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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.
As a result, the Lutheran reformers retained a robust calendar of saints to be commemorated throughout the year. In addition to figures found in the Bible, early Christians such as Saint Lawrence and Martin of Tours were retained as saints on the calendar, as were extra-Biblical commemorations like the Assumption of Mary. Following the ...
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 ...
3 Saints Andrew the Soldier and his army; Saints Callinicus and Diometes; 4 Saints Adrian and Natalia, and the martyrs Saints Theordorus and Eleutheriu; 5 Fast; 6 Saints Abraham and Khoren, Cosmo and Damian and Theodoron the Martyr; 7 Fast Day; 8 Feast of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God; 9 Fifth Sunday after the Assumption
This is an incomplete list of humans and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...
Saint Jovan Vladimir (King of Duklja) – 4 June [O.S. 22 May] Saint Jovan the New (Despot Jovan Branković) – 23 December [O.S. 10 December] Saint Josif the New – 28 September [O.S. 15 September] Saint Kirilo (Kirilo I, Serbian Patriarch) – 12 September [O.S. 30 August] Saint Great Martyr Lazar (Prince Lazar of Serbia) – 28 June [O.S ...
The text of A Great Cloud of Witnesses stated that it was not intended to be a calendar of saints, but "an extended family history." The 2015 General Convention voted to make it available, but did not authorize it for trial use. [34] In 2018, the commission released a report saying the calendar had been thrown into a "situation of great confusion."
9 Saints, Martyrs and Missionaries of South America; 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1945), Pastor, Teacher of the Faith and Martyr; 11 George Augustus Selwyn (1878), Bishop and Missionary; 15 Padarn (6th century), Bishop; 20 Beuno (c 640), Abbot; 21 Anselm (1109), Bishop and Doctor; 23 George (304?), Martyr, Patron Saint of England; 25 Mark, Evangelist