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No Old Testament figures are commemorated in the Church of England calendar, but the litany "Thanksgiving for the Holy Ones of God" (included in Common Worship: Times and Seasons on pp. 558–560, immediately after "The Eucharist of All Saints") includes ten names from before Christ, so they are presumably not excluded on principle, and could ...
23 December: Saint John of Kanty, Priest – optional memorial; 25 December: Nativity of the Lord – solemnity; 26 December: Saint Stephen, the First Martyr – feast; 27 December: Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist – feast; 28 December: The Holy Innocents, Martyrs – feast; 29 December: Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr – optional ...
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.
1 All Saints. 2 All Souls: Commemoration of the Faithful Departed. Richard Hooker, Doctor of the Church of England, 1600. 7 Willibrord, Missionary, Bishop of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 739. 8 The Octave Day of All Saints: The Founders, Benefactors, and Missionaries of the Church in Canada. 11 Martin, Bishop of Tours, France, c. 397.
The list below contains some of those saints and their feast days. Saint Sava I, fresco in the King's Church, Studenica Monastery, Serbia. Saint Jovan Vladimir, Serbian Orthodox icon Saint Stefan Uroš, fresco. Venerable Avakum (Deacon Avakum) – 30 December [O.S. 17 December] Venerable Anastasia of Serbia (Ana Nemanjić) – 4 July [O.S. 21 June]
The First Sunday of Advent: 27 November – 3 December; The Second Sunday of Advent: 4–10 December; The Third Sunday of Advent: 11–17 December; The Fourth Sunday of Advent: 18–24 December; Christmas Day: 25 December; The (First) Sunday of Christmas: 26–31 December; The Epiphany of our Lord: 6 January; The Presentation of Christ: 2 February
[a] The Apology of the Augsburg Confession states that the remembrance of the saints has three parts: thanksgiving to God, the strengthening our faith, and the imitation of the saints' holy living. [b] [3] As a result, the Lutheran reformers retained a robust calendar of saints to be commemorated throughout the year.
National calendars of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church are lists of saints' feast days and other liturgical celebrations, organized by calendar date, that apply to those within the nation or nations to which each calendar applies who worship according to the Roman Rite of the Latin Church.