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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]
The next day, the pope laid the foundation stone for the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Francis was buried on 25 May 1230, under the Lower Basilica, but his tomb was soon hidden on orders of Brother Elias, in order to protect it from Saracen invaders.
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 .
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.
14 Holy Cross Day (R) 15; 16 Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, martyr, c. 258 (Commemoration) R; 17 Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, 1179 (Commemoration) W – ELCA; 18 Dag Hammarskjöld, renewer of society, 1961 (Commemoration) W – ELCA; Carlo Crivelli, Francis of Assisi. 19; 20 Nelson Wesley Trout, bishop, 1996 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
^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. [21]
For example, Father's Day in Italy is celebrated on March 19, which is also the feast day of St. Joesph. On the other hand, South Korea observes the joint holiday Parents' Day on May 8 .
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.