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In the General Roman Calendar, the celebration is a solemnity. In earlier editions, it was ranked as a Double (Tridentine calendar), Double of the First Class (e.g., General Roman Calendar of 1954), or First-Class Feast (General Roman Calendar of 1960). Prior to the liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII, this feast was followed by a common octave.
25 June: Of the octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 26 June: John and Paul martyrs, Semidouble, with commemoration of the octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 27 June: Of the octave of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 28 June: Leo II pope and confessor, Semidouble, with commemoration of the Octave and of the Vigil.
According to tradition, Denise was martyred during the persecution of Christians by the Emperor Decius, along with three men named Andrew, Paul, and Nichomachus. [7] Nichomachus, "presumptuous and over-confident", [ 8 ] denied that he was a Christian after he was tortured and was asked to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods .
Institutional and societal 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 members of individual institutes of consecrated life [a] and societies of apostolic life of pontifical right that worship according to the Roman Rite of the Latin Church.
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.
28 April: St. Peter Aloysius Mary Chanel Martyr, III class, Com. of St. Paul of the Cross Confessor 24 May: Our Lady, Help of Christians , Principal Patroness of Australia and New Zealand, I class 9 June: St. Columba Abbot, III class, Com. of Ss.
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Mysterii Paschalis is an apostolic letter issued motu proprio (that is, "of his own accord") by Pope Paul VI on 14 February 1969. It reorganized the liturgical year of the Roman Rite and revised the liturgical celebrations of Jesus Christ and the saints in the General Roman Calendar. It promulgated the General Roman Calendar of 1969.