He was one of the four original doctors of the Church.-Political career:Ambrose was born into a Roman Christian family between about...
  
  , bishop and doctor - Memorial
• 8 December: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  Immaculate Conception
  The Immaculate Conception of Mary is a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, according to which the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin. It is one of the four dogmata in Roman Catholic Mariology...
  
   - Solemnity
• 9 December: Saint Juan Diego - Optional Memorial
• 10 December: Feria
• 11 December: Saint Damasus I
  Pope Damasus I
  Pope Saint Damasus I was the bishop of Rome from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, then part of the Western Roman Empire...
  
  , pope - Optional Memorial
• 12 December: Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 13 December: Saint Lucy
  Saint Lucy
  Saint Lucy , also known as Saint Lucia, was a wealthy young Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint by Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Orthodox Christians. Her feast day in the West is 13 December; with a name derived from lux, lucis "light", she is the patron saint of those who are...
  
   of Syracuse, virgin and martyr - Memorial
• 14 December: Saint John of the Cross
  John of the Cross
  John of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile....
  
  , priest and doctor - Memorial
• 15 December: Feria
• 16 December: Feria
• 17 December: Feria
• 18 December: Feria
• 19 December: Feria
• 20 December: Feria
• 21 December: Saint Peter Canisius, priest and doctor - Optional Memorial
• 22 December: Feria
• 23 December: Saint John of Kanty
  John Cantius
  Saint John Cantius was a renowned Polish priest, Scholastic philosopher, physicist and theologian. He is also known as John of Kanty or John of Kanti.-Biography:...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 24 December: Feria
• 25 December: Nativity of the Lord
  Christmas
  Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
  
   - Solemnity
• 26 December: Saint Stephen
  Saint Stephen
  Saint Stephen The Protomartyr , the protomartyr of Christianity, is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches....
  
  , the first martyr - Feast
• 27 December: Saint John the Apostle
  John the Apostle
  John the Apostle, John the Apostle, John the Apostle, (Aramaic Yoħanna, (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles...
  
   and evangelist - Feast
• 28 December: Holy Innocents, martyrs - Feast
• 29 December: Saint Thomas Becket
  Thomas Becket
  Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 30 December: Feria (Sixth Day with the Octave of Christmas)
• 31 December: Saint Sylvester I, pope - Optional Memorial

National calendars

Only variations from the General Roman Calendar for celebrations according to the Roman Rite

Roman Rite

The Roman Rite is the liturgical rite used in the Diocese of Rome in the Catholic Church. It is by far the most widespread of the Latin liturgical rites used within the Western or Latin autonomous particular Church, the particular Church that itself is also called the Latin Rite, and that is one of...

 are given here. The various Eastern Catholic Churches have completely different liturgical calendars, as do Latin Rite Catholics who use the Ambrosian

Ambrosian Rite

Ambrosian Rite, also called the Milanese Rite, is a Catholic liturgical Western Rite. The rite is named after Saint Ambrose, a bishop of Milan in the fourth century...

 and Mozarabic

Mozarabic Rite

The Mozarabic, Visigothic, or Hispanic Rite is a form of Catholic worship within the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, and in the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church . Its beginning dates to the 7th century, and is localized in the Iberian Peninsula...

 Rites.

Argentina

According to the national calendar of Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, as requested by the Argentine Episcopal Conference

Argentine Episcopal Conference

The Argentine Episcopal Conference is an episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina that gathers the bishops of the country in order to discuss pastoral issues and in general all matters that have to do with the Church...

 (CEA) and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

:

• 22 January: Blessed Laura Vicuña
  Laura Vicuña
  Blessed Laura Vicuña is a blessed person in the Roman Catholic Church. She is the patron of abuse victims.-Escape from Chile:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 24 January: Our Lady, Queen of Peace
  Our Lady of Peace
  Our Lady of Peace, Mother of Peace, Queen of Peace or Our Lady Queen of Peace is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church. She is represented in art holding a dove and an olive branch, symbols of peace. Her official memorial feast is celebrated on January 24 each year in...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 27 April: Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop - Feast
• 8 May: Our Lady of Luján
  Our Lady of Luján
  Our Lady of Luján is a celebrated 16th-century icon of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The image, also known as the Virgin of Luján represents a famous Marian advocation. The image still exists; it is on display in the Basilica of Luján in Argentina...
  
  , Patroness of Argentina - Solemnity
• 15 May: Saint Isidore the Laborer
  Isidore the Laborer
  Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer, , was a Spanish day laborer known for his goodness toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers and of Madrid and of La Ceiba, Honduras....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 16 May: Saint Luigi Orione
  Luigi Orione
  Saint Luigi Orione is an Italian saint.- Life :Luigi Giovanni Orione was born into a poor family at Pontecurone, in the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont on the Vigil of the feast day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. He was named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and Saint John the Baptist...
  
  , Priest - Optional Memorial
• 24 May: Mary, Help of Christians
  Mary Help of Christians
  Mary Help of Christians , is a Roman Catholic Marian devotion with a feast day celebrated on May 24. John Chrysostom was the first person to use this title in 345 as a devotion to the Virgin Mary....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 9 July: Our Lady of Itatí
  Itatí, Corrientes
  Itatí is a town in the north of the province of Corrientes, Argentina. It has 7,902 inhabitants as per the . It lies some 60 km east of the provincial capital Corrientes, by the Paraná River, not far upstream from its confluence with the Paraguay River, on the northern provincial border, which...
  
   - Obligatory Memorial
• 10 July: Saints Augustine Zhao Rong
  Martyr Saints of China
  The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, are saints of the Roman Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries, from the mid-17th century to 1930, were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize...
  
  , Priest, and Companions, Martyrs - Obligatory Memorial
• 16 July: Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid 13th centuries...
  
   - Obligatory Memorial
• 23 July: Saint Sharbel Makhlūf
  Charbel
  Charbel, Sharbel, or Sharbel Makhluf, , born as Youssef Antoun Makhlouf in Bekaa Kafra in northern Lebanon, was a Syriac-Maronite monk and priest, canonized saint by the Roman Catholic Church and now venerated world-wide.-His Life:...
  
  , Priest - Optional Memorial
• 24 July: Saint Francis Solanus
  Francis Solanus
  Saint Francis Solanus, O.F.M., was a Spanish friar and missionary in South America, belonging to the Order of Friars Minor , who is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:...
  
  , Priest - Obligatory Memorial
• 16 August: Saint Rocco, Priest - Optional Memorial
• 26 August: Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá
  Ceferino Namuncurá
  Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá was a saintly religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.- Early life :...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 30 August: Saint Rose of Lima
  Rose of Lima
  Rose of Lima, , the first Catholic saint of the Americas, was born in Lima, Peru.-Biography:Saint Rose of Lima was born in the city of that name, the daughter of Gaspar Flores, a harquebusier from San German, Puerto Rico, and his wife, Maria de Oliva, who was a native of Lima. She was part of a...
  
   - Feast
• 24 September: Our Lady of Mercy
  Virgin of Mercy
  The Virgin of Mercy is a subject in Catholic art, showing a group of people sheltering for protection under the outspread cloak of the Virgin Mary. It was especially popular in Italy from the 13th to 16th centuries, often as a specialised form of votive portrait, and is also found in other...
  
   - Obligatory Memorial
• 9 October: Saint Héctor Valdivielso Sáez
  Martyrs of Turon
  The martyrs of Turon were a group of eight De La Salle Brothers and a Passionist priest who were executed by revolutionaries in Spain in October 1934...
  
  , Martyr - Optional Memorial
• 12 October: Our Lady of the Pillar - Optional Memorial
• 7 November: Mary, Mother and Mediatrix of Grace
  Mary Mediatrix of all graces
  "Mary, Mediatrix of all graces" is a title that some give to Mary the mother of Jesus, in line with a belief that all the graces that her son gives come through her.-Proposal for formal definition by the Catholic Church:...
  
   - Obligatory Memorial
• 17 November: Saints Roque González
  Roque González de Santa Cruz
  Father Roque González de Santa Cruz S.J. was born in Asunción, Paraguay on 17 November 1576. He was the son of Don Bartolomé González de Villaverde and Doña María de Santa Cruz who were Spanish nobles. Roque González spoke Guaraní fluently from an early age....
  
  , Alfonso Rodríguez, and Juan del Castillo, Priests and Martyrs - Obligatory Memorial
• 18 November: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary - Obligatory Memorial
• 12 December: Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
  
   - Feast
• Saturday of the Second Week of Easter: Our Lady of the Valley
  Virgen del Valle
  As part of the religious tradition of Venezuela, the Virgin of the Valley is considered as the patroness of eastern Venezuela, being venerated with special devotion in Isla Margarita. Every 8 September, many people go to venerate her, in her sanctuary located in the Margarita Valley near Porlamar....
  
   - Obligatory Memorial
• Monday after Pentecost: Mary, Mother of the Church
  Mother of the Church
  Mother of the Church is a title, officially given to Mary during the Second Vatican Council by Pope Paul VI. The title was first used by Saint Ambrose of Milan and rediscovered by Hugo Rahner, the brother of Karl Rahner.- Ambrose and Hugo Rahner :...
  
   - Obligatory Memorial

Australia

• 23 January: Saint Timothy and Saint Titus - Memorial
• 26 January: Australia Day
  Australia Day
  Australia Day is the official national day of Australia...
  
  
• 17 March: Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
   - Solemnity
• 25 April: ANZAC Day
  ANZAC Day
  Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all...
  
  
• 26 April: Saint Mark - Feast
• 28 April: Saint Peter Chanel
  Peter Chanel
  Pierre Louis Marie Chanel, known in English as Saint Peter Chanel was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr.-Early years:Chanel was born in La Potière near Cuet in the area of Belley, Ain département, France....
  
   - Memorial
• 24 May: Our Lady, Help of Christians
  Mary Help of Christians
  Mary Help of Christians , is a Roman Catholic Marian devotion with a feast day celebrated on May 24. John Chrysostom was the first person to use this title in 345 as a devotion to the Virgin Mary....
  
   - Solemnity
• 7 July: Blessed Peter To Rot - Optional Memorial
• 5 August: Saint Dominic
  Saint Dominic
  Saint Dominic , also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de Guzmán was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers , a Catholic religious order...
  
   - Memorial
• 8 August: Saint Mary of the Cross (Saint Mary MacKillop) - Feast
• Saturday after 5 August: Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major
  Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
  The Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major , known also by other names, is the largest Roman Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy.There are other churches in Rome dedicated to Mary, such as Santa Maria in Trastevere, Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, but the greater size of the...
  
   - Optional Memorial

Canada

According to the national calendar of Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, as requested by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is the national assembly of the Bishops of the Catholic Church in Canada. It was founded in 1943 and was officially recognized by the Holy See in 1948. Since the Second Vatican Council, it became part of a worldwide network of Episcopal Conferences,...

 (CCCB) and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

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• 4 January: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church . She established Catholic communities in Emmitsburg, Maryland....
  
   (Archdiocese of Halifax) - Memorial
• 6 January: Saint Andre Bessette
  André Bessette
  Saint André Bessette, CSC , born Alfred Bessette and since his canonisation sometimes known as Saint André of Montreal, was a Holy Cross Brother and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported miraculous healings. He was declared...
  
   - Memorial
• 12 January: Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys
  Marguerite Bourgeoys
  Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys was the founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame.- Biography :...
  
   - Memorial
• 19 March: Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph
  Saint Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ ....
  
  , Patron of Canada - Solemnity
• 18 April: Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin - Optional Memorial
• 26 April: Our Lady of Good Counsel
  Our Lady of Good Counsel
  Our Lady of Good Counsel is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, after an allegedly miraculous painting now found in the thirteenth century Augustinian church at Genazzano, near Rome, Italy. Measuring 40 by 45 centimeters the image is a fresco executed on a thin layer of porcelain no thicker...
  
   (Catholic Women's League
  Catholic Women's League
  The Catholic Women's League is a Roman Catholic lay organisation aimed at women in England and Wales. Through emigration in the past, the CWL may be found in some Commonwealth countries. It is especially flourishing in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. -References:* Olivier Rota,...
  
  ) - Optional Memorial
• 30 April: Blessed Marie of the Incarnation
  Marie of the Incarnation
  Marie of the Incarnation , born as Barbara Avrillot and known also as Madame Acarie, was foundress of the French Carmelites.-Biography:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 4 May: Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis - Optional Memorial
• 6 May: Blessed Francois de Laval
  François de Laval
  This article is in part a sermon and generally comes close to hagiography.Blessed François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec and was one of the most influential men of his day. He was appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII. He was a member...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 8 May: Blessed Catherine of Saint Augustine - Optional Memorial
• 21 May: Saint Eugene de Mazenod
  Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod
  Saint Eugene De Mazenod born Charles Joseph Eugene de Mazenod and more commonly known as Eugene De Mazenod, was a Frenches Catholic clergman, beatified on 19 October 1975 by Pope Paul VI, and canonized on 3 December 1995 by Pope John Paul II.-Biography:The saint was born on the Cours Mirabeau in...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 24 May: Blessed Louis-Zephirin Moreau
  Louis-Zéphirin Moreau
  Louis-Zéphirin Moreau was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and fourth Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, from 1875 to 1901.He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 10 May 1987.-References:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 14 July: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
  Kateri Tekakwitha
  Kateri Tekakwitha or Catherine Tekakwitha was a Mohawk-Algonquian woman from New York and an early convert to Catholicism, who has been beatified in the Roman Catholic Church.-Her life:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 26 July: Saint Anne
  Saint Anne
  Saint Hanna of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. English Anne is derived from Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah...
  
   and Joachim
  Joachim
  Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Joachim and Anne appears first in the apocryphal Gospel of James...
  
  , parents of Mary - Feast
• 5 August: Blessed Frederic Janssoone - Optional Memorial
• 4 September: Blessed Dina Belanger - Optional Memorial
• 23 September: Blessed Émilie Tavernier-Gamelin
  Émilie Gamelin
  Émilie Gamelin , also known as Marie-Émilie-Eugène Gamelin and Amélie Gamelin, was a Canadian social worker and Roman Catholic nun. She is best known as the founder and first superior of the Sisters of Providence...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 26 September: Saints John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues & Comp.
  Canadian Martyrs
  The North American Martyrs, also known as the Canadian Martyrs or the Martyrs of New France, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were martyred in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what are now southern Ontario and upstate New York, during the warfare between the...
  
   - Feast
• 6 October: Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher - Optional Memorial
• 16 October: Saint Marie-Marguerite d'Youville
  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville
  Saint Marguerite d'Youville was a French Canadian widow who founded the religious order the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal, commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal...
  
   - Memorial
• 12 December: Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
  
   - Feast

Chile

According to the national calendar of Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, as requested by the Episcopal Conference of Chile (CECh) and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

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• 22 January: Blessed Laura Vicuña
  Laura Vicuña
  Blessed Laura Vicuña is a blessed person in the Roman Catholic Church. She is the patron of abuse victims.-Escape from Chile:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 7 February: Blessed Pius IX
  Pope Pius IX
  Blessed Pope Pius IX , born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, was the longest-reigning elected Pope in the history of the Catholic Church, serving from 16 June 1846 until his death, a period of nearly 32 years. During his pontificate, he convened the First Vatican Council in 1869, which decreed papal...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 11 February: Our Lady of Lourdes
  Our Lady of Lourdes
  Our Lady of Lourdes is the name used to refer to the Marian apparition said to have appeared before various individuals on separate occasions around Lourdes, France...
  
   - Memorial
• 3 May: Exaltation of the Holy Cross - Feast
• 4 May: Saints Philip
  Philip the Apostle
  Philip the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia....
  
   and James
  James, son of Alphaeus
  Saint James, son of Alphaeus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. He is often identified with James the Less and commonly known by that name in church tradition....
  
   - Feast
• 13 July: Saint Teresa of the Andes - Feast
• 14 July: Saint Camillus de Lellis
  Camillus de Lellis
  Saint Camillus de Lellis, M.I., was an Italian priest who founded a religious Order dedicated to the care of the sick.-Early life:...
  
   or Saint Henry
  Saint Henry
  Saint Henry or St Henry may refer to one of the following*Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor*Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, Catholic saint and martyr.* St. Henry of Cocket, hermit and miracle-worker of Coquet Island in north England, a Dane of birth...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 16 July: Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid 13th centuries...
  
  , Mother and Queen of Chile - Solemnity
• 18 August: Saint Alberto Hurtado
  Alberto Hurtado
  Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga , popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado , was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker and writer of Basque origin, founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation...
  
   - Memorial
• 30 August: Saint Rose of Lima
  Rose of Lima
  Rose of Lima, , the first Catholic saint of the Americas, was born in Lima, Peru.-Biography:Saint Rose of Lima was born in the city of that name, the daughter of Gaspar Flores, a harquebusier from San German, Puerto Rico, and his wife, Maria de Oliva, who was a native of Lima. She was part of a...
  
   - Feast
• 24 September: Our Lady of Mercy
  Virgin of Mercy
  The Virgin of Mercy is a subject in Catholic art, showing a group of people sheltering for protection under the outspread cloak of the Virgin Mary. It was especially popular in Italy from the 13th to 16th centuries, often as a specialised form of votive portrait, and is also found in other...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 11 October: Blessed John XXIII
  Pope John XXIII
  -Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 12 December: Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
  
   - Feast
• Thursday after Pentecost: Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
  Feast of Christ the Priest
  The Feast of Christ the Priest is a liturgical feast celebrated each year, on the first Thursday after Pentecost, by the Confraternity of Christ the Priest in Australia and all the Roman Catholic dioceses of Spain...
  
   - Feast

Croatia

• 10 February: Blessed Aloysius Stepinac
  Aloysius Stepinac
  Aloysius Viktor Stepinac , also known as Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, was a Croatian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to 1960. In 1998 he was declared a martyr and beatified by Pope John Paul II....
  
   – Memorial
• 10 May: Blessed Ivan Merz
  Ivan Merz
  Blessed Ivan Merz was a Bosnian-Croatian lay academic, beatified by Pope John Paul II on a visit at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 23, 2003...
  
   – Memorial
• 12 May: Saint Leopold Mandić
  Leopold Mandic
  Saint Leopold Bogdan Mandić was born on May 12, 1866, and died on July 30, 1942. He was an ethnic Croat born in Castelnuovo di Cattaro , in Bocche di Cattaro , then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today in Montenegro, and died in Padua, Italy...
  
   – Memorial
• 4 June: Saint Quirinus of Sescia – Optional Memorial
• 9 July: Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Petković
  Marija Petkovic
  Marija Petković, also known as "The Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Petković" , was the founder of the Catholic Congregation of the Daughters of Mercy...
  
   (Croatian: Marija od Propetoga Isusa Petković) – Optional Memorial
• 13 July: Our Lady of Bistrica
  Marija Bistrica
  Marija Bistrica is municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in central Croatia, located on the slopes of the Medvednica mountain in Hrvatsko Zagorje, not far away from Zagreb...
  
   – Feast
• 3 August: Blessed Augustin Kažotić
  Augustin Kažotić
  Augustin Kažotić was a Croatian humanist, a medieval Christian monk, an orator and the bishop of Zagreb...
  
   – Optional Memorial
• 7 September: Saint Marko Krizin
  Marko Krizin
  Marko Krizin or Marko Križevčanin is the third canonized Croatian saint of the Roman Catholic Church, priest, martyr of Košice, professor of theology, missionary....
  
   (Croatian: Marko Križevčanin) – Memorial
• 14 November: Saint Nikola Tavelić
  Nikola Tavelic
  Nikola Tavelić is a saint of the Catholic Church. This Franciscan missionary, who died a martyr's death in Jerusalem, was the first Croatian saint.- Life :...
  
   – Feast

England

According to the national calendar of England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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as requested by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales

Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is the episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.-About:...

 and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

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• 12 January: Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
  Ailred of Rievaulx
  Aelred , also Aelred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc., was an English writer, abbot of Rievaulx , and saint.-Life:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 19 January: Saint Wulstan - Optional Memorial
• 14 February: Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
   - Feast
• 1 March: Saint David
  Saint David
  Saint David was a Welsh Bishop during the 6th century; he was later regarded as a saint and as the patron saint of Wales. David was a native of Wales, and a relatively large amount of information is known about his life. However, his birth date is still uncertain, as suggestions range from 462 to...
  
   - Feast
• 17 March: Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
   - Feast
• 21 April: Saint Anselm of Canterbury
  Anselm of Canterbury
  Anselm of Canterbury , also called of Aosta for his birthplace, and of Bec for his home monastery, was a Benedictine monk, a philosopher, and a prelate of the church who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 23 April: Saint George
  Saint George
  Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic , Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox...
  
   - Solemnity
• 24 April: Saint Adalbert
  Adalbert of Egmond
  Saint Adalbert of Egmond was a Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon missionary. He was one of Saint Willibrord's companions in preaching the gospel in Holland and Frisia....
  
   or Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
  Fidelis of Sigmaringen
  Fidelis of Sigmaringen was a Capuchin friar martyred in the Counter-Reformation at Seewis im Prättigau, Switzerland.-Early life:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
   - Feast
• 4 May: The English Martyrs
  Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
  The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of men and women who were executed for treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1535 and 1679...
  
   - Feast
• 19 May: Saint Dunstan
  Dunstan
  Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 25 May: Saint Bede the Venerable
  Bede
  Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   - Memorial
• 27 May: Saint Augustine of Canterbury
  Augustine of Canterbury
  Augustine of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597...
  
   - Feast
• 5 June: Saint Boniface
  Saint Boniface
  Saint Boniface , the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton , was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. He is the patron saint of Germany and the first archbishop of Mainz...
  
   - Memorial
• 9 June: Saint Columba
  Columba
  Saint Columba —also known as Colum Cille , Colm Cille , Calum Cille and Kolban or Kolbjørn —was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 16 June: Saint Richard of Chichester
  Richard of Chichester
  Richard of Chichester is a saint who was Bishop of Chichester...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 20 June: Saint Alban
  Saint Alban
  Saint Alban was the first British Christian martyr. Along with his fellow saints Julius and Aaron, Alban is one of three martyrs remembered from Roman Britain. Alban is listed in the Church of England calendar for 22 June and he continues to be venerated in the Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 22 June: Saints John Fisher
  John Fisher
  Saint John Fisher was an English Roman Catholic scholastic, bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July on the Church of England calendar of saints...
  
   and Thomas More
  Thomas More
  Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
  
  - Feast
• 23 June: Saint Etheldreda (Audrey) - Optional Memorial
• 1 July: Saint Oliver Plunket
  Oliver Plunkett
  Saint Oliver Plunkett was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
   - Feast
• 23 July: Saint Bridget
  Bridget of Sweden
  Bridget of Sweden Bridget of Sweden Bridget of Sweden (1303 – 23 July 1373; also Birgitta of Vadstena, Saint Birgitta , was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years...
  
   - Feast
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   - Feast
• 26 August: Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God Barberi
  Dominic Barberi
  Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God, born Dominic Barberi was an Italian theologian and a member of the Passionist Congregation...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 30 August: Saints Margaret Clitherow
  Margaret Clitherow
  Saint Margaret Clitherow is an English saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She is sometimes called "the Pearl of York".-Life:...
  
  , Anne Line
  Anne Line
  Saint Anne Line was an English martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for harbouring a priest. She was born in 1567, the second daughter of Heigham, Esq., of Essex, a strict Calvinist, and was, together with her brother William, disinherited for converting to Catholicism...
  
   and Margaret Ward
  Margaret Ward
  Saint Margaret Ward was an English Catholic martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I for helping a priest to escape from prison. Her date of birth is unknown, but she was born in Congleton, Cheshire....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 31 August: Saint Aidan
  Aidan of Lindisfarne
  Known as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria , was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England. A Christian missionary, he is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. Aidan is the Anglicised form of the original Old...
  
   and the Saints of Lindisfarne
  Lindisfarne
  Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is also known as Holy Island and constitutes a civil parish in Northumberland...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 3 September: Saint Gregory the Great
  Pope Gregory I
  Pope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death...
  
   - Feast
• 4 September: Saint Cuthbert
  Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
  Saint Cuthbert was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop and hermit associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, at that time including, in modern terms, northern England as well as south-eastern Scotland as far as the Firth of Forth...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 19 September: Saint Theodore of Canterbury
  Theodore of Tarsus
  Theodore was the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, best known for his reform of the English Church and establishment of a school in Canterbury....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 24 September: Our Lady of Walsingham
  Our Lady of Walsingham
  Our Lady of Walsingham is a title used for Mary, the mother of Jesus. The title derives from the belief that Mary appeared in a vision to Richeldis de Faverches, a devout Saxon noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England...
  
   - Memorial
• 9 October: Blessed John Henry Newman - Optional Memorial
• 10 October: Saint Paulinus of York
  Paulinus of York
  Paulinus was a Roman missionary and the first Bishop of York. A member of the Gregorian mission sent in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, Paulinus arrived in England by 604 with the second missionary group...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 12 October: Saint Wilfrid
  Wilfrid
  Wilfrid was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 13 October: Saint Edward the Confessor
  Edward the Confessor
  Edward the Confessor also known as St. Edward the Confessor , son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 26 October: Saints Chad
  Chad of Mercia
  Chad was a prominent 7th century Anglo-Saxon churchman, who became abbot of several monasteries, Bishop of the Northumbrians and subsequently Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. He was later canonized as a saint. He was the brother of Cedd, also a saint...
  
   and Cedd
  Cedd
  Cedd was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop from Northumbria. He was an evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons in England and a significant participant in the Synod of Whitby, a meeting which resolved important differences within the Church in England...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 3 November: Saint Winefride
  Winefride
  thumb|right|300px|St Winifred's Well, [[Woolston, north Shropshire|Woolston]], ShropshireSaint Winefride was a legendary 7th-century Welsh noblewoman who was canonized after dying for the sake of her chastity...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 7 November: Saint Willibrord
  Willibrord
  __notoc__Willibrord was a Northumbrian missionary saint, known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in the modern Netherlands...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 16 November: Saint Edmund of Abingdon
  Edmund Rich
  Edmund Rich was a 13th century Archbishop of Canterbury in England...
  
   or Saint Margaret of Scotland
  Saint Margaret of Scotland
  Saint Margaret of Scotland , also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 17 November: Saint Hilda
  Hilda of Whitby
  Hilda of Whitby or Hild of Whitby was a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby...
  
   or Saint Hugh of Lincoln
  Hugh of Lincoln
  Hugh of Lincoln was at the time of the Reformation the best-known English saint after Thomas Becket.-Life:...
  
   or Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
  Elisabeth of Hungary
  Elizabeth of Hungary, T.O.S.F., was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary, Countess of Thuringia, Germany and a greatly-venerated Catholic saint. Elizabeth was married at the age of 14, and widowed at 20. She then became one of the first members of the newly-founded Third Order of St. Francis,...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 30 November: Saint Andrew
  Saint Andrew
  Saint Andrew , called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name "Andrew" , like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him...
  
   - Feast
• 29 December: Saint Thomas Becket
  Thomas Becket
  Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion...
  
   - Feast

Greece

• 14 February: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , Monk and Methodius - Feast
• 18 March: Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
  Cyril of Jerusalem
  Cyril of Jerusalem was a distinguished theologian of the early Church . He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. In 1883, Cyril was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII...
  
   - Memorial
• 22 April: Saint Adalbert
  Adalbert of Prague
  This article is about St Adalbert of Prague. For other uses, see Adalbert .Saint Adalbert, Czech: ; , , Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians. He evangelized Poles and Hungarians. St...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 23 April: Saint George
  Saint George
  Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic , Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox...
  
   - Memorial
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
   - Feast
• 5 May: Saint Irene
  Saint Irene
  Saint Irene may refer to:* Irene of Thessalonica, one of the virgin sisters, feast day April 3* Irene of Rome , wife of martyr Saint Castulus, feast day January 22* Irene of Tomar Saint Irene may refer to:* Irene of Thessalonica, one of the virgin sisters, feast day April 3* Irene of Rome (died c....
  
   - Memorial
• 13 May: Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church - Memorial
• 15 May: Our Lady of Fatima
  Our Lady of Fatima
  Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 27 June: Saint Cyril of Alexandria
  Cyril of Alexandria
  Cyril of Alexandria was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He came to power when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries...
  
   - Memorial
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
   - Feast
• 17 July: Saint Marina
  Saint Marina
  Saint Marina may refer to:*Saint Margaret of Antioch, also known as Saint Margaret the Virgin, Saint Marina the Martyr or Agia Marina by the Orthodox Church...
  
   - Memorial
• 23 July: Saint Birgitta - Feast
• 27 July: Saint Pantaleon
  Saint Pantaleon
  Saint Pantaleon , counted in the West among the late-medieval Fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletian persecution of 303 AD...
  
   - Memorial
• 3 August: Saint Lydia of Philippi
  Lydia of Thyatira
  Lydia of Thyatira is a character in the New Testament. She is regarded as the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe.-Name:The name, "Lydia", meaning "the Lydian woman", by which she was known indicates that she was from Lydia in Asia Minor. Though she is commonly known as “St...
  
   - Memorial
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   - Feast
• 26 September: Saints Cosmas and Damian - Memorial
• 3 October: Saint Dionysius the Areopagite
  Dionysius the Areopagite
  Dionysius the Areopagite was a judge of the Areopagus who, as related in the Acts of the Apostles, , was converted to Christianity by the preaching of the Apostle Paul during the Areopagus sermon...
  
   - Memorial
• 26 October: Saint Demetrius - Memorial
• 21 November: Presentation
  Presentation of Mary
  The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary , or The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple , is a liturgical feast celebrated by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Orthodox Churches....
  
   of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Feast
• 4 December: Saint John Damascene or Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara, , Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 6 December: Saint Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...
  
   - Memorial
• 12 December: Saint Spyridon
  Saint Spyridon
  Saint Spyridon, Bishop of Trimythous also sometimes written Saint Spiridon is a saint honoured in both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions.-Life:...
  
   - Memorial

Ireland

According to the national calendar of Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, as drawn up by the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

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• 3 January: Saint Munchin
  Munchin
  Mainchín mac Setnai , also anglicised to Munchin, was allegedly the founder of the church of Luimnech, later Limerick , and a saint in Irish tradition, acquiring special eminence as patron of Limerick city...
  
   (Mainchin) - Optional Memorial
• 15 January: Saint Ita
  Saint Ita
  Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad , also known as Ita, Ida or Ides, was an early Irish nun and saint, patron of Killeedy . Her feast day is 15 January....
  
   - Memorial
• 16 January: Saint Fursa - Optional Memorial
• 30 January: Saint Aidan (Maedoc) - Optional Memorial
• 1 February: Saint Brigid - Feast
• 7 February: Saint Mel
  Saint Mel
  Saint Mel or Moel died in 488. He is said to have been a Briton who came to Ireland with Saint Patrick, his uncle, with whom he worked until he was ordained in Ardagh. He helped evangelize Ireland while supporting himself through manual labor. He is one of the earliest Irish saints and gave the...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 11 February: Saint Gobnait
  Gobnait
  Saint Gobnait , also known as Gobnat or Mo Gobnat, is the name of a local female Irish saint whose church was Móin Mór, now Bairnech, in the village of Baile Bhuirne , County Cork in Ireland...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 14 February: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
   and Methodius - Feast
• 17 February: Saint Fintan
  Saint Fintan
  Saint Fintan was born in Leinster. He received his religious formation in Terryglass, Co. Tipperary under the abbot Colum mac Crimthainn, and was deeply influenced by his penitential practices and the severity of the Rule. Fintan made his own foundation in Clonenagh, Co. Laois. He died in 603. His...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 1 March: Saint David
  Saint David
  Saint David was a Welsh Bishop during the 6th century; he was later regarded as a saint and as the patron saint of Wales. David was a native of Wales, and a relatively large amount of information is known about his life. However, his birth date is still uncertain, as suggestions range from 462 to...
  
   of Wales - Optional Memorial
• 5 March: Saint Kieran - Optional Memorial
• 8 March: Saint Senan
  Saint Senan
  Senán mac Geircinn is a prominent Munster saint in Irish tradition, founder of Inis Cathaig and patron of the Corco Baiscinn and the Uí Fhidgeinte....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 11 March: Saint Aengus (Oengus)
  Saint Aengus
  Óengus mac Óengobann, better known as Saint Óengus of Tallaght or Óengus the Culdee, was an Irish bishop, reformer and writer, who flourished in the first quarter of the 9th century and is held to be the author of the Félire Óengusso and possibly the Martyrology of Tallaght.Little of Óengus's life...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 17 March: Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
   - Solemnity
• 21 March: Saint Enda - Optional Memorial
• 24 March: Saint Macartan
  Saint Macartan
  Saint Mac Cairthinn, also Macartan, belongs to a very early generation of saints in Ireland and is recognized as the first Bishop of Clogher. He is known as Saint Patrick's "Strong Man" for his dedication and faithfulness.-Further reading:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 1 April: Saint Ceallach (Celsus)
  Saint Ceallach
  Cellach of Armagh or Celsus or Celestinus was Archbishop of Armagh and an important contributor to the reform of the Irish church in the twelfth century. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Cellach. Though a member of the laicized ecclesiastical dynasty of Clann Sínaig, he took...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 18 April: Saint Molaise (Laisrén, Laserian) - Optional Memorial
• 27 April: Saint Asicus
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
   - Feast
• 4 May: Saint Conleth
  Saint Conleth
  Saint Conleth was an Irish hermit and metalworker, also said to have been a copyist and skilled illuminator of manuscripts...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 5 May: Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
  Edmund Ignatius Rice
  Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two orders of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 10 May: Saint Comgall
  Saint Comgall
  Saint Comgall, an early Irish saint, was the founder and abbot of the great Irish monastery at Bangor , who flourished in the sixth century.-Life:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 15 May: Saint Carthage (Mochuta) - Optional Memorial
• 16 May: Saint Brendan - Optional Memorial
• 3 June: Saint Kevin - Memorial
• 6 June: Saint Jarlath
  Jarlath
  Saint Iarlaithe mac Loga, also known as Jarlath , was an Irish priest and scholar from Connacht, remembered as the founder of the monastic School of Tuam and patron saint of the Archdiocese of Tuam...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 7 June: Saint Colman of Dromore
  Colman of Dromore
  Saint Colmán of Dromore, also known by the pet form Mocholmóc, was a 6th-century Irish saint.He seems to have spent most of his life in that area of County Down. Possibly he studied under Caetan of Nendrom, Co. Down, and was persuaded by Saint Mac Nissi to settle at Dromore c. 514, where he became...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 9 June: Saint Columba
  Saint Columba
  -Saints:* Columba , Irish Christian saint who evangelized Scotland* Columba the Virgin, also known as Saint Columba of Cornwall* Columba of Sens* Columba of Spain* Columba of Terryglass* Sancta Columba -Schools:...
  
   (Colum Cille) - Feast
• 14 June: Saint Davnet
  Saint Davnet
  Saint Damnat was a nun who seems to have lived and died at Tydavnet at Sliabh Beagh, Co. Monaghan. Tradition speaks of Saint Damnat as a virgin and she was also regarded as the founder of a church or monastery. A bachall said to have belonged to her has been preserved...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 20 June: Blessed Irish Martyrs
  Irish Martyrs
  Irish Catholic Martyrs were dozens of people who have been sanctified in varying degrees for dying for their Roman Catholic faith between 1537 and 1714 in Ireland.-Causes:...
  
   - Memorial
• 1 July: Saint Oliver Plunket - Memorial
• 6 July: Saint Moninne
  Saint Moninne
  Saint Moninne of Killeavy was one of Ireland's early women saints. After instruction in the religious life, she founded a community, initially consisting of eight virgins and a widow with a baby, at Sliabh Gullion, Co. Armagh. They lived an eremitical life, based on that of Elijah and Saint John...
  
   of Killeavy - Optional Memorial
• 7 July: Saint Maelruain (Maolruain)
  Saint Maelruain
  Saint Máel Ruain was founder and abbot-bishop of the monastery of Tallaght . He is often considered to be a leading figure of the monastic 'movement' that has become known to scholarship as the Céli Dé. He is not to be confused with the later namesake Máel Ruain, bishop of Lusca .-The foundation...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 8 July: Saint Killian
  Saint Kilian
  Saint Kilian, also spelled Killian , was an Irish missionary bishop and the apostle of Franconia , where he began his labours towards the end of the 7th century.-Background:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
   - Feast
• 23 July: Saint Birgitta - Feast
• 24 July: Saint Declan - Optional Memorial
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   - Feast
• 9 August: In the revised liturgical calendar for Ireland, approved by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on 1 October 1998 (Protocol No. 227/97/L), optional memorials of Saint Nathy
  Saint Nathy
  Saint Nath Í was an early Irish saint who was remembered as the founder of Achonry.He is said to have been born in the barony of Leyney, in present-day Co. Sligo...
  
   and Saint Felim
  Saint Felim
  Saint Felim , an Irish Christian hermit and priest, was born, probably in Kiennacta Breagh, County Meath in the mid sixth century....
  
   were assigned to this day; outside the dioceses that celebrate them with a higher rank, their celebrations are impeded by that of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who was later declared one of the patron saints of Europe.
• 12 August: Saint Muiredach, Saint Attracta
  Attracta
  Saint Athracht , in Latin sources Attracta, is the patron saint of the parish of Locha Techet and Tourlestrane, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Her legend states that she fled from home and took her vows as a nun under Saint Patrick at Coolavin...
  
  , or Saint Lelia (Liadain) - Optional Memorials
• 13 August: Saint Fachtna
  Saint Fachtna
  Fachtna mac Mongaig was the founder of the monastery of Rosscarbery , County Cork. He died around 600. His monastery became the principal monastery of west Cork, and later had a famous Scripture school known as the School of Ross. It flourished for three hundred years and survived in some form...
  
   or Fachanan of Ross - Optional Memorial
• 17 August: Our Lady of Knock - Feast
• 23 August: Saint Eugene (Eoghan)
  Saint Eugene (Eoghan)
  Saint Éogan, founder of the monastery of Ardstraw, was an Irishman who lived in the sixth century AD and was said to have been taken by pirates to Britain...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 30 August: Saint Fiacre - Optional Memorial
• 31 August: Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne
  Aidan of Lindisfarne
  Known as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria , was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England. A Christian missionary, he is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. Aidan is the Anglicised form of the original Old...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 4 September: Saint Mac Nissi - Optional Memorial
• 9 September: Saint Ciaran - Memorial
• 12 September: Saint Ailbe - Optional Memorial
• 23 September: The celebration of Saint Eunan (Adomnan) as an optional memorial is now generally impeded by the later assignation to this date in the General Calendar of the obligatory memorial of Saint Pio of Pietralcina
• 25 September: Saint Finbarr - Optional Memorial
• 3 October: Blessed Columba Marmion
  Columba Marmion
  Blessed Columba Marmion, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion was an Irish monk, and the third abbot of Maredsous Abbey. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000, Marmion was one of the most popular and influential Catholic writers of the 20th century...
  
   - Optional Memorial (in some places)
• 9 October: Blessed John Henry Newman - Optional Memorial (in some places)
• 11 October: Saint Canice
  Saint Canice
  Saint Cainnech of Aghaboe , also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland, Saint Kenny and in Latin Saint Canicus, was a gaelic abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary during the early medieval period. Cainnech is one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and preached...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 16 October: Saint Gall
  Saint Gall
  Saint Gall, Gallen, or Gallus was an Irish disciple and one of the traditionally twelve companions of Saint Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent. Saint Deicolus is called an older brother of Gall.-Biography:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 27 October: Saint Otteran
  Saint Otteran
  Odran or Odhran , a descendant of Conall Gulban, is usually identified with Odhron , who preceded Saint Columba in Iona. His death is recorded in 548 and his grave was greatly revered in Iona....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 29 October: Saint Colman of Kilmacduagh - Optional Memorial
• 3 November: Saint Malachy
  Saint Malachy
  Saint Malachy was the Archbishop of Armagh, to whom were attributed several miracles and a vision of the identity of the last 112 Popes...
  
   - Memorial
• 6 November: All Saints of Ireland - Feast
• 7 November: Saint Willibrord - Optional Memorial
• 14 November: Saint Laurence O'Toole - Optional Memorial
• 23 November: Saint Columban - Memorial
• 25 November Saint Colman of Cloyne
  Colman of Cloyne
  Saint Colmán of Cloyne , also Colmán mac Léníne, was a monk, founder and patron of Cluain Uama, now Cloyne, Co. Cork, Ireland, and one of the earliest known Irish poets to write in the vernacular.-Sources:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 27 November Saint Fergal
  Vergilius of Salzburg
  Vergilius of Salzburg was an Irish churchman, an early astronomer and bishop of Salzburg. His obituary calls him the geometer.-Biography:...
  
   (Virgil) - Optional Memorial
• 12 December Saint Finnian of Clonard
  Finnian of Clonard
  Saint Finnian of Clonard , or Finian, 'Fionán' or 'Fionnán' in Irish, was one of the early Irish monastic saints, who founded Clonard Abbey in modern-day County Meath. The Twelve Apostles of Ireland studied under him...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 18 December Saint Flannan
  Saint Flannan
  Flannán mac Toirrdelbaig was an Irish saint who lived in the 7th century and was the son of a king of Thomond. He entered Mo Lua's monastery at Killaloe and seems to have become abbot there. He is remembered as a great preacher....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 20 December Saint Fachanan
  Saint Fachanan
  Saint Fachanan, about whom little is known with certainty, is linked by a strong early tradition with Kilfenora, where he founded a church or monastery in the sixth century...
  
   of Kilfenora
  Kilfenora
  Kilfenora is a small village in County Clare in Ireland, just south of The Burren. The village is noted for being the home to the Kilfenora Ceili Band and the location for much of the filming of the sitcom Father Ted.-Places of interest:...
  
   - Optional Memorial

Lebanon

• 2 November: All Saints
  All Saints
  All Saints' Day , often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown...
  
   - Solemnity
• 4 December: Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara, , Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr....
  
   - Memorial
• 6 December: Saint Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...
  
   - Memorial
• 24 December: Saint Charbel - Optional Memorial
• 9 February: Saint Maroun - Memorial
• 23 March: Saint Rafqa (Rebecca) - Memorial
• 23 April: Saint George
  Saint George
  Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic , Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox...
  
   - Memorial
• 1 May: Our Lady of Lebanon
  Our Lady of Lebanon
  Our Lady of Lebanon , also known as Notre Dame du Liban, is a marian shrine and a pilgrimage site, honoring the patron saint of the Mediterranean country of Lebanon. The Lebanese Christians as well as the Druze and Muslims have a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary...
  
   - Feast

Malta

• 13 January: Saint Hilary
  Hilary of Poitiers
  Hilary of Poitiers was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Hammer of the Arians" and the "Athanasius of the West." His name comes from the Latin word for happy or cheerful. His optional memorial in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints is 13...
  
   - Memorial
• 20 January: Saint Sebastian - Memorial
• 22 January: Saint Publius
  Saint Publius
  Saint Publius is the first maltese Saint. He is venerated as the first Bishop of Malta. Publius' conversion led to Malta being the first Christian nation in the West, and one of the first in the world....
  
   - Memorial
• 10 February: Shipwreck of Saint Paul, the birth of Maltese Church - Feast
• 25 February: Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani
  Maria Adeodata Pisani
  Born 29 December 1806 at Naples, Italy; Died 25 February 1855 at the Benedictine monastery at Mdina, MaltaVenerated: 24 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II Beatified: 9 May 2001 by Pope John Paul II...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• Friday before Good Friday: Our Lady of Sorrows
  Our Lady of Sorrows
  Our Lady of Sorrows , the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows , and Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life...
  
   - Memorial
• Wednesday after Easter: Saint Gregory I - Feast
• 23 April: Saint George
  Saint George
  Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic , Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox...
  
   - Memorial in Malta; feast in Gozo
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Gozo
  The Diocese of Gozo , is a see of the Catholic Church in Malta. The diocese comprises the island of Gozo and the islet of Comino.-History:...
  
  
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
   - Feast
• 30 April: Saint Pius V - Memorial
• 9 May: Saint George Preca
  George Preca
  George Preca was a Maltese Roman Catholic priest who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, a society of lay catechists. In Malta, he is affectionately known as "Dun Ġorġ" and is popularly referred to as the "Second Apostle of Malta", after Saint Paul of Tarsus...
  
   - Feast
• 13 May: Our Lady of Fatima
  Our Lady of Fatima
  Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...
  
   - Feast
• 1 July: Blessed Nazju Falzon
  Nazju Falzon
  Blessed Ignatius Falzon was a Maltese priest who was beatified in 2001.Falzon was born to Francis Joseph Falzon, a judge, and Mary Teresa Falzon, the daughter of a judge. He had three brothers; all four became lawyers, and two of the brothers entered the priesthood...
  
   - Memorial
• 6 July: Saint Maria Goretti
  Maria Goretti
  Maria Goretti is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Roman Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused him...
  
   - Memorial
• 26 July: Parents of Our Lady - Memorial
• 8 September: Our Lady of Victories - Feast
• 12 September: Holy Name of Mary
  Holy Name of Mary
  The Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, or simply the Holy Name of Mary, is a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church celebrated on 12 September to honour the name of Mary the mother of Jesus...
  
   -Memorial
• Three Sundays after 8 September: Saint Michael - Memorial in Żabbar and Iklin
• 7 October: Our Lady of the Rosary
  Our Lady of the Rosary
  Our Lady of the Rosary is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary in relation to the rosary....
  
   - Feast
• 21 October: Saint Ursula
  Saint Ursula
  Saint Ursula is a British Christian saint. Her feast day in the extraordinary form calendar of the Catholic Church is October 21...
  
   - Memorial in Gozo
• 25 November: Saint Catherine of Alexandria
  Catherine of Alexandria
  Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius...
  
   - Memorial
• 13 December: Saint Lucy
  Saint Lucy
  Saint Lucy , also known as Saint Lucia, was a wealthy young Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint by Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Orthodox Christians. Her feast day in the West is 13 December; with a name derived from lux, lucis "light", she is the patron saint of those who are...
  
   - Feast
• 14 December: Saint John of the Cross
  John of the Cross
  John of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile....
  
   - Feast

New Zealand

• 1 February: Saint Brigid
  Brigid of Kildare
  Saint Brigit of Kildare, or Brigit of Ireland , nicknamed Mary of the Gael is one of Ireland's patron saints along with Saints Patrick and Columba...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 6 February: Waitangi Day
  Waitangi Day
  Waitangi Day commemorates a significant day in the history of New Zealand. It is a public holiday held each year on 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840.-History:...
  
  
• 7 February: Saint Paul Miki and Companions - Memorial
• 17 March: Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
   - Feast
• 25 April: ANZAC Day
  ANZAC Day
  Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all...
  
  
• 26 April: Saint Mark - Feast
• 28 April: Saint Peter Chanel - Feast
• 24 May: Our Lady, Help of Christians
  Mary Help of Christians
  Mary Help of Christians , is a Roman Catholic Marian devotion with a feast day celebrated on May 24. John Chrysostom was the first person to use this title in 345 as a devotion to the Virgin Mary....
  
   - Memorial
• 6 June: Saint Marcellin Champagnat
  Marcellin Champagnat
  Saint Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat was born in Rozet, village of Marlhes, near St. Etienne , France...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 5 August: Saint Dominic
  Saint Dominic
  Saint Dominic , also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de Guzmán was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers , a Catholic religious order...
  
   - Memorial
• 8 August: Saint Mary MacKillop - Memorial
• Saturday after 5 August: Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major - Optional Memorial

Philippines

• 9 January: Black Nazarene
  Black Nazarene
  The Black Nazarene, known to devotees as in English, is a life-sized, dark-coloured, wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ, believed to be miraculous by many Filipino devotees...
  
   (Feast)
• 3rd Sunday of January: Santo Niño de Cebú
  Santo Niño de Cebu
  The Santo Niño de Cebú is a Roman Catholic figure of the Child Jesus highly similar to the Infant Jesus of Prague. Like the image's counterpart in Prague, the figure is clothed in expensive textile robes mostly donations from fervent devotees in the Philippines and abroad...
  
   (Feast)
• 2 April: Blessed Pedro Calungsod
  Pedro Calungsod
  Blessed Pedro Calungsod is a Filipino Roman Catholic martyr who was killed while doing missionary work in Guam in 1672. He was beatified on March 5, 2000, by Pope John Paul II. As a skilled sacristan and teacher of cathecism, he was a companion of Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores to the Marianas...
  
  , martyr (Optional Memorial)
• 27 June: Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help
  The National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help is one of the largest churches in the Philippines. The church houses one of the most venerated and celebrated Marian images in the country, called an icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, to which miraculous powers and events are ascribed...
  
   (Optional Memorial)
• 16 August: St. Roch
  St. Roch
  St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second sailing vessel to complete a voyage through the Northwest Passage...
  
  , healer (Obligatory Memorial)
• 19 August: St. Ezekiel Moreno, bishop (Optional Memorial)
• 28 September: Saints Lorenzo Ruiz
  Lorenzo Ruiz
  Saint Lorenzo Ruiz , also known as San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, is the first Filipino saint venerated in the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   and companions, martyrs (Obligatory Memorial)

Portugal

• 4 February: Saint John de Brito
  John de Brito
  Saint John de Brito was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr, often called "the Portuguese St...
  
  , jesuit priest and martyr - Memorial
• 7 February: The Five Wounds of the Lord
  Holy Wounds
  The Five Holy Wounds or Five Sacred Wounds refer to what are believed to be the five piercing wounds that was suffered during the crucifixion of Jesus....
  
   (As Cinco Chagas) - Feast
• 18 February: Saint Theotonius
  Theotonius
  Theotonius was an Augustinian canon and royal advisor. He is noted and famed in Portugal, for being the first Prior of the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Coimbra, Portugal...
  
   - Memorial
• 20 February: Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto
  Jacinta and Francisco Marto
  Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta Marto , also known as Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos were the children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and...
  
  , visionaries of Fátima
  Fátima, Portugal
  Fátima is a city in Portugal famous for the Marian apparitions, recognized by the Catholic Church, that took place there in 1917. The town itself has a population of 7,756 and is located in the municipality of Ourém, in the Centro Region and Médio Tejo Subregion...
  
   - Memorial
• 8 March: Saint John of God
  John of God
  John of God ) was a Portuguese-born friar and saint, one of Spain's leading religious figures.John of God was born João Cidade in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, into a once-prominent family that was impoverished but had great religious faith...
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 12 May: Blessed Joan of Portugal, princess - Optional Memorial
• 13 May: Our Lady of Fátima
  Our Lady of Fatima
  Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...
  
   - Feast
• 10 June: Guardian Angel
  Guardian angel
  A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity...
  
   of Portugal - Memorial
• 13 June: Saint Anthony of Lisbon (Padua), franciscan priest - Feast
• 4 July: Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
  Elizabeth of Aragon
  Elizabeth of Aragon, also known as Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, T.O.S.F. , was queen consort of Portugal, a tertiary of the Franciscan Order and is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.-Biography:Elizabeth was a descendant of one of the most powerful families in Europe:...
  
  , queen - Memorial
• 17 July: Blessed Inácio de Azevedo and Companions, jesuit priests and martyrs - Memorial
• 1 September: Saint Beatrix de Silva, virgin - Memorial
• 6 November: Saint Nuno de Santa Maria
  Nuno Álvares Pereira
  Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. , also spelled Nun'Álvares Pereira, was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile...
  
   - Memorial
• 1 December: Saint Eligius
  Saint Eligius
  Saint Eligius is the patron saint of goldsmiths, other metalworkers, and coin collectors. He is also the patron saint of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers , a corps of the British Army, but he is best known for being the patron saint of horses and those who work with them...
  
   - Due to its significance it was Chosen by the conspirators as the day for the Restoration of the independence from Spain. National Holiday

Scotland

According to the national calendar of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, as requested by the Bishops' Conference of Scotland

Bishops' Conference of Scotland

The Bishops' Conference of Scotland is an episcopal conference for Roman Catholic bishops in Scotland and is based in Airdrie. The conference is primarily made up of the presiding bishops of Scotland's eight dioceses as well as bishops who have retired....

 and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

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• 13 January: Saint Kentigern - Memorial
• 14 February: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , Monk and Methodius - Feast
• 10 March: Saint John Ogilvie
  Saint John Ogilvie
  Saint John Ogilvie was a Scottish Roman Catholic Jesuit martyr.-Biography:Ogilvie, the son of a wealthy laird, was born into a respected Calvinist family at Drum-na-Keith near Keith in Banffshire, Scotland and was educated in mainland Europe where he attended a number of Roman Catholic educational...
  
   - Feast
• 17 March: Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
  
   - Feast
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
   - Feast
• 9 June: Saint Columba
  Saint Columba
  -Saints:* Columba , Irish Christian saint who evangelized Scotland* Columba the Virgin, also known as Saint Columba of Cornwall* Columba of Sens* Columba of Spain* Columba of Terryglass* Sancta Columba -Schools:...
  
   - Memorial
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
   - Feast
• 23 July: Saint Birgitta - Feast
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   - Feast
• 16 September: Saint Ninian
  Saint Ninian
  Saint Ninian is a Christian saint first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland...
  
   - Memorial
• 16 November: Saint Margaret of Scotland
  Saint Margaret of Scotland
  Saint Margaret of Scotland , also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England...
  
   - Feast
• 30 November: Saint Andrew
  Saint Andrew
  Saint Andrew , called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name "Andrew" , like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him...
  
   the Apostle - Solemnity

Slovakia

• 14 February: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , Monk and Methodius, bishop - Feast
• 23 April: Saint Adalbert
  Adalbert of Prague
  This article is about St Adalbert of Prague. For other uses, see Adalbert .Saint Adalbert, Czech: ; , , Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians. He evangelized Poles and Hungarians. St...
  
  , bishop and martyr - Memorial
• 24 April: Saint George
  Saint George
  Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic , Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox...
  
  , martyr - Optional Memorial
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
   - Feast
• 11 May: Blessed Sára Salkaházi
  Sara Salkahazi
  Blessed Sára Salkaházi, S.S.S. , born as Sára Schalkház, was a Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister who saved the lives of approximately one hundred Jews during World War II...
  
  , virgin and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 16 May: Saint John Nepomucene
  John of Nepomuk
  John of Nepomuk is a national saint of the Czech Republic, who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional...
  
  , priest and martyr - Memorial
• 27 June: Saint Ladislaus - Optional Memorial
• 2 July: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Feast
• 5 July: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
   and Methodius, Slavic Missionaries - Solemnity
• 7 July: Saint Anthony Zaccaria, priest - Optional Memorial
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
   - Feast
• 17 July: Saints Andrew-Zoerardus
  Svorad
  Saint Svorad - originally Polish from Opatowiec. He entered the St. Hypolite’s Benedictine monastery on Zobor , adopting the monk name of Andrew. Later he lived in the hermitage accompanied by his disciple Beňadik. He died around 1030. Andrew’s remains are buried in the Nitra cathedral church of St...
  
   and Benedict, eremites - Memorial
• 23 July: Saint Birgitta - Feast
• 27 July: Saint Gorazd and companions - Memorial
• 30 July: Blessed Zdenka Schelingová
  Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová
  Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová , was a Slovak nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.She was born at Krivá na Orave...
  
  , virgin and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   - Feast
• 7 September: Saints Marko Krizin
  Marko Krizin
  Marko Krizin or Marko Križevčanin is the third canonized Croatian saint of the Roman Catholic Church, priest, martyr of Košice, professor of theology, missionary....
  
  , Melichar Grodecki and Stephen Pongrác, priests and martyrs - Memorial
• 15 September: Our Lady of Sorrows, Patroness of Slovakia - Solemnity
• 5 November: Saint Emeric
  Saint Emeric of Hungary
  Prince St. Imre, also Henricus, Emeric, Emerick, Emmerich, Emericus or Americus was the son of King St. Stephen I of Hungary and Giselle of Bavaria. He is assumed to be the second son of Stephen, he was named after his uncle, St...
  
   - Optional Memorial

Spain

• 9 January: Saint Eulogius of Córdoba
  Eulogius of Córdoba
  Saint Eulogius of Córdoba was one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. He flourished during the reigns of the Cordovan emirs Abd-er-Rahman II and Muhammad I .-Birth:...
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 20 January: Saints Fructuosus
  Fructuosus
  Saint Fructuosus of Tarragona was a bishop and Christian saint and martyr, the outstanding name in the early history of Christianity in Hispania. He was bishop of Tarragona and was arrested during the persecutions of Christians under the Roman Emperor Valerian . Along with him were two deacons,...
  
  , bishop, and Augurius and Eulogius
  Fructuosus
  Saint Fructuosus of Tarragona was a bishop and Christian saint and martyr, the outstanding name in the early history of Christianity in Hispania. He was bishop of Tarragona and was arrested during the persecutions of Christians under the Roman Emperor Valerian . Along with him were two deacons,...
  
  , deacons, martyrs – Optional Memorial
• 22 January: Saint Vincent
  Vincent of Saragossa
  Saint Vincent of Saragossa, also known as Vincent Martyr, Vincent of Huesca or Vincent the Deacon, is the patron saint of Lisbon. His feast day is 22 January in the Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion and 11 November in the Eastern Orthodox Churches...
  
  , deacon and martyr - Memorial
• 23 January: Saint Ildephonsus of Toledo
  Ildephonsus of Toledo
  Saint Ildefonsus or Ildephonsus was the metropolitan bishop of Toledo from 657 until his death. He was a Visigoth and his Gothic name was Hildefuns, which evolved into the Castilian name Alfonso. Ildefonsus, however, is known as San Ildefonso in Castilian and there are several places named after him...
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 14 February: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , monk, and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , bishop, Patrons of Europe – Feast
• 13 April: Saint Hermenegild
  Hermenegild
  Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild , was the son of king Leovigild of Visigothic Spain. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his rebellion, he converted from Arian Christianity to Roman Catholicism. Hermenegild was defeated in 584, and exiled...
  
  , martyr - Optional Memorial
• 26 April: Saint Isidore of Seville
  Isidore of Seville
  Saint Isidore of Seville served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, "le dernier savant du monde ancien"...
  
  , bishop and Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church
  Doctor of the Church is a title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their contribution to theology or doctrine.-Catholic Church:In the Catholic Church, this name is given to a saint from whose...
  
   - Feast
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
  , virgin and Doctor of the Church, Patron of Europe – Feast
• 10 May: Saint John of Avila
  John of Avila
  Saint John of Ávila, Apostle of Andalusia was a Roman Catholic priest, Spanish preacher, scholastic author, religious mystic and saint...
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 15 May: Saint Isidore the Farmer
  Isidore the Laborer
  Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer, , was a Spanish day laborer known for his goodness toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers and of Madrid and of La Ceiba, Honduras....
  
   - Memorial
• 17 May: Saint Paschal Baylon
  Paschal Baylon
  Saint Paschal Baylon was a Spanish friar and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the patron saint of Eucharistic congresses and Eucharistic associations.-Life:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 22 May: Saint Joaquina Vedruna - Optional Memorial
• 30 May: Saint Ferdinand
  Ferdinand III of Castile
  Saint Ferdinand III, T.O.S.F., was the King of Castile from 1217 and León from 1230. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berenguela of Castile. Through his second marriage he was also Count of Aumale. He finished the work done by his maternal grandfather Alfonso VIII and consolidated the...
  
   – Optional Memorial
• 15 June: Saint María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament
  Sisters of Adoration, Slaves of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity
  Sisters of Adoration, Slaves of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity - is a Roman Catholic Order founded in 1850 by Saint María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament. She founded the organization to assist former prostitutes, who suffered from abuse, alienation and social exclusion in mid-19th century...
  
  , virgin – Optional Memorial
• 26 June: Saint Pelagius
  Pelagius of Cordova
  Saint Pelagius of Cordova is said to have been a Christian boy left by his uncle at the age of ten as a hostage with the Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III of al-Andalus, in trade for a clerical relative previously captured by the Moors, the bishop Hermoygius. The exchange never occurred and Pelagius...
  
  , martyr – Optional Memorial
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
  , abbot, Patron of Europe – Feast
• 16 July: Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid 13th centuries...
  
   – Memorial
• 23 July: Saint Bridget
  Bridget of Sweden
  Bridget of Sweden Bridget of Sweden Bridget of Sweden (1303 – 23 July 1373; also Birgitta of Vadstena, Saint Birgitta , was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years...
  
  , religious, Patron of Europe – Feast
• 25 July: Saint James, apostle, Patron of Spain - Solemnity
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
  , virgin and martyr, Patron of Europe – Feast
• 19 August: Saint Ezequiel Moreno
  Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz
  Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz, also Ezekiel Moreno y Diaz was a member of the Order of Augustinian Recollects and now venerated as a Saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born on 9 April 1848 in Alfacro, La Rioja, Spain and later on served as a missionary to the Philippines. He also became the Bishop...
  
  , bishop – Optional Memorial
• 26 August: Saint Teresa of Jesus Jornet e Ibars
  St. Teresa of Jesus Jornet
  Teresa Jornet e Ibars was the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Aged, better known as the Little Sisters of the Poor...
  
  , virgin - Memorial
• 3 October: Saint Francis Borgia, priest – Optional Memorial
• 10 October: Saint Thomas of Villanova
  Thomas of Villanova
  St. Thomas of Villanova, O.S.A. , was a preacher, ascetic, writer andSpanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine....
  
  , bishop – Optional Memorial
• 11 October: Saint Soledad Torres Acosta
  Maria Soledad
  Saint Maria Soledad , the second child of five of Francisco Torres and Antonia Acosta, was born in Madrid on December 2, 1826, and baptized Bibiana Antonia Emanuela. Her parents ran a small business in Madrid. She was educated by the Daughters of Charity and often visited the sick in her...
  
  , virgin – Optional Memorial
• 12 October: Our Lady of the Pillar - Feast
• 15 October: Saint Teresa of Jesus
  Teresa of Ávila
  Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer...
  
  , virgin and Doctor of the Church - Feast
• 19 October: Saint Peter of Alcántara
  Peter of Alcantara
  Saint Peter of Alcántara, O.F.M. was a Spanish Franciscan friar.- Biography :He was born at Alcántara, Province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. His father, Peter Garavito, was the governor of Alcántara, and his mother was of the noble family of Sanabia...
  
  , priest – Optional Memorial
• 13 November: Saint Leander
  Leander of Seville
  Saint Leander of Seville , brother of the encyclopedist St. Isidore of Seville, was the Catholic Bishop of Seville who was instrumental in effecting the conversion to Catholicism of the Visigothic kings Hermengild and Reccared of Hispania .-Family:Leander and Isidore and...
  
  , bishop – Optional Memorial
• 10 December: Saint Eulalia of Mérida, virgin and martyr - Optional Memorial
• Thursday after Pentecost: Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
  Feast of Christ the Priest
  The Feast of Christ the Priest is a liturgical feast celebrated each year, on the first Thursday after Pentecost, by the Confraternity of Christ the Priest in Australia and all the Roman Catholic dioceses of Spain...
  
   - Feast

United States

According to the national calendar of the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

,
as requested by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops and United States Catholic Conference, it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic...

 (USCCB) and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

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• 4 January: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church . She established Catholic communities in Emmitsburg, Maryland....
  
  , religious - Memorial
• 5 January: Saint John Neumann, bishop - Memorial
• 6 January: Saint André Bessette
  André Bessette
  Saint André Bessette, CSC , born Alfred Bessette and since his canonisation sometimes known as Saint André of Montreal, was a Holy Cross Brother and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported miraculous healings. He was declared...
  
  , religious - Optional Memorial
• 23 January: Saint Vincent
  Vincent of Saragossa
  Saint Vincent of Saragossa, also known as Vincent Martyr, Vincent of Huesca or Vincent the Deacon, is the patron saint of Lisbon. His feast day is 22 January in the Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion and 11 November in the Eastern Orthodox Churches...
  
  , deacon and martyr - Optional Memorial (effective 2012)
• 3 March: Saint Katharine Drexel
  Katharine Drexel
  Saint Katharine Drexel, S.B.S., was an American Religious Sister, heiress, philanthropist and educator, later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.-Life and religious work:...
  
  , virgin - Optional Memorial
• 10 May: Saint Damien de Veuster
  Father Damien
  Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. , born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 15 May: Saint Isidore (the Farmer)
  Isidore the Laborer
  Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer, , was a Spanish day laborer known for his goodness toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers and of Madrid and of La Ceiba, Honduras....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 1 July: Blessed Junípero Serra
  Junípero Serra
  Blessed Junípero Serra, O.F.M., , known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue was a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain—present day California, United States. Fr...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 5 July: Saint Elizabeth of Portugal - Optional Memorial (effective 2012)
• 14 July: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
  Kateri Tekakwitha
  Kateri Tekakwitha or Catherine Tekakwitha was a Mohawk-Algonquian woman from New York and an early convert to Catholicism, who has been beatified in the Roman Catholic Church.-Her life:...
  
  , virgin - Memorial
• 18 July: Saint Camillus de Lellis
  Camillus de Lellis
  Saint Camillus de Lellis, M.I., was an Italian priest who founded a religious Order dedicated to the care of the sick.-Early life:...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial

• 9 September: Saint Peter Claver
  Peter Claver
  Peter Claver was a Jesuit who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia and African Americans...
  
  , priest - Memorial
• 6 October: Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, virgin - Optional Memorial
• 19 October: Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, priests and martyrs, and their companions, martyrs - Memorial
• 20 October: Saint Paul of the Cross
  Paul of the Cross
  Paul of the Cross was an Italian mystic, and founder of the Passionists.-Biography:Saint Paul of the Cross, originally named Paolo Francesco Danei, was born on 3 January 1694, in the town of Ovada, Piedmont, between Turin and Genoa in the Duchy of Savoy in northern Italy.Paul, a son of a...
  
  , priest - Optional Memorial
• 13 November: Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
  Mother Cabrini
  Saint Francesca Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C., , also called Mother Cabrini, was the first citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:...
  
  , virgin - Memorial
• 18 November: Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
  Rose Philippine Duchesne
  Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, R.S.C.J., was a Catholic Religious Sister and French-American saint. She spent the last half of her life teaching and serving the people of the Midwestern United States....
  
  , virgin - Optional Memorial
• 23 November: Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro
  Miguel Pro
  Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez , also known as Blessed Miguel Pro, was a Mexican Jesuit priest, executed without trial during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles after trumped up charges of involvement in an assassination attempt against former President...
  
  , priest and martyr - Optional Memorial
• 12 December: Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Our Lady of Guadalupe , also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe is a celebrated Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, had a vision of a young woman while he was on a hill in the Tepeyac desert, near Mexico City. The lady...
  
   - Feast

Anglican use

In addition to the national calendar of the United States, Anglican Use

Anglican Use

The term Anglican Use has two meanings. First, it refers to parish churches founded by former Episcopalians, members of the United States' branch of the Anglican Communion, who have joined the Catholic Church...

 Catholics in the United States add a number of additional saints to their calendar :

• 12 January: Saint Benedict Biscop
  Benedict Biscop
  Benedict Biscop , also known as Biscop Baducing, was an Anglo-Saxon abbot and founder of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory and was considered a saint after his death.-Early career:...
  
  , abbot - Memorial
• 1 March: Saint David of Wales, bishop - Memorial
• 20 March: Saint Cuthbert
  Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
  Saint Cuthbert was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop and hermit associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria, at that time including, in modern terms, northern England as well as south-eastern Scotland as far as the Firth of Forth...
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial
• 19 May: Saints Dunstan
  Dunstan
  Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church...
  
  , Ethelwold
  Æthelwold of Winchester
  Æthelwold of Winchester , was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984 and one of the leaders of the tenth century monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England....
  
  , and Oswald
  Oswald of Worcester
  Oswald of Worcester was Archbishop of York from 972 to his death in 992. He was of Danish ancestry, but brought up by his uncle, Oda, who sent him to France to the abbey of Fleury to become a monk. After a number of years at Fleury, Oswald returned to England at the request of his uncle, who died...
  
  , bishops - Memorial
• 9 June: Saint Columba of Iona
  Columba
  Saint Columba —also known as Colum Cille , Colm Cille , Calum Cille and Kolban or Kolbjørn —was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period...
  
  , abbot - Optional Memorial
• 20 June: Saint Alban
  Saint Alban
  Saint Alban was the first British Christian martyr. Along with his fellow saints Julius and Aaron, Alban is one of three martyrs remembered from Roman Britain. Alban is listed in the Church of England calendar for 22 June and he continues to be venerated in the Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox...
  
  , protomartyr of England - Memorial
• 23 June: Saints Hilda
  Hilda of Whitby
  Hilda of Whitby or Hild of Whitby was a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby...
  
  , Etheldreda
  Æthelthryth
  Æthelthryth is the proper name for the popular Anglo-Saxon saint often known, particularly in a religious context, as Etheldreda or by the pet form of Audrey...
  
  , Mildred
  Mildrith
  Saint Mildthryth , also Mildrith, Mildryth or Mildred, was an Anglo-Saxon abbess.Mildthryth was the daughter of King Merewalh of Magonsaete, a sub-kingdom of Mercia, and Eormenburh , herself the daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent. Her sisters Milburh and Mildgytha were considered to be saints...
  
  , and All Holy Nuns - Memorial
• 19 September: Saint Theodore of Canterbury
  Theodore of Tarsus
  Theodore was the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, best known for his reform of the English Church and establishment of a school in Canterbury....
  
  , bishop - Optional Memorial; or Saint Adrian
  Adrian of Canterbury
  Saint Adrian of Canterbury was a famous scholar and the Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury in the English county of Kent.-Life:...
  
  , abbot - Optional Memorial
• 13 October: Saint Edward the Confessor
  Edward the Confessor
  Edward the Confessor also known as St. Edward the Confessor , son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066....
  
   - Memorial
• 25 October: Saints Cuthbert Mayne
  Cuthbert Mayne
  'Saint Cuthbert Mayne was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.- Early life :...
  
  , John Houghton, Edmund Campion
  Edmund Campion
  Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Jesuit priest. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Protestant England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason by a kangaroo court, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn...
  
  , Richard Gynn, and 36 Companions
  Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
  The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of men and women who were executed for treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1535 and 1679...
  
  , martyrs - Memorial

Wales

According to the national calendar of Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

,
as requested by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales

Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is the episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.-About:...

 and approved by the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

:

• 9 February: Saint Teilo - Optional Memorial
• 14 February: Saints Cyril
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  , Monk and Methodius - Feast
• 1 March: Saint David
  Saint David
  Saint David was a Welsh Bishop during the 6th century; he was later regarded as a saint and as the patron saint of Wales. David was a native of Wales, and a relatively large amount of information is known about his life. However, his birth date is still uncertain, as suggestions range from 462 to...
  
   of Wales - Solemnity
• 20 April: Saint Beuno
  Beuno
  Saint Beuno was a 7th-century Welsh holy man and Abbot of Clynnog Fawr in Gwynedd, on the Llŷn peninsula.-Life:Beuno was born in Powys, supposedly at Berriew, the grandson of a prince of that realm. After education and ordination in the monastery of Bangor-on-Dee in north-east Wales, he became an...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  Saint Catherine of Siena, T.O.S.D, was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the papacy of Gregory XI back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor...
  
   - Feast
• 5 May: Saint Asaph
  Saint Asaph
  Saint Asaph was, in the second half of the 6th century, the first or second Bishop of St Asaph, i.e. bishop of the diocese of Saint Asaph, the Welsh See now of that name.-Biography:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 20 June: Saints Alban
  Saint Alban
  Saint Alban was the first British Christian martyr. Along with his fellow saints Julius and Aaron, Alban is one of three martyrs remembered from Roman Britain. Alban is listed in the Church of England calendar for 22 June and he continues to be venerated in the Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox...
  
  , Julius and Aaron
  Julius and Aaron
  Saints Julius and Aaron are celebrated as two British martyrs who died during the religious persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian in AD 304. Their feast day was traditionally celebrated on July 1....
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 22 June: Saints John Fisher
  John Fisher
  Saint John Fisher was an English Roman Catholic scholastic, bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July on the Church of England calendar of saints...
  
   and Thomas More
  Thomas More
  Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
  
  - Memorial
• 11 July: Saint Benedict
  Benedict of Nursia
  Saint Benedict of Nursia is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students.Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about to the east of Rome, before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. There is no...
  
   - Feast
• 12 July: Saint John Jones
  Saint John Jones
  Saint John Jones, O.F.M.,, also known as John Buckley, John Griffith, or Godfrey Maurice, was a Franciscan friar, Catholic priest and martyr. He was born at Clynnog Fawr, Caernarfonshire , Wales and executed 12 July 1598...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 23 July: Saint Birgitta - Feast
• 25 July: Saints Philip Evans and John Lloyd
  Philip Evans and John Lloyd
  Saints Philip Evans and John Lloyd were Welsh Roman Catholic priests, who died for their faith. They are both among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.-Father Philip Evans:...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 3 August: Saint Germanus of Auxerre
  Germanus of Auxerre
  Germanus of Auxerre was a bishop of Auxerre in Gaul. He is a saint in both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, commemorated on July 31. He visited Britain in around 429 and the records of this visit provide valuable information on the state of post-Roman British society...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  Edith Stein
  Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
  
   - Feast
• 26 August: Saint David Lewis - Optional Memorial
• 11 September: Saint Deiniol - Optional Memorial
• 16 October: Saint Richard Gwyn
  Saint Richard Gwyn
  Saint Richard Gwyn , also known by his anglicised name, Richard White, was a Welsh school teacher. He was martyred by being hanged, drawn and quartered for high treason in 1584. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 25 October: The Six Welsh Martyrs
  Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
  The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of men and women who were executed for treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1535 and 1679...
  
   and Companions - Feast
• 3 November: Saint Winefride - Optional Memorial
• 6 November: Saint Illtud - Optional Memorial
• 8 November: All Saints of Wales - Feast
• 14 November: Saint Dubricius
  Dubricius
  Saint Dubricius was a 6th century Briton ecclesiastic venerated as a saint. He was the evangelist of Ergyng and much of South-East Wales.-Biography:Dubricius was the illegitimate son of Efrddyl, the daughter of King Peibio Clafrog of Ergyng...
  
   - Optional Memorial
• 10 December: Saint John Roberts
  Saint John Roberts
  Saint John Roberts was a Benedictine monk and priest, and was the first Prior of St. Gregory's, Douai, France...
  
   - Optional Memorial

Local calendars

The calendar for a diocese is typically based on a national calendar, such as those listed above, with a few additions. For instance, the anniversary of the dedication of the cathedral is celebrated as a Solemnity in the cathedral church and as a Feast in all the other churches of the diocese. The feast day of the principal Patron saint

Patron saint

A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person...

 of the diocese is celebrated as a Feast throughout the diocese.

The calendar of a parish is based on the calendar of its diocese, but — in addition to the celebrations in the diocesan calendar — there are other celebrations, including the anniversary of the dedication of the parish church and the feast day of the principal Patron saint

Patron saint

A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person...

 of the church, both of which are celebrated as Solemnities.

Other calendars

Each institute of consecrated life

Consecrated life (Catholic Church)

In the Roman Catholic Church, the term "consecrated life" denotes a stable form of Christian living by those faithful who feel called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way recognized by the Church...

 (Roman Catholic religious order

Roman Catholic religious order

Catholic religious orders are, historically, a category of Catholic religious institutes.Subcategories are canons regular ; monastics ; mendicants Catholic religious orders are, historically, a category of Catholic religious institutes.Subcategories are canons regular (canons and canonesses regular...

, secular institute

Secular institute

In the Roman Catholic Church, a secular institute is an organization of individuals who are consecrated persons – professing the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience – while living in the world, unlike members of a religious order who live in community. It is one of the...

 etc.) also has its own calendar, with variations from the General Calendar.

See also

• Calendar of saints
  Calendar of saints
  The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the feast day of said saint...
  
  
• Calendar of Saints (Lutheran)
  Calendar of Saints (Lutheran)
  The Lutheran Calendar of Saints is a listing which details the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by some Lutheran Churches in the United States. The calendars of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod are from the...
  
  
• Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite
  Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite
  Ranking of liturgical days in the Roman Rite serves two purposes. The rank indicates some particular points about the manner of celebrating the day: for instance, the Mass of a Solemnity will include recitation of Gloria in Excelsis and Creed, that of what is now called in a specific technical...
  
  

External links

• General Roman Calendar as applied to a specific year