A Year of Saints and Observances

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January

January 1: The Holy Name of Jesus
January 3: Gladys Aylward
January 5: Felix Manz, Conrad Grebel, and George Blaurock
January 6: The Feast of the Epiphany
January 8: The Martyrs of Ecuador
January 10: Ignaz von Döllinger
January 13: George Fox; Mary Slessor
January 14: Nina
January 17: Antony of Egypt
January 18: The Confession of Saint Peter
January 20: Fabian; Sarah Doremus
January 21: Agnes
January 22: Vincent of Saragossa
January 23: Phillips Brooks
January 25: The Conversion of Saint Paul
January 26: Timothy and Titus; Katherine Bushnell
January 27: John Chrysostom
January 28: Thomas Aquinas
January 29: Lydia, Dorcas, and Phoebe
January 30: Charles Fox Parham
January 31: Menno Simons

February

February 1: Brigid of Kildare
February 2: The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Candlemas); Giovanni da Palestrina
February 3: Anskar of Hamburg
February 4: Cornelius the Centurion
February 5: The Martyrs of Japan; Philip Jacob Spener
February 6: Theodore of Mopsuestia
February 10: Scholastica
February 12: Fanny Crosby
February 13: Absalom Jones
February 14: Valentine; Cyril and Methodius
February 17: Onesimus
February 18: Michelangelo; Martin Luther
February 19: Alexander Mack
February 23: Polycarp
February 24: Matthias the Apostle
February 26: Photini (the Samaritan Woman)
February 27: George Herbert
February 28: Jadwiga of Poland

March

March 2: Dewi of Wales; John and Charles Wesley
March 4: Casimir of Poland; John Robinson; Alexander Campbell
March 7: Perpetua and Her Companions
March 9: Gregory of Nyssa
March 10: Forty Martyrs of Sebaste; George Müller
March 12: Gregory the Great
March 17: Patrick
March 18: Cyril of Jerusalem
March 19: Joseph of Nazareth
March 20: Cuthbert of Lindisfarne; Henrietta Mears
March 21: Thomas Cranmer
March 23: Gregory the Illuminator
March 24: Jonathan Edwards
March 25: The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary
March 31: John Donne

April

April 1: Mary the Venerable
April 2: Karol Jozef Wojtlya
April 4: Isidore of Seville; Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 10: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
April 15: Corrie ten Boom
April 21: Anselm of Canterbury
April 23: Toyohiko Kagawa
April 24: Waldensian Martyrs of Piedmont; Martyrs of Armenia
April 25: Mark the Evangelist
April 29: Catherine of Siena; John Nelson Darby

May

May 1: Philip and James, Apostles; David Livingstone
May 2: Athanasius
May 4: Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo
May 6: Cornelius Jansen
May 8: Julian of Norwich
May 9: Gregory of Nazianzus; William Bradford; Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
May 12: Simon of Cyrene
May 14: Pachomius; Leta the Presbyter
May 17: Andronicus and Junia, Apostles
May 21: Michael Sattler
May 23: Nicholas Copernicus
May 24: Vincent of Lérins
May 25: Bede the Venerable
May 26: Augustine of Canterbury
May 27: John Calvin
May 30: Joan of Arc; Watchman Nee
May 31: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

June

June 1: Justin Martyr
June 2: The Martyrs of Lyons
June 3: The Martyrs of Uganda
June 5: Boniface of Mainz
June 7: Chief Seattle and Black Elk
June 9: Colmcille (Columba); Jeanne Guyon; William Carey
June 10: Ephrem of Edessa
June 11: Barnabas, Apostle
June 12: G. K. Chesterton
June 13: Anthony of Padua
June 14: Elisha the Prophet; Basil the Great
June 15: Evelyn Underhill
June 21: The Martyrs of Bohemia and Moravia
June 22: Alban
June 24: Nativity of John the Baptist
June 26: Jeremiah the Prophet
June 27: Cyril of Alexandria
June 28: Irenaeus of Lyons
June 29: Peter and Paul, Apostles

July

July 1: Junípero Serra
July 6: Isaiah the Prophet; Jan Hus; Thomas More
July 7: Pantaenus
July 8: Priscilla and Aquila; Joseph René Vilatte
July 11: Benedict of Nursia
July 13: Silas; Henry of Germany
July 14: Samson Occum
July 15: James of Nisibis
July 16: Anne Askew
July 17: Bartolomé de las Casas
July 19: Macrina the Younger
July 20: Elijah the Prophet
July 21: Ezekiel the Prophet; Victor of Marseilles
July 22: Mary Magdalene
July 23: John Cassian; Birgitta of Sweden; Susanna Wesley; Gilbert Tennent; Joseph Gilmore
July 24: Thomas à Kempis
July 25: James the Apostle; Walter Rauschenbusch
July 26: Joachim and Anna
July 27: Panteleimon
July 28: Johann Sebastian Bach
July 29: Mary and Martha of Bethany
July 30: Jacob Baradaeus; William Wilberforce
July 31: Joseph of Arimathea

August

August 1: Deliverance of Peter; Blessing of Firstfruits (Lammas Day)
August 2: Basil of Moscow
August 3: Nicodemus; Flannery O’Connor
August 4: John Vianney
August 5: Addai and Mari, Apostles
August 6: The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
August 7: Victricius
August 8: Dominic de Guzmán
August 9: Franz Jägersttäter
August 10: Laurence
August 11: Clare of Assisi
August 12: Hippolytus of Rome
August 13: Maximos the Confessor; Florence Nightingale; Tikhon of Zadonsk
August 14: Maximilian Kolbe
August 15: Mary the Virgin; Waldo of Lyons
August 16: Felix Davidek; Brother Roger of Taizé
August 17: Mammes of Caesarea
August 18: Emygdius
August 19: Blaise Pascal
August 20: Bernard of Clairvaux; Geert de Groote; Anne Hutchinson; William and Catherine Booth
August 24: Bartholomew the Apostle
August 25: Genesius; Louis of France
August 28: Augustine of Hippo; John Smyth and Thomas Helwys
August 29: The Beheading of John the Baptist
August 30: John Bunyan
August 31: Aidan of Lindisfarne

September

September 2: The Martyrs of New Guinea
September 5: Teresa of Calcutta
September 8: Nativity of the Virgin Mary
September 11: Dioscurus of Alexandria
September 13: Cyprian of Carthage
September 14: Exaltation of the Holy Cross
September 15: Samuel Pollard
September 16: Ninian of Galloway
September 17: Hildegard of Bingen
September 18: Edward Pusey
September 21: Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
September 22: Lioba
September 23: Thecla of Iconium
September 26: Lancelot Andrewes
September 27: Aimee Semple McPherson
September 28: Willliam J. Seymour
September 29: Michael and All Angels
September 30: Jerome

October

October 1: Remigius of Rheims; Thérèse of Lisieux
October 4: Francis of Assisi; Rembrandt; Theodor Fliedner
October 6: William Tyndale; Janneken Munstdorp (aka Elizabeth)
October 7: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
October 11: Philip the Deacon; Huldrych Zwingli
October 15: Teresa of Ávila
October 17: Ignatius of Antioch
October 18: Luke the Evangelist
October 19: Jesuit Martyrs of North America
October 23: James of Jerusalem; Oda (aka Chrodoara)
October 24: Rosa Parks
October 27: William Temple
October 28: Simon and Jude, Apostles

November

November 1: All Saints
November 2: All Souls
November 3: Richard Hooker; Phoebe Palmer
November 5: Zechariah and Elizabeth; John Witherspoon
November 6: Illtyd
November 7: Willibrord of Utrecht
November 8: John Milton
November 9: Margery Kempe; Barton Stone
November 10: Leo the Great
November 11: Martin of Tours
November 17: Elizabeth of Hungary
November 18: Hilda of Whitby
November 19: Elizabeth of Hungary
November 21: Dionysius of Alexandria
November 22: C. S. Lewis
November 23: Clement of Rome
November 24: John Knox
November 25: Isaac Watts
November 26: Sojourner Truth
November 29: Noah; Dorothy Day
November 30: Andrew the Apostle

December

December 3: Francis Xavier
December 4: John of Damascus
December 5: Clement of Alexandria
December 6: Nicholas of Myra
December 7: Ambrose of Milan, Edward Irving; Lobegott Constantin von Tischendorf
December 10: Thomas Merton
December 17: Daniel and the Three Young Men
December 19: Leopold Cohn
December 21: Thomas the Apostle
December 23: Sarah and Angelina Grimk?©
December 24: Lottie Moon
December 25: The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Christmas Day)
December 26: Stephen, the First Martyr
December 27: John, Apostle and Evangelist
December 28: The Holy Innocents
December 29: Thomas ?† Beckett
December 30: Josephine Butler
December 31: John Wyclif

Almighty God,
who has knit together your elect
in one communion and fellowship,
in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord;
Grant us grace so to follow your blessed saints
in all virtuous and godly living,
that we may come to those unspeakable joys
which you have prepared for them that sincerely love you;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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