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Paul Chong Hasang was a Korean Catholic lay missionary known as one of the Korean Martyrs. His feast day is September 20, and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Ko…
Christian feast days: Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)
Phocas, sometimes called Phocas the Gardener, is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three …
Christian feast days: Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope)
Hieromartyr Phocas was born in the city of Sinope in northern Anatolia. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: a Phocas of Antioch, Phocas, Bis…
Christian feast days: Phocas, Bishop of Sinope
Saint Sanctinus of Meaux was a Gallo-Roman bishop and missionary, traditionally named as the first bishop of Meaux and also of Verdun.
Christian feast days: Saintin (Sanctinus) de Meaux
Sadalberga was a French abbess, and saint. She came from a noble family during the reigns of Chlothar II and Dagobert I. Her life story was recounted in two sources: in the vita of…
Christian feast days: Sadalberga
Saint Septimius of Iesi was the first Bishop of Iesi, a martyr, and a saint.
Christian feast days: Septimius of Iesi (this date since 1623)
The Theban Legion figures in Christian hagiography as a Roman legion from Egypt —"six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men" — consisting of Christian soldiers who were martyred t…
Christian feast days: Theban Legion
Thomas of Villanova, OSA was a Spanish Augustinian friar, preacher, ascetic and religious writer. He served as Archbishop of Valencia from 1545 to 1555 and was famous for the exten…
Christian feast days: Thomas of Villanova
Philander Chase was an Episcopal Church bishop, educator, pioneer of the United States western frontier, especially in Ohio and Illinois, and founder of Kenyon College.
Christian feast days: Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)
September 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 23
Christian feast days: September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Autumnal Equinox Day is a public holiday in Japan that usually occurs on September 22 or 23, the date of Southward equinox in Japan Standard Time. Due to the necessity of recent a…
Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern…
The official public holidays in Bulgaria are listed in the table below.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
This is a list of public holidays in Mali.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona, also known as Eunan, was an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba…
Christian feast day: Adomnán
Cissa of Crowland was a saint in the medieval Fenlands. He was the successor of Guthlac as abbot of Crowland, and is mentioned in Felix' Vita Guthlaci. According to the Crowland Ch…
Christian feast day: Cissa of Crowland (or of Northumbria)
Francisco de Paula Victor was an Afro-Brazilian Catholic priest. He is known in Brazil as the "Apostle of Charity" for his charitable treatment of the poor. He is the first black B…
Christian feast day: Blessed Francisco de Paula Victor
Resistance Fighting Day also known as Otto Tief Government Day is a public holiday in Estonia which takes on 22 September. It honors the Estonian commander Otto Tief's attempt to r…
Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)
Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic …
Christian feast day: Padre Pio
Pope Linus was the bishop of Rome from c. 68 to his death in 80. He is generally regarded as the second bishop of Rome, after Saint Peter. As with all the early popes, he was canon…
Christian feast day: Pope Linus
Saint Sossius or Sosius was Deacon of Misenum, an important naval base of the Roman Empire in the Bay of Naples. He was martyred along with Saint Januarius at Pozzuoli during the D…
Christian feast day: Sossius
Thecla was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient apocryphal Acts of Paul and Th…
Christian feast day: Thecla (Roman Catholic Church)
The Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca is a work of New Testament apocrypha dating from the third or fourth century.
Christian feast day: Xanthippe and Polyxena
September 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 24
Christian feast day: September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Grito de Lares, also referred to as the Lares revolt, or the Lares revolution, was the first short revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico, staged by the Revolutionary Committee…
Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)