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World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. The World Animal Day movement is supported and endorsed by a number of celebrities, such as Anneka Svenska, Brian Blessed and Melanie C. [29]
Francis' feast day is observed on 4 October. A secondary feast in honour of the stigmata received by Francis, celebrated on 17 September, was inserted in the General Roman Calendar in 1585 (later than the Tridentine calendar) and suppressed in 1604, but was restored in 1615.
St. Catherine's taffy is a candy made by French Canadian girls to honor St. Catherine, the patron saint of unmarried women on her feast day. St. Catherine's Day is sometimes known in among French-Canadians as "taffy day", a day when marriage-age girls would make taffy for eligible boys.
26 May: Saint Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, virgin – Feast; 14 July: Saint Francis Solanus, priest – Feast; 28 July: Our Lady of Peace – Feast; 30 August: Saint Rose of Lima, virgin – Solemnity; 18 September: Saint John Macias, religious – Feast; 24 September: Our Lady of Mercy – Optional Memorial; 28 October: Our Lord of Miracles ...
A medieval manuscript fragment of Finnish origin, c. 1340 –1360, utilized by the Dominican convent at Turku, showing the liturgical calendar for the month of June. The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
Feast of Saints Francis and Catherine; G. ... Feast day of Saint Stephen, King and Confessor; Saint Stephen's Day; Name days in Sweden; Swedish name day list of 2001;
However, Catherine's feast day was not initially included in the General Roman Calendar. When it was added in 1597, it was put on the day of her death, 29 April; however, because this conflicted with the feast of Saint Peter of Verona, which also fell on 29 April, Catherine's feast day was moved in 1628 to the new date of 30 April. [68]
^a Pope Francis raised the rank of the celebration of Saint Mary Magdalene to feast on 3 June 2016. [ 20 ] ^b Pope Francis decreed on 26 January 2021 that Saints Mary and Lazarus of Bethany are to be celebrated alongside of Saint Martha.