Christian Feast Days

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Feast days and other celebrations - The Calendar of Saints. In general, the Roman Catholic church refers to people with the title "Saint", such as in "The Feast of Saint Francis de Sales", while Anglicans usually do not use a title and just use a name, such as in "The Feast of Francis de Sales". In cases where both traditions honor the same person on the same day, this page includes "Saint" rather than repeating the name, but you won't see "Saint" in an Anglican or Episcopalian environment. The Roman Catholic reference to "pope" is synonymous with the Anglican reference to "bishop of Rome" before the Reformation. The year of death is provided where known.

Superscript^RC = Roman Catholic
Superscript^ANG = Anglican

JAN ... FEB ... MAR

APR ... MAY ... JUN

JUL ... AUG ... SEP

OCT ... NOV ... DEC

† January †

1 Octave of Christmas^RC, Mary, Mother of God^RC, The Naming & Circumcision of Jesus^ANG

2 Saints Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, bishops & doctors^RC, Basil the Great (379) & Gregory of Nazianzus (389), bishops & teachers of the faith^ANG, Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, spiritual guide (1833)^ANG, Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, bishop in South India, evangelist (1945)^ANG

3 The Most Holy Name of Jesus^RC

4 Epiphany^{RC & ANG}

7 Saint Raymond of Peñafort, priest^RC

10 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1645)^ANG

11 Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa (1915)^ANG

12 Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx (1167)^ANG, Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, scholar (689)^ANG

13 Saint Hilary of Poitiers, bishop & doctor^RC, Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, teacher of the faith (367)^ANG, Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria (603)^ANG, George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends (the Quakers) (1691)^ANG

17 Saint Anthony of Egypt, abbot^RC, Antony of Egypt, hermit, abbot (356)^ANG, Charles Gore, bishop, founder of the Community of the Resurrection (1932)^ANG

18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity^ANG

19 Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester (1095)^ANG

20 Saint Fabian, pope & martyr^RC, Saint Sebastian, martyr^RC, Richard Rolle of Hampole, spiritual writer (1349)^ANG

21 Saint Agnes, virgin & martyr^RC, Agnes, child martyr at Rome (304)^ANG

22 Saint Vincent, deacon & martyr^RC, Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon, first martyr of Spain (304)^ANG

23 Saint Francis de Sales, bishop & doctor^RC, Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, teacher of the faith (1622)^ANG

24 The Conversion of Paul, apostle^{RC & ANG}

26 Saints Timothy & Titus, bishops & companions of Paul^{RC & ANG}

27 Saint Angela Merici, virgin^RC

28 Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest, doctor, philosopher, teacher of the faith (1274)^{RC & ANG}

30 Charles, king & martyr (1649)^ANG

31 Saint John Bosco, priest, founder of the Salesian Teaching Order (1888)^{RC & ANG}

† February †

1 Brigid, Abbess of Kildare (c.525)^ANG

2 Presentation of the Lord^RC, The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas)^ANG

3 Saint Blaise, bishop & martyr^RC, Saint Ansgar, bishop^RC, Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary in Denmark & Sweden (865)

4 Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order (1189)^ANG

5 Saint Agatha, virgin & martyr^RC

6 Saints Paul Miki & companions, martyrs^RC, The Martyrs of Japan (1597)^ANG

8 Saint Jerome Emiliani, priest^RC, Saint Josephine Bakhita, virgin^RC

10 Saint Scholastica, virgin^RC, Scholastica, sister of Benedict, Abbess of Plombariola (c.543)^ANG

11 Our Lady of Lourdes^RC

14 Saints Cyril, monk^RC, Methodius, bishop^RC, Cyril (869) & Methodius (895), missionaries to the Slavs^ANG, Valentine, Martyr at Rome (c.269)^ANG

15 Sigfrid, Bishop, Apostle of Sweden (1045)^ANG, Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of the SPCK & the SPG (1730)^ANG

17 Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order^RC, Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, martyr (1977)^ANG

21 Saint Peter Damian, bishop^RC

22 Chair of Saint Peter, apostle^RC

23 Saint Polycarp, bishop & martyr^RC, Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr (c.155)^ANG

24 Matthias the Apostle^ANG

27 George Herbert, Priest, Poet (1633)^ANG

† March †

1 David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales (c.601)^ANG

2 Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary (672)^ANG

4 Saint Casimir^RC

7 Saints Perpetua & Felicity & their cCompanions, martyrs at Carthage (203)^{RC & ANG}

8 Saint John of God, religious^RC, Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln (1910)^ANG, Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles (647)^ANG, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Priest, Poet (1929)^ANG

9 Saint Frances of Rome, religious^RC

17 Saint Patrick, Bishop, missionary, patron of Ireland (c.460)^{RC & ANG}

18 Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, doctor, teacher of the faith, 386^{RC & ANG}

19 Saint Joseph (of Nazareth) husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary^{RC & ANG}

20 Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary (687)^ANG

21 Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, Reformation Martyr (155)^ANG

23 Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, bishop^RC

24 Walter Hilton of Thurgarton, Augustinian canon, Mystic (1396)^ANG, Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, martyr (1980)^ANG

25 The Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary^{RC & ANG}

26 Harriet Monsell, Founder of the Community of St John the Baptist (1883)^ANG

31 John Donne, Priest, Poet (1631)^ANG

† April †

1 Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher of the faith (1872)^ANG

2 Saint Francis of Paola, hermit^RC

4 Saint Isidore, bishop^RC

5 Saint Vincent Ferrer, priest^RC

7 Saint John Baptist de la Salle, priest^RC

9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor, martyr (1945)^ANG

10 William Law, Priest, spiritual writer (1761)^ANG, William of Ockham, friar, philosopher, teacher of the faith (1347)^ANG

11 Saint Stanislaus, bishop & martyr^RC, George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand (1878)^ANG

13 Saint Martin I, pope & martyr^RC

16 Isabella Gilmore, deaconess (1923)^ANG

19 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, martyr (1012)^ANG

21 Saint Anselm of Canterbury, bishop & doctor, Abbot of Le Bec, teacher of the faith (1109)^{RC & ANG}

23 Saint George, martyr^RC, Saint Adalbert, bishop & martyr, patron of England (c.304)^{RC & ANG}

24 Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest & martyr^RC, Mellitus, Bishop of London, first Bishop at St. Paul's (624)^ANG

25 Saint Mark the Evangelist^RC, Mark the Evangelist^ANG

27 Christina Rossetti, poet (1894)^ANG

28 Saint Peter Chanel, priest & martyr, missionary in the South Pacific (1841)^{RC & ANG}, Saint Louis Marie de Montfort, priest^RC

29 Saint Catherine of Siena, virgin & doctor, teacher of the faith (1380)^{RC & ANG}

30 Saint Pius V, pope^RC, Pandita Mary Ramabai, translator of the Scriptures (192)^ANG

† May †

1 Saint Joseph the Worker^RC, Philip & James, apostles^ANG

2 Saint Athanasius, bishop & doctor, Bishop of Alexandria, teacher of the faith (373)^{RC & ANG}

3 Saints Philip & James, apostles^RC

4 English Saints & martyrs of the Reformation era^ANG

8 Julian of Norwich, spiritual writer (1417)^ANG

12 Saints Nereus & Achilleus, martyrs^RC, Saint Pancras, martyr^RC

13 Our Lady of Fatima^RC

14 Saint Matthias the Apostle^RC^{RC & ANG}

16 Caroline Chisholm, social reformer (1877)^ANG

18 Saint John I, pope & martyr^RC

19 Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, restorer of monastic life (988)^ANG

20 Saint Bernardine of Siena, priest^RC, Alcuin of York, Deacon, Abbot of Tours (804)^ANG

21 Saint Christopher Magallanes & companions, martyrs^RC, Helena, protector of the holy places (330)^ANG

22 Saint Rita of Casci^RC

24 John (1791) & Charles (1788) Wesley, evangelists, hymn writers^ANG

25 Saint Bede the Venerable, priest, doctor, monk at Jarrow, scholar, historian (735)^{RC & ANG}, Saint Gregory VII, pope^RC, Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, virgin^RC, Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (709)^ANG

26 Saint Philip Neri, priest, founder of the Oratorians, spiritual guide (1595)^{RC & ANG}, Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury (605)^ANG, John Calvin, Reformer (1564)^ANG

27 Saint Augustine (Austin) of Canterbury, bishop^RC

29 Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Scholar (1089)^ANG

30 Josephine Butler, Social Reformer (1906)^ANG, Joan of Arc, visionary (1431)^ANG, Apolo Kivebulaya, priest, evangelist in Central Africa (1933)^ANG

31 Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary^{RC & ANG}

† June †

1 Saint Justin Martyr at Rome (165)^{RC & ANG}

2 Saints Marcellinus & Peter, martyrs^RC

3 Saints Charles Lwanga & companions, martyrs^RC, The Martyrs of Uganda (1886, 1978)^ANG

4 Petroc, Abbot of Padstow (6th century)^ANG

5 Saint Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, bishop & martyr, apostle of Germany (754)^{RC & ANG}

6 Saint Norbert, bishop^RC, Ini Kopuria, founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood (1945)^ANG

8 Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Nonjuror, Hymn Writer (1711)^ANG

9 Saint Ephrem, deacon & doctor, deacon, hymn writer, teacher of the faith (373)^{RC & ANG}, Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary (597)^ANG

11 Saint Barnabas the Apostle^{RC & ANG}

13 Saint Anthony of Padua, priest & doctor^RC

14 Richard Baxter, Puritan Divine (1691)^ANG

15 Evelyn Underhill, spiritual writer (1941)^ANG

16 Richard, Bishop of Chichester (1253)^ANG, Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, philosopher (1752)^ANG

17 Samuel (1913) & Henrietta (1936) Barnett, social reformers^ANG

18 Bernard Mizeki, Apostle of the MaShona, Martyr (1896)^ANG

19 Saint Romuald, abbot^RC, Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu (holy man), evangelist, teacher of the faith (1929)^ANG

21 Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, religious^RC

22 Saint Paulinus of Nola, bishop^RC, Saints John Fisher & Thomas More, martyrs^RC, Alban, first Martyr of Britain (c.250)^ANG

23 Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely (c.678)^ANG

24 Birth of Saint John the Baptist^{RC & ANG}

27 Saint Cyril of Alexandria, bishop & doctor, teacher of the faith (444)^{RC & ANG}, Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, teacher of the faith (c.200)^ANG

28 Saint Irenaeus, bishop & martyr^RC

29 Saints Peter & Paul, Apostles^{RC & ANG}

30 First Martyrs of the Church of Rome^RC

† July †

1 Henry (1797), John (1813), & Henry Venn the younger(1873), priests, evangelical devines^ANG

2 The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth^ANG

3 Saint Thomas the apostle^{RC & ANG}

4 Saint Elizabeth of Portugal^RC

5 Saint Anthony Zaccaria, priest^RC

6 Saint Maria Goretti, virgin & martyr^RC, Thomas More, scholar, & John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, reformation martyrs (1535)^ANG

7 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, martyr (1170)^ANG

9 Saint Augustine Zhao Rong & companions, martyrs^RC

11 Saint Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, father of Western Monasticism (c.550)^{RC & ANG}

13 Saint Henry^RC

14 Saint Camillus de Lellis, priest^RC, John Keble, priest, Tractarian, poet (1866)^ANG

15 Saint Bonaventure, bishop, doctor, friar, teacher of the faith (1274)^{RC & ANG}, Swithun, Bishop of Winchester (c.862)^ANG

16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel^RC, Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury (1099)^ANG

18 Elizabeth Ferard, first Deaconess of the Church of England, founder of the community of St Andrew (1883)^ANG

19 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa (c.394), & his sister Macrina, deaconess (c.379), teachers of the faith^ANG

20 Saint Apollinaris^RC, Margaret of Antioch, martyr (4th century)^ANG, Bartolomé de las Casas, apostle to the Indies (1566)^ANG

21 Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, priest & doctor^RC

22 Saint Mary Magdalene^{RC & ANG}

23 Saint Birgitta^RC (Bridget^ANG) of Sweden, religious, Abbess of Vadstena (1373)^RC

24 Saint Sharbel Makhluf, hermit^RC

25 Saint James the Greater, apostle^{RC & ANG}

26 Saints Joachim & Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary^{RC & ANG}

27 Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, teacher of the faith (1901)^ANG

29 Saint Martha^{RC & ANG}, with Mary & Lazarus, companions of our Lord^ANG

30 Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop & doctor^RC, William Wilberforce, social reformer (1833)^ANG

31 Saint Ignatius of Loyola, priest, founder of the Society of Jesus (1556)^{RC & ANG}

† August †

1 Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, bishop & doctor^RC

2 Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop^RC, Saint Peter Julian Eymard, priest^RC

4 Saint Jean-Baptiste Vianney (the Curé of Ars), priest, spiritual guide (1859)^{RC & ANG}

5 Dedication of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore^RC, Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr (642)^ANG

6 Transfiguration of the Lord^{RC & ANG}

7 Saint Sixtus II & companions, martyrs^RC, Saint Cajetan, priest^RC, John Mason Neale, priest, hymn writer (1866)^ANG

8 Saint Dominic, priest, founder of the Order of Preachers (1221)^{RC & ANG}

9 Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), virgin & martyr^RC, Mary Sumner, founder of the Mothers' Union (1921)^ANG

10 Saint Lawrence^RC (Laurence^ANG), deacon at Rome, martyr (258)

11 Saint Clare of Assisi, virgin, founder of the Minoresses (Poor Clares) (125)^{RC & ANG}, John Henry Newman, priest, Tractarian (1890)^ANG

12 Saint Jane Frances de Chantal^RC

13 Saints Pontian, pope^RC, Hippolytus, priest, martyrs^RC, Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, teacher of the faith (1667)^ANG, Florence Nightingale, nurse, social reformer (1910)^ANG, Octavia Hill, social reformer (1912)^ANG

14 Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest, friar, martyr (1941)^{RC & ANG}

15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary^{RC & ANG}

16 Saint Stephen of Hungary^RC

19 Saint John Eudes, priest^RC

20 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot & doctor, teacher of the faith (1153)^{RC & ANG}, William (1912) & Catherine (1890) Booth, founders of the Salvation Army^ANG

21 Saint Pius X, pope^RC

22 Queenship of Blessed Virgin Mary^RC

23 Saint Rose of Lima, virgin^RC

24 Saint Bartholomew the Apostle^{RC & ANG}

25 Saint Louis, Saint Joseph of Calasanz, priest^RC

27 Saint Monica, mother of Augustine of Hippo (387)^{RC & ANG}

28 Saint Augustine of Hippo, bishop & doctor, teacher of the faith (430)^{RC & ANG}

29 The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, martyr^{RC & ANG}

30 John Bunyan, spiritual writer (1688)^ANG

31 Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, missionary (651)^ANG

† September †

1 Giles of Provence, Hermit (c.710)^ANG

2 The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea (1901 & 1942)^ANG

3 Saint Gregory the Great, pope, doctor, Bishop of Rome, teacher of the faith (604)^{RC & ANG}

4 Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex (650)^ANG, Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, missionary (687)^ANG

6 Allen Gardiner, missionary, founder of the South American Mission Society (1851)^ANG

8 Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary^{RC & ANG}

9 Saint Peter Claver, priest^RC, Charles Fuge Lowder, Priest (1880)^ANG

12 Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary^RC

13 Saint John Chrysostom, doctor, Bishop of Constantinople, teacher of the faith (407)^{RC & ANG}

14 Triumph of the Holy Cross (Holy Cross Day)^{RC & ANG}

15 Our Lady of Sorrows^RC, Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, martyr (258)^ANG

16 Saints Cornelius, pope, & Cyprian, bishop, martyrs^RC, Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts (c.432)^ANG, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, Tractarian (1882)^ANG

17 Saint Robert Bellarmine, bishop, doctor^RC, Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, visionary (1179)^ANG

19 Saint Januarius, bishop, martyr^RC, Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (690)^ANG

20 Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, priest, & Paul Chong Hasang & companions, martyrs^RC, John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia, & companions, martyrs (1871)^ANG

21 Saint Matthew the Evangelist, apostle, evangelist^{RC & ANG}

23 Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), priest^RC

25 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, spiritual writer (1626)^ANG, Sergei of Radonezh, Russian monastic reformer, teacher of the faith (1392)^ANG

26 Saints Cosmas & Damian, martyrs^RC, Wilson Carlile, founder of the Church Army (1942)^ANG

27 Saint Vincent de Paul, priest, founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) (1660)^{RC & ANG}

28 Saint Wenceslaus, martyr^RC, Saints Lawrence Ruiz & companions, martyrs^RC

29 Saints Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, archangels & all angels^{RC & ANG}

30 Saint Jerome, priest, doctor, translator of the Scriptures, teacher of the faith (420)^{RC & ANG}

† October †

1 Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin, doctorRC, Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks (533)^ANG, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, social reformer (1885)^ANG

2 Guardian Angels^RC

3 Feria^RC

4 Saint Francis of Assisi, friar, deacon, founder of the Friars Minor (1226)^{RC & ANG}

6 Saint Bruno, priest^RC, William Tyndale, translator of the Scriptures, Reformation martyr (1536)^{RC & ANG}

7 Our Lady of the Rosary^RC

9 Saint Denis^RC (Denys^ANG) & companions, Bishop of Paris, martyrs (c.250); Saint John Leonardi, priest^RC, Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, philosopher, scientist (1253)^ANG

10 Paulinus, Bishop of York, missionary (644)^ANG, Thomas Traherne, Poet, spiritual writer (1674)^ANG

11 Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking (675)^ANG, James the Deacon, companion of Paulinus (7th century)^ANG

12 Wilfrid of Ripon, bishop, missionary (709)^ANG, Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer (1845)^ANG, Edith Cavell, nurse (1915)^ANG

13 Edward the Confessor, King of England (1066)^ANG

14 Saint Callistus I, pope, martyr^RC

15 Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin, doctor^RC, Teresa of Avila, teacher of the faith (1582)^ANG

16 Saint Hedwig, religious, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin^RC, Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, & Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, Reformation martyrs (1555)^ANG

17 Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop, martyr (c.107)^{RC & ANG}

18 Saint Luke the Evangelist^{RC & ANG}

19 Saints Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, priests & companions, martyrs, Saint Paul of the Cross, priest^RC, Henry Martyn, translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia (1812)^ANG

23 Saint John of Capestrano, priest^RC

24 Saint Anthony Mary Claret, bishop^RC

25 Crispin & Crispinian, martyrs at Rome (c.287)^ANG

26 Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, scholar (899)^ANG, Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary (672)^ANG, Cedd, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons (664)^ANG

28 Saint Simon & Saint Jude, apostles^{RC & ANG}

29 James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, martyr in Uganda (1885)^ANG

31 Martin Luther, Reformer (1546)^ANG

† November †

1 All Saints^{RC & ANG}

2 All Souls - ranked with solemnities, Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day)^{RC & ANG}

3 Saint Martin de Porres, religious, friar (1639)^{RC & ANG}, Richard Hooker, priest, Anglican apologist, teacher of the faith (1600)^ANG

4 Saint Charles Borromeo, bishop^RC

6 Leonard, hermit (6th century)^ANG, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, teacher of the faith (1944)^ANG

7 Willibrord of York, bishop, apostle of Frisia (739)^ANG

8 The Saints & Martyrs of England^ANG

9 Dedication of the Lateran basilica^RC, Margery Kempe, mystic (c.1440)^ANG

10 Saint Leo the Great, pope, doctor, teacher of the faith (461)^{RC & ANG}

11 Saint Martin of Tours, bishop (c.397)^{RC & ANG}

12 Saint Josaphat, bishop, martyr^RC

13 Charles Simeon, priest, evangelical divine (1836)^ANG

14 Samuel Seabury, first Anglican bishop in North America (1796)^ANG

15 Saint Albert the Great, bishop, doctor^RC

16 Saint Margaret (Queen) of Scotland, philanthropist (1093)^{RC & ANG} (Anglicans refer to her also as a reformer of the Church), Saint Gertrude the Great, virgin^RC, Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury (1240)^ANG

17 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, religious^RC, Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln (1200)^ANG

18 Dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter & Paul, Apostles^RC, Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Thuringia, philanthropist (1231)^ANG

19 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby (680)^ANG, Mechtild, Béguine of Magdeburg, mystic (1280)^ANG

20 Edmund, King of the East Angles, martyr (870)^ANG, Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a restorer of the religious life in the church of England (1876)

21 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary^RC

22 Saint Cecilia, martyr at Rome (c.230)^{RC & ANG}

23 Saint Clement I, pope, martyr (c.100)^{RCRC & ANG} Saint Columban, religious^RC

24 Saint Andre Dung Lac & companions, martyrs^RC

25 Saint Catherine of Alexandria, martyr (4th century)^{RC & ANG}, Isaac Watts, hymn writer (1748)^ANG

29 Day of Intercession & Thanksgiving for the Missionary Work of the Church^ANG

30 Saint Andrew the apostle^{RC & ANG}

† December †

1 Charles de Foucauld, hermit in the Sahara (1916)^ANG

3 Saint Francis Xavier, priest, Jesuit missionary, apostle of the Indies (1552)^{RC & ANG}

4 Saint John Damascene, priest, doctor, monk, teacher of the faith (c.749)^{RC & ANG}, Nicholas Ferrar, deacon, founder of the Little Gidding Community (1637)^ANG

6 Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra (c.326)^{RC & ANG}

7 Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, doctor, teacher of the faith (397)^{RC & ANG}

8 Immaculate^(RC) Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary^{RC & ANG}

9 Saint Juan Diego^RC

11 Saint Damasus I, pope^RC

12 Our Lady of Guadalupe^RC

13 Saint Lucy of Syracuse, virgin, martyr (304)^{RC & ANG}, Samuel Johnson, moralist (1784)^ANG

14 Saint John of the Cross, priest, doctor, teacher of the faith (1591)^{RC & ANG}

17 O Sapientia^ANG, Eglantine Jebb, social reformer, founder of 'Save The Children' (1928)^ANG

21 Saint Peter Canisius, priest, doctor^RC, Thomas the apostle^ANG

23 Saint John of Kanty, priest^RC

24 Christmas Eve^ANG

25 Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Day)^{RC & ANG}

26 Saint Stephen, deacon, the first martyr^{RC & ANG}

27 Saint John the Apostle, evangelist^{RC & ANG}

28 Holy Innocents, martyrs^{RC & ANG}

29 Saint Thomas Becket, bishop, martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury (1170)^{RC & ANG}

30 Sixth Day with the Octave of Christmas^RC

31 Saint Sylvester I, pope^RC, John Wyclif, Reformer (1384)^ANG