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The Baptism of Christ, the Sunday following the Epiphany (when the Epiphany is kept on 6 January) Ash Wednesday, the Wednesday 46 days before Easter Day; Maundy Thursday, the Thursday in the week before Easter Day; Good Friday, the Friday in the week before Easter Day; Easter Day, the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon
21 January: Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr – memorial; 22 January: Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr – optional memorial; 24 January: Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church – memorial; 25 January: The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle – feast; 26 January: Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops – memorial
His feast day is 22 January in the Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, and the Eastern Orthodox Church, with an additional commemoration on 11 November in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was born at Huesca and martyred under the Emperor Diocletian around the year 304.
Martín de Porres Velázquez OP (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a Peruvian 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, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking racial harmony, and animals.
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.
Using the Western church calendar, Christians observe this feast day on Nov. 1 each year. ... One story of origin says All Saints' Day was declared a feast day on May 13 609 AD by Pope Boniface IV ...
[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.
November 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 23. All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For November 22, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 9.