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In 1861, her feast day was included in the Roman calendar – not on the day of her death, 27 January, since this date was occupied by the feast day of Saint John Chrysostom, but instead on 31 May. In 1955, Pope Pius XII assigned this date to the new feast of the Queenship of Mary , and moved Merici's feast to 1 June.
25 January: The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle – feast; 26 January: Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops – memorial; 27 January: Saint Angela Merici, Virgin – optional memorial; 28 January: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church – memorial; 31 January: Saint John Bosco, Priest – memorial
Angela Merici (/ m ə ˈ r iː tʃ i / mə-REE-chee; Italian: [ˈandʒela (de) meˈriːtʃi]; 21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540) was an Italian Catholic religious educator who founded the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the church through the education of girls.
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.
This article lists the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as they were at the end of 1954. It is essentially the same calendar established by Pope Pius X (1903–1914) following his liturgical reforms, but it also incorporates changes that were made by Pope Pius XI (1922–1939), such as the institution of the Feast of Christ the King (assigned to the last Sunday in October), and the ...
Made in 1955 by Eng. Ernesto Vichi, it was erected as a parish on 25 September 1963 by decree of the Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara, and entrusted in 1958 to the Oblates of the Virgin Mary. The church was consecrated in 1967 and was visited by Pope John Paul II on 27 May 2001. In 2014, it is home to the cardinal's title of "St. Angela Merici".
In leap year the month of February is of 29 days, and the feast of St. Matthias is celebrated on the 25th day and the feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows on the 28th day of February, and twice is said Sexto Kalendas, that is on the 24th and 25th; and the dominical letter, which was taken up in the month of January, is changed to the ...
15 January: Crucified Lord of Esquipulas – Feast; 24 April: Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, priest – Solemnity; 3 May: Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Feast; 4 May: Saint Philip and Saint James, apostles – Feast; 7 October: Our Lady of the Rosary – Feast; 12 December: Our Lady of Guadalupe – Feast